October 6-10

This week's story is When Washington Crossed the Delaware.

This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.

This week's focus skill is Text Structure: Sequence.

This week's vocabulary words are persuading, crucial, maneuvered, encountered, crisis, appealed, perseverance, and destiny.

This week's spelling words entire, hospital, public, combine, golden, chimney, pretzel, survive, absorb, turmoil, wisdom, journey, condition, whisper, identify, establish, furnace, capture, marvelous, and nursery.

This week's grammar skill is prepositions and prepositional phrases.

We are working on week 9 in social studies this week. There will be test on Thursday.

There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.

Last week's tests come home on Tuesday.

If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it the next day.  .

Please check agenda books daily!

Your child has spelling and reading homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. THEY ALSO HAVE GRAMMAR HOMEWORK THIS WEEK. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 

Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!

Book Fair is this week!

October 7th is Open House from 5:30-7:00.

October 13-14 is Fall Break. 

Let me know if you need me in any way!