Sunday, March 17, 2013

March 18-22

  • This week's reading story is Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride.
  • This week's genre is fantasy.
  • This week's vocabulary words are excursions, giddy, turbulent, gleeful, panic, pinnacle, and precious.
  • This week's spelling words are addresses, armies, calves, countries, leaves, buses, videos, echoes, shelves, studios, radios, halves, hooves, knives, taxes, tomatoes, opportunities, volcanoes, stitches, and wolves.
  • This week's grammar skill is perfect tenses verbs.
  • We are working on chapter 11 in social studies.
  • Your student has homework! Please check their agendas!
  • Report cards go home on Thursday this week! Please review, sign, and return.
  • Enjoy your spring break! Be safe!
  • March 11-15

    • This week is Book Fair week! Monday is crazy hair day! Tuesday is mad scientist day! Wednesday is silly stripes day! Thursday is neon day! Friday is favorite seuss character day!
    • Family Reading Night is Tuesday, March 12, from 5:30-7:00!
    • This week's story is Any Small Goodness.
    • This week's vocabulary words are gouges, desolate, bustles, fervor, immaculate, and assuage.
    • This week's focus skill is literary devices.
    • This week's grammar skill is past and future verb tense.
    • This week's spelling words are assign, autumn, column, crumb, debris, delight, design, glisten, hasten, knead, knowledge, lightning, resign, rhyme, solemn, thorough, scenery, whirl, wreath, and wrestled.
    • There are spelling, grammar, and reading tests this Friday.
    • We are working on chapter 10 in social studies.
    • There is homework assigned in your child's agenda books. Please check.
    • Spring break is soon! March 25-29!

    Sunday, March 3, 2013

    March 4-8

    • We are totally out of tissues!! The students are having to use paper towels to wipe their noses! If you can donate any tissues and pencils that would be great!
    • This week's story is Lesson 22 The Power of W.O.W.!
    • This week's vocabulary words are somberly, cumbersome, stammers, enterprising, deflated, monopolize, and enraptured.
    • This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
    • This week's spelling words are acceleration, accumulation, activation, alteration, authorization, calculation, cancellation, dedication, organization, demolition, repetition, mansion, pension, passion, tension, champion, confusion, permission, population, and companion.
    • This week's grammar skill is subject-verb agreement.
    • We will be completing chapter 9 in social studies and taking our open book test.
    • Your child has nightly homework. Please check agenda books daily and make sure they are being responsible. They receive a spelling homework grade every nine weeks!
    • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday. If your child is at school throughout the week and then is absent on Friday, they will be taking their make up tests when they return on the following Monday. PLEASE make sure that they spend some time during the weekend studying!!!
    • OIS will be selling snacks every morning this week! Everything is $1.00!
    • Family Reading Night is next Tuesday, March 12 from 5:30-7:00.
    • Report cards go home on Thursday, March 21th. Please sign and return!
    • Remember Spring Break is March 25-29!