February 15-19

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 skill is verb tenses.
• Both classes are working on Week 20 in social studies.
• There will be a spelling, grammar, social studies, and reading test on Friday.
• There is Tuesday and Thursday night homework this week. Check agenda books.
• Progress reports go home this Thursday, February 18th. Please review, sign, and return as soon as possible.
• Please make sure your child has pencils daily.
• Test papers marked sign and return are due by Friday.