October 12-20

Hope everyone enjoyed the nice Fall Break.

• This week's story is Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea.
• Homework for this story goes home on Thursday, October 12 and is not due until Friday, October 20.
• 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 grammar skill is simile, metaphor, and personification.
• There will be a reading test on Friday, October 20th. It will consist of a cold read passage and question set, comprehension questions about Sailing Home, and vocabulary sentences.
• Last week's tests go home on Tuesday, October 17.
• If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it by Friday the 20th. 
• Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will continue to sign conduct folders for failure to bring materials to class, failure to return signed papers, leaving belongings in my class, behavior, etc!
• Not signing D/F test papers (violation 1.13) is getting the students in the most trouble. Please ask your student daily if they need anything signed.
• Let me know if you need me in any way!

OIS 1st annual Vocabulary Parade was a HUGE success. Thanks to everyone who participated.

Coming Up Soon:

• Field trip information goes home on Monday, October 16th. Our field trip to American Village is Wednesday, November 29th. Money and permissions slip are due by November 8th.

• Report Cards go home, Thursday, October 19. Please review, sign, and return as soon as possible. If you need a conference with any of the 4 teachers, send a note on the report card and we will contact you with a time.
• Wear PINK on Friday, October 20 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
• Picture proofs went home on Thursday, October 12. Money is due on Tuesday, October 24th.
• Reptile Show: Thursday, October 26. $1 to attend.
• Candy Crash: Thursday, October 26th from 4:30-6:00. Please send in individually wrapped candy.

Please send to school with your child an inexpensive pair of head phones or ear buds for computer lab. Thanks to everyone who has already sent them in.

Remember if your child is absent, I need a parent's or doctor's excuse when they return.

Email for your child's teachers are:
             andrea.lovell@sccboe.org    (reading)
             tara.tillman@sccboe.org  (math)
             tammy.short@sccboe.org   (science)
             laura.allen@sccboe.org  (social studies)

Our websites are available through the school's website.

Any questions, please ask. Looking forward to another GREAT week of learning.