Feb
Week 24: Important Info!
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Important Planetarium Information!:
I have some important information regarding the field trip on Thursday 2/25th. The Planetarium has made a huge error. When Jalee scheduled our field trip back in August, we got an email that we were booked and everything was set; we would receive our official confirmation email 4-6 weeks before our field trip. As we got closer, the confirmation was not showing up. Melanie in our office and Jalee began emailing and calling. We never heard back. Jaleel and I called this past week and again, we still had to leave messages. I said I would go on Saturday to talk to a real person. Yesterday, I went up to the Planetarium to find out what was wrong, or if we needed to cancel. I talked to the floor supervisor and she was appalled. Our information was never book for our field trip the field trip coordinator. She and I sat down and created a back up plan to try and save our field trip. If this plan can be squeezed in, I will get a call on Monday telling me, “yes” we can still go, or “no” this unfortunately will not work out.
Things are going to be a little last minute this week. Melanie has the payment link ready to go for the chaperone going, but we haven’t posted it yet, for both classes, because of this ridiculousness we have been dealing with.
The supervisor and I planned on this makeshift schedule:
9:00ish-9:30am: Check in
9:45am- Educational and interactive planet discussion
A little after 10:00am- Free to explore the Planetarium exhibits
10:50am- Gather in the front
11:00am- Lunch at The Gateway Food Court
11:50am- Need to be back for IMAX movie
12:45pm- Gift shop and more exhibit exploration
1:15pm- Gather for class count and to walk to Trax and then taken Frontrunner back to Wall Ave.
2:5ish/3:00pm- Arrive back to Ogden Station on Wall Ave.
If things don’t go well, The Planetarium owes and and will reschedule (we hope). Please be on the look out for emails this week that say “yay” or “nay.”
If things are a go- here is important field trip information:
– Students need to be in dress code. MMA, no collared, approved shirts are still welcomed
– Pack coat/hoodie to wear in the morning. Dress in layers, the morning are usually really chilly
– Bring a backpack to keep items safe
– Pack a lunch with no heatable items. Water bottle included!
– Wear comfortable shoes!
– Money for the gift shop is up to you as the parents/guardians
– Please double check what your child wants to bring to entertain themselves on the train. I told my class nothing expensive. It is not my responsibility for any item lost or stolen.
I really hope things work out. Even if we don’t go, they are doing a lot of work to recover what originally planned for us. However, things might be a little out of order from our original plan, so please be flexible with us.
Parents/guardians that are coming with us will have a small group of students to manage. You are free to take your group wherever in the Planetarium, but please bring your group, on time, to when we need both classes to meet. The chaperones I have are:
-Lori
-Kristie
– Linda
-Rachel
-Danny
– Enrique
– Alicia
– Michelle
– Chris
– Mandy
– Ashley
– Janai (I had a question mark next to your name. Let me know if you can’t go)
* Ms. Emilee and I will have a group or two also.
Past Week:
We continued to work on organization and bettering the student’s grace and courtesy of the classroom. While there is still improvement to be made, things are getting a bit better. Emilee and I tried not having work checked off right after your child completes a work. This has helped Emilee keep students more in task to their work and leave her time to help students. We’ve made some work turn in areas and have students better utilizing their Math and Language binders. We gathered our groups of 15 students each on Thursday afternoon and asked each student to prove what they did. This worked out great. It left us time to chat with those students about what they are accomplishing and what more they could do or new lessons they may need.
Reading groups have also improved. We have every reading group reading on Wednesdays and Thursdays and just a few of the groups reading on Tuesdays with Emilee.
I have reorganized group lessons too. Here is the schedule for when I need just levels
Mondays- All 3 levels of cultural and Level 1 Geometry
Tuesdays- Level 2 Geometry and Level 3 Language/Writing lesson. Weekly afternoon Writing lesson after lunch with whole class.
Wednesdays- Level 3 Geometry and Level 2 Language/Writing lesson
Thursdays- Level 1 Language/Sentence Writing and Level 3 Fractions + open fractions help.
Upcoming Week:
Monday: We have PE and Music tomorrow, so please remember some PE shoes for your child
Tuesday: School wide drill in the morning
Wednesday: Scales and Tales in the afternoon
Thursday: Planetarium (hopefully)
* With the Planetarium field trip coming up, I am saving Spelling for next week. We will try out the new Spelling Stars system next week and see how it goes.
Those who wanted reading/math homework will have those print offs/MyOn assignments tomorrow
MyOn assignments for Level 1s and 3s will be posted today! Students will have a week to complete their at home assignment.
Have a great upcoming week! Hopefully see a good group of you on Thursday.
Cheer!
Ms. K