Apr
Week 33
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Field Trip! April 21st
This Thursday is our field trip to Discovery Gateway in SLC. We will be taking the Frontrunner and Trax again. The train we are taking to SLC will LEAVE at 8:37am. Please have your child at the Frontrunner station on 2350 S. Wall Ave by 8:15am. I will be there around 8am. We will take the same train back to Wall Ave. when we are finished. We will gather everyone at 1:15pm to take Trax to the Frontrunner station. We will be back to Ogden at 2:52pm. Please have someone there to pick your child up on time.
We have a 2 hour workshop that the students will participate in on the importance of bees and pollination. After the workshop is over by noon, we will go over to The Gateway’s food court and have lunch. After lunch, the students have some time to explore the museum until it is time to meet up and go home.
Please pack a picnic lunch for your child to take with them. If you choose to send them with money for the food court then I will leave that up to you. I don’t know if there is a gift shop at the museum, so that will be each family’s choice to send money with their child.
Have your student bring a sweater or light jacket for the morning. It is supposed to be very nice on Thursday, but could be chilly while waiting for the morning train. A backpack is strongly encouraged to carry their lunch, water bottle, and any train entertainment. I will leave it to each family to decide if they want their child to bring an electronic. MMA is not responsible for any lost or damaged items.
Just like with the Planetarium field trip, I have wristbands that allow the students to ride for free. If you want to come as a chaperone, please email me and let me know so I can make groups for when students go to lunch and explore the museum.
Unlike the Planetarium, chaperones can pay for themselves and any younger siblings when we arrive.
Upcoming Week:
Monday will begin the testing for those who are wanting to participate in MMA’s Spelling Bee. The top 3 spellers will be found out from each class and then go on to the school wide bee on Friday
Tuesday is the 3rd graders 2nd SAGE test! They will be taking their writing test. Like we did with the first test, 3rd graders will stop around 10:45am to get cleaned up and to have brunch and recess so they can start testing at 12:00pm. We still need a few more sign ups completed for our 2nd brunch! Here is the sign up!
Thursday is our field trip!
Friday is an Early Out! Those students who are participating in the school wide Spelling Bee will begin with Lower El. Parents are more than welcome to come. We will go and watch as a class.
Past Week:
In group lessons this week:
Level 1s: Lines review (geometry) and numerator and denominator meaning in fractions (some 1st graders joined ins graders, wanting to know how to add fractions)
Level 2s: Adding fractions review
Level 3s: SAGE writing review, area and perimeter project, fractions on a number line game and equivalent fraction game
Weekly writing: Debate game. I ordered a writing kit from Scholastic that allows our class to make a classroom book. Our students decided our book title will be Fictional and Non-fictional Animal Stories. Each child is writing a story to be a part of this book. We will finish our drafts and final drafts this week, so we can have it shipped back to Scholastic to be published by April 29th.
In cultural this week: Zoology
Level 1s: All about mammals
Level 2s: Mammal study-Moles, shrews, hedgehogs, anteaters, sloths, armadillos, porcupines, and beavers
Level 3s: What is an arthropod and what is an insect?
Have a great rest of your weekend!
Cheers!
Ms. K