March 19-23

• This week's story is Any Small Goodness.
• This week's vocabulary words are gouges, desolate, bustles, fervor, immaculate, and assuage.
• This week's focus skill is literary devices.
• This week's grammar skill is past and future verb tense.
• This week's spelling words are assign, autumn, column, crumb, debris, delight, design, glisten, hasten, knead, knowledge, lightning, resign, rhyme, solemn, thorough, scenery, whirl, wreath, and wrestled.
• There are spelling, grammar, and reading tests this Friday.
• There is homework assigned in your child's agenda books. Please check.
• If you have not returned your child's report cards and conference note, please do so soon!
• Spring break is next week! March 26-30! Have a fun and safe week!

March 12-16

• This week's story is The Power of W.O.W.!
• This week's vocabulary words are somberly, cumbersome, stammers, enterprising, deflated, monopolize, and enraptured.
• This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
• This week's spelling words are acceleration, accumulation, activation, alteration, authorization, calculation, cancellation, dedication, organization, demolition, repetition, mansion, pension, passion, tension, champion, confusion, permission, population, and companion.
• This week's grammar skill is subject-verb agreement.
• We will be beginning chapter 12 in social studies.
• Your child has nightly homework. Please check agenda books daily and make sure they are being responsible. They receive a reading and spelling homework grade every night weeks!
• Report cards go home on Thursday, March 15th. Please sign and return!
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• Remember Spring Break is March 26-30!

March 5-9

• 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 linking and action verbs.
• We are working in chapter 11 in social studies.
• There is nightly spelling homework. Please check your child's agenda books.
• Please make sure your child has paper and pencils daily!
• Report cards go home on March 15th.