April 8-12

• This week's story is Lewis and Clark.
• This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
• This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.
• This week's vocabulary words are asset, intently, profusely, ordeal, terrain, dismal, peril, and esteem.
• This week's spelling words are unsuccessful, undoubtedly, impossibly, disloyalty, deactivation, unlikable, replacement, unsafely, uncollectible, immeasurable, impassible, encouragement, unbelievable, unselfishly, rearrangement, discoverable, dishonestly, unbreakable, reappearance, and reassurance.
• This week's grammar skill is irregular verbs.
• We are taking an open book test on Chapter 12 and then will be working in Chapter 13 of social studies this week.
• Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!
• There will be a reading, grammar, and spelling test on Friday!

April 1-5

• This week's story is The Compassion Campaign.
• This week's vocabulary words are loathe, bland, mentor, dilapidated, coordination, altruism, sensibility, advocacy, mistreated, and compassionate.
• This week's spelling words are review: indecisive, outpatient, downgrade, uptight, acceleration, demolition, pension, champion, authorization, cancellation, autumn, knowledge, rhyme, scenery, wrestled, armies, shelves, radios, tomatoes, and videos.
• This week's grammar skills are review.
• We are working in Chapter 12 in social studies.
• There will be a reading, spelling, and DOL test on Friday.
• Picture day is Wednesday, April 3.