November 26-30

• OIS has a new website. Check it out! odenvilleintermediateschool.weebly.com
• Make sure your child has PENCILS!!!! We are out AGAIN! Thanks to all of you who sent in extras the last time! They also need loose leaf paper!
• D.A.R.E. graduation is this Thursday, November 29th at 9:00.
• 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 spelling words are enemy, balance, basis, closet, decent, define, eleven, fanatic, honest, humor, minute, model, protest, ocean, pretend, private, radar, second, slogan, and editor.
• This week's grammar skill is common and proper nouns.
• We will be working on Chapter 5 in Social Studies this week.
• If you would like to conference (phone or in person), please let me know!
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• Please make sure your child studies the DOL study guide that comes home on Thursday nights. Everything on the DOL test comes from the weekly DOL lessons or past lessons. I also read the tests to the students on Thursday to help them prepare. Many students are even writing their own notes as we go over the tests! 
• Please check agenda books daily!
• Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. 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!