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.