Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

We had a great time at the ballet on Monday.  Hoping your child enjoyed it too!

We finished up as many individual lessons as possible the rest of the week.  This coming week is so full of holiday activities that there won’t be any regular lessons going on.  Let’s take a look at this week so that everyone who is planning on coming in this week will know what is going on.

Monday:  Holiday Store and Holiday Baking

8:15am- Students will get their store items that they are selling all set up in our room.

8:35am- Circle time to go over store rules and choose jobs for the week

8:50am- Pledges and then Holiday store begins!

 *Please send a bag with your child so they can carry all the things they want to buy from other  students.

9:30am-  *A few 3rd graders will make gingerbread dough with Ms. Kaley.  Ms. Emilee will watch over store.

*A few 2nd graders will make the sugar cookie dough with Jaida, our room mom.

*A few 1st graders will make peanut brittle with Michelle

11:00am- Holiday store ends and cleaning up begins.

11:30am-12:00pm- Recess.  A few students can stay in to help roll out dough and cut out the shapes

12:00pm-12:30pm- Lunch

12:30pm-2:00pm- PE and Music specials.  Cookies can be baked while recess and lunch are going on and  while students are off to specials

1:30pm- Fire Drill!

2:00pm-2:40pm- 2nd and 3rd graders decorate their cookies.  1st graders can help break up the peanut brittle

3:00pm- Dismissal

*Jaida is bringing: mixer, sugar cookie decor and some ingredients, baking supplies

*Ms. Kaley is bringing: mixer, gingerbread ingredients, 1 baking tray, baking supplies

*Michelle is bringing: peanut brittle ingredients and supplies

* please remember to send your child with ingredients/supplies that were signed up for!

Tuesday: Holiday Feast

Morning: Christmas cards for one of our first grader’s family members.

11:15am- Set up for feast starts

12:00pm- Holiday feast!

1:00pm- Holiday feast ends and clean up begins.  If you want or plan on checking out your child after our feast, please just let me or Emilee know if you are taking them.  Hope to see most of you there!  Please sign up for food and attendance if you haven’t!

Afternoon- cultural- Botany

Wednesday: Upper El International Festival

9am-11:00am- Upper El International Festival.  Everyone is welcome to come to see their projects!

Afternoon- cultural- Botany

Thursday: Lower El International Festival

Morning- Go over International Festival project boards for how to present.  Get our room set up.

11:00am-11:30am- Recess

11:30am-12:00pm- Lunch

12:00pm- Clean up from lunch and any food for projects to be set up

12:30pm-2:30pm- Lower El International Festival

Friday: Junior High International Festival and EARLY OUT (1pm dismissal)

9:00am-9:15am- Dance with Ms. Emily

9:15-9:30am-German Silhouettes with Mr. Rob

9:35am- Small art project with Anna’s grandpa, Mr. Will

10:15am-10:30am- Bead making with Ms. Lisa and Me. Casey

10:30am-10:45am-Chinese calligraphy with Ms. Fallon

10:45am-11:00am- African recess game with Ms. Marie

11:00am-11:30am- Work on art project

11:30am-12:00pm- Lunch

12:40pm- Recess

12:40pm-1:00pm- Dismissal- Have a wonderful Christmas holiday, a fabulous New Year’s, and safe traveling to all of our families!

Holiday Concert!

This Thursday is our Holiday Concert.  I’ve seen the office post A-M goes at 6pm, but I’m looking at Ms. Connie’s email and it says:

Last names A-L go at 6:00pm

Last names M-Z go at 7:00pm

Each performance should last a half our or so 🙂  I hope to see our kiddos come and sing!  I will be going to the 6:00pm performance.

Holiday Feast Attendance and Sign up:

Please don’t forget to sign up to come to our feast, make food, or help bring in supplies!  It is December 15th at 12:00pm.  Right now, just a few supplies are signed up for, but we have no food.  Here is the link again:

Holiday Feast Dec. 15th

Holiday Baking!

December 14th is our Holiday Store and baking day!  Some supplies are still needed.  Here is the link for those supplies!

Holiday Baking!

Hello Everyone!

Every month the teachers meet for a staff meeting.  December’s meeting happened last night. MyOn became a topic of discussion.  Our school signed up for MyOn as a resource for our students to have more access to books in hopes to improve reading outside of school.  There are still students in all of our classes that have not even logged into MyOn.  Please help us out in having your student get onto MyOn a few times a week.  I have made assignments for each level to do, but also to have students enjoy all the thousands of books that are on there.  They have books starting at the PreK level and it goes up to 6th grade.  All of our students are fully capable of having a book being just right for them through MyOn.

Our hope is to have all students be logged in by Friday.  MyOn works with any smart phone/ipad/kindle etc. device.  I’ve been told it doesn’t need a wifi signal to work!  So, if you don’t have internet at home, but your child has a device that can run MyOn, they can still enjoy the program.

If you need your child’s login again, I would be more than happy to help you with that.  Everyone’s password is “books.”

Always feel free to email me if you have any questions or comments.

Happy reading!

Here are the International Festival Europe choices for our class:

Kennedy- Ukraine

Tiffany- France

Nicholas- Germany

Sophia- Ireland

Peyton- Italy

Aiden B- Switzerland

Romeo- Transylvania

JayCee- The Eiffel Tower

Lucy- Paris

Dustie- Animals of France

Aidan L-Turkey

William- 1 Indian tribe of Europe

Jayce- Greece

Lydia- Iceland

Arianna- Norway

Stevie- Spain

Ashley- Finland

Tae-Lynn- Romania

Cael- London

Ethan- Yugoslavia

Daxton- Oslo

Karsten-Portugal

Anna- Estonia

Ella- The United Kingdom

Bridger- Sweden

Naomi- Austria

Kylie- Red Deer in France

Alden- Hungary

Kailyn- Czech Republic

Michael- European main dishes (food)

Past Week:

We had a great week.  Everyone is excited for December and came back from break ready for more.  I have all students filling out there own work chart, even first graders.  Start checking in with your child on what they are accomplishing on their own.  Some students are working on many works per day and some are working on more intense choices.

This past week we had a net safety assembly on how to be safe on the internet.  Each class will be “certified” by doing some activities in our classroom.

In cultural: Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Amphibians and Life cycle of a frog

Level 2s: The eye and the ear

Level 3s: Annelids: Earthworms and leeches

Friday: STEM Christmas tree challenge

Upcoming Week:

The Nutcracker on Monday the 7th: Monday we have the ballet field trip!  Please pack a lunch for your child.  We will go over the history of the Nutcracker in the morning, have an early recess/lunch, and then get ready to go at 11am.  If your child chooses to dress up nice for the ballet, the dress code can be skewed some.  Nice dresses do not have to have a collar.  If your child is not going to dress up, then dress code applies.

Tuesday the 8th: 3rd grade practice SAGE Writing test!  I will be with 3rd graders in the Library on Tuesday morning.  Please pack them a snack and their water bottle.

Looking to Next Week:

The week of Dec. 14th is busy!

Monday the 14th: is Holiday Store Day!  Store will be right away in the morning.  Levels can begin baking  towards the end of the morning and into the afternoon.  Our upper elementary class partners this year, Ms. Stef’s class, have their feast on Monday at lunch.  I did tell Ms. Stef that we might in and out to use the oven.  Here is the sign up for helping bring supplies for baking and wrapping paper!

Holiday Store and Baking Supplies!

Tuesday Dec. 15th:  Our classroom feast will begin at lunch time (12:00pm).  If you are needing to come in to drop off food or want to help, please come at 11:15am.  Ms. Stef’s class is going to leave out the tables and chairs, so we’ll have just our food to set up.  The tables are round and are pretty large, for anyone who has round table cloths.  Here is the sign up:

Classroom Holiday Feast Food/Supply sign up AND Attendance 

Wednesday Dec. 16th: is Upper Elementary’s International Festival.  We will be visiting each upper el from 9-11:00.  Anyone is welcome to come!

Thursday Dec. 17th: is Lower Elementary’s International Festival from 12:30-2:30.  Anyone is welcome to come!  I will post the list of what student’s chose this coming week.  Naomi and Kylie were the only ones who didn’t know what they wanted to choose and need to choose a Europe related topic by next week.  Practically the whole class each chose a country to do.

Friday: An art project with Mr. Will (Anna’s grandpa) and Junior High’s International Festival activities. Friday is an Early Release day!

Have a great upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K

I made a mistake on the times for the Holiday performance on the 10th.  The times should be:

1st group- 6:00pm

2nd group- 7:00pm

Sorry about that! I wrote it down wrong!  Thanks, Lori!