Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hi Everyone!

This Past Week:

This past week we began the 5 Great Lessons.  We got through “The Birth of the Universe,” “Timeline of Life,” and “Timeline of Man.  Everyday after the lesson, I would present the students with activity choices.  It was great to step back and see who is following what choice and what students needed help making a choice.

Friday we started our first class meeting, science, and Library.  In the afternoon we had a great time making our galaxy art shirts!  Thank you Lori, Kristie, Sarah, and Elene for helping out!  Sorry if some of your kids came home with very colorful hands!  Ms. Stephanie loved the project and is making possible decision to let any classroom shirt project be an acceptable MMA approved T-shirt.  Stand by on that.  As soon as I find out anything, I will let you know.

Everything else is going pretty swimmingly.  We are working on grace and courtesy towards each other and when a teacher is talking.

We started cultural lessons as well!  Cultural will slowly work its way into morning lessons, but as we work into transitioning into work cycle, it is in the afternoon time.  Every week we rotate the subject.  The rotation schedule is: History, Zoology/Physiology, Geography, and Botany.  This week we started with History.

Level 1s: Intro. for the year, Months of the year, Months by seasons, Making a Sept. calendar

Level 2s: 3 forms of matter, Cohesion, Centripetal & Centrifugal forces, Friction

Level 3s: Life on Earth, Clock of Eras, Rope timeline with labeling of eras

Upcoming Week:

Monday begins PE and Music in the afternoon right after lunch.  Please make sure your child has some sort of athletic shoe for PE every Monday.

I will present the last two Great Lessons Monday and Tuesday: “The Timeline of Language,” and “The Timeline of Math.”  Wednesday I leave for my trip and will be back in school the 9th.  Our class will take some breaks and do classroom team building games with Ms. Jill’s class

Pizza Friday is going to begin very soon.  I got an email saying it will begin Sept. 4th, but the flyers didn’t go out.  It may still happen on the 4th, so, if you would like your child to get pizza on Fridays the instructions are for you to,  “The forms ask parents to send in the money or check in a sealed envelope for either the week, month, semester, or year.”  Forms must be SEALED, with child’s NAME, TEACHER, and AMOUNT OF $.  Teachers will not be handling the forms this year, the 6th graders are.  ALL MONEY IS DUE ON WEDNESDAYS BY 12:00 NOON!

HOMEWORK! While I am gone, students are going to be working on animal related projects.  Here is what each level will need:

Level 1s: 3 magazines that have examples of living and non-living things in them.  On Wednesday they will make 2 posters: 1 for living things and 1 for non-living things.  1st graders will then be asked to write a sentence or 2 about what a living thing is and what a non-living thing is.  Thursday, 1st graders will choose 1 living animal choice.  They will make a paper plate 3D pop up project on this day.  Students will write 3 sentences about their living animal.  One sentence will explain why it is living, one will be a small fact about that animal, and the last sentence will be why it is not a non-living thing.  If a student has a great animal book at home, send it with them Thursday.  Ask them Wednesday night what alive animal are they thinking of doing!  

Level 2s:  If your 2nd grader has any animal books, please send a few with them for Wednesday and Thursday.  They will making an animal brochure.

Level 3s:  If your 3rd grader has any animal books, please send a few with them for Wednesday and Thursday. They will doing an animal report and make their own non-fiction fact book.

* Reading help will begin after normalization is over (Oct. 1)

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week.  When I get back, I will post another blog entry.

Cheers!

Ms. K