Oct
Week 9
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Reminder of PTC/Home Project!- Tomorrow begins our PTC. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are all early outs (1pm dismissal). I have a lot of openings for Monday and some Wednesday. Tuesday is pretty filled, but some spots open. Here are the parents that need to sign up still:
Kaulin
Jaxston
Brett
Lili
Anna
Michael
Karsten
Naomi
Lucy
Volunteer to help at our Halloween Party!- Alicia has sent out a sign up sheet for our parents to help out in our class for our Friday October 28th party. If you would like to contribute in some way, please sign up!
Field Trip Approaching!- During PTC, I will have the permission slips for our Black Island Farms field trip. This field trip’s transportation will have you or a carpool drop off your child at the field trip site instead of getting a ride from the school to the farm. Please be there around 8:40 at the very latest. This will allow time for our parent chaperones to check in and get the classes onto the hayride to learn about corn and crops. If you need help setting up a carpool for your child, please contact Alicia Thomas (our room mom). Her email is at the bottom of our new permission slips!
3rd grade practice SAGE testing!- I just received a schedule for our 3rd graders to get a feel for how the SAGE tests will test them in the spring. We will start with Language on the 24th of this month, Writing on the 31st, and end with Math on Nov. 7. If a 3rd grader is absent, they can make up a test on Nov. 14th. Our testing times for all 3 are from 10:45am-12:00pm.
This past week our class had a harder time, as a whole, giving respect to me as a teacher and with their friends. Our 3rd graders (primarily) are having a very hard time setting good examples for friendships. There will be a 3rd grade meeting (during school time) with our school counselor, Ms. Valerie. She’s going to help them by working on replacing the negative they are giving each other, with more positive social skills. I will be having those kinds of conversations with parents during PTC. I hope your family will back me up and support in helping give our certain students the tools they need to function in a Montessori environment. It’s going to take you and I working together to help give them support, but also come up with consequences that are supported by all.
This coming week I will be rebuilding some of those forgotten social skills and classroom expectations. Since we have early outs, I figured it be a great time to go back and review the expectations that are non-negotiable.
Alicia! We had a lot of students interested in crocheting. Let me know when your person can be available. Since there are so many, could she do multiple dates so we could break the kids up into small groups? Let me know what you think 🙂
This Past Week:
A lot of our cultural/afternoon lessons got interrupted this week by having the computer cart or I was spending the whole afternoon working with students on their behaviors and needs
In group lessons:
Level 1s: What is a Personal Narrative
Level 2s: What is a Personal Narrative
Level 3s: What is a Personal Narrative
In cultural this week: Botany
Level 1s: Plants through the seasons
Level 2s: Simple and compound margins of a leaf
Level 3s: Solitary and Inflorescence flowers, Types of calyxes on flowers
Have a great rest of your Sunday and I look forward to meeting with you all this coming week! Thanks!
Cheers!
Ms. K