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Week 14- Out with November, In with December!

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Didn’t we just bid adieu to October?  Crazy…

Speaking of December, it is a short one and it is jammed packed with lots of things to do!

First thing to take care of is to get your child’s permission slip in when we come back from Thanksgiving Break.  Thank you for those who got there’s signed and back to me the Friday we got out on break, that was most helpful!  Remember, permission slips must be in 24 hours before we go to The Nutcracker Ballet in Ogden.  This field trip will NOT require any parent chaperones.  Please also to make sure to get your child’s $2.00 fee in to the office either through the link to the right of our blog or in person.

December’s project is a book report!  Projects are due the week of December 16th.  Students are to read a book for their reading level.  If your child is seeing Ms. Kathy for reading, she will be doing mid year reading testing the first week of December.  You can email me if you would like those results.  This month’s book report project is called Cereal Box!  Please visit the Home Project tab for more information!

In December we do a Holiday Feast.  December 19th is the date, that is a Thursday.  It will take place at lunch time (12:00pm).  We will need helpers with food/drinks, tableware, etc.  I will send out a we join link for those who want to help.  This is our big get together of year and you’ll DEFINITELY  will not want to miss out!

Now for what we did before Thanksgiving Break!

In group lessons:

Level 1s: Golden bead point to solid (geometry)

Level 2s: Making angles with pipecleaners

Level 3s: Hypotenuse of a triangle

Open lessons: Dime layout, Exchange game (money)

 

In cultural:

History:

Level 1s: Learning about AD and BC timeline

Level 2s: Life and death of a star

Level 3s: Devonian Period

Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Introduction to amphibians

Level 2s: The ear

Level 3s: Intro to Annelids

Geography:

Level 1s: Mercator map

Level 2s: Earthquakes

Level 3s: Global atmospheric movement

Botany:

Level 1s: There Once was a Daisy reading

Level 2s: Palmate margins

Level 3s: Corolla/Petals

Friday: Family Tree projects, Meaning of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving crafts

 

Happy Thanksgiving!  See you all in December!

Cheers!

Ms. K

 

Week 13

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Hello!

Our class is working on something special for the Gratitude Feast on Thursday the 21st.  The 3rd graders created a poem together about being thankful.  The 1st and 2nd graders are teamed up in pairs of 2, most groups containing one 2nd grader, one 1st grader.  Each group will draw a visual to each line of the poem.  On Thursday, the 3rd graders will read the poem.  the 1st and 2nd grade pairs will sit with their 3rd grade buddy and hold up their visual as each line is read.  We will finish up the visuals and practice more this coming week to be ready on Thursday.

I will be making permission slips for the Nutcracker Ballet field trip, December 9th, this week.  I will be sending them out Wednesday. If you can have them back ASAP, that would be fantastic.  All permission slips MUST be in 24 hours before the field trip.  Please do not forget to submit your child’s 2 dollar fee for the ballet through the payment link on the right hand side of this blog.  I have heard from one parent so far on submission, so please don’t forget to email me or leave me a comment on the blog that you completed the payment.  That way I can mark your child off on my check off list 🙂

This soon to be Friday is our Thanksgiving party.  In the morning we talk about the history of Thanksgiving.  Since we don’t have studio this Friday, we will do recess first and then lunch, like we do the rest of the week.  By the time the kids get cleaned up it will be around 12:40pm.  I need a few more helpers for Friday.  If you are coming to help, please be at our classroom at 12:30pm.  After they get cleaned up,  I’ll sit them down and explain each of the crafts.  They are then free to choose until 2:30pm.  

Group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Intro to point of a line (geometry)

Level 2s: Interior and exterior angles (geometry), Marshmallow angle review

Level 3s: Features of a triangle (geometry), Arrays of multiplication with fruit loops

Open lessons: fractions equivalence with pizza visuals, how to read a ruler to whole inch, half an inch, 1/4 an inch

 

In cultural:

History:

Level 1s:  BC and AD timeline.  Introduction to a century with golden bead

Level 2s:  Formation of a star

Level 3s:  Silurian Period

Zoology:

Level 1s: Fish report

Level 2s: Shrews and hedge hogs

Level 3s: Roundworms

Geography:

Level 1s: 3D Earth to 2D using a grapefruit

Level 2s: Faults

Level 3s: Weather reader’s theatre

Botany:

Level 1s: Land and water food chain paper model

Level 2s: Pinnate margins

Level 3s: Position of the calyx

Friday: Studio, Library, Great Barrier Reef animals and learning watercolor painting

 

Home projects are due Monday and this coming week!

Have a great (wintery) weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

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I fixed the links from post Week 12.  Please see where you would sign up for snack!

Week 12

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Hello!

Some information from the Office!  Thursday November 21st is our school’s Gratitude Feast.

To help with our Gratitude Feast please sign up below!

We join link for Gratitude feast food sign up
 
 
We join link for Gratitude feast volunteer help
 
Our Field Trip to see the Nutcracker at Perry’s Egyptian Theatre has been approved.  We will be going with a few other classes from the school. No chaperones will be needed.  We will be taking a bus with Ms. Holly and Ms. Krista’s class.  We will do some works in the morning and have an early lunch before we go.  We will be back before dismissal, at which they will have their recess, possibly do their cultural, red folders, and then get ready to go home.  I will be sending home and posting the permission slips soon.

This field trip does require a $2.00 fee.  The Office has conveniently given us a payment link so you can pay from home!  Please follow the link below and post a comment or email me that you have submitted payment for your child! Thank you!

Nutcracker Ballet Field Trip Payment Link: https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=1151

Don’t forget that the November Home Project has been posted!  Please have them due the week of the 18th.  Please HAVE them in ON the 18th, but if a child forgets, you have a few days.  It takes that week to have all the kids share.

On November 22nd the student’s do not have any studio.  That Friday I wanted to use to educate the kids on the history of Thanksgiving during the morning.  In the afternoon I have found some fun Thanksgiving projects.  Please let me know if you would like to volunteer to help or help with supplies!   I would like to have a helper per craft 🙂 I am going to oversee the corn painting wreath, but I would like a helper.

November handprint turkey with poem

 

Supplies: No supplies needed for poem/hand turkey craft

 

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Supplies: Gumdrops, mini-marshmallows, nerds, toothpicks, gummy worms (enough for 25 students)

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Supplies: Clear plastic gloves (nobody has a latex allergy), Cheerios, Fruit Loops

 

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Supplies: No supplies needed

 

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Supplies: No supplies needed

 

Now that our upcoming events are out of the way, this week in group lessons:

Level 1s:

Level 2s:

Level 3s:

In Cultural:

History:

Level 1s: Body Measurements/ Project Sharing

Level 2s: Galaxies/ The Milky Way

Level 3s: Ordovician Period

Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Types of Fish

Level 2s: Building an eye

Level 3s: Intro to Nematodes

Geography:

Level 1s: Building a 3D Earth

Level 2s: Faults

Level 3s: Weather elements

Botany:

Level 1s: Water food chains

Level 2s: Margins: entire/indented (the outline shapes of a leaf)

Level 3s: Calyx: gamosepalous & polysepalous

Friday: Cleaning, Australian animals and crafts

 

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

 

 

November’s Home Project

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Just FYI, November’s Home Project is posted in the Home Project Tab

Please email me for any questions!

Thanks!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Week 11- Out with October, in with November

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Happy November!  Hope you all had a lovely Halloween Thursday night.

I will be posting November’s Home Project this week.  Since November is about giving thanks and family, this project’s title is called Family Tree” and is due November 18th.  In a nutshell there are 2 choices: 1) do a basic family tree with some history of where your family came from (siblings may do option 1 together), 2) choose one of your family members to interview and do a report on.  Cannot be mom or dad.  I will post instructions soon, so please visit our Home Project tab by this Friday!  I’m planning on having things posted by Wednesday.

We shared and finished up October’s Pumpkin Book Reports this week.  They were magnificent!

Halloween was relaxed.  The students did a few works and we completed our first class book, The Witches by Roald Dahl appropriately on Halloween.  We then watched the movie to compare the book to it.  The only difference the students saw was how the movie changed the ending compared to the book.  The students wanted a book related to Christmas next, so Ms. Anna and I are on the look for something fun to read before the let out of Winter Break.  Suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Level 1 parents: Mini History project is Due Monday! Please see week 10 for instructions.

This coming Friday November 8th is an early release.  Students will be dismissed at 1pm.  Please mark your calendars!

This coming week will be primarily cold.  Please start sending a coat and warm clothes with your child.  By Thursday it will get back up into the high 50’s, but the rest of the week will not be as warm.

This week in group lessons:

Level 1s: Solid, surface, edges (geometry), Money introduction with penny board layout

Level 2s: Adjacent and complimentary angles (geometry)

Level 3s: Base, vertex, and altitude (measuring types of  triangles in geometry)

Open lesson: Adding fractions, subtracting fractions

 

In cultural this week:

History:

Level 1s: Timeline of my life

Level 2s: Gravity and inertia

Level 3s: Cambrian period

Zoology:

Level 1s: Fish printing

Level 2s: Platypus

Level 3s: What is a flatworm?

Geography:

Level 1s: Continents and tracing- map making

Level 2s: Graham cracker folding (Earth’s folding)

Level 3s: Defining weather

Botany:

Level 1s: Food chains

Level 2s: Set B of leaves

Level 3s: Types of Calyx

Friday: Studio, Library trip, Electricity

 

Have a good rest of your weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K