Week of Dec 1st
Posted on Sunday, December 7th, 2014 at 8:18 pmWelcome December!
It comes and goes very quickly. Here are some things coming up!
International Festival Update:
The dates have been switched for International Festival. UPPER EL will go December 17th and LOWER EL will go Thursday the 18th from 1-2:30. Families and the community are welcome to attend these days! Junior High will also be celebrating with their activities on the 19th. We will be touring the Junior High from 10:30-11:00.
Projects ARE DUE Thursday the 18th. It is best if they are done on a tri-fold board (like a science fair cardboard board). I told the kids to have a nice attractive board so people will be drawn to it. I mentioned to them that a lot of words on their board are not very helpful, so images are a great way to make the board attention-getting. A little bit of information under each of the pictures will help explain what the image is about. Notecards or a print off of information of what they want to talk about it more helpful than to have it all over their board. Students will need to practice so when people visit their project they know what to talk about. Bringing food, music, and souvenirs are very helpful as decor.
Holiday Feast!
Our holiday feast will take place Tuesday December 16th from noon until around 1pm. We need your participation for this wonderful annual event! Food sign ups are now available and so is the sign up for if you are coming. Students look forward to you coming! Please see the sign ups below! Our room mother, Jaida Ryan, will be helping me with this
IXL
Students are LOVING IXL. We do a little in the classroom, but it is primarily to be done at home. Please let me know if you need your child’s login and password. They should be spending most of the week on it for around 20 minutes.
Volunteer Opportunity!
I would like the students to have a little holiday craft time. I think making different types of ornaments such as the cinnamon ones and the salt dough ones would be really fun. Wednesday the 17th would be a great time. It’s the start of the International Festival, but I believe Upper El is going the morning 9-11. Ornament making can start at start after lunch around 12:45. Any other craft ideas are welcome too! Jada, if you want to ask to see who wants to help on this day that would be fantastic!
Here are this week’s group lessons:
Level 1s: Lines, Hundreds board test, Skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, days from a calendar with beads
Level 2s: Interior and exterior angles, word problem cards
Level 3s: Rounding to the nearest 10s and 100s place. Triangle review I.
In cultural: History
Level 1s: Body clock (learning minute and hour hands), paper plate clocks, Analog clocks, Salvador Dali melting clock art project
Level 2s: Birth of the Solar System, The Sun
Level 3s: The Devonian, Carboniferous, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian Periods
Have a great week!
Cheers!
Ms. K