May 7-11

This week's story is Klondike Kate.

This week's genre is biography.

This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.

This week's vocabulary words are remote, laden, appalled, invest, floundered, grueling, and isolated.

This week's spelling words are astronomy, disaster, asterisk, astronaut, asteroid, chronic, chronicle, chronology, chrononological, synchronize, cyclical, bicyclist, cyclone, encyclopedia, hydrogen, hydrant, hydrate, optic, optician, and optical.

This week's grammar skill is contractions.

We are working in Chapter 15 of social studies this week.

Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!

Field day is this Friday, May 11th. More info. to come this week!

April 30-May 4

• This week's story is Lewis and Clark.
• This week's genre is narrative nonfiction.
• This week's focus skill is summarizing and paraphrasing.
• This week's vocabulary words are asset, intently, profusely, ordeal, terrain, dismal, peril, and esteem.
• This week's spelling words are unsuccessful, undoubtedly, impossibly, disloyalty, deactivation, unlikable, replacement, unsafely, uncollectible, immeasurable, impassible, encouragement, unbelievable, unselfishly, rearrangement, discoverable, dishonestly, unbreakable, reappearance, and reassurance.
• This week's grammar skill is irregular verbs.
• We are working in Chapter 14 of social studies this week.
• Your child will have reading and spelling homework nightly. Check agenda books! It's in there!
• OIS Variety Show this Friday, May 4th! $1.00 to attend.

April 23-27

• Everyone did very well on the ARMT! Looking forward to the results!
• Back to a regular schedule this week!
• This week's reading story is Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride.
• This week's genre is fantasy.
• This week's vocabulary words are excursions, giddy, turbulent, gleeful, panic, pinnacle, and precious.
• This week's spelling words are addresses, armies, calves, countries, leaves, buses, videos, echoes, shelves, studios, radios, halves, hooves, knives, taxes, tomatoes, opportunities, volcanoes, stitches, and wolves.
• This week's grammar skill is perfect tenses verbs.
• We are working on chapter 13 in social studies.
• Your student will have homework starting again this week!
• Progress reports go out this week! Please review, sign, and return.
• Thanks a bunch to all of the parents who sent in snacks for the testing days!

April 9-20

• This is our 2 weeks of state testing.
• April 11-12 is reading.
• April 16-17 is math.
• April 18 is science.
• We will be back to a normal schedule/rountine the week of April 23-27.
• Good Luck Students! You CAN Do It!

April 2-6

• Hope everyone had a wonderful spring break!
• This week is ARMT review week.
• There will be no reading story, vocabulary words, or spelling words. There is NO homework this week.
• Looking forward to the parent conferences that are scheduled for tomorrow! You know who you are!
• Don't forget about Testing Open House tomorrow night at 6 o'clock!
• No School this Friday, April 6th.

March 19-23

• This week's story is Any Small Goodness.
• This week's vocabulary words are gouges, desolate, bustles, fervor, immaculate, and assuage.
• This week's focus skill is literary devices.
• This week's grammar skill is past and future verb tense.
• This week's spelling words are assign, autumn, column, crumb, debris, delight, design, glisten, hasten, knead, knowledge, lightning, resign, rhyme, solemn, thorough, scenery, whirl, wreath, and wrestled.
• There are spelling, grammar, and reading tests this Friday.
• There is homework assigned in your child's agenda books. Please check.
• If you have not returned your child's report cards and conference note, please do so soon!
• Spring break is next week! March 26-30! Have a fun and safe week!

March 12-16

• This week's story is The Power of W.O.W.!
• This week's vocabulary words are somberly, cumbersome, stammers, enterprising, deflated, monopolize, and enraptured.
• This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
• This week's spelling words are acceleration, accumulation, activation, alteration, authorization, calculation, cancellation, dedication, organization, demolition, repetition, mansion, pension, passion, tension, champion, confusion, permission, population, and companion.
• This week's grammar skill is subject-verb agreement.
• We will be beginning chapter 12 in social studies.
• Your child has nightly homework. Please check agenda books daily and make sure they are being responsible. They receive a reading and spelling homework grade every night weeks!
• Report cards go home on Thursday, March 15th. Please sign and return!
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• Remember Spring Break is March 26-30!