Ms. Amy's Montessorians

Tuesday Feb. 26th – MMA School Spelling Bee

LE – 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.  UE – 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon

Tuesday Feb. 26th afternoon – Gage’s mother will be teaching your children all about flag etiquette.  Thank you Joni, I can’t wait.

Wednesday Feb. 27th – Class Pictures (these were postponed last week because of the snow)

Thursday Feb. 28th – NHMU Field Trip – Ms. Heidi e-mailed parents requesting drivers and chaperones.

Friday March 1st – STARBASE Graduation 9:00 a.m. ALL SIXTH GRADE PARENTS ARE INVITED

Friday March 15th – Book Report (Free Choice) Due

Monday Feb. 18th – NO SCHOOL – President’s Day weekend

Tuesday Feb. 19th – Back to school

Wednesday Feb. 20th – Classroom Spelling Bee

Wednesday Feb. 20th – Class Picture Day – Please dress nicely for this picture it will be in the yearbook.  🙂

Wednesday Feb. 20th – Art Class with Ms. Trudy start again today.  YAY!

Friday Feb. 22nd – Assignment Due – Memorize the Preamble of the Consitution of the United States

Tuesday Feb. 26th – School-wide Spelling Bee

Thursday Feb. 28th – Natural History Museum Field Trip

Friday March 1st – STARBASE Graduation – Sixth grade parents invited.

February:

5 – 6th graders shadowing in Jr. High

6 – STAR BASE (6th grade).  This is our last field trip to Starbase this year.

12-15 Parent Teacher Conferences.  Early release the 13th, 14th, and 15th. Please sign up here:

Wednesday Feb. 13th https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/440642

Thursday Feb. 14th  https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/440645

Friday Feb. 15th  https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/440647

14 – Valentine’s Day Party

18- President’s Day, NO SCHOOL

26 – Spelling Bee.  Lists went home for this two weeks ago. Please contact me if your student did not receive one.

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.

28 – NHMU field trip

S.T.E.M. week has been wonderful.  I have loved seeing all of their home projects; invention convention, science fair and S.T.E.M. projects.  The students have enjoyed assemblies, guest speaker, fifth and sixth bothe went on field trips and many S.T.E.M. activities.

Upcoming Events are as follows:

THERE WILL BE NO HOME PROJECT THIS NEXT MONTH. WE WILL BE DOING ACTIVITIES IN THE CLASSROOM WHICH WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THE HOME PROJECTS.  YOU WILL NOT NEED TO HELP YOUR CHILD DO A HOME PROJECT FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.  THE NEXT PROJECT YOUR CHILD WILL NEED TO DO IS A FREE CHOICE BOOK REPORT.  THIS WILL BE DUE ON MARCH 15TH. 2018-2019 Book Report Rubric 

Monday Jan. 21st – NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Wednesday Jan. 23rd – 6th Graders go to STARBASE – Mr. John and Ms. Kirsten will be accompanying them.

Thursday Jan. 24th – 5th Graders have an in school assembly all about states of matter.

Tuesday Jan. 29th – CHILI COOK-OFF Fundraiser

Wednesday Jan. 30th – 6th Graders go to STARBASE – Mr. John and Ms. Amity will be accompanying them.

Wednesday Jan. 6th – 6th Graders go to STARBASE – Ms. Laura and Ms. Amy will be accompanying them.

The fieldtrip scheduled for Friday Feb. 8th to Pobanz Orthodontics has been cancelled.  

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday Feb. 13, 14 and 15th – Parent Teacher Conferences  http://blogs.mariamontessoriacademy.org/amyo/2019/01/18/parent-teacher-conferences-10/

Hello Fifth Grade Families,

We had our JA Biztown interviews today.  The sixth graders interviewed the fifth graders, it was a beautiful sight.

RC Willey

CEO – Aizlynn

CFO 1 – Nik

CFO 2 – Ava

Sales Manager 1 – Brilee

Sales Manager 2 –  Colton

Salt Lake City School District

CEO – Sacha

CFO 1 – Wyatt

CFO 2 – Lucy

Teacher 1 – Sammy

Teachers 2 – Mea

The permission slips for JA Biztown went home on Monday.  Please sign them and send them back as soon as possible.  I only have one parent volunteer so far for JA Biztown.  This is a wonderful opportunity and so much fun.  I still need two more parents to volunteer to help run businesses and transport students to and from JA Biztown.

Thank you,

Ms. Amy

Dear Fifth Grade Families,

Every year our 5th grade students get a wonderful opportunity to participate in a simulated town/market economy called J.A. Biztown at the Children’s Discovery Museum in Salt Lake City on the 18th of January.  The program combines hours of in-class learning (including our recent elections for town Mayor and DJ) with a day-long visit to a simulated business and town community.  At Biztown students work as employees in various business, are paid for their labor and manage personal checking accounts.  They learn about time and money management skills as they work, bank and shop as consumers.

This has been a hugely successful and fun experience for the students and something they look forward to as they enter the 5th grade.  Every student who has participated over the years can tell you what an exciting and eye-opening experience it was for them, many still talk about it years later.

The program is dependent on and designed to include parent participation; each Biztown business, market and bank is assigned 1 – 2 parent volunteers.  For our school, in addition to participating in the simulation with the students, the parent volunteers also provide the transportation to and from the field trip.

Our classroom needs 3-4 parent volunteers please let me know A.S.A.P. if you are interested.   The permission slip for this field trip will come home at the beginning of next week.
Thank you,

Ms. Amy

I’m excited to see your children tomorrow.  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break full of family and fun. 

The Cultural Festival was wonderful.  Thank you for your support. 

The following students were absent and have not turned in their cultural project yet.  Please have them turn it in as soon as possible.

Alex, Naomi & Emery

Our next field trip is Tuesday.  We will be going to Astro Camp.

• We will meet at North Shore parking lot at 8:20 a.m. and leave at 8:30 a.m. arriving at Astro Camp at 9:00 a.m.
• We will leave Astro Camp at 12:30 p.m. and return to Maria Montessori Academy via private drivers at 1:00 p.m.
• We will NEED THREE OR FOUR PARENT CHAPERONES to drive and chaperone for this field trip.
• Please make sure you arrange a ride for your child to and from this field trip.  Ms. Heidi sent an e-mail out to all of you earlier this week.  You can contact her at: heidibradley81@gmail.com

Students should bring a sack lunch (there will not be a microwave) and wear weather appropriate clothing.  We will only be outside when we are going from the vehicles to the building and back again.

The sixth graders Science Fair proposal is due on Tuesday November 27th. 

science-fair-proposal-form

The fifth graders should have pages 3 and 4 of their Engineering fair log book completed by Tuesday November 27th.  

Engineeringfairlogbook.docx