Oct
Week 7
Posted in Classroom, Conferences, Field Trips, Home Projects | No Comments »Hello Everyone and Happy October!
We are getting a new 3rd grader again. I want to welcome Calvin to our classroom! Calvin will begin tomorrow. Also, Truman started our class about a week ago. We welcome him and his family too!
Reminders for October:
Fall Festival is on Oct. 14th. A flyer went home this past week with the wrist band/ticket prices. There is also a big poster of that flyer on the front of the school on the left sided window. MAPA will be at school selling these tickets pretty soon.
PTC- Parent Teacher Conferences begin October 17th and go until October 19th. I will have the sign up sheet posted, hopefully, by the end of this week.
Home Project- DUE when you sign up for PTC! Your child may pick from History, Zoology (Physiology for 2nd grade), Geography, Botany, Australia, or some of the science we have done. The project assignment is for them to pick their favorite lesson so far and give a small presentation to you at our first conference. The presentation can be how they want it to be. I do expect to see some writing to go along with it, but it can be in any form they want (computer presentation, handwritten, book, etc.). For example: If you have a 1st grade student, and they really like Zoology the most, we have done living vs non-living, vertebrates vs. invertebrates, and we are starting to get into the 5 classes of vertebrates. They can pick one of those topics to focus on. If they liked learning that vertebrates have a backbone, they can pick their favorite animal with a backbone and tell about that animal. They could do a report on the spine since we learned what a spine was because all vertebrates have one. On Friday, I will gather what each student wants to do for their project and help explain to them that the project topics and presentations are up to them, but they need to tie in what they learned in cultural.
*You can help your child right now by asking them what has been their favorite cultural subject so far and if they are ready to pick the lesson, have a discussion on what they remember and help guide them to what would make a good project for this month’s home project.
1st Field Trip Oct. 26th to Black Island Farms. You will need to drop your child off at the farm that morning. Drop off at the farm needs to be between 8:30-8:40. They begin the hay ride to learn about corn crops and pumpkins at 9am. This time will give our chaperones time to pay at the check in window and get our classes onto the tractors
Upcoming Week:
Reading Homework: Reading at a PrePrimer-1st grade reading level homework will begin tomorrow! Tomorrow some of our students will be coming home with a navy reading homework folder. It will have their weekly 1 page homework. A purple parent letter is in the folder, along with MyOn information. I have MyOn ready to go for our new students, so if your child doesn’t get reading homework, they will still get their MyOn info.
*Homework goes out Mondays and is DUE BACK FRIDAYS.
Reading Volunteering: Lori Stewart has signed up to help with reading in our classroom. She will start Thursday around 9:15am.
Junior High Mentors Begin: Our 2 Junior High ladies will begin coming to our classes on their B days. They will each have 2 students to read with as well as helping out during work cycle. They start this Tuesday and each have a team building game to teach us, so from 10-11, we will follow their team building lesson plan.
Past Week:
*3rd graders received their dictionaries from the Rotary Club.
*Studio began this past Friday!
*Please remember sneakers for PE on Mondays.
In group lessons this past week:
Level 1s: curved shapes vs non vs both review and introduction to the penny, Ruler introduction to inches and centimeters (we will first focus on measuring to inches 1st).
Level 2s: labeling/naming fractions from pictures, coin review, quadrilaterals family review, time to the nearest 10 mins review.
Level 3s: Morning warm up help with questions they don’t know how to solve, triangles classification by sides
Weekly Writing: Types of sentences, Capitals, Punctuation
Australia: The Great Barrier Reef
In cultural lesson this week: Zoology/Physiology
Level 1s: vertebrates vs invertebrates
Level 2s: nutrition review with intro to reading food labels and plate visual
Level 3s: Cnidarian intro (Jellyfish, Sea Anemones), Parts of a jellyfish/Model, Box Jellyfish close read, Types of jellyfish
Snack reminder for Week 8: Jackson Carlson