February 22-26

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 perfect verb tense.

We are working on Lesson 21 in social studies. Don't forget about the extra credit option.

There is Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday night homework. Please check your child's agenda books.

There is a social studies test on Thursday and a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.

Please make sure your child has paper and pencils daily!