Saturday, February 23, 2013

February 25-March 1

  • This week's story is Interrupted Journey.
  • This week's vocabulary words are vital, sleek, basking, analyzing, detect, and damage.
  • This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
  • This week's spelling words are incompetent, uphold, inconsiderate, indecisive, outrank, inhumane, inorganic, income, invertebrate, outgoing, outpatient, outspoken, outwit, downbeat, downgrade, downplay, downtown, uplift, upstage, and uptight.
  • This week's grammar skill is linking and action verbs.
  • We are working in chapter 9 in social studies.
  • There is nightly spelling homework. Please check your child's agenda books.
  • Please make sure your child has paper and pencils daily!

February 18-22

Hope everyone enjoyed President's Day!
  • This week's reading story is The Invention Convention.
  • This week vocabulary words are scours, appropriate, practical, portable, circulate, protrude, boisterous, deduction, fickle, and measly.
  • This week's spelling words are review: irreplaceable, immature, indefinite, illiterate, independent, applicant, accountant, insistent, novelist, technician, cellist, porous, glorious, spontaneous, fictitious, mountainous,weak, week, dual, and duel. Check your child's agenda book nightly for spelling homework!
  • This week's focus skills are review: making inferences and main idea and details.
  • This week's grammar skills are review: subjective/objective pronouns, possessive/reflexive pronouns, adjectives/articles, and main/helping verbs.
  • Both classes are working on Chapter 9 in social studies.

February 11-15

  • This week's story is Inventing the Future.
  • This week's story genre is a biography.
  • This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
  • This week's vocabulary words are irrepressible, feat, industry, tendency, device, and prestigious.
  • This week's spelling words are homophones: steal, steel, waste, waist, weak, week, base, bass, pain, pane, flare, flair, dual, duel, stationary, stationery, flower, flour, sight, and site. The students will need to know what each word means because they will have to spell the correct homophone that fits in the sentence.
  • This week's grammar skill is main and helping verbs.
  • Make sure your child is studying the DOL study guide on Thursday nights!
  • We will be completing chapter 8 in social studies this week and taking the open book test.
  • The spelling, grammar, and reading tests will be Thursday this week instead of Friday because of the bowling field trip.
  • Remember no school on Monday, February 18th!
  • Remember to check your child's agenda book every night. They have HOMEWORK for a grade!
  • Remember your child needs pencils and paper daily at school!

Sunday, February 3, 2013

February 4-8

  • This week's story is Project Mulberry.
  • This week's genre is realistic fiction.
  • This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
  • This week's vocabulary words are compartments, swayed, phobia, invasion, vetoed, and wispy.
  • This week's spelling words are courteous, hazadous, humorous, monstrous, porous, curious, furious, glorious, delirious, fictitious, gracious, ambitious, discourteous, dangerous, anxious, spontaneous, religious, delicious, mountainous, and ridiculous.
  • This week's grammar skill is adjectives and articles.
  • Please check your child's agenda book every night. Their homework should be listed!
  • Tests papers go home on Tuesday! Sign and return if your child makes a D or an F.
  • We are working on Chapter 8 in social studies this week.
  • This Friday is math mania day!
  • Make sure your child has pencils and paper every day!