Hope everyone had a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving.
Be on the lookout for several notes coming soon: Christmas party; 5th grade tshirt sale; DARE graduationSunday, November 27, 2016
November 28-December 2
Saturday, November 12, 2016
November 14-18
- HUGE thanks for everyone sending in their $3.00 to help with the face painter for the Harvest Palooza! She was amazing! We had such a fun day!
- Hope everyone enjoyed Veteran's Day! So thankful to the men and women who have served and are serving to protect this GREAT country.
- Progress reports go home Monday, November 14th. Please review, sign, and return by Friday!
- No School next week November 21-25. Happy Thanksgiving!
Sunday, October 30, 2016
October 31-November 4
BIG Thanks to everyone for sending in candy for the candy crash! It was a huge success!Don't forget to send in $3.00 for the face painter that is coming to the Harvest Palooza! Thanks to everyone that has already sent it in.
This week's story is When the Circus Came to Town.
This week's genre is historical fiction.
This week's focus skill is theme.
This week's vocabulary words are fret, proclaimed, assured, outlandish, nudged, and ruckus.
We are working on Week 10 in social studies this week. Test on Friday.
There will be a reading test on Friday.
Last week's tests come home on Tuesday.
If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it the next day.
Please check agenda books daily!
Your child has reading vocabulary homework due on Thursday and reading story questions and passage homework that is due on Friday!
Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc.
Let me know if you need me in any way!
Sunday, October 23, 2016
October 24-28
Red Ribbon Week!
Monday: Wear red.
Tuesday: Wear your Halloween costume.
Wednesday: Wear crazy socks.
Thursday: Wear cowboy attire.
Friday: Wear superhero tshirt.
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 adjust, residents, specimens, recoil, pesky, debris, and internal.
This week's grammar skill is perfect verb tenses.
We will be working on week 10 in social studies test this week. Test on Friday.
There will be a reading and grammar test on Friday.
Please check agenda books daily! 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!
Monday: Wear red.
Tuesday: Wear your Halloween costume.
Wednesday: Wear crazy socks.
Thursday: Wear cowboy attire.
Friday: Wear superhero tshirt.
- Candy Crash is Tuesday, October 25th from 5:30-7:00
Sunday, October 16, 2016
October 17-21
Report cards went home this past Thursday. Please review, sign, and return before Wednesday the 19th.
Candy crash is next Tuesday, October 25th from 5:30-7:00. PLEASE send in a bag of candy for this event.
This week's story is Inventing the Future.
This week's story genre is a biography.
This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
This week's vocabulary words are irrepressible, feat, industry, tendency, device, and prestigious.
We will have spelling words for the 1st time this year this week. Please check agenda books for words and homework assignments.
This week's grammar skill is Greek word parts.
Reading homework is written in agenda books also. Please check.
We are working on Week 9 in social studies. Ask your child about their study guides. The social studies test is on Friday.
The spelling and reading tests will be on Friday.
Remember your child needs pencils daily at school!
No test papers this week.
PLEASE remember that ATTENDANCE MATTERS. Unless your child is throwing up or has a fever, they need to try their hardest to be at school.
If you need me in any way, please let me know.
Candy crash is next Tuesday, October 25th from 5:30-7:00. PLEASE send in a bag of candy for this event.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
October 3-7
Open House is this Tuesday, October 4th from 5:30-6:30.
Book Fair is this week October 3-7.
This week's story is Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea.
This week's genre is historical fiction.
This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast.
This week's vocabulary words are inflammable, dignified, rowdy, seldom, conducted, shatter, and broached.
This week's grammar skill is similes and metaphors.
We will be working on Week 8 in Social Studies this week. Test is on Friday.
There will be a reading and grammar test on Friday.
Please check agenda books! Homework is listed in the agenda books!
We are out of school next Monday and Tuesday, October 10th and 11th for Fall Break.
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!
Book Fair is this week October 3-7.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
September 26-30
Homecoming Week!!!!
Monday: Dress as Your Future Occupation
Tuesday: Dress as Your Favorite Board Game Character
Wednesday: Wacky Tacky
Thursday: Color War. 5th Grade is gray or black
Friday: Saints Attire. 11:30 dismissal. Let me know through a note if your child is going home a different way than normal. Brunch will be served on this day.
This week's story is The Night of San Juan.
This week's genre is realistic fiction.
This week's focus skill is theme.
This week's vocabulary words are wistful, grateful, irresistible, revelers, grim, raspy, and swarmed.
This week's grammar skill is similes and metaphors.
Open House is Tuesday, October 4th.
Book fair is the week of October 3rd-7th.
We are working on Week 7 of studies weekly. Test will be on Thursday.
There will be a reading test on Thursday also.
Last week's tests will come home on Tuesday.
If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it the next day. .
Please check agenda books!
Reading vocabulary homework is due on Wednesday and reading homework questions and passage are due on Thursday. Homework is listed in the agenda books!
Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc.
Let me know if you need me in any way!
Monday: Dress as Your Future Occupation
Tuesday: Dress as Your Favorite Board Game Character
Wednesday: Wacky Tacky
Thursday: Color War. 5th Grade is gray or black
Friday: Saints Attire. 11:30 dismissal. Let me know through a note if your child is going home a different way than normal. Brunch will be served on this day.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
September 19-23
Picture Day is this Tuesday, September 20th.
Have your child wear blue on Friday, September 23rd for alopecia awareness month.
OIS Open House is scheduled for Tuesday, October 4th.
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 grammar skill is homographs.
We will be working on Week 6 of social studies. Each student has a study guide. There will be a test on Friday.
There will be a reading and grammar test on Friday.
Please check agenda books for homework!
Reading vocabulary homework is due by Thursday. Reading story questions and passage homework is due by Friday.
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!
Have your child wear blue on Friday, September 23rd for alopecia awareness month.
OIS Open House is scheduled for Tuesday, October 4th.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
September 12-16
Progress Reports go home on Monday, September 12th. Please review, sign, and return by Friday, September 16th.
Monday, September 5, 2016
September 5-9
Sunday, August 28, 2016
August 29-September 2
Remember NO School on Monday, September 5th.
This week's story is When Washington Crossed the Delaware.
This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
This week's focus skill is Text Structure: Sequence.
This week's vocabulary words are persuading, crucial, maneuvered, encountered, crisis, appealed, perseverance, and destiny.
This week's grammar skill is context clues.
We are working on week 3 in social studies this week. There will be a test on Friday. Students are allowed to use the newspaper. You should be seeing lots of 100s on these tests.
There will be a reading and grammar test on Friday.
Last week's tests come home on Tuesday.
If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it by Friday .
Please check agenda books daily!
Your child has reading homework this week. Vocabulary word definitions are due by Thursday. Reading story ?s and passage graphic organizers are due by Friday. Homework is listed in the agenda books!
Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will continue to sign conduct folders for NO homework and failure to return signed papers. I will also begin signing conduct folders this week for behavior. I have shown grace for the first 2 weeks while every student got back into the groove of school, but now I will be coding the conduct sheets for behavior issues.
Let me know if you need me in any way!
Sunday, August 21, 2016
August 22-26
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
April 25-29
Sunday, April 17, 2016
April 18-22
We are back to a normal routine this week. Lesson 26.
Thanks to everyone who sent snacks/drinks last week! We still have food left! We will finish it up this week.
This week's story is Lewis and Clark.
This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.
This week's vocabulary words are asset, intently, profusely, ordeal, terrain, dismal, peril, and esteem.
This week's spelling words are unsuccessful, undoubtedly, impossibly, disloyalty, deactivation, unlikable, replacement, unsafely, uncollectible, immeasurable, impassible, encouragement, unbelievable, unselfishly, rearrangement, discoverable, dishonestly, unbreakable, reappearance, and reassurance.
We will be working on 5th grade grammar skills this week.
We are on week 25 in social studies this week. Test is on Thursday.
Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!
There will be a reading, grammar, and spelling test on Friday!
Thanks to everyone who sent snacks/drinks last week! We still have food left! We will finish it up this week.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
April 4-8
Monday, March 14, 2016
March 14-18
- Thursday night is St. Patrick's Day Fun Night at OIS. 5:30-7:00.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
March 7-11
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
February 29-March 4
Sunday, February 21, 2016
February 22-26
Monday, February 15, 2016
February 15-19
Hope everyone enjoyed President's Day!
- This week's reading story is "The Invention Convention".
- This week vocabulary words are scours, appropriate, practical, portable, circulate, protrude, boisterous, deduction, fickle, and measly.
- This week's spelling words are review: irreplaceable, immature, indefinite, illiterate, independent, applicant, accountant, insistent, novelist, technician, cellist, porous, glorious, spontaneous, fictitious, mountainous,weak, week, dual, and duel. Check your child's agenda book nightly for spelling homework!
- This week's focus skills are review: making inferences and main idea and details.
- This week's grammar skill is verb tenses.
- Both classes are working on Week 20 in social studies.
- There will be a spelling, grammar, social studies, and reading test on Friday.
- There is Tuesday and Thursday night homework this week. Check agenda books.
- Progress reports go home this Thursday, February 18th. Please review, sign, and return as soon as possible.
- Please make sure your child has pencils daily.
- Test papers marked sign and return are due by Friday.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
February 8-12
Thanks to everyone who offered to send in special Valentine's Day snack. We will celebrate on Friday, February 12th. Your child can send in valentines to exchange if they want.
This week's story is Inventing the Future.
This week's story genre is a biography.
This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
This week's vocabulary words are irrepressible, feat, industry, tendency, device, and prestigious.
This week's spelling words are homophones: steal, steel, waste, waist, weak, week, base, bass, pain, pane, flare, flair, dual, duel, stationary, stationery, flower, flour, sight, and site. The students will need to know what each word means because they will have to spell the correct homophone that fits in the sentence.
This week's grammar skill is verb tenses.
We are working on Week 19 in social studies. Ask your child about their extra credit option. The social studies test is on Thursday.
The spelling, grammar, and reading tests will be on Friday.
Remember NO school on Monday, February 15th!
Remember to check your child's agenda book every night. They have HOMEWORK for a grade!
Remember your child needs pencils and paper daily at school!
Test papers go home on Tuesday. If your child makes a D or an F, a signature is required. These D/F papers are due back by Friday of each week.
PLEASE remember that ATTENDANCE MATTERS. Unless your child is throwing up or has a fever, they need to try their hardest to be at school.
If you need me in any way, please let me know.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
February 1-5
GREAT program last Thursday night! The kids did fantastic and everyone enjoyed the show! Thanks to those of you that allowed your child to participate.
This week's story is Project Mulberry.
This week's genre is realistic fiction.
This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
This week's vocabulary words are compartments, swayed, phobia, invasion, vetoed, and wispy.
This week's spelling words are courteous, hazadous, humorous, monstrous, porous, curious, furious, glorious, delirious, fictitious, gracious, ambitious, discourteous, dangerous, anxious, spontaneous, religious, delicious, mountainous, and ridiculous.
This week's grammar skill is adjectives and articles.
Please check your child's agenda book every night. Their homework should be listed!
There will be a social studies test on Thursday.
There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
Tests papers go home on Tuesday! Sign and return if your child makes a D or an F.
We are working on Week 18 in social studies this week.
PLEASE make sure your child has pencils and a sharpener.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
January 25-29
- So proud of all of the students who earned awards last Friday at the 1st semester award's day.
- Our 5th grade program is this Thursday, January 28th at 6:00. Please have your child there by 5:45. My homeroom is to dress in 50s style clothes. Unless they are a Backstreet Boy or a Spice Girl. Those students know who they are.
- Lesson 17 tests will be this Monday, January 25. There will be a reading and a spelling test.
- Mrs. Tillman's homeroom will also take the lesson 17 social studies.
- Reading homework questions are due on Monday also.
- Mrs. Tillman's homeroom will be turning in last Thursday night's spelling homework that I never got a chance to take up last Friday.
- There will be a grammar test on correlative conjunctions on Wednesday for both classes.
- We will be working on main idea and detail this week.
- We will start back up with lesson 18 next Monday.
- We are in need of paper towels in my classrooms. Any donations would be greatly appreciated.
- Any questions, please ask.
Monday, January 18, 2016
January 18-22
Sunday, January 10, 2016
January 11-15
Thursday, January 7, 2016
January 7-8
I hope you all had a wonderful and restful Christmas break. Thank you ALL for the terrific Christmas presents that your child gave me. I am spoiled!
We will start back with a regular schedule next week.
D.A.R.E. graduation is next Thursday, January 14th at 9:00. All parents are invited to attend.
We will start back with a regular schedule next week.
D.A.R.E. graduation is next Thursday, January 14th at 9:00. All parents are invited to attend.
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