Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

The first conference of the year is upon us!

Conferences start Monday October 12th and go until Wednesday the 14th.  Each conference is 20 mins long and starts at 1:30.

Hello Everyone!

Reminders:

• The MMA Cafe is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Please see my last post for prices.
• Pizza money is due Wednesdays in a sealed envelope.  $1.75 a slice
• I will be making and sending out our Black Island Farms permission slip this week!  They are due to the office 24 hours before we go.  If your child doesn’t turn in his or her permission slip, that child will not be able to go and will spend the day at MMA in Ms. Jill’s classroom completing their work chart.

Upcoming week & Volunteer opportunites!

The 2nd graders will be going over nutrition for their cultural this week.  On Thursday 10/1 in the afternoon (starting at 1pm), if anyone would like to help the 2nd graders make a simple nutritious snack, please email me and let me know if you would like to help out.  No more than 2 volunteers for this one.  If you are interested and want to plan the snack yourself, by all means, please!  They will make the snack for themselves and the rest of the class.  I would also like the 2nd graders explain where the ingredients in the healthy snack falls in the food pyramid.

This week I am introducing the students individual spelling lists.  Last year, every Thursday, it took me and Ms. Emilee all morning to get through spelling lists.  My hope is that I have you guys, who want to help, come in on Thursdays to give spelling tests.  3 volunteers would work out great, but if only 1 or 2 of you want to come in, it still helps us out.  Email me if you would like to help give Spelling tests this Thursday or if you can/willing to come most or all Thursdays.  Spelling tests start in the morning, but if you can only come in the afternoon, I will assign you a spelling group and just let that group know they will taking it in the afternoon.

Misha and Anna’s grandmother are going to come in Thursdays/Fridays to help prepare some reading homework for our kiddos who need extra practice.  We’ll send home their reading group sight words to practice and some reading works.  Misha if you come Friday, we start studio in the morning.  If you want to come in Thursday afternoon, I can show you how to work the printers.  If anyone can donate some gallon sized Ziplock bags, we could use a box to send home the student’s work in 🙂

Updates:

This year our IXL account was not renewed (for our class).  However, have no fear you IXL lovers, a new program has come our way.  Friday the lower el teachers were trained in a program called MyOn (myon.com).  It is an online, Netflix-like, program that gives students an online library based on their reading level.  What is even better is that it doesn’t require an internet connection, so if you don’t have internet at your house, but you have a smart phone, iPad/Kindle etc, you can have your child still use it!  This program is very similar to the free reading, Netflix-like, app called Epic!  Though similar, MyOn is much more beefy.  It gives students comprehension questions about the books they are reading and tests them every 2 weeks or so.  It also allows me to make reading, writing, and comprehension assignments and projects.  Our logins are coming very soon and then we as the lower el team will take some time to set everything up.  Expect some home and in class assignments after our 1st conferences!  3rd graders will especially benefit from the assignments as it will help their typing and language test prep.  I’m pretty stoked for it.  We’ll ease into it since it is a very new program.

Past Week:

In group lessons this week:

Level 1s: “I can___ ” handwriting, 3 kinds of triangles

Level 2s: Straight & right angles intro, Dictionary intro, cursive practice (d,g,t,a)

Level 3s: Comma practice, Dictionary defining, 2 step word problems, cursive practice (d,g,t,a, Names)

In cultural: History

Level 1s:  Timeline of their life

Level 2s: Lifecycle of a star

Level 3s:  Timeline of Life

Friday: Monet introduction and water lily project

Have a great upcoming week!

Ms. K

Starting on Tuesdays and Thursdays the MMA cafe will be open during lunch time to sell items.  They are starting off slow and will add more items.  Here is what they plan on selling until October:

Hello!

I tried putting this in the last post, but when I go back to edit, my post won’t show up…technology…

Anyway!

First graders are going to work on a timeline of their life this week.  If you could send in pictures Tuesday (they will begin Wednesday, so if you send them Wednesday, then there is some wiggle room if you forget) for every year of their life, they will be learning what a timeline is this week in History.

Thanks!

Hello Everyone!

Past week and reminders:

Please make sure your child has slippers/inside shoes.  There are a few that do not.  If you can’t get your child slippers, please email me.  Inside shoes are part of dress code.  In addition to shoes, remember PE is on Mondays, so please make sure your child has some sort of athletic shoe to run around in.

This week’s lunches went better!  Please remember to pack your child utensils and things that DO NOT take a few minutes to heat up.

If you would like your child t get pizza on Fridays, please submit money in a sealed envelope with your child’s name, teacher, and amount you want to pay for.  Pizza is $1.75 a slice.  Money is due on Wednesday mornings.

Group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Rainbow boxes, golden beads/stamp game (for some), Alphabetizing intro., Syllable train (for some), Geometric solids review.

Level 2s: Acrostic name poem, alphabetizing review and dictionary intro.,  cursive (a,d,g,t), types of lines review

Level 3s:  Acrostic name poem, what is a noun review, plane figures, alphabetizing review, cursive (t,a,d,g), commas (in dates and separating cities and states)

In cultural: Botany

Level 1s: Lifecycle of a plant, importance of plants

Level 2s: Parts of a leaf, veins in a leaf

Level 3s: Parts of a flower

Science: Scientific Method with a milk experiment

Coming week:

Friday the 25th is an early release!  Please make sure to pick your child up at 1pm.

Have a good upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

Week 3 and 4:

Everything went well while I was away.  Your child worked on a Zoology project while I was away.  If you came across an animal report, brochure, or 3D paper plate animal creation, could you send that back to school, please.  Some kiddos took theirs home by mistake.  I would like to save those first projects as a portfolio piece.

When I returned on Wednesday, I started easing the students into their work charts.  They were SO excited.  I have been going over with them that I want them to take their time on what they are working on, so there is NO set number of works to accomplish in the morning.  This helps Ms. Emilee and I pin point those who are making individual work choices and who might need extra help in making choices.  So far, everyone has enjoyed that.  For instance, those who have been with me and just have been dying to get back into their math works, got that chance and did a page and a half of dynamic multiplication problems with the checkerboard work.  Remember, I have worked extra time in the afternoons to have students work more on their work charts in the afternoon.

I am diligently working on seeing where kids are.  The reading specialists at our school have done DIBELS (a fluency reading test) with the whole school.  Ms. Emilee has done the UURC (reading level/comprehension test) with our new students.  We just have 1 more to do.  I was able to put together reading groups.  They will start this coming week.  You lovely parents who want to help with reading, as soon as normalization is over, you will be beckoned!

I am also finishing up a Math test with 1st graders.  This week, Ms. Emilee and I will get 2nd and 3rd graders tested.

In level lessons this week:

Level 1s: Easy CBM Math testing (Algebraic Operations and Geometry)

Level 2s: Alphabetizing introduction and 3 letter words

Cultural: Geography

Level 1s: Where is Earth and what is a Globe?, Longitude & Latitude, Zones of the Earth

Level 2s: Parts of the Earth

Level 3s: Size of the Sun, Parts of the Sun, Day & Night

Science: Scientific Method foldable

Volunteer Opp:

I have a HUGE stack of lamination.  They are works for the pink, blue, and green reading series.  Our junior high mentor, Brannock, and some of our students have been helping Ms. Emilee and I cut them out.  If anyone would like to cut some out for me, I will send a little stack home.  I do need them cut as soon as possible, so I can’t start sorting them and have our beginning readers get on those works.  Please email me if you would like to help!

As soon as normalization is over (Oct. 1) I would love to have a parent come in to copy some sight words and printable take home books for those students who need to work on reading.  I’m thinking this would be person(s) who can come in on certain Fridays and put them together for those children.  Email me if that sounds like you would like to do.  I’m thinking this will be a bi-weekly job, so students have a few things to work on.

Lunch Time:

I get a lot of students who need spoons, forks, and sometimes, knives in order to eat their lunch.  Please pack your child the utensil needed to eat their lunch, as we don’t always have those items.

Ramen Noodles, EasyMac, lunches that require 3:00+ mins to heat up, take awhile to cook.  Your child may have to wait awhile to heat their lunch up, and then when they do, it takes awhile to cook and then cool down in order to eat.  By the time they start eating, lunch is almost over.  Lunch is 30 mins.  I know a lot of you tell your children to eat all their lunch, but sometimes they just can’t because of heating up their food.  If those items can be cooked at home and then put in tupperware, it makes heating up and eating more successful.  If your child comes home with most of their lunch, they either didn’t like that item, were taking too much at lunch and not eating, or were waiting too much to heat up and eat their food.  Ask your child about how lunch was if you notice those things.  It will make lunch time more successful for everyone 🙂

Upcoming week:

Please make sure your child has some sort of comfortable athletic sneaker for Mondays!  Monday afternoons, right after lunch, is PE.

The weather this week is supposed to be cooler and rainy.  Please have your child dress accordingly for recess time.  We go outside if it isn’t pouring.  We stay inside when it is pouring and when there is thunder and lightening.  It may rain when kids are dismissed this week, so an umbrella might be advisable while they wait to be picked up 🙂

Have a great upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K