January 28-February 1

• This week's story is Lesson 17: Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street.
• This week's vocabulary words are extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, and hiatus.
• This week's genre is realistic fiction.
• 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.
• We will be taking Chapter 7 social studies test this week and beginning chapter 8.
• Math Mania begins this Friday, February 1.
• Graded tests go home on Tuesday. Please sign and return if your child made a D or an F.