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Welcome to
Keith City!
Our 2003-2004 school year got off to a great start for Logan-Rogersville
and Keith City! We began the year in a newly air-conditioned building, and in a new classroom. Progress is still
being made on our new high school building. We have a new superintendant, Dr. Allan Markley. Grades K-3 have adopted a new
Scott Foresman reading series, and we're beginning our second year working with Saxon math.
It's easy to see that this is going to be a year full of change, growth, and progress!
We have lots to learn and we have lots of fun ahead! It's going to take hard work, awesome behavior, and good listening, but
I think that this might just be the best school year ever!
We're in that CRAZY busy time of year! We're practicing hard for the
upcoming music program. We've met our writing deadlines for the 2004 Language Arts Fair. The PTA Auction fundraiser
for our school is coming up, and we're working hard to prepare for the MAP Test. What a wild ride . . . but we wouldn't miss
it for the world!
Third grade "Books in a Bag" need to be read and returned within the week. Students who
read ten books aloud to parents and return signed slips to school get to eat lunch in the classroom with a friend. Students
reading twenty books receive a snack or soda treat. Students who read all thirty books will receive a personal pizza delivered
to school from Fox's Pizza Den, to be eaten during lunch in the classroom with Mrs. Keith. We've had about half of the
class complete the whole series and enjoy pizza so far! Great job!
We're also nearing the end of the Pizza Hut "Book It" reading program in Keith City.
Students are working towards the goal of four hours of at home reading for six months, October through March. For each month
that a student returns the monthly reading record to school, he or she earns a personal pizza from Pizza Hut. Students who
meet the goal each month will be treated to a special pizza party with Mrs. Keith during the month of April. HAPPY READING!
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Our class begins each year with a unit about communities, therefore
our classroom becomes Keith City. In Keith City, students have class jobs, from mayor to dentist to teacher to veterinarian.
Students earn class money by completing their jobs and as a reward for good behavior, and students use their money for rent,
insurance, and to buy goodies at class sales and auctions. Students can mail letters to students in our class or to other
third grade communities. What a fun way to learn!
Parent folders are sent home on the first day of each week. These need to be signed and
returned to school on the following day.
Every Friday is Wildcat Day! Students are encouraged to wear school colors and Wildcats
clothes. You never know when the P.T.A. might come in and give prizes to Logan-Rogersville Wildcats.
We're currently working through Unit 5 in our Scott-Foresman reading series. We've covered
plant & animal life cycles, habitats, and food chains in science, and completed animal research projects. We've learned
about weather, clouds, and storms, and changes in the earth's surface. We'll spend the next several weeks learning about materials
found on the earth's surface, then the solar system, sound, and energy.
In Saxon math, we have a Daily Morning
Math Meeting, Daily Lessons, Guided Class Practice, Homework, and Fact Practice. Students bring home a short homework assignment
on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday to be completed and turned in the following day. We're really focusing on multiplication
in our daily fact practice, and working hard to pass fast fact timed quizzes to earn ice cream and goodies for our upcoming
Banana Split Party!.
For more information about current Keith City projects, go to www.nea.org to learn more about Read Across America, or www.ky3.com WeatherSchool Forecast competition and see how well our future meteorologists fared in predicting the weather against
other schools in the area.
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