Feb
Week 23
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Hope your kiddo is enjoying the long weekend! Our reset/back to basics of grace and courtesy went well for the short week. Emilee and I will continue to focus on some basics and also help those students learn/regain Montessori independence.
Thank you to all of you who signed up and came to conferences! It was so nice to see all of you again!
Online Spelling: I am working on having our students do their spelling online through www.spellingstars.com I can upload all of our rainbow boxes for early readers and spellers. I’ve been working on the first grade list since I didn’t like the preloaded 1st grade one. I have made everyone a login and password and students can take their spelling tests through a computer (or still handwritten) on spelling test day (Thursdays). the site has some fun little games such as: word search, fill in the blank, and catch the right word. I know a lot of you wanted your child’s spelling to come home, but lists weren’t making it. I am planning on having it up and fully running by next week. I still have some tweaking to do. If you want to poke around the site or save it now, it is www.spellingstars.com
Past Week:
Monday, on our only full day, we worked a lot on grace and courtesy in the classroom. We skipped cultural for the week and focused on watching the students, wrote down notes, and discussed how we can better the rest of the year.
Our Valentine’s Day party was a great success! The students did such a great job with the activities and keeping the crafting mess to a manageable situation. Thank you so much to many of you who came to help out and for planning all the activities!
Mr. Will’s art project, on Thursday, was a great little activity that went great with our grace and courtesy mentions. He talked about community and how our classroom is a community even though we have many differences, we still are one. They made their names out of pipe cleaners and Mr. Will made a strong “castle” that they put their names in it to support it.
Upcoming Week:
We have a pretty uninterrupted week. The following week has a few things going on. Next week we have Scale and Tails visiting on the 24th and then the 25th is our field trip to the Planetarium. I have the majority of the permission slips. I will have those students who need to sign them to get those signed this coming week.
A couple of you requested to have reading/math work practice to come home. I will start that the week of February 22nd. This will be the same for the next round of MyOn assignments. There’s a few new reading group/fluency groups I want to focus on this coming week and have a schedule work out for those groups and students.
If anyone wants to come in and help with reading, please email me and let me know!
Have a great upcoming week!
Cheers!
Ms. K