September 27- October 1

We had a great turn out for our "Moon Watch" last Thursday evening. The weather was perfect and the moon cooperated completely! Thanks to everyone who shared their telescopes with us.

This week we have a Life Skills assembly on Tuesday at 9 A.M. Our Life Skill for this coming month is Service. We'll start singing some new songs this week and we have a new volunteer piano player for October. Thanks to Mrs. Dailey for playing for us in September and thanks to Mrs. North for taking the month of October. Music is on Tuesday at 3:00. Stop by and sing with us sometime.

Our spelling words for this week are: until, food, children, form, keep, hall, wait, ready, lunch, which, their, more, again, went, great, always, want , important

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

September 20 - 24

The third grades are planning a "Moon Watch" activity for Thursday night at 7:45 P.M. We will have a couple of telescopes set up on the third grade playground from 7:45- 8:30 P.M. Please try to stop by and take an up-close and personal look at the moon. We'll also have some binoculars available for all to use.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Cedar City Rotary Club will be coming by to present each third grader with their very own dictionary. The students will use the dictionaries in class this year and then bring them home in May.

Our 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 the same as last week: giddy, boast, stranded , terrible, rescue, resourceful, consequence

We should finish up the keyboarding lessons this week. There were 20 homework assignments. I will be sending home duplicate copies of any assignments that didn't get turned in. Please finish them up as quickly as you can. Now we can start working on some computer projects that tie in with what we are studying.

September 13 - 17

Walk-a-thon is Thursday, September 16 from 12:45-1:15. You still have time to get some pledges.

DIBELS testing is Monday morning at 11:00. This year, we will be focusing on comprehension as well as fluency! So, you need to ask yourself, "What happened in the passage I just read?"

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

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

We now have a little more help in our large classroom. Mrs. Baker has been hired to work in our room for one hour a day. We welcome her. She was an aide at Enoch Elementary last year.

Mrs. Bayer will be attending a Creative Drama Workshop at SUU on Thursday, September 16. There will be a substitute teacher that day.

All reading and math volunteers are need this ( and every other) week. Thanks for all your help.

September 7 - 10

All volunteers can start coming this week.

Spelling words for this week are: few, always, large, those, show, held, late, wait, lot, there, their, about, out, too, because, found, might, read

Vocabulary words are the same as last week: assume, companion, hopeful, fasten, serious, lonely, tease

We are on keyboard lesson 12, GTB, today. There are only 20 lessons, so we are over half way there! Keep practicing those skills every night.

Our class is tied for 1st place in the Clean-Lunch-Room-Table Contest! Way to go, third graders!

All registration materials are due back by Wednesday. The classes with all the materials turned in will get a free treat at the Wednesday PTA snack sale. We only need three more things to qualify.

Thursday is Domino's Pizza Night. Last year our school made quite a bit of money with this fundraiser. Thanks for all you do to support our students. Have a great week.