Sunday, January 25, 2015

January 26-30

  • Don't forget our 5th grade program this Thursday, January 29th at 6:00. Our class will be dressing up in 50s clothes.
  • This week's story is Project Mulberry.
  • This week's genre is realistic fiction.
  • This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
  • This week's vocabulary words are compartments, swayed, phobia, invasion, vetoed, and wispy.
  • This week's spelling words are courteous, hazadous, humorous, monstrous, porous, curious, furious, glorious, delirious, fictitious, gracious, ambitious, discourteous, dangerous, anxious, spontaneous, religious, delicious, mountainous, and ridiculous.
  • This week's grammar skill is adjectives and articles.
  • Please check your child's agenda book every night. Their homework should be listed!
  • Tests papers go home on Tuesday! Sign and return if your child makes a D or an F.
  • We are working on Week 17 in social studies this week.
  • We are out of pencils!!! Please donate a box or 2!
  • Monday, January 19, 2015

    January 19-23

  • This week's story is Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street.
  • This week's vocabulary words are extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, and hiatus.
  • 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.
  • This week's grammar skill is possessive and reflexive pronouns.
  • We will be working on Week 17 in social studies this week.
  • There will be spelling homework on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights this week.
  • Vocabulary words homework is Tuesday night and reading questions are not due until Friday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, grammar, and social studies test on Friday.
  • Don't forget the 5th grade program is next Thursday, January 29th at 6:00.

  • Sunday, January 11, 2015

    January 7-16

    • If you have not signed and returned the report card and the PTO program permission slip, please do so ASAP.
    • Yearbooks are on sale for $30.00. Deadline is March 6th.
    • Award's Day is this Friday, January 16th at 10:15.
    • PTO program is on Thursday, January 29th at 6:00.
    • Tests are on Thursday of this week because of Award's Day.
    • Check agenda books for homework.
    • Aspire results are in from last year. I will be sending those home on Monday.

    Saturday, January 3, 2015

    January 7-16


  • Report Cards go home on Wednesday, January 7th. Please sign and return as soon as possible.
  • Awards Day has been scheduled for Friday, January 16 at 10:15.
  • No school on Monday, January 19th.
  • This week's story is Lesson 16: The School Story.
  • This week's genre is realistic fiction.
  • This week's vocabulary words are indication, baffled, proposed, instinct, tempted, insights, and essence.
  • This week's spelling words are inactive, inaccurate, irregular, irrelevant, ineffective, imbalance, immature, impatient, imperfect, impossible, illegal, illiterate, illegible, inaction, independent, invalid, indefinite, injustice, irreplaceable, and impolite.
  • This week's grammar skill is subjective and objective case pronouns.
  • This week's focus skill is making inferences.
  • There is homework on Thursday of this week.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Thursday, the 15th. Please make sure that your child is studying!
  • Graded tests will come home on Tuesday. Please sign and return and test papers that are a D or an F by Friday.
  • We are working on Week 16 in Social Studies. There will be a test on Wednesday, January 14th.
  • Make sure your child has pencils and paper every day!