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.

 

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!