January 4-8

Happy New Year!

Spelling words for this week include: world, want, important, going, school, forget, homework, remember, play, there, each, right, around, another, help, always, show, asked

Vocabulary words are: confirm, indicate, gracious, inscription, humane, diplomat, integrity

Cursive letters that we will be learning this week are: Y,Z, I, J, O, D, A, C, E

Please get back into the habit of reading 20 minutes each night. You will need 4 reading calendars to participate in the next school wide reading reward activity.

December 14- 18

Spelling words for this week are: often, asked, don't, together, house, school, soon, plan, instead, they, what, their, said, over, our, think, also, those

We will be working with these vocabulary words throughout the week: display, paralyzed, warp, tilt, orbit, achieve, coincidence

We will be going to the library on Wednesday this week.

Special happenings this week: Wednesday: 10: 30 A.M. Christmas Concert by CHS Band
Thursday: School Sing at 2:30 P.M.
Friday: Reading Reward Movie at 1:15 P.M.

No reading helpers are need on Wednesday or Friday this week.

Enjoy your Christmas Holiday.

November 30 - December 4

Spelling words for this week are: below, something, both, saw, thought, today, important, friends, river, from, there, said, could, first, back, right, between, never

Vocabulary words are: heave, bout, horizon, dawdle, sprawl, defeat, obvious

The Fiddler's Choir is having their Christmas concert this Thursday.

November 16-24

Spelling words for November 24 are: along, might, sound, while, next, stood, funny, feet, side, would, little, because, help, great, small

Vocabulary words for November 17 are: treacherous, strive, defiant, anchor, astonished, ominous, and blustery

Vocabulary words for November 24 are: victory, smear, creation, disguise, admire, resemble, and pretend

Mid-term grades will be coming home on Tuesday, November 24.

Mrs. Albrecht will complete her student teaching on Monday, November 23. She has been a great help in our classroom and we wish her well in her teaching career. We'll all surely miss her.

We have a new girl in our class. Nicole comes to us from Panguitch Elementary.

November 9 - November 13

Be sure to scroll down and watch our Halloween Math movie!

Spelling words for this week include: last, us, end, never, left, story, smiles, hoped, want, hear, are, but, find, use, know, our, place

Vocabulary words are: anchor, treacherous, astonished, ominous, blustery, defiant, strive

We have an all day field trip planned for Friday, November 13. We will leave at 9:30 A.M. sharp and return just in time for the Reflections Award Assembly at 2:45. Don't forget to bring your home lunch, if you are not having a school lunch. We'll only have 18 school lunches with us, and we don't want anyone to go hungry.

We filled our classroom reading bucket and made a ceramic pencil as a reward. We still have to paint them and put them on display. Please continue to do your home reading and fill up those calendars. Three calendars need to be filled in, if you want to participate in the school-wide movie in December.

Our Halloween Math Movie

November 2- November 6

FIELD TRIP!! Our first third grade field trip is the Wednesday morning. We'll leave at 9:30 sharp to go to the Heritage Center for a violin and piano concert.

There is an Awards Assembly on Friday at 10:00 A.M. Mr. Whittier will recognize students with perfect, or near perfect, attendance for the first quarter. There will also be some math awards and some keyboarding awards.

We did have a great Red Ribbon Week and really enjoyed the Drug Dog Demonstration.

Thanks to the parents that made our class Halloween party so much fun.

Spelling words for this week include: line, set, own , under, read, paper, please friend, try they , there, their, much, even, every, found

Vocabulary words are: vibrant, stylish, reluctant, retreat, exhauseted, envy, originality

Public Service Announcement

October 26-30

This is Red Ribbon Week. We have so many extra activities planned.

Monday: Wear your shirt backward.
Tuesday: Wear red, white, and blue.
Wednesday: Wear a hat.
Thursday: Wear red.
Friday: Wear your Halloween costume! Yahoo! Remember the RULES:
1. NO MASKS 2. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN AND DO YOUR WORK. 3. NO BLOOD OR GORE. 4. MODEST COSTUME 5. NO WEAPONS ( not even toy ones Cowboys, leave your guns at home!)

Drug Dog Assembly: Thursday at 2:30
Halloween Party: Friday at 2:30

Now for the academic part of the week. Spelling words: should, home, big, give, air, sometimes, homework, short, mail, please

Vocabulary words: performance, carefree, talent, squirm, individual, artistic, discord

October 20-23

The spelling words for this week are: every, still, name, found, between, lake, green, hills, clear, fish, have, when, there, then, where, place, went

Vocabulary words are: nestle, weary, elegant, emerge, nutritious, contribute, assemble

We had the most AMAZING pizza party or Wednesday, October 14. Cindie from Domino's Pizza did a pizza making demonstration for us. She made the pizza dough really big and then threw it in the air. She even taught us how to make it big and a few students got to toss it in the air. (It fell on the floor a few times! Ooops!) The PTA did a great job in rewarding us for winning the Walk-a-thon contest. Now, Mrs. Bayer can hardly wait to win another contest!

Five students still need to return their September Home Reading Calendar.

We're busy making some public service announcements for health.

October 12-14

The following spelling words are for this week and next: every, still , name, found, between, lake, green, hills, clear, fish, have, when, there, then, where, place, went The test on these words will be on October 23.

Vocabulary words for the next two weeks are: nestle, weary, elegant, emerge, nutritious, assemble, contribute

Our class pizza party ( for winning the walk-a-thon contest) will be Wednesday at 12:20.

We are now tied for second place in the clean lunch table contest!

There is no school this Thursday or Friday, October 15 and 16. Also, no school on October 19.

October 5-October 9

Spelling words for this week are: great, tell, men, say, small, women, world, names, us, their, would, most, through, think, around, different

Vocabulary words include: giddy, boast, stranded, tremble, rescue, resourceful, consequence

Hooray! We won the pizza party!! Yippee!!

Mrs. Albrecht will begin student teaching in our classroom on Wednesday. Levi is a new student in our class. He comes from LaVerkin. We welcome them both.

September 28- October 2

Spelling words for this week include: again, off, went, old, number, reading, light, today, store, when , time, where, new, our, take, why

The vocabulary words for this week are the same words we had last week.

School is out at 2:30 each day this week (including Wednesday) for parent- teacher -student conferences.

The Walk-a-thon assembly is Friday at 1:30.

No library this week. Bring your books back on Friday, October 9.

Please return your home reading "bucket" as soon as possible.

September 14-18

The PTA sponsored Walk-a-thon is this Thursday. If you haven't gotten your pledges in, please do so.

We are on lesson 13 out of 20 on keyboarding. Things are going well. I'm very impressed at how well these students are doing. We should be finished with the keyboarding lessons right before our parent conferences September 28- October 2.

We'll have our second Saxon written math test this week.

Please continue with your 20 minutes of home reading each night, as well as your one minute fluency timing. We'll have a reward as soon as our bucket is full.

Spelling words for this week are: place, well, such, here, take, color, blue, paint, yellow, each , more, water, around, three, much, even

Vocabulary words include: tease, lonely, serious, fasten, assume, hopeful, companion

September 8-11

Thursday is School Picture Day. Everyone will have their picture taken for the yearbook. Those that wish to purchase the picture packet will need their money on Thursday.
There is a flag ceremony in front of the school planned for Friday, September 11 at 9:00 A.M.
Student grades are coming home today. This will help students know where to start improving. Grades will usually come home every 4-5 weeks. We will go over the grade report during our parent/ teacher/ student conference / during the week of September 28- October 2.

There are a few students that I need to know if they are participating in the fluoride program. If you are one of these students, I have sent home another fluoride paper. Please let me know if you are or are not participating in the fluoride program.

We are ready for all the reading parents to start coming this week. Our power hour is from 11- 11:45 daily. There is still room for more volunteers. Thursday is open.

Spelling Words
1. must
2. because
3. does
4. part
5. even
6. spell
7. sound
8. always
9. check
10. your
11. their
12. these
13. people
14. through
15. much
16. also

The vocabulary words are the same as last week (comforting, shelter, fleet, glimmer, expression, vital, and versatile).

First Day of School

August 17-August 21

Welcome to third grade! We have a lot of fun and exciting things to do and learn in third grade. This year, you will learn keyboarding, multiplication, division, and cursive writing! We have some fun things to learn in science, health, and social studies, too. I can't wait to get started. I hope you are as anxious as I am to get going!

The spelling words for August 28 are: right, think, around, look, also, before, cross, street, left, of, as, were, there, their, these, through

Vocabulary words for this week are: comforting, shelter, fleet, glimmer, expression, vital, versatile

Any questions? Just e-mail me at martha.bayer@ironmail.org

Read something every day. In fifteen minutes a day, you can read twenty books a year.