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!