Sunday, December 13, 2015

December 14-18

       ·       Christmas Party $ is due by Tuesday, December 15th. PLEASE send cash.

·       Pajama/Polar Express Day is Wednesday, December 16th. Your child is allowed to wear appropriate pajamas to school on this day. We will be watching movies and enjoying this time of year in our classrooms.

·       Christmas party is Thursday, December 17th at 12:30.

·       School will dismiss at 11:30 on Friday, December 18th.

·       Students will return to school on Thursday, January 7th.

Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas holiday.

 

Sunday, December 6, 2015

December 7-11

  • This week's story is A Drop of Water.
  • This week's genre is expository nonfiction.
  • This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are elongates, elastic, rigid, accumulate, underlying, intricate, vanish, and replenishing.
  • This week's spelling words are barrel, cannon, capitol, civil, clever, discover, frozen, general, hidden, inventor, mayor, pepper, polar, proper, sandal, saucer, original, theater, tutor, and musical.
  • This week's grammar skill is pronouns and antecedents.
  • We will be working on Week 15 of social studies. Each student has a study guide. There will be a test on Thursday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.  
  • Please check agenda books daily!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Reading vocabulary homework is on Monday night. Reading homework is due on Friday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
  •  All students have a study guide for their reading story. PLEASE make sure that are studying...all the answers are from the reading story.
  • 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!

  • Sunday, November 29, 2015

    November 30-December 4

    Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

  • This week's story is Stormalong. 
  • This week's genre is tall tale.
  • This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are reputation, yearning, escapades, bellowing, betrayed, outcast, withered, and unfathomable.
  • This week's spelling words are development, dispensable, enjoyable, digestible, divisible, irresistible, admissible, appointment, argument, payment, amazement, priceless, judgment, resentment, embarrassment, boundless, ageless, aimless, motionless, and worthless.
  • This week's grammar skill is possessive nouns.
  • We will be working on Week 14 in social studies this week! There will be a test on Thursday!
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Please check agenda books daily!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Vocabulary word definitions are on Monday night. Reading story homework questions are due on Friday. 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!

  • Thursday, November 19, 2015

    November 16-20

  • This week's story is Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology. 
  • This week's genre is informational narrative.
  • This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are residents, specimens, debris, recoil, internal, adjust, and pesky.
  • This week's spelling words are reenter, refried, reconsider, repaint, reform, replay, retake, remake, reclaim, replant, unable, uninformed, undesirable, untold, unwise, nonconductor, nonproductive, nonexistent, nonflammable, and nondairy.
  • This week's grammar skill is singular and plural nouns.
  • We will be working on week 13 in social studies test this week. Test on Thursday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.  
  • Please check agenda books daily!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Reading homework is Monday and Thursday nights. Reading homework questions are for a grade this week instead of a writing response. 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!
  • Spend some time cleaning out binders over the week. Let's help them get organized.
  • No school next week November 23-27. Happy Thanksgiving!!! Your students are a blessing to me!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!
  • Thursday, November 5, 2015

    November 5-13

  • 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 Week 12 in Social Studies this week. Test is on Tuesday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Thursday.
  • Please check agenda books!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. Homework is listed in the agenda books!  They have vocabulary word definitions and reading story questions also.

  • We are out of school next, Wednesday, November 11th.
  • Harvest Palooza is next Friday, November 13th. Armbands are $12.00.
  • 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!

  • Sunday, November 1, 2015

    October 29-November 3

    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 complex sentences with dependent/independent clauses.
  • We are on week 11 in social studies. There will be a social studies test on Tuesday. Let me know if you want your child to do extra credit.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Wednesday.
  • Last week's tests come home on Monday.
  • 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 Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. Reading vocabulary on Thursday night and reading story questions are due on Wednesday. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
    •  A BIG THANK YOU to all of you who sent in candy! The candy crash was a HUGE success!
    • Also thanks for the pencils....keep those coming.
  • 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!

  • Sunday, October 25, 2015

    October 22-28

  • This week's story is Leonardo's Horse.
  • This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
  • This week's focus skill is Text Structure: Sequence.
  • This week's vocabulary words are gesture, specialized, proportion, envisioned, resisted, and scholars.
  • This week's spelling words 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 prepositions, prepositional phrases, and object of the preposition.
  •  We are working on week 10 in social studies. The test will be Tuesday, October 27th.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Wednesday, October 28th.
  •  Last week's tests will come home on Monday.
  • 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!
  • Homework is listed in the agenda books!  

  • OIS is having the Annual Candy Crash on Tuesday, October 27th from 5:30-7:00. PLEASE send in a bag of candy as soon as possible!

  • 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!
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2015

    October 15-21

  • This week's story is When Washington Crossed the Delaware.
  • This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
  • This week's focus skill is Text Structure: Sequence.
  • This week's vocabulary words are persuading, crucial, maneuvered, encountered, crisis, appealed, perseverance, and destiny.
  • This week's spelling words 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 prepositional phrases.
  • We are working on Week 9 in social studies this week. There will be a test on Tuesday. Study the study guide!
  • There will be a reading, grammar, and spelling test on Wednesday.
  • Last week's tests will go home on Friday.
  • 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 Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. Homework is listed in the agenda books! 
  • Report cards go out next Thursday, October 22nd. Please sign and return as soon as possible.
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  • OIS is having our annual Candy Crash on Tuesday, October 27th 5:30-7:00. PLEASE send in a bag of candy as soon as possible!
  • 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!







  • Sunday, October 4, 2015

    October 5-9

    Open House Tuesday night, October 6th from 5:30-6:30.
    BOOK FAIR WEEK! Send money to purchase some terrific books!
    NO school next Monday and Tuesday, October 12th and 13th.
    Field Trip is next Wednesday, October 14th. Don't forget to pack a lunch if you didn't order 1 from the lunch room.
  • This week's story is When the Circus Came to Town.
  • This week's genre is historical fiction.
  • This week's focus skill is theme.
  • This week's vocabulary words are fret, proclaimed, assured, outlandish, nudged, and ruckus.
  • 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 compound sentences and titles.
  • We are working on Week 8 in social studies this week. Test on Thursday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • 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 reading vocabulary homework on Monday night and reading story questions homework that is due on Friday!
  • Your child has spelling homework on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights.

  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. This is a GREAT group of kids! 
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!





  • Sunday, September 27, 2015

    September 28-October 2

  • This week's story is The Night of San Juan.
  • This week's genre is realistic fiction.
  • This week's focus skill is theme.
  • This week's vocabulary words are wistful, grateful, irresistible, revelers, grim, raspy, and swarmed.
  • 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.
  • This week's grammar skill is compound subjects and predicates.
  • We are working on Week 7 of studies weekly. Test will be on Thursday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Last week's reading quiz comes 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!
  • Your child has spelling homework this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Reading vocabulary homework on Monday night and reading homework questions are due on Friday. Homework is listed in the agenda books!   
  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc.
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!

  • Sunday, September 13, 2015

    September 14-18

    Coupon book sales are over tomorrow Monday, September 14th. Please return all orders or the original book by Monday.

    Dare starts Tuesday, September 15th.

    Progress Reports go home on Thursday, September 17th. Please review and sign and return as soon as possible.

    Homecoming is next week, September 21-25. Dress up days are:
    Monday: Camo Day
    Tuesday: Tacky Day
    Wednesday: Super Hero Day
    Thursday: Twin/Trio Day
    Friday: Spirit Day
    School will dismiss at 12:00 on Friday, September 25. I must have a note if your child is going home a different way than normal.

    This week is Theme Week. This week's story is It Takes Talent!
  • This week's vocabulary words are genial, prognostication, stricken, dramatically, restrain, protest, feverishly, overcome, flop, and spectacular.
  • This week's spelling words are review. They are stretch, cactus, measure, reason, coach, kneeling, twice, rayon, appoint, scoop, drawn, feud, jewel, fraud, royalty, hurried, scared, changing, buying, and obeyed
  • This week's grammar skills are synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
  • We will be completing week 5 in social studies. PLEASE have your child study the study guide. If you would like extra credit work for any lesson, please let me know.
  • Your child has homework on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. PLEASE check agenda books and make sure that their homework is complete and back in their binders.
  • Graded test papers will go home on Tuesday. Sign and return any D(60-69) or F(59 or under) by Friday.
  • Any questions, let me know.


  • Monday, September 7, 2015

    September 7-11

    • Hope everyone enjoyed this long Labor Day weekend!
    • Picture day is Tuesday, September 8th. These pictures will be in the yearbook.
    • OES, OIS, and OMS will have a Title 1 Block Party this Thursday night, September 10th.
    • Grandparents are invited to come eat lunch on Friday, September 11th at 11:30. Visitors lunch cost is $3.75.
    This week's story is "The Daring Nellie Bly: America's Star Reporter".
  • This week's focus skill is character motives.
  • This week's vocabulary words are eccentric, crusaded, impassable, infuriated, relented, disheartened, and faze.
  • This week's spelling words end with -ed or -ing. They are talked, hurried, smiling, dropped, clapping, stepped, worried, worrying, changing, stayed, buying, dried, picnicking, scared, driving, obeyed, playing, tried, carried, and hurrying.
  • This week's grammar skill is simple and complete subject and predicate.
  • Your child has homework in my class every night except Wednesdays. PLEASE check agenda books.
  • We will be working on week 4 of USA Studies Weekly. Lots of 100s this past week.
  • We will begin DARE this week.
  • Test papers will go home on Wednesday of this week because of Monday being a holiday.
  • If you have any questions, please send me an email, note, or call the school and leave a message.
  • I am still accepting donations of $35.
  • Sunday, August 30, 2015

    August 31-September 4


    This week's story is Chang and the Bamboo Flute. The students have reading homework questions about the story that comes home on Monday, but are not due until Friday.
  • This week's focus skill is Character Motives.
  • This week's vocabulary words are pried, desperately, sneered, indignantly, urgently, and grudgingly. Students are to use the glossary from the reading books on Monday night and write the definitions for homework.
  • This week's spelling words are counter, fraud, oyster, appoint, drawn, awning, laundry, feud, shawl, jewel, royalty, powder, annoying, cashew, scoop, bamboo, browse, ointment, rooster, rescue. Harder words! Please make sure your child is studying and completing homework. They have spelling homework on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights.
  • The grammar skill is subject and predicate.
  • There will be a reading, grammar, and spelling test on Friday.
  • We are working on week 3 of USA Studies Weekly. Test scores were GREAT again for week 2. Test 3 will be on Thursday.
  • Test papers go home on Tuesday. If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), you must sign and return the test paper by Friday of that same week.


  • Our first fundraiser for the year went home last Thursday. If you do not wish to purchase/sell the coupon book, you MUST return the book to school.
  • Agenda books are in! Please check these for homework and special dates.
  • We are beginning DARE next Tuesday.
  • Remember NO school on Monday, September 7 for Labor Day.

  • Sunday, August 23, 2015

    August 24-28

  • Happy Labor Day! No school Monday, September 7.
  • This week's story is Line Drive.
  • This week's genre is autobiography.
  • This week's focus skill is conflict and resolution.
  • This week's vocabulary words are maven, mortified, reigned, conceited, designated, smirk, and exhilarated.
  • This week's spelling words are needle, speech, reason, crease, thief, fade, obtain, faint, steep, rayon, eager, shadow, saying, mild, coach, smoke, twice, human, teenage, and niece.
  • This week's grammar skill is imperative and exclamatory sentences.
  • We will be working on week 2 in social studies. A study guide will come home on Monday. Tests are on Thursdays. Your child is allowed to use the USA Studies Weekly newspaper during the tests.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
  • Tests will come home on Tuesdays.
  • Please read the attached note to this week's social studies test papers.
  • Agenda books are on there way! They should be here this week! Until then your child is writing their homework down on a printed sheet I gave them.
  • I have also sent an email explaining homework again. Also refer back to my welcome letter.
  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. Some of the students are still adjusting to a new school year and getting organized!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!
  • Sunday, February 22, 2015

    February 23-27

  • This week's story is Interrupted Journey.
  • This week's vocabulary words are vital, sleek, basking, analyzing, detect, and damage.
  • This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
  • This week's spelling words are incompetent, uphold, inconsiderate, indecisive, outrank, inhumane, inorganic, income, invertebrate, outgoing, outpatient, outspoken, outwit, downbeat, downgrade, downplay, downtown, uplift, upstage, and uptight.
  • This week's grammar skill is linking and action verbs.
  • We are working on Lesson 21 in social studies. Don't forget about the extra credit option.
  • There is nightly homework. Please check your child's agenda books.
  • Please make sure your child has paper and pencils daily!
  • Cookie dough is on sale now through March 6th.
  • Sunday, February 8, 2015

    February 9-13

  • Progress Reports go home on Monday, February 9th. Please sign and return by Friday. Also sign the conference sheet.
  • Your child can send valentine cards to exchange on Friday. We will also be having a special snack. Thanks to all the parents who have volunteered to send in items.
  • No school next Monday, February 16th.
  • This week's reading story is The Invention Convention.
  • This week vocabulary words are scours, appropriate, practical, portable, circulate, protrude, boisterous, deduction, fickle, and measly.
  • This week's spelling words are review: irreplaceable, immature, indefinite, illiterate, independent, applicant, accountant, insistent, novelist, technician, cellist, porous, glorious, spontaneous, fictitious, mountainous,weak, week, dual, and duel. Check your child's agenda book nightly for spelling homework!
  • This week's focus skills are review: making inferences and main idea and details.
  • This week's grammar skills are review: subjective/objective pronouns, possessive/reflexive pronouns, adjectives/articles, and main/helping verbs.
  • We are working on Lesson 20 this week in social studies. Ask your child about the extra credit option.
  •  Test papers go home on Tuesday. Sign and return the D/F papers by Friday.
  • Check agenda books for homework.
  • Monday, February 2, 2015

    February 2-6

  • This week's story is Inventing the Future.
  • This week's story genre is a biography.
  • This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
  • This week's vocabulary words are irrepressible, feat, industry, tendency, device, and prestigious.
  • This week's spelling words are homophones: steal, steel, waste, waist, weak, week, base, bass, pain, pane, flare, flair, dual, duel, stationary, stationery, flower, flour, sight, and site. The students will need to know what each word means because they will have to spell the correct homophone that fits in the sentence.
  • This week's grammar skill is main and helping verbs.
  • We are working on Week 19 in social studies. Ask your child about their extra credit option. The social studies test is on Thursday.
  • The spelling, grammar, and reading tests will be on Friday.
  • Remember NO school on Monday, February 19th!
  • Remember to check your child's agenda book every night. They have HOMEWORK for a grade!
  • Remember your child needs pencils and paper daily at school!
  • Test papers go home on Tuesday. If your child makes a D or an F, a signature is required. These D/F papers are due back by Friday of each week.
  • PLEASE remember that ATTENDANCE MATTERS. Unless your child is throwing up or has a fever, they need to try their hardest to be at school.
  • If you need me in any way, please let me know.
  • Sunday, January 25, 2015

    January 26-30

  • Don't forget our 5th grade program this Thursday, January 29th at 6:00. Our class will be dressing up in 50s clothes.
  • This week's story is Project Mulberry.
  • This week's genre is realistic fiction.
  • This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
  • This week's vocabulary words are compartments, swayed, phobia, invasion, vetoed, and wispy.
  • This week's spelling words are courteous, hazadous, humorous, monstrous, porous, curious, furious, glorious, delirious, fictitious, gracious, ambitious, discourteous, dangerous, anxious, spontaneous, religious, delicious, mountainous, and ridiculous.
  • This week's grammar skill is adjectives and articles.
  • Please check your child's agenda book every night. Their homework should be listed!
  • Tests papers go home on Tuesday! Sign and return if your child makes a D or an F.
  • We are working on Week 17 in social studies this week.
  • We are out of pencils!!! Please donate a box or 2!
  • Monday, January 19, 2015

    January 19-23

  • This week's story is Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street.
  • This week's vocabulary words are extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, and hiatus.
  • This week's focus skill is making inferences.
  • This week's spelling words are accountant, applicant, attendant, defiant, mutineer, expectant, hesitant, quadrant, resistant, servant, dependent, indulgent, insistent, urgent, auctioneer, accompanist, artist, cellist, technician, and novelist.
  • This week's grammar skill is possessive and reflexive pronouns.
  • We will be working on Week 17 in social studies this week.
  • There will be spelling homework on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights this week.
  • Vocabulary words homework is Tuesday night and reading questions are not due until Friday.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, grammar, and social studies test on Friday.
  • Don't forget the 5th grade program is next Thursday, January 29th at 6:00.

  • Sunday, January 11, 2015

    January 7-16

    • If you have not signed and returned the report card and the PTO program permission slip, please do so ASAP.
    • Yearbooks are on sale for $30.00. Deadline is March 6th.
    • Award's Day is this Friday, January 16th at 10:15.
    • PTO program is on Thursday, January 29th at 6:00.
    • Tests are on Thursday of this week because of Award's Day.
    • Check agenda books for homework.
    • Aspire results are in from last year. I will be sending those home on Monday.

    Saturday, January 3, 2015

    January 7-16


  • Report Cards go home on Wednesday, January 7th. Please sign and return as soon as possible.
  • Awards Day has been scheduled for Friday, January 16 at 10:15.
  • No school on Monday, January 19th.
  • This week's story is Lesson 16: The School Story.
  • This week's genre is realistic fiction.
  • This week's vocabulary words are indication, baffled, proposed, instinct, tempted, insights, and essence.
  • This week's spelling words are inactive, inaccurate, irregular, irrelevant, ineffective, imbalance, immature, impatient, imperfect, impossible, illegal, illiterate, illegible, inaction, independent, invalid, indefinite, injustice, irreplaceable, and impolite.
  • This week's grammar skill is subjective and objective case pronouns.
  • This week's focus skill is making inferences.
  • There is homework on Thursday of this week.
  • There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Thursday, the 15th. Please make sure that your child is studying!
  • Graded tests will come home on Tuesday. Please sign and return and test papers that are a D or an F by Friday.
  • We are working on Week 16 in Social Studies. There will be a test on Wednesday, January 14th.
  • Make sure your child has pencils and paper every day!