Week 6

DIBELS testing is tomorrow, September 27. Please make sure your child comes to school on time.

Parent-teacher conferences will be held on October 12 and 13. You will be able to sign up, beginning on Wednesday.

The field trip to the Scera Theater is on October 17. If you are going to be a chaperone, your background check must be completed before the field trip.

This week's IXL skill is D.1. Most students completed their IXL homework last week. Keep up the good work!

Our Book Bazaar assignments will be beginning soon. Please keep encouraging your kids to read their chapter book.

Week 5

TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 20, IS PICTURE DAY!

If your child is in Burton's, Hanson's or Yerkes' class, IXL will begin this week. The assigned skill is C.9. Your child has his/her login and password.   Rasmussen's and Terry's  classes will start  IXL next week.  

We are ready to begin our Book Bazaar book report. Your child should be reading a chapter book that will be reported on. The report is broken up into extremely manageable parts, with due dates beginning on October 6. The entire project will be due October 27. If you haven't purchased a tri-fold, it would be a good idea to get that soon.

We will be going on a field trip, to the play Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, on October 17th. If you have not made a voluntary 3rd-grade donation ($15), and would like to, it will be helpful to have it before the field trip. 

If you would like to be a parent volunteer for our upcoming field trip you must have a background check. Please see the post from week 2 for more details on how to get your background check completed. 

If your child is in Yerkes' class, they have the option of creating an art project that shows their visualization of a character and/or setting from our "mystery book". This is a completely optional project. Students who choose to do this project may bring it to school next Monday, for our class presentation.

The secret code phrase: You are toast!

Week 4

Welcome to our fourth week of school! We've learned so many new things already!

We want to ask for your help in encouraging your kids to read, recording their reading and turning in their blue tracking sheets. Unfortunately, we have seen very few of these completed and returned. Our grade level challenge is for every child to read 40 books this year. At-home reading is essential to completing this challenge. Although in school reading doesn't count on the blue papers, it does count toward the 40 book challenge.

We have received the information we need for IXL. Be looking for an IXL assignment next week. Raz-kids will also be coming soon.

The secret code word is: commutative 

Week 3

We hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!  There are just a few reminders for this week to remember.

  We want to encourage students to keep on reading and filling out their reading itineraries.  We want each student to write down each time they sit down to read, no matter how long they read for. Every minute they read counts!  We would like to see those wonderful blue-colored itinerary papers come in every week to two weeks as a general guideline.

    As the weather changes, we want to remind you that your student will go outside everyday unless it is raining or extremely cold temperatures. Please make sure we dress appropriately to go outside each day.

   Dry Creek Elementary is having a spirit night at Chick-fil-a. So come join us on Wednesday, September 7th from 5:00 to 8:00. We hope to see you there!

     The secret code word is: Twinkle

  IXL and Raz kids are still not up and ready yet. We will let you know as soon as we have more information about logins and passwords for each student.


 Thank you for all of your support and your donations to each of our classrooms, we appreciate it so very much.

When there is no school on Monday

It's Labor Day- NO SCHOOL

*Just a reminder, that when there is no school on Monday, please check the blog for updated announcements and assignments on the following Tuesday after 5:00.