February 9-13

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.