Sep
Week 6
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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