The Association Meeting is this Thursday the 24th. It's a parent and school supporter meeting. The school is discussed after a potluck dinner at 6pm. This is where parent input is a necessary part of the school. It is held only two times during the year, and your ideas are necessary to run this school today and in the future. Babysitters are available during this meeting. Bring your favorite dish or your favorite take out and spend an hour sharing your ideas and hear how the school year is going.

To encourage parental attendance, we are offering the students a dress-down backwards day on Friday(the 25th) for students whose parents attended the Association meeting the night before. They may wear casual clothes inside out and backwards. We do have Chapel that day if you would like to join us in the Auditorium at 8:45

Several field trips are coming up. The trip to the Scarecrow Patch is on the 29th.Everyone will leave at 8:45am in order to get there by 9:00. The cost is $4 per child which includes a s'more and a drink. Adults are free unless you would like a s'more and a drink, then the cost will be $2. The school is going, but I have hay allergies and I won't be going. The 4th and 5th will help with the younger grades and enjoy being out there. We need drivers. If you are available to drive,please let us know.

On October 1 the 3rd,4th and 5th are going out to the Boy Scout Camp-Camp Augustine for Archery instruction. We will leave a little after 1:00 and get there by 1:30. The Camp Ranger, Ed Wiles and my husband Dave Plond will teach the archery class. They are proving the equipment and are well trained. Ed is also a bow hunter. I'm taking advantage of their skill and their offer to teach this class one afternoon. If you have any questions, email me or see me after school if possible. There is not cost to this Physical education class.

October 9th is Conferences, October 14th is a field trip to Stuhr from 12:30 - 2:30 Great Plains Pawnee, and October 20th we have the Rural School Field trip to Stuhr from 9:00-11:00. The students will need to bring $3.50 for the Stuhr Field trips.

The students should finish reading their book report book by October 2nd. On the third of October we will write book reports.

I sent home 4 Scholastic Book order sheets for October. If anyone wants to order books, have the orders in by October 2nd. I do the order online, so please make checks payable to me.

The students may also do some of their spelling homework online at spellingcity.com. I'll be setting it up so I'll be able to tell who practiced and how much of the list they practiced.

The fourth grade girls got the annual tea party invitation from the Library. This should go home today. I appreciate your notes on the weekly quiz/test sheet that you sign and send back to school. Thank you.

Danae Burdett is back from her trip to the East Coast. She gave a wonderful oral report this morning about the Burdett family trip. What a blessing for all of us! Wouldn't that make a blessed field trip!!