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!