December 17-21

Wow! It’s almost Christmas!

·       Pajama Day is scheduled for Wednesday, December 19^th! Your child may wear 5^th grade appropriate pjs that day to school. We will be watching The Polar Express and I am providing a special snack on this day.

·       We will be having our class Christmas party on Thursday, December 20^th at 1:30. Audrey’s mom has so kindly offered to bring a cookie cake, and I have asked some other moms to send the remaining items. ALL parents are invited to attend.

·       School will be dismissed on Friday, December 21^st at 11:30. If your child is to go home any different way than usual, I need a note from you.

·       School resumes on Thursday, January 3^rd!

Hope your holiday season is memorable!

December 10-14

• OIS has a new website. Check it out! odenvilleintermediateschool.weebly.com
• Make sure your child has PENCILS!!!! We are out AGAIN! Thanks to all of you who sent in extras the last time! They also need loose leaf paper!
• Christmas Open House is this Tuesday, December 11th. A note went home on Friday!
• OIS choir performance is Thursday, December 13th at 6:00 at Calvary Baptist Church.
• Christmas parties will be Thursday, December 20th! More information to come!
• School will dismiss at 11:30 on Friday, December 21st. If your child will be going home a different way than usual, I will need it in writing in a note from you.
• This week's story is Stormalong. 
• This week's genre is tall tale.
• This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
• This week's vocabulary words are reputation, yearning, escapades, bellowing, betrayed, outcast, withered, and unfathomable.
• This week's spelling words are development, dispensable, enjoyable, digestible, divisible, irresistible, admissible, appointment, argument, payment, amazement, priceless, judgment, resentment, embarrassment, boundless, ageless, aimless, motionless, and worthless.
• This week's grammar skill is possessive nouns.
• We will be working on Chapter 6 in social studies this week!
• If you would like to conference (phone or in person), please let me know!
• 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. Many students are even writing their own notes as we go over the tests! 
• Please check agenda books daily!
• Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
• Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!
• Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!
• Let me know if you need me in any way!

December 3-7

• OIS has a new website. Check it out! odenvilleintermediateschool.weebly.com
• Make sure your child has PENCILS!!!! We are out AGAIN! Thanks to all of you who sent in extras the last time! They also need loose leaf paper!
• D.A.R.E graduation went GREAT! Thanks to all of the parents and grandparents who can to the ceremony.
• Santa Shop is this week! Everything is $2.00!
• Progress Reports go home this Tuesday! Please review your child's grades, sign, and return by Friday.
• Santa pictures are this Thursday!
• Christmas Open House is next Tuesday, December 11th. A note will be coming home this week!
• Christmas parties will be Thursday, December 20th! More information to come!
• This week's story is Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology. 
• This week's genre is informational narrative.
• This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 
• This week's vocabulary words are residents, specimens, debris, recoil, internal, adjust, and pesky.
• This week's spelling words are reenter, refried, reconsider, repaint, reform, replay, retake, remake, reclaim, replant, unable, uninformed, undesirable, untold, unwise, nonconductor, nonproductive, nonexistent, nonflammable, and nondairy.
• This week's grammar skill is singular and plural nouns.
• We will be taking the Chapter 5 social studies test this week.Remember it is OPEN book and page numbers given! Everyone should make a GREAT grade!
• If you would like to conference (phone or in person), please let me know!
• 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. Many students are even writing their own notes as we go over the tests! 
• Please check agenda books daily!
• Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
• Saints for Christ is in the library for students to attend every Wednesday morning at 7:15!
• Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will be continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework, failure to return signed papers, etc!
• Let me know if you need me in any way!