August 27-31

• Again, thank you all for such a great first week of school. We are running a regular routine this week, so if you have any questions, please let me know!
• This week's story is Rope Burn (pages 26-39).
• This week's genre is realistic fiction.
• This week's focus skill is conflict, plot, and resolution.
• This week's vocabulary words are humiliation, fringes, expectations, coaxed, sincere, and hesitating.
• This week's spelling words are bandage, chest, drift, dull, dusk, stretch, flock, fond, measure, cactus, scrap, shift, smash, switch, swept, threat, timid, plaid, trust, and twist.
• This week's grammar skill is declarative and interrogative sentences. Remember the DOL comes home on Thursday to prepare for the test.
• There is a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• We will begin Chapter 1 in Social Studies on Monday. I will let your child know when the chapter tests are. The social studies tests are open book.
• Agenda books will be in soon, until then the students will be writing their homework on the back of the vocabulary/spelling words study guide.
• Looking forward to a wonderful week of learning!

August 24

Welcome back to school! We had a GREAT week this week getting to know each other and going over routines, rules, and procedures. This blog is a weekly resource to use to keep up with what we are doing in class and what is going on at OIS! Thanks to everyone who sent supplies and paid the donation fee. If you ever have any questions, concerns, or comments, please send me a note, an email, or call the school and leave a message. I am looking SUPER forward to this year!