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.