EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES THAT STUDENTS CAN

ACCESS AT HOME OR AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

In-

arcademicskillbuilders.com

www.coolmath4kids.com

www.primarygames.com

www.gamequarium.com

www.funbrain.com

resources.oswego.org/games/

mathmagician/cathymath.html

www.vocabulary.co.il/

Bennett Elementary Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Page 1 April, 2011

Issue 4

On an annual basis, the different school sites in Broken Bow compose a Com-prehensive Local Education Plan (CLEP). This year we took our plan and used the text to generate what is called a word cloud. It is a program that finds the most commonly used words and makes a picture of those words. The larger the word, the more that word was used in our plan. The smaller the word, the less that word was used in our plan. Below is the word cloud for Bennett Ele-mentary.

Tammy Smith, 3rd Grade

Teacher, Bennett

Elementary

“My name is Tammy Smith and I

have taught 3rd Grade for 28 years.

Wow, that is a long time! I went to

school in Broken Bow, then on to

college in Durant, OK. I met my

husband, Mark Smith, my first year

teaching here at Bennett. We have

been married for 23 years. We

have three sons that we are very

proud of. Clay is 19, Jake is 17,

and Britt is 9 years old. They do a

lot of team roping and calf roping in

the rodeos, which they are pretty

good at, and have lots of saddles

and buckles to prove it. Clay and

Jake ride and train horses for peo-

ple from as far away as Canada.

Britt also enjoys playing baseball

and basketball. Mark and I stay

busy keeping up with them.

I love watching my boys and spend-

ing time with my family. I also love

teaching 3rd grade here at Bennett.

Staff Spotlight:

Bennett Elementary Page 2

Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Students Doing Great Things!!!

Trae Thweatt is working very hard and making a great effort to improve his atti-

tude.

Ms. Weatherford has noticed Karla Olivar working hard to complete her work on

time and even ahead of time. Congratulations Karla for winning 5th place in a

poster contest.

Ms. Weatherford's class has been observed reading quietly and often to meet their

Accelerated Reader goals this month.

Mariela Sanchez, Becca Ogden, Kaleb Fullerton, Maleah Tisho, Jr. Crain, and Kea-

ton Rowell have had a very positive attitude during class recently.

Alizah Baker and Jadie McKee finished all their Sequoyah books this month.

Brandon Dobson raised $437.00 for the fundraiser in Mrs. Haltom’s class!!! Way

To Go!

Matthew Haubner and Shay James are excellent listeners. Mrs. Wrather can always

count on them to follow instructions!

Dante’ Valdez in 3rd grade raised the most money for St. Jude’s Math-A-Thon. He

collected $141.00! Thank you to the other students Katelyn Sherbert, Brooklyn

Grugan, Payne Reavis, Erin Mooney, and Jasmine Diamond for raising a total of

$435. GREAT JOB STUDENTS!!!!

Congratulations to all students in Mrs. Gray’s class for their participation in the

Bocce Ball Tournament. Ribbons were won by all.

Micheal Smith in Mrs. Gray’s class has been a great help by doing whatever is

asked of him. Thanks Micheal!!

Mrs. Gray’s class has been busy making projects for the Pow Wow.

In GT with Mrs. Lyles, the kids have been working on more intense following di-

rection skills. The 4th graders did the Read-n-Draw, which zeros in on reading di-

rections (those colorful designs you saw) and the 5th grade did the build and create

with Legos zeroing in on oral directions.

Mrs. Lyles has some 5th grade girls who are really getting good at knitting.

Kamryn Gentry, Emily Kennedy, Eric Mendez, and Catherine Lindamood have

shown excellent character throughout the year in Mrs. Autrey’s class.

Destiny McKinnon has worked very hard, demonstrating more responsibility and

improving her grades in Mrs. Autrey’s class

We are very proud of our 4th grade after school students!!!! They have worked very

hard this year!!

Congrats to Jordan Tipton for passing all his Sequoyahs this month!!

In Mrs. Pratt’s class, Abraham Jett and Stage Watkins have maintained high aver-

ages in Reading and Math. Kaden Morris and Alexis Walls are very respectful and

well behaved

Mrs. Camp has had 12 students finish their Sequoyah books: Presley Taylor, Kylia

Green, Madison Pratt, Rachel Wallis, Ryan Blanque, Felicity Ruthart, Billy Clouse,

Connor Gammon, Reagan Brisbois, Katelyn Sherbert, Meta Bothe, and Matthew

Loman.

Calender of Events

April 1 Teachers

Meeting/No

School

April 18-21 State

Testing

April 22 Good Fri

day/No School

Apri1 25

Easter Break/

No School

April 27 Spring

Pictures