May 7-11

This week's story is Klondike Kate.

This week's genre is biography.

This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.

This week's vocabulary words are remote, laden, appalled, invest, floundered, grueling, and isolated.

This week's spelling words are astronomy, disaster, asterisk, astronaut, asteroid, chronic, chronicle, chronology, chrononological, synchronize, cyclical, bicyclist, cyclone, encyclopedia, hydrogen, hydrant, hydrate, optic, optician, and optical.

This week's grammar skill is contractions.

We are working in Chapter 15 of social studies this week.

Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!

Field day is this Friday, May 11th. More info. to come this week!

April 30-May 4

• This week's story is Lewis and Clark.
• This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
• This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.
• This week's vocabulary words are asset, intently, profusely, ordeal, terrain, dismal, peril, and esteem.
• This week's spelling words are unsuccessful, undoubtedly, impossibly, disloyalty, deactivation, unlikable, replacement, unsafely, uncollectible, immeasurable, impassible, encouragement, unbelievable, unselfishly, rearrangement, discoverable, dishonestly, unbreakable, reappearance, and reassurance.
• This week's grammar skill is irregular verbs.
• We are working in Chapter 14 of social studies this week.
• Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!
• OIS Variety Show this Friday, May 4th! $1.00 to attend.