Halloween Math

Hat Day - Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week

October 26-29 Red Ribbon Week

This is Red Ribbon Week! Tuesday is "wear your clothes backward" day. Wear red on Wednesday.
Thursday is Hat Day. Friday is wear your Halloween Costume day. (See the costume rules in Mr. Whittier's e-mail.) As part of Red Ribbon Week, we have a drug-dog demonstration on Wednesday morning. The CVHS Marching Band will be here on Friday morning at 11:00.

We have a Marvin and Jessie assembly on Tuesday. It is all about doing service. Some students have already started. Zak swept up all the leaves that had blown into the classroom, and Cenedra washed off some lunchroom tables.

The PTA is throwing us a classroom Halloween Party on Friday afternoon. What a fun week we have!

Now for the spelling words for October 29. They include: four, above, began, head, kind, full, moon, eat, during, were, been, use, also, around, air, show, often, took

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

We have a new student in our class. Welcome, Becca! We hope you like our class. Now we have 16 girls and 14 boys.

The Mustang Market opened last week. We were able to spend some of our Mustang Money on Wednesday. They have some new items in the market this year.

The first quarter awards assembly is Thursday morning at 10 A.M. Eighteen students will be getting perfect attendance awards! Way to go!

October 11- 15

We are working in the lunchroom this week! Hooray! We also have a field trip on Tuesday. Thanks to all the kind parents that have volunteered to go with us!

Our spelling words for this week are: once, life, took, animal, enough, year, deer, eat, things, these, find, long , know, back, another, left, thought, without

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

Thanks to all the parents that showed up for our conferences last week. Our class had 97%. Way to go!

Lunch Workers

Monday and Wednesday, October 11 and 13. Malia, Lily, Elissa, Cortney, Brooklynn, Brittany, Krystal, Annie, Madsen, Christian, Gauge, Paul

Thursday and Friday, October 14 and 15: Whitney, Cheyann, Elie, Kailee, Kayvana, Angelina, Troy, Levi, Jaxon, Kaden, Cody, Anthony

Tuesday, October 19: Cenedra, Angelina, Annie, Brittany, Brooklynn, Cheyann, Bryce, Nick G. , Nick S., Zak, Christian, Cody

October 4-8

Thanks to everyone that donated money and prizes to the school walk-a-thon. Our class won!!! We collected over $1,500.00. Our reward will be a pizza party in the near future. We also won Spirit Day on Friday, October 1.

We have a field trip planned to Zion National Park on Tuesday, October 12. We'll be gone all day. More information will be coming home soon.

The "Minute-to-Win-It" activity is on Wednesday at 12:30, all students that completed and returned their September reading calendar may participate.

A clay art project is planned for Wednesday at 1:30. This will become our 3-D entry in the PTA Reflections contest.

Spelling words for this week include: feet, side. boys, land, without, lost, standing, shoes, cold, from, their, its, too, different, home, large, form

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.

August 30 - September 3

Thursday, September 2 is picture day. All students will have their photo taken. These are the pictures that go in the yearbook. If you want to purchase pictures, you need to bring your money with you on Thursday.

Our first Marvin and Jessie assembly is Tuesday at 2:15. The Walk-a-thon Kick-Off Assembly is right after that at 2:45.

Our 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 for this week include: tease, lonely, serious, fasten, assume, hopeful, companion

Please remember that our P.E. days have been changed to Tuesday and Friday. Wear the proper shoes for P.E. on those days.

Reading volunteers can start coming after Labor Day. We are ready for the math volunteers this week. Thanks for volunteering!

Change in Schedule

Please note that our classroom P.E. schedule has changed. We will be having P.E. on Tuesday and Friday from now on.

August 23-27

Spelling words for this week include: along, might, sound, while, next, stood, funny, feet, side, would, little, because, help, great, small

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

Keyboarding homework will start on Tuesday, August 24.

Reading volunteers won't need to start coming until after Labor Day. I'll be giving the math volunteers a call very soon. Thanks for volunteering. We're off to a great start.

August 19-20, 2010

Thanks to all the parents and students that attended the 2010 Open House. We had quite a few people sign up to volunteer in the classroom. Thank you so much for recognizing the need for parent involvement in the classroom.

Thursday and Friday will be spent getting to know the classroom routines. There will be homework on both Thursday and Friday. We will start keyboarding on Monday and there will also be keyboarding homework for the first five weeks. Spelling words will start on the 23rd. I will begin individual reading assessments early next week. I plan to have the groups formed and be ready for volunteers right after Labor Day. I will call and let you know when to begin helping in our classroom. Again, thank you for volunteering and I look forward to working with you in meeting the needs of your children. Mrs. Bayer

P.S. I failed to pick up the "Safe Schools Policy" forms. They will be coming home on Thursday night. Please return them to me promptly. Thank you.