Honor's Day Program

Reminder- Honor's Day Program will be Monday, May 19, at 9:00.  The Third Grade will be recognized. 

End of Year Party

I have talked with Jodie Singleton this morning and the party is still on at her house.  This messy weather should pass soon.  In the mean time, she has some indoor activities for us.

End of Year party

Some of the students are going straight to Tanna's  house on Thursday.  The other students are meeting at school for a ride.  Please let us know if you will be driving.  We will leave at 8:00 and be back around 2:30.

Field day

Field day will be this Wednesday, May 14 from 8:00 - 11:00.  You will need to bring extra clothes and a towel.

May 12, 2014

Thanks to all the parents that went on the zoo trip last week. 

We will read our last story this week.  We will have our last Vocabulary Test and  Spelling Test this week.  I will send the word list home on Monday.

Powder Puff will be Tuesday.
The Swimming Party will be Thursday.  I will send more information today.
Honors Day Program is Monday, May 19.
The last day of school is May 23.

Powder Puff Game

The Powder Puff Game will be Tuesday, May 13, at 1:00.  The cost is $2.00.

Lunch Tuesday

Pre order a box lunch for Tuesday, May 13, 2014.  The cost is $5.22 for ham and cheese or turkey and cheese. the box lunch will also include fruit, cookie, and water.  count needs to be in by Monday.

May 6, 2014

Reminder- Wear your field trip t- shirt tomorrow and comfortable shoes.  You may want to bring a some extra money for a bottle of water.  It will be hot.  We are leaving around 8:00 and will be back before school is out.

Important Dates - Talent Show - May 15 at 6:30pm

                              End of the Year Party - May 15 - Tanna Singleton's house
                    
                              AR Reward Party- Thursday, May 8

We will have a Spelling Test and Vocabulary Test on Friday.  The students have these word lists.
We are reading in the Open Court Reader now.  Our story is on pages 220- 233.

Information - Zoo Field Trip

Please check folders today.  I am sending the information for the trip to the zoo on May 6.

Reminder

Please collect as many cans as possible before Monday.  We need aluminum cans.  We only have 2 bags.  Thanks!!

Important Dates-
April 28 - K4-8 Beauty Pageant
May 6 - Zoo Trip
May 15 - End of Year Party  (Tanna Singleton's House - I will have more information on this later.)
May 15- Talent Show
May 19- Honors Day

We have a few that need to reach their goal in AR.  May 2 is the last day for AR.

April 21, 2014

First, a special thanks to Mrs. Sheree Senn and all the parents that helped with the Easter Egg Hunt.  We had a great time!

Spelling Words this week- batch, catch, latch, match, lamb, limb, comb, climb, calf, thumb, ditch, crumb, scratched, kitchen, half, church, patch, butterscotch, gold, colder
Test Friday

Vocabulary Words - luscious, abrupt, pagoda, resolved, browse, luminous, fidget, forlornly, peered, destiny
Test Friday

We begin the recycling competition tomorrow, April 22, through April 29.  Third Grade will be collecting aluminum cans.  Please save these and send to school in a plastic bag.  We will put these in green bags at school.

The school Talent Show will be May 15, at 6:30p.m.  it is open to all grades and forms may be picked up at the office.

We only have a short time left to reach our AR Goal for the final grading period.  Please encourage your child to read their AR book.

Correction

The Reading Test will be on Tuesday not Monday.

Drivers for Easter Egg Hunt

Please return form for Easter Egg Hunt tomorrow.  Mrs. Sheree Senn will be by tomorrow afternoon to pick up eggs, candy, food, and any other items for Thursday.  Please send these to school tomorrow.

We NEED DRIVERS for Thursday for the Easter Egg Hunt.  As of Tuesday afternoon, we have NO drivers.  Please let us know if you can drive.

Also, we will not have a Reading Test on Thursday.  We will do it on Monday.
We will have a Spelling and Vocabulary test on Thursday morning.

I will try to have folders ready Thursday after we return to school.  If not, I will send folders on Monday.

Remember - Movie Under the Stars Thursday night .  Gates open at 6:45  Cost $1.00

No school on Friday

April 14, 2014

Spelling Words - candle, handle, tangle, jungle, marble, apple, bubble, bottle, jingle, pebble, people, turtles, little, waddle, whistle, Easter, Christ, eternal, salvation, cross
The Spelling Test will be Thursday.

Vocabulary Words- scrounge, babble, refuse, shriek, subside, scornful, moan, fate, sympathetic, resign
The Vocabulary Test will be Thursday.

There will be no school on Friday, April 18 (Good Friday).

Easter Egg Hunt

I am sending information about the Easter Egg Hunt today.  Please return these tomorrow.  We need to know about drivers, food and drinks, and helpers to hide eggs.  Mrs. Sheree Senn needs to pick everything up on Wednesday afternoon.   Thanks for all your help. 

PLAS Beauty Pageant

The PLAS Beauty Pageant for K4 - 8th Grade will be Monday, April 28.  I am sending the entry form by the girls today.

We still have some folders out.  Please sign and return these.  We also need the forms for the zoo trip by Friday.

Thanks

April 8, 2014

First, I want to thank all the parents that went with our class on the field trip last week.  We had a great time and I hope you did also.

Spelling Words this week - berries, bunnies, guppies, hobbies, pennies, puppies, ponies,babies, donkeys, families, dollars, horses, sleeves, cowboys, britches, peaches, freezes, glimpses, teaches, degrees

Vocabulary Words - stricken, contempt, visible, courageous, concealed, balcony

We will have a short Social Studies Test on Wednesday.  I will send a study guide home today.  We will also be doing map activities during Social Studies from time to time.

If you have not already sent report cards and registration forms in, please do so.

We will dismiss early April 11, at 12:00 (start loading cars at 11:45).

Important Dates and Information

Zaxby's Fundraiser Night is Tuesday, April 8, from 5pm to 9pm.  10% of sales will be donated to the school.

Zoo Field Trip forms are due by April 11.

Friday, April 11, we will dismiss at 12 noon.  We will start loading cars at 11:45.

Movie Under the Stars will be Thursday, April 17.  Gates will open at 6:45pm and the movie will begin at 7:30.  Tickets are $1.00 and available through the office.

April 17- Easter Egg Hunt- More information on that coming soon.

April 18 - Easter Holiday

Zoo Field trip - May 6

Mrs. Scott's Mother

You may already know that Mrs. Scott's mother died last week.  The students and I sent a card yesterday.

April 1, 2014

Sorry I could not get this information out yesterday.  The computer was down.     We will have a Spelling Test Friday.  The words are easy.  spill, hill, gull, smell, mess, odd, add, cliff, mitt, fuzz, all, still, fall, till, guess, football, baseball, usually, necessary, basketball.  They got this list yesterday.

Vocabulary words are urgent, pride, unfamiliar, mourning, exhausted, surge.  We are reading chapters 9- 12.

I am sending home information about another field trip to the zoo.

Remember be at school Thursday by 7:00 for the trip to Desoto Caverns.

Field Trip Information

The field trip to Desoto Caverns is this Thursday.  Students should be at school by 7:00 to start loading the bus.    The bus will leave school at 7:15 a.m. sharp. We will return to school around 5:00 p.m. Wear your school field trip t-shirt, if you have one.  I think you got one earlier in the year.  Also, wear comfortable shoes (not sandals).  You may bring a snack, lunch will be provided at the caverns.  You may also bring an electronic game, but you must bring headphones with those

Yearbook Sale

The Yearbook Sale has been extended through this Wednesday. The price is $50.00.

March 17, 2014

This week we will read chapters 5 - 8 in the novel.  Vocabulary words are- tentatively, shoreline, relocate, pose, exasperation, and hazy.

Spelling Words - better, letter, potter, rubber, soccer, ladder, hammer, scatter, dinner, slippers, tomorrow, summer, pretty, button, happy, carry, sparrow, appetizer, innocent, volleyball

This week begins the new and final grading period for the school year.

Important Dates to Remember:
March 24 - 28  Spring Break
April 3  Desoto Caverns Field Trip - more information will soon be available on this.

Reminder

School will dismiss this Friday at 12:30 for Baseball Tournament.

Last day to purchase yearbooks will be Friday, March 14.

March 10, 2014

We will start reading the novel Number the Stars this week.  Vocabulary Words - lanky, sabotage, occupation, rationed, synagogue, submerged.

Spelling  Words for the week-  since, sauce, safe, sink, nice, gym, germ, largest, magic, age, gentle, hinge, cellar, second, cider, juice, giant, ceiling, because, gigantic.

This is the last week for the 3rd nine weeks grading period.  If a student has not reached their AR goal yet, they need to do so by the end of this week.

We will have a short Social Studies Test on Tuesday.  I will send a study guide.

Also, school will dismiss at 12:30 on Friday, March 14, due to the baseball tournament.

Please continue to practice multiplication facts.  We need instant recall on basic multiplication facts.

Thanks for all your help.

Dress Up Day for Dr. Seuss

This Wednesday your child may dress as their favorite Dr. Seuss character.  This is optional.

March 3, 2014

Our story this week is "City Superheroes" on page 186.  Vocabulary for the wk.- ordinary, nocturnal, solutions, observant, encounter, deter, strewn, ventilation, sewers, and omnivorous.

Spelling Words- know, knee, kneel, knife, knit, wrap, wren, wreck, wrist, wrong, write, wrinkle, knew, known, written, gnat, knight, gnaw, sign, knob.

I am sending home the March Menu for meals at school and a card that explains how you can keep up with what your child eats and spends at school.  There is also an order form for ribs.  These should be in your child's bookbag.

Watch the news on WSFA at 4:00 this afternoon and you might see your child.

Encourage your child to keep up the good work in AR.  We have almost reached our goal!

Field Trip

The Field Trip to Desoto Caverns will be April 3, 2014.  The cost is $47.58 per child or adult.  My class is limited to 10 parents.  Due to the number going, we must limit adults to one parent per child.  We would like to have all money in as soon as possible.

February 24, 2014

Spelling Words for the week are - made, note, sail, boat, use, soon, bright, pool ,open, each, became, like, reach, stone, jewels, flakes, nice, speak, receive, research

Vocabulary Words- ocotillo, greasewood, ford, amber, amethyst, bridle, and bandits.  We only have 7 words this week.

Our story this week is Roxaboxen pages 258 - 265.

Vocabulary, reading, and Spelling Tests on Friday. 

We will have a short Social Studies Test on Wed. I will send a study guide on Tuesday.

School Holiday

There will be no school on Monday, February 17, for President's Day.

We had a great party today.  Thanks to everyone for all the nice gifts and treats!  We had some snacks left over.  I put those in bags for snack next week.

We will be reading in the Open Court Reading book next week.  Our story is Picasso on page 248.

Spelling words for next week are: cone, vote, spoke, froze, chose, coal, goal, soap, choke, goat, over, alone, noses, most, old, owe, owner, coast, stone, ocean

Vocabulary Words; encourage, period, style, flatter, monument, originality, scenery, starving, controversial, cubism, shock, statue, chisel, and imagination

I will send these lists home on Tuesday.

Continue to read your AR books.  Cade Renfroe won the drawing this week.

Mrs. Joni asked me to send home a survey on Pepi Foods.  I will send home in the folders.

Thanks for all you do!

List of Names

I am also sending a list of the student's names home today. It will be helpful when making cards for the party.  Please send Valentine cards to school no later than Thursday.  We have students that will not be here on Friday.  Thanks!

February 10, 2014

Spelling words this week are: offer, winner, zipper, will, well, he'd, isn't, taking, monkeys, stitches, used, cutting, clippers, saving, died, strongest, belongings, hanger, longer, clanging

Vocabulary Words - attempted, glimpse, forged, regained, suffering, challenger, inching, disqualified, and effortlessly

Both of these word lists will go home today.

Cabbage plants went home on Friday.  The student page explains the contest.  Be sure to take a picture if your plant turns into a huge cabbage.

Daddy/ Daughter Dance money due Feb. 14, and money for Jumprope for Heart due Friday, also.

We have a Social Studies Test Tuesday.  Study Guide will go home today.  This one is very short.  The boys and girls did a great job last week on the big test. 

AR scores were much better again last week.  Keep up the good work.

Also, we do have some not bringing in math homework.  Let's try to do better with that this week.

VALENTINE'S DAY this Friday.  We have planned a small party for Friday at lunch. We will make our bags today. The students have already talked about what they would like to bring. If you can let me know by tomorrow, what each child is bringing, that would be great.

Feb. 3, 2014

Since we only went one day last week, I will not give the Social Studies Test on Monday.  We will review and test on Tuesday.  The spelling and vocabulary I listed for last week will be the words  for this week.

January 27, 2014

There will be no school on Tuesday, January 28 and Wed., January 29, due to the weather.
We will take the Social Studies Test on Thursday when we return.

January 27, 2014

Spelling words for this week -  making, biting, diving, hiking, skated, prized, shaking, skating, hiding, shining, thinking, entered, opened, passing, safekeeping, happened, whispered, requested, blinking, banking

Vocabulary Words - embarrassed, deserted, swollen, abrupt halt, clenched, rooting, treacherous, massive, city slickers, jagged, tension, and abreast

I will send the Spelling and Vocabulary list home today.

We have a Social Studies Test on Tuesday.  We have a study guide that should go home today.  We worked on this last week at school.

The students wrote letters in Language last week and I did mail all of those.  We have 4 students that still need to bring an envelope and stamp to complete this activity.

AR Test were much better last week.  Please keep up the good work and continue to practice multiplication facts.

January 21, 2014

The Book Fair is at school this week.  Students may go to the library and purchase books and other items throughout the week.

The new vocabulary words for reading this week are - varied, amateurs, moccasins, legends, reservation, stunned, constructed, awesome, contestants, clutching, tribe, and bobbled  We will have a Vocabulary Test and Reading Test on Friday.  I gave the students a vocabulary study guide today.

Spelling Test Friday - moon, cute, loose, scoop, choose, dune, flute, chew, few, grew, new, noon, rule, fool, looms, toothpaste, roof, clue, tube, and school

This week in Social Studies, we will be reading about John Smith (Leader of Jamestown). 

We are writing letters and addressing envelopes in Language.  Students need to know their home address and bring an envelope and stamp to school by Thursday.

Encourage students to read AR books and keep working on multiplication facts (6-8).

January 9, 2014

I am so excited to be starting the New Year with Third Grade!  Mrs. Scott will be out for several more weeks.  We will continue to work very hard to be prepared for 4th grade.

First, I want to thank everyone for our wonderful Christmas Party.  I really love all the gifts I received! You have all been so great!  Also, a special thanks to Lauren Kilcrease for all her help that day.

Now for school information:  We are still collecting canned foods through next Friday and some students still need to turn in the $10.00 for the annual deer hunt.

We are reading Stone Fox  and we will have a Vocabulary Test and Reading Test on Friday.  The Spelling Test will also be Friday.  I sent the list home on Monday.