Puppet Plays - Part 1

Brooklynn, Malia, Kailee, Anthony, Levi, and Paul

March 14- 18

Vocabulary words for this week are: outsmart, diligent, idle, slumber, pesky,
abundant, and gentle

Spelling words include: true, half, red, fish, plants, color, false, flag, girls, school, food, children, animals, country, sentence, answer

Thanks to all the parents that attended our parent/teacher/ student conferences last week. Our class had 97% participation.

Mrs. Bassett will visit our classroom on Tuesday afternoon. We are also finishing up our puppets that we made for science. Our on-line puppet show will be up and running very soon.

Happy St. Patrick's Day on Thursday!

March 7- 11

We had a wonderful Pizza/Ice Cream party on Friday afternoon. A big thanks go out to Domino's Pizza and Maggie Moos! We have another chance to win the next pizza party on Thursday, March 10.

Our class is working in the lunchroom this week. Monday and Tuesday: Malia, Angelina, Annie, Brittany, Brooklynn, Cheyann, Madsen, Troy, Christian, Cody, Zak, and Bryce Wednesday: Andi, Becca, Hellen, Cenedra, Cortney, Elie, Anthony, Gauge, Jaxon, Kaden, Levi, Paul Thursday and Friday: Elissa, Kailee, Kayvana, Krystal, Whitney, Lily, Nick G. , Nick S. Troy, Paul, Christian, Bryce

Spelling words for this week include: face, cut, group, door,done, inside, classroom, sat, speech, first, only, too, between, always, school,hand, second, white, example, turn

I look forward to visiting with you this week during our Parent/Teacher/Student Conference.

February 28- March 4

Return your February reading calendar before Friday. Our reward activity is Friday at 1:30 for those students that have met their reading goal and returned their calendar.

Spelling words for this week are: upon, later, move, family, turn, pretty, hill, library, reach, its , water, most, another, work, often, once, animals, sure, it's, sure, several We will write two sentences in cursive on the spelling test this Friday. #1. Our family is going to move later this year. #2. The new house is high upon a pretty hill.

Vocabulary words for this week are: frisky, graze, soothe, adapt, determined, huddle, mature

On Tuesday afternoon, author, Gary Hogg will be at our school. He will talk about writing books and have some of his books here to sell. Don't forget your money if you would like one of his books.

We are having a Dr. Seuss Read-a-thon on Wednesday from 11-11:45. (No pajamas , no pillows, no blankets, just a couple of Dr. Seuss books.)

Our class WON the Domino's Pizza Night and will have our celebration pizza party on Friday afternoon at 3:00.

Parent Teacher Conference appointments are coming home today. Let me know if you can make your appointment.

February 28- March 4

February 22-25

Spelling words for this week include: didn't , morning, body, car, I'm, cold, drive, walk, weather, said, right, because, does, thought, soon, best, try, several, himself, usually

We enjoyed Kids' College last Friday afternoon. Our class learned about genetics, physical and chemical changes, and rocks.

We haven't been to the Mustang Market lately, so we are going shopping tomorrow (Wednesday).
Then we'll start saving up our money for Mini-Mall.

Thanks for supporting our school and participating in the Domino's Dough Raising. Our class won on February 10. Now we get a pizza party. Yahoo!

February 14- 18

Spelling words for this week are: five, usually, seen, himself, money, birthday, care, anything, dollars, number, always, kind, paper, however, sure, it's, example , answer, told

Vocabulary words include: majestic, vendor, adorn, emerald, organize, restore, conceal

Our school is hosting the SUU Block this week. We have Miss Jones in our classroom to help out.

Kids' College is this Friday afternoon at 1:30. Tuition for Kids' College is 25 Mustang bucks!

Thanks to all the supportive parents that bought Domino's Pizza last week. WE WON!! Hooray!
Lily's mom arranged at wonderful Valentine's Day party for our class. Thank you to all the chaperones that helped keep our party under control. I appreciate all your help. Mrs. Bayer

February 7-11

Spelling words for this week are: learn, city, toward, play, point, fun, map, please, north (easy for Brittany) , were, which, about, little, children, four, country, ever

Vocabulary words to use are: spectators, poised, anguish, ovation, beaming, assist, priority

Our student teacher starts today! Mrs. Johnson will be in our classroom for 6 weeks. We hope she likes our class and loves the third grade.

On Tuesday, some SUU students will teach a math lesson for us. This Thursday, Orchestra of Southern Utah will be in our gym for a short musical presentation.

Please do not bring your valentines until Monday, February 14. Lily's mom is planning a great party for us!

January 31- February 4

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

Vocabulary words for this week include: ordinary, scowl, mischievous, scan, apology, ambitious, sympathy

Please return your January Home Reading Calendar on Tuesday. Our reading reward activity is this Friday at 1:30. We'll be having relay races in the gym. Yahoo!

We're getting a student teacher on Thursday. Mrs. Johnson will be helping in our classroom for the next 6 weeks.

Please bring in an empty cereal box sometime this week. We'll be making our Valentine Day boxes next week.

January 24- 28

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

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

Hopefully everyone saw the grades that came home on Friday, January 21. Please sign and return the grade report.

January reading calendars are due next week. Our reading goal is 400 minutes. The reading reward activity will be relay races in the gym on February 9.

Our room mothers are planning our Valentine's Day party. If you can help, call or let Lily's mom know.
We have another Life Skills Assembly on Tuesday at 2:30. Our third grade achievement awards will be handed out on Friday at 10 A.M.

January 18-21

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

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

We've finished all the cursive letters and will work on spacing and connecting certain letter, such as o to r, v to i, b to r, etc. Very soon, we will begin writing our Daily Oral Language sentences in cursive.

We are finished studying about the Incas, and now will take a look at our own community and how own history compares to that of the ancient Inca society.

January 3-7

Friday, January 7 is HAT DAY for those students that completed their December reading and returned their reading calendar.

Spelling words for this week are: best, during, however, across, today, friend, street,lunch, eat, said, then, could, very, why, air, never, something, world

Vocabulary words are: display, paralyzed, warp, tilt, orbit, achieve, coincidence

We have a new volunteer that is taking several kids for all three third grades to the computer lab each day to work on some math fact practice. We thank Mrs. Johnson for volunteering. We are getting some much needed help in our classroom with the hiring of Mrs. Turnbaugh and Mrs. Meeks.

December 13-17

Lily's mom and Jaxon's mom, along with Christian's mom, are busy planning our class Christmas party. It will be Friday at 2:00 P.M. If you can help, please give one of these good moms a call. That is also our "Wear Your Santa Hat" day.

Vocabulary words for this week are: spiral, ceremony, abrupt, stale, persuade, disgust, deceive

Spelling words: paper, near, better, hard, sentence, pencil, somewhere, sometimes, things, what, were, your now, through, think, because, place, something

We have a field trip to SUU on Thursday morning from 9:30 -11:45. (No lunch room workers this day.)

Merry Christmas!

Lunch Worker Schedule

Monday and Tuesday (December 13-14) Becca, Andi, Cenedra, Elie, Elissa, Kailee, Zak, Nick S., Nick G., Bryce, Anthony, Gauge

Wednesday and FRIDAY (Dec. 15 and 17) Cortney, Kayvana, Krystal, Lily, Whitney, Cenedra, Jaxon, Kaden, Levi, Paul, Cody, Christian

We won't work on Thursday, Dec. 16. We have a field trip that morning and may not get back in time. We are going to trade that day with a 4th grade class.

December 6-10

Our Christmas wreath is having in Lin's. It is right above the meat department. It looks amazing. Thanks to Cody's mom and Krystal's mom for their help in this endeavor.

Eighty-seven percent of our class is going to CVHS to see White Christmas on Monday afternoon. These are the students that met their November reading goal and returned their reading calendar.

The Fiddler's Christmas Choir Concert is Thursday at 2:30 for the student body. Friday morning we are having a pre-play seminar with Miranda Giles from SUU. Our class will go see A Christmas Carol on Thursday, Dec. 16 at 9:30 A.M. (More information soon to come.) Our room mothers are planning a Christmas party for the class for Friday, December 17 at 2:00 P.M.

Spelling words for this week are: soon, since, ever, story, white, they, been, people, write, together, house important, above, began, year, rafting, try, summer, things

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

*** We won't need our reading helpers on Tuesday, Dec. 14.

Have a great week.