Oct
Week 9
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Updates and Coming Week!
Thank you for coming out to PTC! Everyone signed up and came on time, so it went smoothly on our end 🙂
Please have your child log into MyOn. There is a 1st grade assignment from me that is due tomorrow. 1st graders are asked to read 2 books on maps. 2nd and 3rd graders are asked to login as well to have the program get to know your child and to get the assessments running. So far, I see a few students have logged in: Dustie, Kennedy, Alden, Ella, Stevie, William, and Tiffany.
If I gave you the next reading kit at PTC, it is due Friday, Oct. 23rd. Misha and Katherine, I will email you to let you know if I need help with putting the next round together this week. Lori, I forgot to give Ella hers at your conference, but I know she will be able to get it finished by Friday if I give it to her Monday.
Wednesday we have our field trip! Please, please, please be on time. I will be at the school to make sure those who are getting rides in the North Shore parking lot are finding their rides. Please read my post below on Black Island Farms for times on drop off and pick up. The hayride starts at 9am, so please have your child at the farm by 8:45am so I can take attendance. We don’t need to stay in one big group when we are there. I have each parent who is going to watch over a few students. Ms. Emilee and I will have our own groups as well.
Students are allowed to wear jeans, but please have them in an MMA shirt or shirt with a collar. Hats and sunglasses are also great things to have too in addition to the list I made in the Black Island Farms post.
Friday is MMA’s Fall Festival! It is free to get into, but if your child wants to do any of the games there is a fee/wristbands. Starts at 4 and goes until 7. Come out and support our school! This is the time for your child to dress up at our school. Our school does not allow Halloween costumes while at school.
Volunteers this week?: Anyone want to do spelling or reading this week? Email me and I will plan accordingly. Remember we are out Wednesday and on Thursday from 12:45-1:45 the students have a lesson from UMFA in the library.
Past Week:
We took a break from regular work cycle and did some Christopher Columbus activities on Monday, Botany lessons and Scholastic reading on Tuesday, and a Botany art project Wednesday. We did keep up with Botany for cultural during these half days.
Cultural lessons- Botany
Level 1s: Plants through the seasons and what are the seasons?
Level 2s: Plant margins intro and Simple/Compound leaves
Level 3s: Solitary/Inflorescence flowers
Level 2 Cultural Project (Level 3s invited too)
Level 2s are well into their leaves lessons in Botany. Students who wish to collect a variety of leaves from trees can bring them in to identify, iron into wax paper to make a leaf book, measure, and to study their leaf shapes we have been learning about. If your 2nd grader or 3rd grader is interested, have them collect leaves and bring them in when they are ready. Not a required project, but most 2nd graders wanted to do it when I asked them about it.
Upcoming:
3rd graders will be taking their PRACTICE SAGE tests soon! November 2nd will be Language and November 4th will be Math. I oversee these tests as 1st and 2nd graders work in the classroom
Please put on your calendars that our next field trip will be to see The Nutcracker at The Egyptian Theater in Ogden. It is December 7th at 12:00pm. A bus will take our class and 2 other lower el classrooms going too. We will do a mini work cycle in the morning, eat an early lunch/recess and then leave for the ballet. Students will return to the school when it is over for regular pick up.