Sunday, November 30, 2014

December 1-5

  • This week's story is A Drop of Water.
  • This week's genre is expository nonfiction.
  • This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are elongates, elastic, rigid, accumulate, underlying, intricate, vanish, and replenishing.
  • This week's spelling words are barrel, cannon, capitol, civil, clever, discover, frozen, general, hidden, inventor, mayor, pepper, polar, proper, sandal, saucer, original, theater, tutor, and musical.
  • This week's grammar skill is pronouns and antecedents.
  • We will be working on Week 15 of social studies. There will be a test on Thursday.
  • We will also be working on our DARE essays this week. DARE graduation is scheduled for Thursday, December 11th at 9:00.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.  
  • Please check agenda books daily!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Reading homework is due on Friday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
  •  All students have a study guide for their reading story. PLEASE make sure that are studying...all the answers are from the reading story.
  • Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!
  • 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!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!
  • Sunday, November 16, 2014

    November 17-21

    Make sure your child has PENCILS!!!! If you would like to donate a package or 2, that would be great also!!!
  • This week's story is Stormalong. 
  • This week's genre is tall tale.
  • This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are reputation, yearning, escapades, bellowing, betrayed, outcast, withered, and unfathomable.
  • This week's spelling words are development, dispensable, enjoyable, digestible, divisible, irresistible, admissible, appointment, argument, payment, amazement, priceless, judgment, resentment, embarrassment, boundless, ageless, aimless, motionless, and worthless.
  • This week's grammar skill is possessive nouns.
  • We will be working on Week 14 in social studies this week! There will be a test on Friday!
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Please check agenda books daily!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Reading story homework questions are due on Friday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
  • Progress reports go home on Tuesday, November 18th. Please review, sign, and return by Friday.
  • We are having a can food drive all this week. Please send in a few cans for local needy families.
  • Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!
  • 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!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!
  • Sunday, November 9, 2014

    November 10-14

  • No school on Tuesday, November 11th in observance of  Veteran's Day. So thankful to all the men and women who have served and are serving our country.
  •  Harvest Palooza is Thursday, November 13th. Armbands are $12.00.
  • This week's story is Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology. 
  • This week's genre is informational narrative.
  • This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are residents, specimens, debris, recoil, internal, adjust, and pesky.
  • This week's spelling words are reenter, refried, reconsider, repaint, reform, replay, retake, remake, reclaim, replant, unable, uninformed, undesirable, untold, unwise, nonconductor, nonproductive, nonexistent, nonflammable, and nondairy.
  • This week's grammar skill is singular and plural nouns.
  • We will be working on week 13 in social studies test this week.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, grammar, and social studies tests next Monday, November 17th.  
  • Please check agenda books daily!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday and Thursday nights and additional homework over the weekend to get ready for their tests on Monday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
  • Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!
  • 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!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!

  • Sunday, November 2, 2014

    November 3-7

  • This week's story is Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea.
  • This week's genre is historical fiction.
  • This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are inflammable, dignified, rowdy, seldom, conducted, shatter, and broached.
  • This week's spelling words are enemy, balance, basis, closet, decent, define, eleven, fanatic, honest, humor, minute, model, protest, ocean, pretend, private, radar, second, slogan, and editor.
  • This week's grammar skill is common and proper nouns.
  • We will be working on Week 12 in Social Studies this week. Test is on Thursday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Please check agenda books!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Homework is listed in the agenda books!  They have vocabulary word definitions and reading story questions also.
  • We will be going to the high school on Thursday morning for their Veteran's Day program. I must have a signed permission slip from you by then, allowing your child to go.
  • We are out of school next, Tuesday, November 11th.
  • Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!
  • 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!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!