November 30-December 4

Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

This week's story is Stormalong. 

This week's genre is tall tale.

This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 

This week's vocabulary words are reputation, yearning, escapades, bellowing, betrayed, outcast, withered, and unfathomable.

This week's spelling words are development, dispensable, enjoyable, digestible, divisible, irresistible, admissible, appointment, argument, payment, amazement, priceless, judgment, resentment, embarrassment, boundless, ageless, aimless, motionless, and worthless.

This week's grammar skill is possessive nouns.

We will be working on Week 14 in social studies this week! There will be a test on Thursday!

There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.

Please check agenda books daily!

Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Vocabulary word definitions are on Monday night. Reading story homework questions are due on Friday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 

Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!

Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!

Let me know if you need me in any way!

November 16-20

This week's story is Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology. 

This week's genre is informational narrative.

This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 

This week's vocabulary words are residents, specimens, debris, recoil, internal, adjust, and pesky.

This week's spelling words are reenter, refried, reconsider, repaint, reform, replay, retake, remake, reclaim, replant, unable, uninformed, undesirable, untold, unwise, nonconductor, nonproductive, nonexistent, nonflammable, and nondairy.

This week's grammar skill is singular and plural nouns.

We will be working on week 13 in social studies test this week. Test on Thursday.

There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.  

Please check agenda books daily!

Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Reading homework is Monday and Thursday nights. Reading homework questions are for a grade this week instead of a writing response. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 

Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!

Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!

Spend some time cleaning out binders over the week. Let's help them get organized.

No school next week November 23-27. Happy Thanksgiving!!! Your students are a blessing to me!

Let me know if you need me in any way!

November 5-13

This week's story is Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea.

This week's genre is historical fiction.

This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 

This week's vocabulary words are inflammable, dignified, rowdy, seldom, conducted, shatter, and broached.

This week's spelling words are enemy, balance, basis, closet, decent, define, eleven, fanatic, honest, humor, minute, model, protest, ocean, pretend, private, radar, second, slogan, and editor.

This week's grammar skill is common and proper nouns.

We will be working on Week 12 in Social Studies this week. Test is on Tuesday.

There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Thursday.

Please check agenda books!

Your child has spelling homework this week on Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. Homework is listed in the agenda books!  They have vocabulary word definitions and reading story questions also.

We are out of school next, Wednesday, November 11th.

Harvest Palooza is next Friday, November 13th. Armbands are $12.00.

Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!

Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!

Let me know if you need me in any way!

October 29-November 3

This week is Theme Review.

This week's story is The Secret Ingredient.

This week's genre is readers' theater.

This week's focus skill is review of Theme (lesson 6 and 7) and Text Structure: Sequence (lesson 8 and 9). 

This week's vocabulary words are eminent, charity, modest, disgruntled, inadequate, aghast, dismayed, amends, absentminded, and concoction.

This week's spelling words are review of bundle, vehicle, struggle, hurtle, triple, hurricane, golden, journey, hospital, excellent, message, arrange, whisper, terrific, expression, conclude, merchandise, technique, accomplish, and goggles.

This week's grammar skill is complex sentences with dependent/independent clauses.

We are on week 11 in social studies. There will be a social studies test on Tuesday. Let me know if you want your child to do extra credit.

There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Wednesday.

Last week's tests come home on Monday.

If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it the next day.  .

Please check agenda books daily!

Your child has spelling homework this week on Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. Reading vocabulary on Thursday night and reading story questions are due on Wednesday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 

•  A BIG THANK YOU to all of you who sent in candy! The candy crash was a HUGE success!
• Also thanks for the pencils....keep those coming.

Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!

Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!

Let me know if you need me in any way!