Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

Upcoming Week:

With the two days before Holiday Break our upcoming Monday (tomorrow) will consist of visiting the Upper Elementary for their International Festival in the morning 9am-11am.  Students will come back and share some facts they learned and then get ready for recess and lunch.  In the afternoon, after lunch, I have signed our students up to visit three Junior High activities.  We will go to Ms. Shilo who is doing Germany from 1-1:30, Mr. Casey for Jingle Bell Toss from 1:30-2:00, and then to Mr. Rob for Art from 2:00-2:30.  Tuesday will be our turn to present for the International Festival in the afternoon.  Tuesday morning we will prep the room for the projects, have a group snack, add final touches to projects, then finished students will get to choose to make a paper Christmas tree or build a 3D snowflake using geometric shapes.  After recess and lunch, we will begin the Lower Elementary International Festival from 1:00-2:30.  Parents are welcome to attend both days.

This past Tuesday was not the Box Top store, so those who brought theirs should pack them again this week.  They might still have Box Top store, I’m not 100% sure.

If you need another pizza form for pizza Friday, the office should have some.  Pizza is $1.75 per slice and due to me by Wednesday morning as soon as they walk in.

January 11th will be a field trip to the Nature Center. More details to come!  This field trip will need parent drivers.  If you would like to come on this field trip, please let me know.

Past Week:

Thank you so much for everyone who came by or helped support  our Holiday feast, Holiday party, or both!  Both were a great success and a lot of fun!  We couldn’t have done it without your support, so thank you again!

In group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Penny, nickel, and dime lesson, point and lines on 2D and 3D shapes, soup making and learning how carrots are a taproot and celery is actually a special kind of leaf!  It is considered the petiole.

Level 2s: Graphing with pictographs and bar graphs, bread making and what is yeast?

Level 3s: Chocolate pie making and how measuring and equivalent fractions can show up in cooking/baking

In cultural this week: Geography

Level 1s: The compass rose and continent game with the compass dice

Level 2s: Earthquakes

Level 3s: 5 kinds of precipitation: sleet, rain, snow, freezing rain, hail

Have a great rest of your weekend and have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Next blog post in 2017!

Cheers!

Ms. K