Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

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