October 31-November 4

• This week is Theme Test 2. There is no weekly reading test. Encourage your child to do well on the theme test.
• This week's spelling words are review. They are bundle, vehicle, struggle, hurtle, triple, hurricane, golden, journey, hospital, excellent, message, arrange, whisper, terrific, expression, conclude, merchandise, technique, accomplish, and goggles.
• There will still be a DOL test on Friday.
• We are working on Chapter 4 in Social Studies. Test on Chapter 4 coming soon.
• Continue to pledge toward the Boosterthon on Friday, November 4. Come out and cheer on the kids on Friday!
• Thanks to EVERYONE who sent in candy for the Candy Crash. We had so much fun! Looking forward to making that an annual OIS event!
• We despeately need pencils and pencil sharpeners. I had a nice electric one, but it has been broken! Any donations would be appreciated!

October 24-28

This week's story is Lesson 9: Leonardo's Horse.

This week's vocabulary words are gesture, specialized, proportion, envisioned, resisted, and scholars.

This week's focus skill is Text Structure: Sequence.

This week's spelling words are congress, English, fortress, expression, conclude, complain, complex, distrust, contribute, explode, umbrella, merchandise, remembrance, concrete, goggles, portray, technique, accomplish, function, and membrane.

This week's grammar skill is independent, dependent, and complex sentences.

OIS Candy Crash is this Tuesday, October 25th from 5:30-7:00. $1 for kids! Thanks to everyone who sent in candy! Also BIG thanks to Taylor's mom for sending in a pumpkin for our class!

This week is Homecoming. School will dismiss at 11:45 on Friday, October 28th. Let me know if your child is going home any different way than the usual!

Dress up days are: Monday: 50s Day, Tuesday: Backward Day, Wednesday: Camo Day; Thursday: Western Day; and Friday: Spirit Day.

October 17-21

• The week's story is Lesson 8: When Washington Crossed the Delaware.
• The week's vocabulary words are persuading, crucial, maneuvered, encountered, crisis, appealed, perseverance, and destiny.
• This week's focus skill is sequence.
• This week's spelling words are entire, hospital, public, combine, golden, chimney, pretzel, survive, absorb, turmoil, wisdom, journey, condition, whisper, identify, establish, furnace, capture, marvelous, and nursery.
• This week's grammar skill is prepositions and preposition phrases.
• We will be taking an open book test on Chapter 3 in social studies this week.
• An orange note is coming home with your child on Monday with ALL of the information to help get us through the next couple of weeks. There is a lot going on so please read carefully.
• Parenting Night conferences have been scheduled for this Thursday, October 21. If you did not get a call from Mrs. Tillman and would like to schedule a conference with us, please let us know.
• Report cards go out on Thursday, October 21. Please review your child's grade with them, sign, and return to school.
• Please continue to send in candy for the OIS Trick or Treat night next Tuesday, October 25th.

October 10-14

• This week's story is Lesson 7: When the Circus came to Town.
• This week's vocabulary words are fret, proclaimed, assured, outlandish, nudged, and ruckus.
• This week's focus skill is Theme.
• This week's spelling words are suppose, hurricane, ballad, bellow, success, appeal, announcer, tissue, excellent, terrific, collect, slippery, common, arrange, suffer, follow, kennel, squirrel, message, and summary.
• This week's grammar skill is simple and compound sentences.
• We are working in Chapter 3 in social studies.
• Continue to send in candy for the OIS Trick or Treat night which is Tuesday, October 25th.
• Learning Earnings is up and running. Ask your child.
• Think Central is up and running. Ask your child.
• We are having a competition for Accelerated Reading tests. Ask your child.
• We are having a Pizza Hut Book It competition. Ask your child. 
• Mrs. Tillman and I are scheduling conferences for Parenting Night. Date and time TBA. Let me know if you would like to meet with us.

October 3-7

• This week  we will begin Theme 2 Common Goals in reading.
• This week's story is The Night of San Juan.
• This week's vocabulary words are wistful, grateful, irresistible, revelers, grim, raspy, and swarmed.
• This week's focus skills is Theme.
• This week's spelling words are drizzle, gobble, meddle, shuffle, bundle, pickle, hobble, topple, hurtle,  vehicle, struggle, wiggle, spindle, speckle, griddle, ripple, article, triple, jingle, and bugle.
• The grammar skill is compound subjects and predicates.
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• We will begin Chapter 3 in social studies this week.
• Remember fall pictures are this Thursday, October 6. Students look your best!
• We will be having an OIS trick or treat night this year, so please begin sending in bags of candy for our class.
• A note went home on Monday about the PTO meeting on  Friday, October 7th from 9-10. Please come if you can!
• If your child is still interested in the poster contest, send me a note and I will send home the additional information.
• Please look over your child's agenda book and discipline folder every night. Encourage your child to always do their BEST at school!
• Have your child read all the spare time they can! Practice makes perfect!
• Review attendance policies in the code of conduct! 5 parent excuses is the limit! Please be at school if at all possible! Our class is trying to spell A-T-T-E-N-D-A-N-C-E!!!!!!