January 18-22

Huge thanks to all of the parents and family that came out last Thursday for our DARE graduation. Congrats to the 12 class winners and the overall essay winner. So proud of ALL of the students.

Report cards go home this Thursday, January 21st. Please review, sign, and return as soon as possible.

Award's Day for the 1st semester is this Friday, January 22nd at 10:15.

 We are having a Winter Dance on Friday, January 22nd during the school day for any students who have enough HALO tickets to attend.

This week's story is Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street.

This week's vocabulary words are extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, and hiatus.

This week's focus skill is making inferences.

This week's spelling words are accountant, applicant, attendant, defiant, mutineer, expectant, hesitant, quadrant, resistant, servant, dependent, indulgent, insistent, urgent, auctioneer, accompanist, artist, cellist, technician, and novelist.

This week's grammar skill is correlative conjunctions.

We will be working on Week 17 in social studies this week. Test will be on Friday.

There will be spelling homework on Tuesday and Thursday nights this week.

Vocabulary words homework is Tuesday night and reading questions are not due until Monday.

There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test next Monday, January 25th.

Lesson 16 tests will go home this Wednesday. If your child makes a 69 or below on any test, please sign and return that test by Friday. Conduct marks will be given for any unreturned tests.

Don't forget the 5th grade program is next Thursday, January 28th at 6:00.