Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello!

Our school is looking for donations of: coats, hats, blankets, boots, and gloves.  There will be a collection for these items in the glass entryway to the left.  Items donated need to be in by December 20th, the day we get out for Christmas break.

Book reports are due this coming week!  Please have your child do his or her cereal box project and have them in Monday the 16th!  Review instructions under the Home Project tab.

This week our class voted for a free morning on Thursday the 19th, the day of our Holiday Feast.  They will make 3D snowflakes and make graham cracker gingerbread houses along with other Holiday crafts.  We will need:

-White frosting

-Graham crackers

-Assorted candy that would be good to decorate on our “gingerbread houses”

HOWEVER! This crafty Thursday morning is EARNED.  Students and I discussed at our class meeting this week that EACH student will get 3 strikes (like in baseball).  So, if a student is asked multiple times to get on track for something or their behavior is not preferable, they will get a strike.  Students discussed that once they get their strikes that is it.  Those students who strike out will do morning work cycle while others who earn their craft time do their activities.  

Please remember to sign up for our feast and also for attendance!  Our feast starts at noon and will run until 1pm.  Whenever our feast is over we will see if there is time for Botany.

December 20th from 9:30-10am is Lower El’s time to perform their holiday songs.  Our class will be performing Jingle Bell Rock.  You are welcome to come and watch!  We also discussed at our class meeting this week that for our performance:

Level 1s: will be elves!  They will have a name tag for their elf name that they got during Writer’s Workshop last week!

Level 2s: will each be a reindeer!

Level 3s: will be Santas or Mrs. Clauses. Please dress your 3rd grader in red on the 20th!

All students need to bring a pair of sunglasses for our performance.  We will be making the rest of our “costumes” in class.  Dress your kids nicely for our performance!

What we did this week in group lessons:

I did reading testing with all the level 1s this week.  Those who move up to a new group will next week.

Level 1s: 3 dimensions with marshmallows (geometry)

Level 2s: Identifying polygons and cubes (geometry)

Level 3s: Features of a triangle (geometry), What is a thesaurus? (language)

Open lessons: ordinal/cardinal (small math)

In cultural this week:

No History due to our our field trip to the ballet

Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Frog life cycle

Level 2s: Parts of the nose

Level 3s: Leeches

Geography:

Level 1s: Naming of the continents

Level 2s: Earthquakes around the world

Level 3s: Wind vane

Botany:

Level 1s: The Very Hungry Caterpillar reader’s theater

Level 2s: Compound leaves: Pinnate and palmate

Level 3s: Gamopetalous

Friday: Studio, Christmas movie since our Australian visitor had to cancel on us at the last minute.

Some students are forgetting winter coats, gloves, snow pants, boots etc.  Please provide these things for your child!

We’ll those who are coming next week at our feast!

Cheers!

Ms. K