Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

Past Week:

Thank you so so much for another great teacher appreciation week!  Many many thanks to all you wonderful parents.  Anna and I are truly thankful for all your help and thanks.

Everyone is hanging in there!  We continued work cycle this past week and all the 3rd graders finished up their SAGE testing! Yay!  I did UURC reading level tests the whole week in the morning.  I have 1 student to finish Monday morning and I’ll be done!

Book report due next Monday (22nd)!- Book reports are due soon!  Students should be working on a fantasy or science fiction book.  They will then present their book report visual.

Parent Teacher Conference Sign Up!  Here is the link that I emailed everyone.  PLEASE BRING YOUR CHILD!

CLICK HERE!

We didn’t have any afternoon math lessons this past week due to celebration of lives and other activities that went on.  We did do cultural lessons and a few more cultural activities will flow into this coming week

in cultural this week: Botany:

Level 1s: what do plants need and parts of a plant review.  End of the year parts of a plants salad

Level 2s: Tree review and adopt a tree activity

Level 3s: parts of a flower review and Georgia O’Keefe (a female artist who painted unclose details of flowers)

Upcoming week:

This coming week we are shaking things up!  We will be doing our end of the year packets for conferences, cleaning up the shelves, and doing group activities.

Store Day might get rescheduled for May 22nd.  I am waiting from Ms. Paula on that final decision.  If the rain is going to hold off for this coming Thursday (May 18th) then form 9am-11am we will be having Store Day outside.  Students will need to bring a blanket or sheet to put their sellable goods on.  If your student is planning on making food/treat to sell, please email me about it.  Nothing with nuts in it as we have a student who has a severe allergy.  Food must be pre-packaged as well.  It would be advisable to have your child bring a bag with  him or her to put his/her bought goods in.

Spirit week:

Monday– crazy hair/hat day.  Dress code applied.

Tuesday– crazy sock day.  Dress code applied

Wednesday– mix and match day.  Students can mix patterns and designs.  No logos or characters please.  Doesn’t have to be in collared shirts this day.

Thursday– PJ day.  Students may bring a blanket and pillow this day if Store Day gets rained out.  If we go forth with Store Day in the morning then blankets and a pillow can be brought Friday.  3d grade PARTY DAY 1:15-2:30.  If you have signed up to help or bring in something for the party then please bring the items in on this day.

Friday– Dress down day.  Please make sure your child is dressed for outside.  They will be running around and doing games.  Sneakers, sunglasses, sunscreen, water bottle, and hats are all highly advisable.  In the afternoon we will do a movie afternoon if we don’t end up doing it Thursday.  Kaulin’s mom was thinking of doing a nacho party Friday afternoon too.

I will email you about store day and if it is going to be on May 18th or May 22nd.  That will tell us when movie time will be scheduled.

Volunteers for next week! Next week the kids talked about wanting to do a pancake/waffle breakfast one morning and doing a pot luck lunch.  Email me if you can help with pancake/waffles and can bring some ingredients.  I have a griddle that can make multiple pancakes, but if we can have multiple then that would be even better.  If someone wants to also make either smoothies or popsicles with the kids then let me know about that too.  I will be putting together a sign up for our pot luck tomorrow.

Snack this coming week– Calvin

Have a great upcoming week and Happy Mother’s Day!!

Cheers

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

Past Week:

May is off to a very busy start!  This past week we had our students do EasyCBM end of the year Math testing.  This information will be shared with you at our last conferences.

Our 3rd graders did their SAGE Math test this past Wednesday and have their ELA test in the Library this coming Wednesday.

We also had two celebration of lives in the afternoon this past week and we have another this coming week

Friday the students learned what Cinco de Mayo is and did crafts.  We had a lot of fun making the crafts and learning what the celebration is all about!

In group lessons:

Level 3s: Area and perimeter with their name on grid paper

In cultural this past week: Geography

Level 1s: Review of landforms and landform cookies

Level 2s: Sedentary rock and rock cycle review, starburst rock cycle activity

Level 3s: Hurricanes

This past week ended the take home reading homework

Upcoming Week:

Since our last parent teacher conferences are coming up quick, I am preparing the sign up.  wejoinin’s website isn’t fully working right now, so I am unable to reset and edit any sign ups.  I will have them up this week and I will email the link to you all.  Please bring your child!  They run this last conference and will share their end of the year fill out on what they learned.

Please remember the last book report on science-fiction or fantasy is due at the end of the month.  Please see the post I made before this one (Week 35).  Is has all the book report options.  Due Date will be May 22nd.

Monday– UURC reading testing for Level 1s. Ashley to do her SAGE Math

Tuesday– UURC reading testing for Level 2s.  Erik and Calvin to shadow in Upper El in the morning.  I have a morning meeting at 9:15.  Kindergarten students will shadow in our room this day in the afternoon.  Daxton’s celebration of life in the afternoon

Wednesday– SAGE ELA test in the Library for all 3rd graders.  Breakfast in the morning.  I’m hoping to do waffles for them with their scrambled eggs.  Since wejoinin is not currently working at the moment, we need some batter and syrup.  We have plates, cutlery, and juice. We do need more cups.

Thursday– UURC reading testing for Level 3s.  Lydia and Ashley will shadow in Ms. Steph’s.  Kindergarten will bring a group to shadow in the morning.

Friday– Art with Trudy, Electricity, and Mother’s Day activities

This coming week is also Teacher Appreciation week!

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

Next week we will do some cultural projects and group activities together for work cycle.  Next week, the week of the 15th, is Spirit Week.  I will review those days in next week’s blog post.

Snack- We don’t have anyone signed up for snack, but we have enough where I think we can go through the extra snack that we have.

Have a great upcoming week everyone!

Cheers!

Ms. K