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!