Happy Memorial Day!

As we pause to honor those who died in service to our country, we recognize the importance of responsibility to ourselves, our school, our families, and our community.  This is responsibility week at OCS.  Responsibility is one of our most important values.

It is easy to do the responsible thing to do when all is going well; in hard times, that's another story.
Make wise choices.  Be responsible.  Say what you mean and do what you say!

Spelling words:  opinion, directions, stretch, practice, introduction, participate, activity, reflection, travel, remembered, circle, describe, listen, education, experiences, wouldn’t, chapter, review, awesome, coyote. 

Bonus:  trustworthiness, citizenship, presentations, appreciation

We are working on MARE posters and projects.  Students are researching some very unusual animals.

Adverbs continue!  

Happy warm weather!!!

Mrs. Carr

Adverbs and parts of Speech!

This week we are reviewing the parts of speech we have worked on throughout the year and are adding a new one...... adverbs!

We are reviewing

• nouns- persons, places, things, or ideas (two types= proper and common nouns)
• verbs- action or state of being words (some are helping or linking verbs)
• pronouns- takes the place of a noun
• adjectives-  describing words that provide description for nouns

New this week- adverbs (words that tell us how, where, when).

Spelling words:  opinion, directions, stretch, practice, introduction, participate, activity, reflection, everyone, explain, travel, time, long, remembered, friends, whose, circle, describe, listen, first, whole, education.        

Bonus:  wouldn’t, trustworthiness, citizenship, experiences

We continue to read about the antics of Louis the swan. 

Writing, Writing, Writing.....

     We are working on writing FOCUSED narratives this week.  No "fuzzy writing" or "zig-zagging" allowed!  Students got their turn to develop rubrics that assessed their work and are now gaining invaluable insights to common mistake s and writing problems.  Topics we've been writing about have included "How I Made Mom Feel Special on Mother's Day", "My Morning", "School Is.....", "Clubs and Activities at OCS", and "CORRECT".

     In reading we have watched the genre of our book "Trumpet of the Swan" switch from what we first labeled "realistic fiction" to "fantasy" as the we've read about the cob robbing a Billings, Montana music store of a brass trumpet (in order to give Louis his voice).  We just can't wait to read what happens next.  

Spelling words this week include: 

there’s, its, little, another, every, without, country, usually, upon, English, certain, special, area, beautiful, easy, language, energy, explain, quest, trumpet

Bonus:  capitalization, punctuation, organization, reputation