November 5-9

• 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!
• If you have not already signed and returned the permission slip to attend the Veteran's Day program at the high school on Friday---I need it ASAP!
• OIS is having a can food drive from now until Friday, November 16th! Please help donate!
• This week is Theme Review.
• This week's story is The Secret Ingredient.
• This week's genre is readers' theater.
• This week's focus skill is review of Theme (lesson 6 and 7) and Text Structure: Sequence (lesson 8 and 9). 
• This week's vocabulary words are eminent, charity, modest, disgruntled, inadequate, aghast, dismayed, amends, absentminded, and concoction.
• This week's spelling words are review of bundle, vehicle, struggle, hurtle, triple, hurricane, golden, journey, hospital, excellent, message, arrange, whisper, terrific, expression, conclude, merchandise, technique, accomplish, and goggles.
• This week's grammar skill is review of compound subjects and predicates, simple and compound sentences, prepositions and propositional phrases, and dependent/independent clauses.
• The classes took chapter 4 social studies tests last week. Remember when you see these grades, the tests are OPEN book and page numbers GIVEN to find the answers! Many students are still doing poorly with these extra options to be successful! Please talk with your child about trying harder!
• 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!
• Last week's tests come home on Tuesday.
• If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it the next day.  .
• 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! 
• Remember NO school on Monday, November 12th in observance of Veteran's Day.
• Thanks to all of you who came out for the OIS candy crash last Tuesday night! It was alot of fun and the kids looked great! A BIG thank you to all of you who sent in candy! 
• OIS Fall Festival is Thursday, November 15th. A note will be coming home soon with all of the details. Our booth is face paint, so if any one is interested in volunteering some time to paint faces, just let me know!
• 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!