Dear OMOS families,
I hope you enjoy your Easter break with the students at home.
It was a short week! As the school year wraps up, please take a moment to check your Renweb account for any missing or incomplete work that needs to be submitted. Progress reports went home yesterday – please verify that work is turned in and reflected in the grades.
Although the unit 15 flashcards are due the Tuesday we return from Easter break, there is no vocabulary test when we return – the remaining vocabulary tests are as follows:
- April 30 – unit 15
- May 7 – units 13 – 15
- May 14 – units 1 – 15 (this is a final and the grade cannot be dropped). Students who earn an A on this final may drop two prior vocabulary test grades. Please start studying now. Ten minutes a day is MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE than the whole night before.
We have been writing a poem every Wednesday. A cumulative poetry test with open notes will be given on May 16th. Please ensure that your notes are up to date. Notebooks with notes are due the Friday before that test on May 10th.
Book talks were due on May 13th – but will be moved to May 6th due to the literature test on poetry and the vocabulary final. Please make sure you read a NONFICTION book if you just completed a FICTION book talk and vice versa. You can check on Renweb if you are unsure of which one you still need to do this trimester.
8th-grade grads – purchase your ticket for the graduation celebration today!
Celebration Tickets are available for purchase in the OMOS school office. Your child’s ticket(s) must be purchased before Friday, May 3rd. You have the option to apply your ticket purchase to FACTS or pay cash for the ticket(s). Ticket price is $30.
BIG SHOUT OUT to the 8th-grade parents who chaperoned the Phoenix field trip: Mr. Jentoft, Mrs. Teich, Mrs. Coonan, Mr. Apodaca, Mrs. Dickherber and of course, the staff, Mrs. Lanik, Mr. Lenox, Mr. Alvidrez, and Mr. Krautscheid.
Important Dates:
April 17: Mid-Trimester progress reports sent home
April 18-22: No School, Easter Break
April 23: Family Night at Chipotle from 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
May 1 and 2: Junior High School Play
May 13: Confirmation
May 17: Summer Kick-Off
May 22: 8th Grade Graduation and Celebration
May 24: Last Day of School, dismissal at 1:10 p.m., no childcare available
For additional details please visit:
http://www.omosschool.com/school-calendar.html
Random fact of the day:
I before e, except after c
Or when sounded as ‘a’ as in ‘neighbor’ and ‘weigh’
Unless the ‘c’ is part of a ‘sh’ sound as in ‘glacier’
Or it appears in comparatives and superlatives like ‘fancier’
And also except when the vowels are sounded as ‘e’ as in ‘seize’
Or ‘i’ as in ‘height’
Or also in ‘-ing’ inflections ending in ‘-e’ as in ‘cueing’
Or in compound words as in ‘albeit’
Or occasionally in technical words with strong etymological links to their parent languages as in ‘cuneiform’
Or in other numerous and random exceptions such as ‘science’, ‘forfeit’, and ‘weird’.