April 25-29

This week's story is Klondike Kate.

This week's genre is biography.

This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.

This week's vocabulary words are remote, laden, appalled, invest, floundered, grueling, and isolated.

This week's spelling words are astronomy, disaster, asterisk, astronaut, asteroid, chronic, chronicle, chronology, chrononological, synchronize, cyclical, bicyclist, cyclone, encyclopedia, hydrogen, hydrant, hydrate, optic, optician, and optical.

This week's grammar skill is review.

We are working in Chapter 26 of social studies this week. Test is Friday.

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

Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!

Field trip is Wednesday, April 27th. Pack a lunch with an extra drink and wear your 5th grade tshirt.