Parents,
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break – I know I did. It was so great to see so many of you at our feast. Thank you for all your support! We simply could not it without you!!
Whats happening this week
This week we will finish off our study of mammals by looking at marsupials, specifically the opossum. We will begin our study of roots by planting an amaryllis in our room. We will also begin our study of tropical forests (I know it ironic to study this as we head into winter but it will be fun to imagine ourselves somewhere warm and tropical 🙂 We will read the book The Umbrella by Jan Brett. Another topic we will be looking at this coming month will be snowflakes. We will kick off this topic by reading the book Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. It is about a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley, who saw snowflakes as small miracles, and he determined that one day his camera would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystal. Bentley’s enthusiasm for photographing snowflakes was often misunderstood in his time, but his patience and determination revealed two important truths: no two snowflakes are alike; and each one is startlingly beautiful. This week we will become aware of our muscles and will talk about how important it is to use them to keep our bodies healthy. We will be experimenting with air all month long and this week we will be racing pom poms by blowing air through a straw.
Volunteer
I know that a few parents have asked about doing things at home to help them get their service hours in. If you would like to help with stuff at home I have several options. I am in need of help with the following: cutting out paper stockings, cutting out wrapping paper for the kids to wrap gifts with, cutting out felt trees, folding snowflakes, and cutting out lamination. If you would like to help with any one of these please send me an email and I can send the items home with your child. Thank you in advance for your help.
Field Trips:
We finally have all of our field trips planned and approved. Some time this week we will send hope a field trip form for all of our field trips. Please initial each field trip you would like your child to attend. (This is a new form and only requires one signature for all of this years field trips. Your Welcome!) There will also be a cover sheet for our upcoming field trip to the Tree House Museum scheduled on the 20th. This is the same day that the elementary classes will be doing their international festival, so if you have older students you may not want to volunteer to help on the field trip. With that being said, if you would like to chaperone send me an email. All of our field trips require students to be picked up and dropped off on location. We try to choose local places and stagger the pick up and drop off times to accommodate picking up and dropping off siblings. If you are having trouble arranging a ride for your student, our room mom’s have graciously offered to help arrange carpools. Their email addresses will be at the bottom of the cover letter you will be getting before each field trip.
Here is the list of field trip. Also, if you click on the page labeled 2016/2017 field trips on the blog, you will see an in-depth description of each field trip.
- December 20, 2016 Treehouse Children’s Museum
- March 31, 2017 Ogden George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park
- Jan 12, 2017 Scales and Tails Bird Show
- May 17, 2017 Ogden Nature Center
Have a great week!
Ms. Jen & Ms. Martha