This week's story is Interrupted Journey.
This week's vocabulary words are vital, sleek, basking, analyzing, detect, and damage.
This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
This week's spelling words are incompetent, uphold, inconsiderate, indecisive, outrank, inhumane, inorganic, income, invertebrate, outgoing, outpatient, outspoken, outwit, downbeat, downgrade, downplay, downtown, uplift, upstage, and uptight.
This week's grammar skill is linking and action verbs.
We are working on Lesson 21 in social studies. Don't forget about the extra credit option.
There is nightly homework. Please check your child's agenda books.
Please make sure your child has paper and pencils daily!
Cookie dough is on sale now through March 6th.
Progress Reports go home on Monday, February 9th. Please sign and return by Friday. Also sign the conference sheet.
Your child can send valentine cards to exchange on Friday. We will also be having a special snack. Thanks to all the parents who have volunteered to send in items.
No school next Monday, February 16th.
This week's reading story is The Invention Convention.
This week vocabulary words are scours, appropriate, practical, portable, circulate, protrude, boisterous, deduction, fickle, and measly.
This week's spelling words are review: irreplaceable, immature, indefinite, illiterate, independent, applicant, accountant, insistent, novelist, technician, cellist, porous, glorious, spontaneous, fictitious, mountainous,weak, week, dual, and duel. Check your child's agenda book nightly for spelling homework!
This week's focus skills are review: making inferences and main idea and details.
This week's grammar skills are review: subjective/objective pronouns, possessive/reflexive pronouns, adjectives/articles, and main/helping verbs.
We are working on Lesson 20 this week in social studies. Ask your child about the extra credit option.
Test papers go home on Tuesday. Sign and return the D/F papers by Friday.
Check agenda books for homework.
This week's story is Inventing the Future.
This week's story genre is a biography.
This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
This week's vocabulary words are irrepressible, feat, industry, tendency, device, and prestigious.
This week's spelling words are homophones: steal, steel, waste, waist, weak, week, base, bass, pain, pane, flare, flair, dual, duel, stationary, stationery, flower, flour, sight, and site. The students will need to know what each word means because they will have to spell the correct homophone that fits in the sentence.
This week's grammar skill is main and helping verbs.
We are working on Week 19 in social studies. Ask your child about their extra credit option. The social studies test is on Thursday.
The spelling, grammar, and reading tests will be on Friday.
Remember NO school on Monday, February 19th!
Remember to check your child's agenda book every night. They have HOMEWORK for a grade!
Remember your child needs pencils and paper daily at school!
Test papers go home on Tuesday. If your child makes a D or an F, a signature is required. These D/F papers are due back by Friday of each week.
PLEASE remember that ATTENDANCE MATTERS. Unless your child is throwing up or has a fever, they need to try their hardest to be at school.
If you need me in any way, please let me know.
