Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

Thank you everyone for getting your child to the the UTA train station on Wednesday!  The kids had a great time.  That is all for field trips this year!  That’s a wrap!

We had some great science projects from the 1st and 2nd graders come in this week!  We only have a few kiddos left who need to share!

Upcoming Week:

LAST Project of the year! Book report on either the genre of Science Fiction or Fantasy.  We will be talking about this genre in the month of May.  Students will choose one more option from the book report list that they haven’t done.  Here is the list again:

Book Report Presentation Choices

*You may only do 1 choice once

___Book cover

___Oral report to the teacher and/or class

___1 page written report

___A wanted poster for a character in your book

___Poster advertising your book

___Design a bookmark

___Make a poem about your book

___Create a picture book about your favorite parts from the beginning, middle, and end

___Create a video about the book

___Dress up as favorite character and tell about the book

___Create a mobile with 5 events

___Write and draw an alternative ending

___Create a timeline with at least 10 events

___Draw a map describing places

___Create a travel brochure

___Make a puppet show explaining your book

___Create a board game

___Diorama of a scene

___Do a 1 page report about the author

___Create a week long journal as if you were the character

2nd SAGE TEST- 3rd graders will take their 2nd SAGE test on Wednesday.  We are 9am-12noon again.  Please make sure your student is on time to eat breakfast and that a snack is packed for them that they can take into the testing environment.  Here is the second sign up for breakfast!

Breakfast Sign up!  

Teacher Appreciation Week May 8th-May 12th 

Monday– Best grace and courtesy from students and give a high 5, hug, or handshake

Tuesday– Bring a flower for your teacher and assistant teacher.  Flowers may be real, fake, a drawing, or homemade

Wednesday– Make a note/letter for each of your two teachers

Thursday– Bring a drink for each of your two teachers.  I like flavored waters and Arnold Palmers.  I also enjoy coffee and hot teas.  Ms. Anna likes any kind of juice

Friday– Teacher Spirit Day!  Wear your teacher’s favorite colors and maybe donate a classroom supply.  I will hint that we are on our last few pencils!  My favorite colors are aqua, green, and pink. Ms. Anna’s are green and blue

Ms. Anna is PREGNANT!  She is due around Thanksgiving time.  She doesn’t know what she is having yet and is hoping to find out at the end of the month

This week marks the start of end of year reading and math tests for all students.  I am having the students accomplish their end of the year CBM Math computer test this week.  DIBELS reading will also begin on our side of the building this week. Next week I will be doing UURC (University of Utah Reading Clinic) reading level tests

3rd Graders will begin Upper Elementary shadowing next week and into the 3rd week of May in Ms. Stephaney’s class.  Her classroom will also be our partner on the day of  3rd grade bridging.

Starting Monday May 1st our class will begin earning classroom coins and dollars.  This will be income practice for our Store Day that will happen May 18th.

Store Day is coming! – May 18th from 9am-11am will be Store Day!  Our kiddos will earn classroom money (and also possibly owe) over the next few weeks that will be used on Store Day.  It works like a yard sale and it become the student’s business.  Students may bring in items to sell (toys, books etc that they no longer want, treats/snacks, or crafts.  A lot of other Upper Elementary classrooms participate and we team up with them.  After Store Day is over we all debrief after to talk about successes and who earned what.  This is a favorite end of the year event, so mark your calendars!

Past Week:

This past week we had the local fire department come and present on Fire Safety.

In group lessons:

Level 1s: Partitioning circles, squares, and rectangles 

Level 3s: Area of shapes

In cultural this week: Zoology/Physiology

Level 1s: Review the 5 classes of vertebrates and Endangered animals

Level 2s: Muscular system, Nervous system, and introduction to the brain

Level 3s: Spiders 

Dates for May:

Hard to believe it is May already.  I don’t feel like it is the end of the year yet, but it will quickly come!

Snack: Alden has snack again this week

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

Upcoming Week:

Monday– 1st and 2nd grade science projects are due!  We will do a few projects each day, so if your child needs a few more extra days their absolute last day to turn in their project for credit towards their progress report is Friday.

Tuesday– Fire Safety Show from our local fire department at 2:00pm.  We will do cultural lessons right after lunch time.

PLEASE READ!  Wednesday– Field Trip!  The weather calls for rain.  The museum is mainly indoors with only one smaller area outside.  However, we will need to walk outside to get there and also to go eat at the food court.  Please provide your child rain gear: umbrellas, boots, jackets, etc.  Have your child dress in layers so they can adjust to the weather and as they move about the children’s museum.

*Please be at the Frontrunner station on Wall Ave by 8:10am.  This will give the teachers time to make sure everyone is accounted for and give out wrist bands for the frontrunner. The train leaves at 8:37am and we do not wait for anyone who is late.  Please review your hot pink paper regarding our itinerary. We will travel to North Temple Station and then walk from there.  This will avoid the need to take TRAX.  I still need permission slips from Calvin and Janessa.  I need them by Tuesday.  Ms. Jalee’s class will also be traveling with us.  Discovery Gateway will move our classes to certain areas of the museum so that an area isn’t over crowded.  They will also take each class and do a presentation with them.  Adults who plan on coming will help the students travel, walk, and stay safe out in public.  We will mostly function as a whole group, but their will times where students can stay with a chaperone when it comes to lunch time and if the museum lets them have any time to go where they want in Discovery Gateway.

*We start gathering everyone around 1:15, do a head count, walk back to North Temple Station and then catch our train, which leaves close to 2pm.  This get us back to Ogden Station close to 3:00pm.  PLEASE PICK UP STUDENTS AT WALL AVE FRONTRUNNER STATION.  If you pick up other students at MMA, I recommend picking up the student at the frontrunner station first and then head over to MMA.

Thursday– Spring Concert at MMA!  Here is the email sent to me from Ms. Connie:

Past Week:

Hello Everyone!

Upcoming Week:

Kids had a good week back!  Here are a few reminders:

1. Field trip is April 26th!  A hot pink paper went out so you knew itinerary.  Please refer to that pink paper for our schedule.  If you are coming on our field trip, you will purchase your UTA ticket at the station.  The kids in our class get to ride free.  We need to meet at the UTA frontrunner station on Wall Ave by 8:10am.  It is important to be on time.  We do not wait if someone is late.  The train leaves at 8:37am promptly.  The trains run every hour, so if you miss our train, you will need to meet us there at Discovery Gateway.  The train ride is very easy and takes an hour to get there.  We all sit together and we will ride it to North Temple.  We will get off and do a short walk and then go into The Gateway where we will walk to Discovery Gateway on the corner.  We eat lunch at The Gateway at their food court.  Students may bring money to purchase lunch at the food court, if they wish.  We will start collecting everyone around 1:30pm to make sure we have a head count and then will head back to North Temple station.  We should be arriving at Ogden station on Wall Ave at 2:50pm.  Please be prompt in picking up your child.  We stay with all children until everyone is picked up.

*If your child attended the Nature Center field trip, then you signed off on the permission slip for Discovery Gateway!  I only need permission slips from Janessa, Calvin, and Lucy.  I sent them home with those students this past week.

*If you are looking to come on this field trip, please email me!

            2. This Thursday is our 3rd graders first SAGE test.  It will be the writing test that will require them to write 2 essays.  If a child doesn’t finish, they will get to finish it at another time.  Please remind you child that testing it nothing to worry about and it won’t impact their graduation to Upper Elementary.  We want them to do their best and to not rush.  Please help emphasize that they can take breaks to eat a snack, get a drink, walk around for a few minutes, and to use the bathroom as needed.  Since we provide a nice breakfast for them that morning, please pack your child a snack just for testing.  Breakfast will be right away as they come in Thursday morning.  Once they have eaten, they can run around outside on the playground once they are done.  I will take them into the computer lab by 8:55am to get settled.  Once the last 3rd grader is done I head back to class.  Ms. Anna will stay with the 1st and 2nd graders during morning work cycle.  We will pick up with our regular afternoon schedule after that.  If you are coming in to help with food, please come at 8:00am.  Please review your email for the online sign up that went on Tuesday for breakfast supplies.  If you are planning to come and help that morning, please email me, so I can let you inside.

The 3rd graders will also be collecting and washing their own eggs from the chickens at MMA for their scrambled eggs.  They will be getting a lesson from Ms. Leigh and the Erdkinder class in JR High on how to collect and wash the eggs.

Friday is an early release.  Please arrange pick up at 1pm.

Box tops is this Tuesday the 18th.  The last Box top store day will be May 16th.

Past Week:

Thank you thank you 3rd grade parents for supporting your child in our first 3rd grade Teach and Learn Science Project share.  The projects were fabulous!

Home Project for April: 1st and 2nd graders will have their science project due April 24th.  Students in 1st or 2nd may choose any area of science to do a home project on.  They may do a report, an experiment demonstration, explain how something works, or even an invention!  The options are not limited!

In group lessons:

Level 1s: Picture graphs

Level 2s: *break this week as we are ahead of schedule in fractions and geometry

Level 3s: Fractions on a number line and identifying the fraction on the number line

In cultural this week: Botany

Level 1s: Photosynthesis and flowering plants

Level 2s: Photosynthesis

Level 3s: Carnivorous plants and The Venus Fly Trap

Friday: Bee presentation from the Wadsworth family. Bronson’s grandfather does bee keeping and came in and educated the class on bees and their hives!  Thank you so much for doing this!  The kids loved it!  We are working on drone, worker, and queen bee models in class and labeling the parts.

If you celebrate Easter, Happy Easter!  Have a great rest of your weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is enjoying Spring Break!  Before we know it the end of the year will be here!  April will be busy, but lots of fun too!

Upcoming Field Trip!: Discovery Gateway will be April 26th.  This is a field trip we take the Frontrunner to.  If you want to be a chaperone, please email me and let me know.  Students ride UTA for free.  A donation link for the field trip will be posted soon.

Past Week

This past week, we completed the in class book report on Fractured Fairy Tales.  My heart exploded on how adorable they turned out.  We read the traditional fairy tale of The Three Little Pigs and then the Fractured fairy tale The True Story of the Three Little Pigs a few weeks ago.  This week, before Spring Break began, each student signed up to do an activity.  The choices were:

-Comparing the two books with a Venn Diagram

-Write a newspaper from the human’s perspective on the Big Bad Wolf situation

-Write your own fractured fairy tale

-Performing groups: perform the traditional story and a group performs the fractured fairy tale

-Write a letter to the Big Bad Wolf as a reporter wanting to know more about what happened

Ms. Anna recorded the performances.  If you would like to see it, please email her at ahafen@mariamontessoriacademy.org

In cultural this week: Geography

Level 1s: Finished up landforms: strait/isthmus, system of lakes/archipelago, salt dough land formations 

Level 2s: Igneous rock review, metamorphic rocks, looked at samples of rocks

Level 3s: Kinds of clouds: stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, cirrocumulus, cirrus, and cumulonimbus 

Upcoming Week:

3rd grade Science projects and April Home Project: 3rd graders will have their science projects due this coming Friday, April 14th. Parents are welcome to come and see!  We will be in the gym from 1-2:30.  1st and 2nd graders will be picking their science topics this week for their project that will be due April 24th (a Monday).  3rd graders WILL NOT have to do another science project.  Their studio science project covers their April home project.  1st and 2nd graders will pick any area of science they are interested in and present a home project to our class.  It can be a report, experiment, model etc.  Have fun with it and get creative!  The science projects are always fun to see!

Snack: the parent that signed up for this week is no longer in our class.  If anyone would like to provide snack for us this week, please let me know.  After this week, we are good until mid May.

Have a great rest of your Spring Break and upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K