Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

This week brought on some extra energy.  We are working on our voices and attention to directions.  It will still take some time, but we will still be working on it and bring up more suggestions this coming Friday at class meeting.  If we are ever late outside to dismissal it is because the students are finishing up cleaning directions.

Reading volunteers:  Normalization lasts 1 more week and then volunteers can start helping out.  I want to first begin with reading volunteers.  Please email me if you can commit 1 or 2 days a week to help me with a reading group and some extra practice for beginning readers.  Let me know what days are best for you.

Friday volunteers: I would love if any of you or family members would like to help teach some practical life skills.  Anything from simple cooking/cutting/prep skills, sewing, knitting/crochet, present wrapping, a craft, etc.  Please email our room mother, Alicia Thomas, at tempygirl@gmail.com if you are interested and also write to her what you would like to offer.  Alicia, if we have interest, please let me know and I can set up a date or 2 for Oct.

Parent teacher conferences are coming up on Oct. 17-19!  It is also the time when the next project is due!  Your child will present a project on one of our cultural subjects on a lesson we have studied.  This can also include our Australia, science, or something from studio lessons.  I will be discussing this project more in-depth with the students this coming week and then next Sunday I will give you the guidelines for their project choice.

Studio begins this Friday!  Every student will rotate to experience 3 classes with other students from different classrooms.   I teach 3rd grade science.  Each lower el teacher will teach 1 specific grade level on either Science, Social Studies, or Art.

Dress Code in the Classroom:   Please remember that jeans are for Fridays.  Also, with the weather becoming chiller, solid colored sweaters with no hoods are allowed in class.  No hoodies may be worn while in class.  They can be worn outside for recess.  Please review the parent handbook for dress code for further explanation.

Hopefully you got to see our school perform for International Peace Day!  It was beautiful!  If you have Facebook, look up Maria Montessori Academy or Utah and our recordings, as well as others who were there, are on that page.  Our school also does updates through their Facebook page too, so give our page a follow 🙂

In group lessons this week:

Level 1s: International Peace Day and craft, geometric solids categorized by curved shapes vs not curved, vs both

Level 2s: International Peace Day and craft, labeling fractions, quadrilaterals family

Level 3s: International Peace Day and craft, addition and subtraction assessment, laws of addition

*Please remember I have your child in a Math group, Language group, and Reading group.  I see your child for math everyday to every other day (depending on the group), twice a week for a language lesson, and everyday to twice a week for reading group on top of seeing each grade level twice for fractions and geometry.  I also meet with your child everyday by grade level for a cultural lesson

In cultural this week: History

Level 1s: Days of the week/month review.  Timeline of my Life.

*Thank you so much for those who provided pictures.  This effort will count towards their progress report.

How can you help at home?  Be helping your child know the days of the week and the months of the year.  For instance, if you are in the car you can ask, “What day of the week is today?  What was it yesterday? What day will it be tomorrow?”  Once they get familiar, move to “What will it be 2 days from today?  What about 3?  What was is 2 days ago?”

Level 2s: Star lifecycle.  We made really cool star lifecycle models with play and plates to help the students gain an understanding of how stars change.  Did you know that hot stars are blue and cool stars are red?

Level 3s:  Timeline of life.  Students started a 1 page visual on the Paleozoic Era this week with the Cambrian and Ordovician period and what kinds of early animals and plants were there.  These are going to be our first in-depth lessons next time History rotates back around.

Thank you for those students who brought and presented their projects on Friday.  If your child was absent or out of town and hasn’t had a chance to present, have them bring their projects this coming week to accounted for.

Reading homework/MyOn: Reading homework will go out Oct.3. I am going to work on getting it copied and getting the folders ready with the week’s homework.  MyOn logins and passwords will also then be provided.  MyOn is a school provided program that works like Netflix for books.  It give your child little quizzes and helps keep track of their progress hat I can see.  I also give assignments through MyOn.  We will begin those assignments in Oct.

Have a great upcoming week and rest of your weekend.  Please check snack sign up for who is next!  I know the sign ups stop in October and we will need more parents to sign up!

Cheers!

Ms. K