April 26-30

Spelling words for this week are: room, against, turned, sea, top, drawing, waves, blue sky, what were, some, called, much, because, small, name, father

The vocabulary words are the same as last week. We didn't spend much time with these words last week because of the afternoon swimming. (excel, industrious, remote accompany, gesture, reveal, and conserve)

We have CRT testing on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9- 10.

We will help celebrate Arbor Day on Friday from 10-11:30 at the Cedar City Arbor Day Celebration. Then we have our last Marvin and Jessie assembly on Friday afternoon.

Please stop by our classroom and see our new technology. We now have a document camera and a projector! Yahoo!

April 19-23

Hooray! It's our swimming week! We'll have lessons on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and then free time on Friday. We're in the pool from 1:15- 1:45.

Spelling words for this week are: example, several, answer, heard, change, their, said, some, would, could,use, thought, during, today, test, question, ready, gave

Vocabulary words are: excel, industrious, remote, accompany, gesture, reveal, conserve

March and April Home Reading Buckets need to be turned in on May 3. Students that have completed and returned their March and April buckets will be able to participate in a reading reward activity in May. Eight students are still working on their March minutes. We only have two more weeks for finish up.

The DIBELS reading fluency assessment was given this week and our class went from a "mean" of 88 to 120! Yahoo!

April 12-16

Spelling words for this week are: young, thing, hear, sun, whole, lot, hot, summer, plant, sunlight, there, said, little, don't important, picture, since, across, knew

TESTING: We took the IOWA Test of Basic Skills on Monday. The RIGBY READS Reading Evaluation Test is Wednesday. DIBELS reading fluency testing is scheduled for Monday, April 19.

The swimming parental consent forms went home on Monday. We swim next week on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Our class is scheduled to be in the pool from 1:15- 1:45.

Mrs. Bassett will visit our classroom on Friday to talk about friendship.

Our class has been invited to the Cedar City Arbor Day ceremony on April 30 at 10:30 A.M.

We are still waiting for eight students to get their March Home Reading Calendar turned in.

April 5-9

Spelling words for this week include: sure, it's, told, knew, try, play, music, begin, stage, everyone, there, then, its, still, often, once, began, today, however

Vocabulary words are: disaster, overrun, variety, magnificent, pursue, bizarre, imaginative

The third quarter achievement awards will be handed out of Friday at 10:30 A.M. We have finished our power point project. We'll share these with parents during our Spring Arts Fair on May 24 at 6:00 P.M.

Our swimming week is coming up (April 19- 23). Testing is coming up ( April 27- May 5).

This Thursday is our Dough Raising Night at Domino's Pizza.