Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

The last week of school is about to begin.  I can’t believe it is here already!  It always seems that once Christmas rolls around it goes: Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Spring Break, end of school.

Let’s talk about what is coming up for this last week of school before we dive into what we did this past week.

Upcoming Week:

From MAPA: Heidi Bradley emailed the teachers to pass onto you that tomorrow, May 23rd, they want to do a thank you for the Office staff members, Ms. Magdelena (school cleaner), crossing guards/MAPA.  Anyone who wants to give our lovely staff members a little thanks you are asked to bring a thank you card, treat, or whatever you want to say “Thank You!”

May 23rd is a full day of school.  It is the last full day of school for the students!  The rest of the week are early outs (1pm dismissal).

Call for next year’s Room Mom!: Heidi Bradly also said to think about room moms for next year!  If you are interested in being our room mom, please please email me and let me know.  Being our classroom Room Mom will take on the responsibility of class parties, emailing parents about events, field trips, helping MAPA’s Gala, classroom help, and any other as needed help.

Monday May 23rd- Class Bazaar Day! (Store day)  Our classroom, Ms. Amy, and Ms. Paula’s classrooms do a special end of the year shopping event.  Have your child gather up any toys, games, books to price and sell.  Students may make treats (the healthier the better please! and have them wrapped), make crafts, sell flowers, take a turn on a game, hair braiding etc.  No nail polish or anything with a strong smell as we have s few kids with asthma.  Please have your child bring a bag to put their things in and shop with!

11:00am is Early Childhood’s Bridging Ceremony.  This will last until, 12:30 (picnic time included).  If you have a Kinder graduating, please bring your own chairs and picnic supplies (blanket, sunblock, sunglasses etc).  Our classroom, along with the other Lower El classes will have a sign for our class to sit for lunch and to have our tentative new 1st graders and 1st grade parents join us too.

We are (tentatively) welcoming:

Butterfield, Kaulin

Carlson, Jackson (Charles)

Cleverly, Evan

French, Ariana

Graves, Jaxston

Hadley, Lexi

Hodgson, Brett

Hunter, Ivie

Spruill, Kanon

Swenson-Peterson Janessa

In the afternoon, Ms. Julia is still willing to do PE with our students.  We will still plan on our time of 12:30 (after bridging) to 1:10.  We will hopefully have some time after that to do our egg drop science engineering challenge

Tuesday May 24th- Cleaning the classroom furniture. Please have your child bring a large bag for cleaning out their things.

10:30am is the 3rd Grade Bridging Ceremony!  Rain is called for on this day, but we hope to have it outside.  Parents, we will not have chair set up outside.  Please bring a blanket to sit on or outside lawn chair.  The students of our classrooms will sit by class facing the stage and then it will be the blanket area and then any chairs will need to be behind the blankets (so everyone is comfortable seeing).  When we call our 3rd graders, they will be welcomed by our Upper El mentor class- Ms. Stephaney’s.

Our Administration has put together a tentative list of where your 3rd grader will be going next year.  Like the Kinders, when new students are accepted to our school, some change may happen, so nothing is permanent yet.  Upper El teachers were chosen by who would work best for your child and what kind of class they have already to make sure it would be a good fit for your soon-to-be 4th grader.  Here is the list:

Tiffany- Amity

Bridger- Amy

Nicholas- Amy

Kennedy- John

Peyton- Kirsten

Aiden B- Nicoletta

Romeo- Paula

JayCee- Paula

Sophia- Stephaney

• If you choose to check your 3rd grader out after bridging, please find me or Ms. Emilee and let one of us know.  Thanks!

Wednesday May 25th-  If our egg drop engineering challenge cannot happen on Monday afternoon, it will be today.  I have been talking to an old friend that went to elementary/middle school with me and she currently works for the National History Museum in California.  She used to do some work for NASA and has travelled all over the world and has met with famous physicists and scientists.  I am seeing if the museum will FaceTime with our class to show them some of their fossils and answer questions.  My friend said that if they can’t, she will!  We will also continue to bring items home from cleaning.

Thursday May 26th- Last day of School!  The morning will kick off with yearbook signing and then an outside kickball game starting at 10:30am.  If it is sunny, please have them bring sunglasses, a hat, maybe sunblock since we will be outside for a bit.

All early out days will include lunch! Please have a lunch for your child on those days 🙂

We need snack for this last week!  We don’t have anyone signed up and we haven’t had any new snack brought in for 2 weeks.

I think that is everything for this coming week!  PTC begins on Tuesday and goes until the last day of school (Thursday).  Please remember to bring your child as they are the presenter!  I will go over various testing scores with you, but the kids have worked very hard on their presentation packets this week.

 

Past Week:

Students filled out their conference packets this week for their work during the mornings.  Cultural ended and we did some group science engineering projects such as: the spaghetti building challenge, Save Fred (gummy worm challenge), and toothpick bridge challenge.

Music ended for the students too this week.

Field day was fun.  We were glad that the wind held off.  It was great to see our class cheer everyone on during the games that they did.

 

I know your child is excited for it to be the last week of school, but please do remind them that they are still in school and that our classroom rules and kindness towards one another still apply.  Even though we aren’t doing work cycle, we still have things to take care of and a schedule to follow.  I want to have the energy for you guys for your PTC, so please check in with your child every day this week to make sure they are hanging in there and that they get that reminder 🙂

Thanks everyone! Have a great upcoming week and I will see the majority of you soon!

Cheers!

Ms. K