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.