November 29- December 3 (Cody's Birthday)

Spelling words for this week are: night, being, second, picture, study, anywhere, really, being, sleep, there, new, around, off, world, without, almost, earth, light

Vocabulary words are: victory, smear, creation, disguise,admire, resemble, pretend

Cursive letters that we are learning this week are: Monday, u, w, Tuesday, r, s, Thursday b,h,k, and Friday, f, j, p. Please do not work ahead and wait to write your name in cursive until we have learned all the lower case letters and the upper case letter that your name begins with.

Our time to shop at SANTA'S SECRET SHOP is Wednesday at 1:00. Remember to bring real money ( not Mustang Money).

Have a great week.

November 22-23

Sorry, no spelling words this week. We are using the same vocabulary words as last week (anchor, ominous, blustery, astonished, treacherous, defiant, strive). Tuesday morning we have a "Greater Heroes Assembly" from 9-10.

Each student is working on a BIG report on an animal that lives in this area.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

November 15-19

Thanks to Mrs. Dunn for the new electric pencil sharpener and thanks to Mrs. Hulet for the new hand crank pencil sharpener. We're in business now!

Our spelling words for this week are: mother, country, let, light, father, outside, dark,music, fair, there, their, know, write,too, something, while, once, food

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

Chess club starts Wednesday at noon.

We will have a guest speaker on Wednesday. Our speaker will talk about living and non-living things, which is exactly what we have been studying in science.

We picked up two new reading volunteers also. Thanks for helping out!

November 8- 12

Spelling words for this week include: need, hand, year, far, high, please, arm, grow, tall, they, could, than, again, thought, don't, school, once

Vocabulary words: vibrant, stylish, reluctant, retreat, exhausted, envy, originality

We welcome a new girl this week, Andi, comes from Three Peaks Elementary. Andi makes 17 girls and we have 14 boys. We hope Andi likes our school and our classroom.

The PIZZA reward party will be Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. This is our prize for raising over $1,500 for the PTA and technology!

Friday will be busy with a field trip to the Heritage Center in the morning, and the Reflections' Awards Assembly in the afternoon.

Our class needs one more reading volunteer from 11-11:45 on Monday, or Wednesday, or Thursday. We so appreciate the volunteers that we do have. THEY'RE GREAT!!!!

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November 1- 5

Thanks to Lily's mom for organizing our Halloween party. It was a lot of fun. Thanks also to all the mom's that helped everything run so smoothly. We had a great week and I'm happy to announce that our class won the GRAND PRIZE in the door decoration contest. We each made a little mummy and stuck them on the door with a sign that said, "Don't get wrapped up in drugs."

This week looks a little calm after last week, but we do have an Ice Cream Reward Party planned for Thursday at 3:00. Each student that reached their October reading goal of 400 minutes AND returned their reading calendar will get to walk down to the Arctic Circle for a free ice cream cone. Get those calendars in! The new November calendar will be coming home today.

Thanks to Krystal's mom and Cody's mom for helping us get the school Christmas Wreath finished and delivered to Lin's Grocery Store. Look for it when you're shopping.

Our spelling words for this week are: almost, page, earth , live, got, story, lot, book, family, there, first, through, another, off, always, without, life, head

Vocabulary words: vibrant, stylish, reluctant, retreat, exhausted, envy, originality

Please scroll down and watch our Halloween Math movie and our Red Ribbon Week Public Service Announcements.

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.