January 28-February 1

• This week's story is Lesson 17: Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street.
• This week's vocabulary words are extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, and hiatus.
• This week's genre is realistic fiction.
• This week's focus skill is making inferences.
• This week's spelling words are accountant, applicant, attendant, defiant, mutineer, expectant, hesitant, quadrant, resistant, servant, dependent, indulgent, insistent, urgent, auctioneer, accompanist, artist, cellist, technician, and novelist.
• We will be taking Chapter 7 social studies test this week and beginning chapter 8.
• Math Mania begins this Friday, February 1.
• Graded tests go home on Tuesday. Please sign and return if your child made a D or an F.

January 21-25

• No School, Monday, January 21.
• Awards Day has been rescheduled for this Thursday, January 24 at 10:30.
• This week's story is Lesson 16: The School Story.
• This week's genre is realistic fiction.
• This week's vocabulary words are indication, baffled, proposed, instinct, tempted, insights, and essence.
• This week's spelling words are inactive, inaccurate, irregular, irrelevant, ineffective, imbalance, immature, impatient, imperfect, impossible, illegal, illiterate, illegible, inaction, independent, invalid, indefinite, injustice, irreplaceable, and impolite. There is homework on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week. Please check agenda books!
• This week's grammar skill is subjective and objective case pronouns.
• This week's focus skill is making inferences.
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday. Please make sure that your child is studying!
• Graded tests from last week will come home on Tuesday. Please sign and return and test papers that are a D or an F by Friday.
• If you did not already sign your child's report card, please do so as soon as possible.
• We are still working in Chapter 7 in Social Studies.
• Make sure your child has pencils and paper every day!

January 14-18

• Please make sure that your child has pencils and paper every day!
• Report Cards go home this Thursday, January 17th! Please review your child's grades, sign, and return as soon as possible.
• Awards Day is this Friday, January 18th at 10:30 for 5th grade.
• No School on Monday, January 21st.
• This week's story is How Prairie Became Ocean.
• This week's spelling words are review words. They are enemy, fanatic, honest, ocean, slogan, reclaim, reconsider, uninformed, unwise, nonexistent, digestible, enjoyable, admissible, argument, amazement, priceless, capitol, general, mayor, and theater.
• There is spelling homework on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays .
• This week's vocabulary words are recount, uninhabitable, sustain, monotonous, endeavor, dwell, brimming, teeming, parched, and sorrowful.
• The grammar skills are also review. Common and proper nouns; singular and plural nouns; possessive nouns; and pronouns and antecedents.
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• We will be beginning Chapter 7 in Social Studies this week. Test TBA. Remember social studies tests are open book and page numbers given.
• If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! Looking forward to a new semester!

January 7-11

• Thanks for ALL of my wonderful Christmas presents from everyone.
• Hope your holiday season was wonderful!
• We will be back to a normal rountine this week!
• I sent a note and email last week concerning changes in contact information. If you have not already responded, please let me know changes. If there are no changes, let me know that also.
• 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!
• Report Cards go home next Thursday, January 17th! Please review your child's grades, sign, and return as soon as possible.
• Awards Day is Friday, January 18th at 10:30 for 5th grade.
• No School on Monday, January 21st.
• This week's story is A Drop of Water.
• This week's genre is expository nonfiction.
• This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
• This week's vocabulary words are elongates, elastic, rigid, accumulate, underlying, intricate, vanish, and replenishing.
• This week's spelling words are barrel, cannon, capitol, civil, clever, discover, frozen, general, hidden, inventor, mayor, pepper, polar, proper, sandal, saucer, original, theater, tutor, and musical.
• This week's grammar skill is pronouns and antecedents.
• We will be taking the Chapter 6 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, Wednesday, 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!