Week of September 30

This week's spelling focuses on the long a sound /a/:

1.  afraid
2.  explain
3.  payment
4.  trace
5.  sleigh
6.  laid
7.  raise
8.  straight
9.  freight
10. height
11. they
12. favorite
13. April
14. able
15. radio
16. station
17. daybreak
18. relation
19. may
20. prey

Spelling homework for the week:
Monday-write words #1-10 5 times each
Tuesday-words #11-20 5 times each
Wednesday-choose 12 words to use in sentences
Thursday-create a short story using at least 8 words

Happy Monday!

The students are doing a great job of getting into our daily routine!  We are really getting to work in our new school year-so exciting!

Here are the spelling words for the week (these are vocabulary words for our first unit in Social Studies)
1.  landforms
2.  geography
3.  border
4.  coast
5.  wetland
6.  waterway
7.  source
8.  erosion
9.  transportation
10. port
11. elevation
12. weather
13. climate
14. temperature
15. precipitation
16. blizzard
17. hurricane
18. river
19. Oxford
20. Trenton

Gentle reminder that there is a vocabulary quiz in Science on Friday 9/27

Have a great week!

Spelling

Spelling words for the week concentrate on short vowel sounds. 
Spelling pack (hw) is due on Thursday 9/19
Spelling test and Reading quiz will be on Friday 9/20

1.  rough
2.  grudge
3.  stunt
4.  sudden
5.  thumb
6.  once
7.  another
8.  does
9.  cousin
10. trouble
11. began
12. city
13. oxygen
14. copy
15. very
16. until
17. umpire
18. which
19. crumb
20. puzzle

Have a great week!

4th Grade Goals!

Both of the 4th grades have worked on goals for this academic year.  Mr. Denzer-Weiler's class (Mr. DW as the kids refer to him), as well as our own, have filled in football templates with personal goals for school.  They are in the hallway in front of both of our classrooms as serve as a motivation to all of the 4th grade.  The students did a great job on these, and they can not wait for you to see them at Back to School Night (9/17)!

Spelling Words

Happy Friday!

Students were given the spelling words for next week's test. 
The words were taken from the first two chapters of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.

1.  cereal
2.  insulted
3.  pears
4.  turtle
5.  hollered
6.  flowers
7.  reptiles
8.  mumbling
9.  advertising
10. delicious
11. stomach
12. slurping
13. complained
14. announced
15. advantages
16. combination
17. pastimes
18. discussing
19. repeated
20. commercial

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

September 5, 2013

Good Afternoon!

Just a friendly reminder that many of the forms that were once sent home ("Parent Homework") are now on the OCS homepage.  If you locate the "OCS Backpack" icon, you will find forms that need to be filled out and sent with your child to school.  If there are any issues with printing out documents, please let me know and I will send your child home with a print out!

Thank you and have a great night!

Welcome to 4th Grade!

Today was such a wonderful 1st day of 4th grade!  The class and I had a great time getting to know each other and learning about their new class!
Welcome back!  :)