September 1-5

This week's story is "The Daring Nellie Bly: America's Star Reporter".

This week's focus skill is character motives.

This week's vocabulary words are eccentric, crusaded, impassable, infuriated, relented, disheartened, and faze.

This week's spelling words end with -ed or -ing. They are talked, hurried, smiling, dropped, clapping, stepped, worried, worrying, changing, stayed, buying, dried, picnicking, scared, driving, obeyed, playing, tried, carried, and hurrying.

This week's grammar skill is simple and complete subject and predicate.

Your child has homework in my class every night except Wednesdays. PLEASE check agenda books.

We will be working on week 4 of USA Studies Weekly. Lots of 100s this past week.

We will begin DARE this week.

If you have any questions, please send me an email, note, or call the school and leave a message.

I am still accepting donations of $35. Thanks to Lauren's and Tyne's mom for sending in theirs!

 Grandparents are welcome to come each lunch with us on Friday, September 5th at 11:30.