Month: November 2018

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Ogden Electric Lights Parade on November 24th

Dear parents,

Here is some information about the Ogden Electric Lights Parade that our marketing committee has asked teachers to post on their blogs:

November 24th is the annual Ogden Electric Lights Parade. Our school will be represented and the marketing committee has come up with a float that will represent MMA. 

We are looking for students from MMA who would like to be part of our parade! The meeting place will be in front of the Ogden Temple. The parade starts promptly at 5:30pm. The floats will be lined up at 5pm.

Students under 12 years and you get must ride in the trailer or truck. If you are over the age of 12 then you may walk next to the float. Students who ride or walk will be carrying white peace signs or holding tea lights.

If your child would like to be a part of the parade then we will have waivers to sign in front of the temple. 

The parade starts on 22nd and Washington and then ends at 27th. My advice would be for our MMA parents whose child(ren) are in the parade park towards the end of the parade so when we are done you can find your child. 

We have some, but if your child would like to wear glow necklaces and bracelets during the parade we highly suggest the more the better! (It is a light parade!) the glow wear is also our symbol to honor Troy and Molly Cox. 

If you have any questions you can ask Autumn in the office or me- Ms. Kaley. I will do my best to answer anything I know 🙂

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Science Fair, Invention Convention, STEM week January 14-18

Dear parents,

Today I gave the 6th graders a small packet with information about the science fair. The science fair takes place on Wednesday January 16th  and as we progress closer to the date, I will be giving out more information. Just to start though, I have included the background research plan and suggested to the students that they begin to give some thought to what they will be doing their project on. There are of course a lot of sites that can offer free information, or science fair kits to purchase, and again I will be giving out more information in the near future, but this is just an initial post to give you the heads up.

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I also gave the 5th graders the packet to plan for the ‘Invention Convention.” This will take place in the week beginning January 14th. Again, I suggested that they start to think about a possible project to do. Of course, it is hard to come up with something truly original, but there are plenty of websites to look at online that have lots of ideas. At the back of the packet I gave them, there is a list of possible websites (but not on the digital copy here).

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The 4th graders will be doing a collaborative STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) project in school for that week beginning  January 14th and more information will be coming out in the near future.

Tomorrow, Friday, there is the Cultural Fair from 1-2:45. If your child has not brought their poster in, please make sure that they do.

Again, next week there is no school. School restarts on Monday, November 26th.

Thanks everybody, and if I don’t get a chance to post before next Thursday – Happy Thanksgiving!

John

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The week before Thanksgiving

Dear parents,

In the next week we will be celebrating Veteran’s Day tomorrow and then investigating subjects related to Thanksgiving such as the Mayflower Compact and first Thanksgiving. On Wednesday, we will begin our project presentations, before having the school-wide cultural festival on Friday from 1-2:45 – all parents are welcome to attend. Please remember, presentations should be on a tri-fold poster board.

In math, the 6th graders are looking at coordinate graphing, the 5th graders, division and decimal operations and the 4th graders, multiplication strategies. We will be using the theme of Thanksgiving to produce a narrative writing and reviewing our figurative language.

The following week from Monday November 19th through Friday 23rd, there will be no school.

Again, if you have any questions, please email me.

With thanks – John

 

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What’s going on in the classroom; early out Monday; projects

Dear parents,

We are now over the first quarter and the classroom tends to take on more of a fixed routine, with usually some assembly, or activity going on each week as well. Firstly, we are very fortunate to have one of our parents, Jane McAdams, teach our students the art of writing. Jane has a over 15 years experience teaching writing in college classes, High School, Junior High and elementary. This takes place every Wednesday morning for about an hour and at the moment focuses on parts of speech as well.

In the classroom, we have been looking at narrative and opinion writing and we use Scholastic News magazines to focus on reading comprehension. We have independent and small group reading going on, as well as looking at figurative language (for example: similes, metaphor, hyperbole and personification).

We alternate weeks of vocabulary practice with spelling and you should see your students’ spelling words recorded in their planner, so that they can practice at home. Please make sure that you sign your child’s planner each day and if time allows, help them with their spelling.

Regarding math, the 6th graders have been focusing on and reviewing fractions, multiplication, division, factors and multiples, and decimal operations, before moving on to rational numbers (the positive and negative number system). The 5th graders have been building on their multiplication and division skills, before moving onto decimal operations. The 4th graders are also developing their multiplication and division skills, before going on to fractions.

In social (or cultural) studies, we are continuing with our examination of the causes of the Revolutionary War. On Friday, the students were exposed to a simple taxation system in the classroom, but without any (political) representation of how their studies or routine could be structured.

Next week is Red Ribbon Week and we will be having an assembly on Tuesday morning, door decorating on Wednesday and judging on Thursday. There will also be lessons catered to the theme of Red Ribbon Week.

A reminder that our projects are due the following week. I originally said November 13th, but as the school-wide cultural festival has now been moved to November 16th, that due date is now November 14th. The theme of the project is, “what do we celebrate about America?” Presentations have to be on a tri-fold poster board.

Lastly, this Monday November 5th is an early out. Please make arrangements to pick up your child at 1 pm.

Thank you and enjoy the extra hour!

John