September 3-7

• Happy Labor Day! No school Monday, September 3.
• This week's story is Line Drive.
• This week's genre is autobiography.
• This week's focus skill is conflict and resolution.
• This week's vocabulary words are maven, mortified, reigned, conceited, designated, smirk, and exhilarated.
• This week's spelling words are needle, speech, reason, crease, thief, fade, obtain, faint, steep, rayon, eager, shadow, saying, mild, coach, smoke, twice, human, teenage, and niece.
• This week's grammar skill is imperative and exclamatory sentences.
• We will be completing chapter 1 in social studies this week and taking our first open book test.
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• Please make sure your child studies the DOL study guide that comes home on Thursday nights. Everything on the DOL test comes from the weekly DOL lessons or past lessons. I also read the tests to the students on Thursday to help them prepare.
• This week's tests will go home on Wednesday instead of Tuesday, because of Monday being a holiday. On a normal week, tests will come home on Tuesdays.
• Please read the attached note to this week's tests papers.
• Saints t-shirts are on sale now! A brochure went home last week with the students.
• There will be a Title 1 parent meeting in the OIS library this Thursday, September 6th at 6:00.
• Our book fair will be next week! A letter went out with the students last week also.
• Agenda books are on there way! They should be here this week! Until then your child is writing their homework down on the back of the weekly vocabulary/spelling words study guides.
• Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. Some of the studunts are still adjusting to a new school year and getting organized!
• Let me know if you need me in any way!