Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hi Everyone!

Can I just state how amazing our group is this year!  It feels good to see everyone and their excitement.  Our returning students are begging to start work.  I joked with them saying, “I want to recored each of you saying that so, that when you get grumpy at me in a few months, I can go back and play it.”  They thought that was funny.  I shared with them the changes in work cycle this year, what their work chart is going to look like, and some expectations.  They will get a chance to do some projects this upcoming week and next week.

Great Lessons Start!:

This coming week is the start of Great Lessons.  We will spend Monday and Tuesday on: “The Birth of the Universe;” Wednesday, “Timeline of Life,” Thursday, “Coming of Man,” and Friday, we will do some reading, science, Europe studies, and some art.  The following Monday (Aug. 31), we will do “History of Language and finish our Great Lessons on Tuesday, Sept. 1st with “History of Math.”  For each Great Lesson I give, there will be a few choices of activities for each lesson that students will get to choose.  It is their chance to start easing into work.

Cultural lessons will also being this coming week.  I plan on using the afternoons to introduce our first cultural lesson, History.  As I introduce lessons in the morning, cultural will start working its way into morning work.

Volunteers:

I have heard from a number of you about wanting to help out in our classroom.  If my memory serves me, here is who I have:

• Lori- reading
• Misha- anything
• Tammie- writing and reading
• Michelle- typing up projects and books for students
• Anna’s grandfather (I didn’t catch a name!  Katie, if you could please email me his name and contact, I would love for him to come in a do some art!)- art

If you signed up on the volunteering sheets at Back to School Night, Heidi Bradley is copying those, so when I get those back, I will see who signed up for what.

Do I have anyone who is in the science field?  Do you have anyone in your family who works in a science field?  Has anyone every been to Europe and would love to share facts from their trip?  Do you or someone in your family love to cook and come do some cooking?  I would love to have more guests this year!   Email me if you or someone wants to help.

Friday August 28th Art Help!

I am looking for some helpers for this coming Friday!  I want to do some galaxy art!

Galaxy art project

This project involves a black shirt.  If you would like to purchase your child a  100% cotton all black t-shirt for Friday, please have them bring it in Friday.  NAME PLEASE ON LABEL!

If you do not wish to get your child an all black t-shirt, would someone like to get our class 1 yard of 100% black fabric?  It will get cut into pieces for those students to have.  Email me ASAP if you would like to get our class 1 yard of black fabric 🙂

I’d like to do this activity in the afternoon after their recess (1pm), but I can adjust to move it to the morning if need be.  Email me if you would like to help out and I can base the activity’s time on who’s coming.

Flagging writing/coloring supplies volunteers!  Ms. Emilee and I would like help putting small pieces of Duct tape on each student’s writing and coloring supplies.  We are using the lime green Duct tape to “flag” each supply with their name on it.  If you can email me if you would like to come in this coming week (week of Aug. 24th) or next, please let me know.  Having volunteers will make that job go faster.

Room Mothers:

We have a dynamic duo for our Room Moms!  Jaida Ryan, is our planning room mother this year.  Sarah Boudreaux will help Jaida in class and be her right hand woman 🙂

These ladies will be helping me out with class parties/events, class needs, reminders, and some organization

• Our first big event will be our Fall Class Party on Oct. 30th (a Friday).  I will email Jaida and Sarah more about it.
• Our first field trip is on Oct. 21st to Black Island Farms.

Out of Town:

I will be going out of town on Sept. 2nd and will return the following Wednesday, Sept. 9th.  This is over Labor Day weekend.  That is 4 school days that I won’t be in class.  Ms. Emilee will take over for those days.  Mrs. Chris Lemmon, will help on Sept. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.  Mrs. Melinda Montgomery will help out on Sept. 8th.  Ms. Chris is Ms. Anna’s (Anna in the office) mom and Ms. Melinda in on the MAPA committee and helps out with Junior High.

Any students with sensitive to change will be notified so that it isn’t a big surprise to them.  If you are parent to a student who has a sensitivity to transitions, help me by talking to your child in advanced.

Snack:

Our snack sign up is going great!  Please email me if you don’t get an email update.  We have spots available for later in the year, so if you want to take a look at the sign up and see what is left, there are still sign ups available 🙂