News for the Week of Feb 21-24

Post date: Feb 16, 2017 9:21:48 PM

Happy President's Day! No School on Monday, 2/20.

This week, our main reading selection is a biography called America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle. Tested selection vocabulary words are:

celebrate, continued, current, drowned, medals, strokes, stirred

In Spelling, we will focus on suffixes -34, -or, -ess, -ist. Here are the spelling words for Friday's test:

dentist

editor

artist

hostess

actress

swimmer

seller

tutor

tourist

organist

lioness

shipper

chemist

investor

conductor

announcer

pharmacist

journalist

commuter

pianist

Keep practicing multiplication facts for mastery daily. This week we will begin timed assessments to track progress. Students should already know their 0x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, and 5x. There are many free interactive multiplication games on this website:

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Reminders:

-- Six Flags Read to Succeed forms are due on Friday 2/24.

-- Friday, 2/24 is a Ladies Guild Lunch day for those who preordered.