Monday, March 14, 2016

March 14-18

  • 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 similes and metaphors.
  • We are working on week 23 in social studies. Test on Thursday.
  • Your student has homework! Please check their agendas!
  • There will be a spelling, reading, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Last week's tests will come home on Wednesday of this week instead of Tuesday, because of my absence on Monday.
  • Book Fair is this week! A dress up note went home last Friday.
  •      Monday is Monochromatic Monday, Tuesday is Tye Dye Tuesday. Wednesday is Wacky Hair Wednesday. Thursday is Green/Shamrock Day. Friday is "Fan"tastic Friday.
    • Thursday night is St. Patrick's Day Fun Night at OIS. 5:30-7:00.
  • Bowling field trip is next Wednesday, March 23rd.
  • Spring and Group Pictures are next Thursday, March 24th.
  • Report cards go home next Thursday March 24th! Please review, sign, and return after Spring Break.
  • No School Friday, March 25. Spring Break is March 28-April 1. Enjoy your spring break! Be safe!

  • Sunday, March 6, 2016

    March 7-11


  • 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 proverbs and adages.
  • 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 week 22 in social studies. Test will be on Thursday.
  • There is homework assigned in your child's agenda books. Please check.
  • Book Fair is March 14-18
  • St. Patrick's Day Celebration is Thursday, March 17 from 5:30-7:00.
  • Spring/group pictures are on Thursday, March 24th.
  • No School on Friday, March 25th.
  • Remember Spring Break is March 28-April 1!

  • Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    February 29-March 4

  • We are 4 yearbooks away from winning the most sold in 5th grade. Please buy your yearbook today so we can win!!!! Yearbooks are $30.
  • 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 the 3rd quarter of Studies Weekly. We will have a unit test on Friday.
  • Your child has nightly homework. Please check agenda books daily and make sure they are being responsible. They receive a spelling and reading 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 nachos on Wednesday and Friday mornings this week! They are $1.00!
  • Book Fair is March 14-18
  • St. Patrick's Day Celebration is Thursday, March 17 from 5:30-7:00.
  • Spring/group pictures are on Thursday, March 24th.
  • No School on Friday, March 25th.
  • Remember Spring Break is March 28-April 1!