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!