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Red sky at night
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Journal photo by Kevan Moore
"Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning." A beautiful sunset takes place over the
Olympics and Hood Canal recently, as seen from the Union boat launch. Forecasters call for temperatures in the 80s and
low-90s through the rest of the week.
Date HighLowPrecip
Aug. 31 70 50 .00
Sept. 1 73 48
Sept. 2 73 44
Sept. 3 84 39
Sept. 4 88 42
Sept. 5 82 46
Sept. 6 87 46
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Measurements
are recorded for the
National Weather
Service at Sanderson
Field.
Thursday should
be sunny with a
high near 88, cooling
down to alowof47
at night.
Friday should also
be sunny with a high
of 87 with a calm
wind.
Friday night
should be clear with
a low of 50.
Saturday will also
be sunny and hot,
with a high of 86.
Saturday night will
be clear with a low
of 53.
Sunday will be
sunny with a high of
84 and Sunday night
will be clear with a
low of 51.
Monday will be
sunny with a high
near 79 and a low of
53.
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We're scheduling tee-times for our
GRAND OPENING WEEKEND
September 16th, 17th & 18th
Salish Cliffs Golf Club is a brand new 18-hole championship golf course crafted by
award-winning architect Gene Bates and owned and operated by the Squaxin Island Tribe.
• Premier championship golf course
• Full service golf shop, restaurant &
banquet facilities
• Driving range, putting green & short
game areas
The par 72 course plays nearly 7,300 yards from the • Golf instruction offered by PGA
championship tees vet offers 4 additional sets of tees
to offer playability'and enjoyment for all levels of professionals
golfers. While traversing the course, players will
• Premium rental clubs offered
encounter over 600 feet of elevation changes,
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September 17th special event clinic with
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Hood Canal scores reflect
slow improvement
By ARLA SHEPHARD
While some Hood Canal
students shine, others con-
tinue to struggle, as reflect-
ed in the school's results on
the state standardized Mea-
surements of Student Prog-
ress (MSP) exam. released
last week.
Last year's third-graders
performed the best on the
assessment, with 84.8 per-
cent of the class passing the
reading portion and 45.5
percent passing the math of
the exam Csee box).
Fourth- and seventh-
graders fared worse, earn-
ing the lowest scores in
reading and math at the
school.
Those same grades also
took the writing portion of
the exam, with only 10.3
percent of fourth-graders
passing and 23.4 percent of
seventh-graders making the
grade.
"We are ... concerned
about our writing achieve-
ment in fourth- and sev-
enth-grade," said Superin-
tendent and Principal Tom
Churchill. "This clearly
needs to improve and we
need to provide a stronger
emphasis on writing in-
struction on a daily basis
with our students."
Across the board, more
than half of all the students
in each grade did not pass
the math test, with less than
a 30 percent pass rate in all
but third- and fifth-grade.
"We are still clearly
concerned about the level
of achievement in math,"
Churchill said.
Parents and guardians
should ensure that stu-
dents practice and master
basic math skills such as
adding, subtracting, multi-
plying and dividing so that
the teachers can go beyond
these basic skills at school,
Churchill said.
Despite the large areas
of concern, the school is cel-
ebrating some success, like
high reading scores in third-
grade.
"This provides evidence
that the reading program
in our primary grades is
effective and that families
are reading often with their
children," Churchill said.
"This is an area of real cel-
ebration for our school."
Overall, more students in
grades three, five, six and
eight passed each of their
exams than students in
those grades last year, and
fourth- and seventh-grad-
ers fell short of the scores
achieved by students last
year in each of their exams.
Fifth- and eighth-grade
students also took a science
portion of the MSP, and
both classes improved over
scores last year.
"Though they are not as
high as we would like them,
they represent a siificant
improvement over the past
few years, so it shows that
our concerted efforts in this
area are starting to show
results," Churchill said.
"We are making progress at
Hood Canal but still have a
long way to go to be satis-
fied."
By percentage ot
3rd
4th
5th grade 57.9
6th grade 62:5
7th grade 31.9
8th grade 51.00
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