Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Parents!

We had a wonderful and very busy first week of school!  Monday we spent the day learning about the classroom and then learning about the eclipse!  It was such a wonderful moment to experience that with them.  I too hope you enjoyed seeing the eclipse, if you got to see it!  The rest of the week was filled with Great Lessons, getting to know our classroom and each other, and group games/learning.

What is a Great Lesson?– At the beginning of the year, each year, in a Montessori school, we as the teachers teach 5 Great Lesson stories: The Birth of the Universe, The Coming of Life, The Coming of Humans, History of Writing, and History of Mathematics.  We were able to achieve learning about the first three lessons this past week.  This coming week we will review these lessons and get into the History of Writing and Math.  These lessons are the big pictures to the lessons they will receive and expand upon throughout their educational experience.

Snack-  For those who are new to providing snack, please sign up to the right of the blog in the green area.  There is a link to follow.  Please sign your name up to two times to provide snack.  Some parents like to provide snack for the whole week and some bring in the snack allotment for each day.  Whatever works for you is fine by us.  We have a fridge where we can keep things cool and fresh and we have a snack cabinet to store dry goods.  Any left over snack is helpful for those who might not have a lunch or if one week we find ourselves without snack.

Healthy snacks are the only options our school’s snack policy asks for.  Our class doesn’t have any food allergies, but within MMA there are students who are severely allergic to peanut butter.  It would be advised that no peanut butter be brought for snack.

Please remember that beginning tomorrow dismissal is at 3pm.  Early Childhood students also begin.

Zippered Pencil Cases- If your student doesn’t have a zippered pencil case, please try to provide your child with one.  Something must have happened on my school supply list, but I have quite a few students who need one.  It really is the only supply I don’t have extra of to provide students who don’t have one.  I was able to take care of everyone’s organization and writing supplies.  We are ready to rock and roll!

Reading Volunteers- I am going to begin reading volunteers next week!  I have 3 moms: Lori, Jessica, and Heather, who would love to come in and run reading groups and individual reading help.  Please let me know if you would like to help out too.  Ladies, if coming in on Wednesdays can’t work for you, please let me know which day of the week would be best for you.  Thanks!

If any other reminders pop up, I’ll let you all know!  Thanks for a great first week and enjoy the rest of your weekend and upcoming week!

-Ms. Kaley

Hello Everyone!

Please review this post carefully as it has important information and volunteer opportunities for Eclipse 2017 on Monday!

School Reminders

Drop Off and Pick Up:  Regardless if you have social media or not, MMA put out a video about how cars should drop off and exit the parking lot.  Please visit our school website or Maria Montessori Academy of Utah on Facebook to review that video.

It is IMPERATIVE that you ALWAYS pull forward and NOT drop or pick your child up at certain spots along the way.  We as the teachers have designated spots that we will be at after school.  A few staff members have morning spots as well.  Please follow our directions and be kind and.  Have patience and please follow our rules so that students stay safe.  We will get your child to where they need to be.  My post for the year will be the crosswalk between North Shore and MMA.  THERE IS NO DROP OFF OR PICK UP IN THE STREET!  This is for safety reasons!  I will have this same post for 3/4ths of the year.

Early Out Week:  Pick up is at 1pm Monday-Friday August 21st-August 25th.  Full days begin August 28th.  Early Childhood begins August 28th.

Eclipse Glasses:  I cannot stress the importance of going over with your child the absolute importance of keeping your eclipse glasses on and even with them on, please do not stare for a long period of time.  Staring at the sun without the glasses during the eclipse can cause blindness or burning. Please please please go over this with your child.

Also, The school also has glasses only for the students.

Classroom News & Reminders

Monday- Eclipse 2017 Day!: Our class will be learning and working on eclipse activities during school hours on Monday August 21st.  I will be sending the students out to recess at 10:45am.  If you would like to volunteer to help make sure kids keep their glasses on and help any who need their eclipse paper filled out, please email me!  If you are wanting to help out, please come to the classroom at 10:45am and I will go over the eclipse papers and glasses with you.  We will be on the field at 11:15 until around 11:40-11:45 to view the eclipse.  We will eat lunch afterwards.

Supplies: Monday will also be the day that a lot of school supplies are coming.   I need you to please put your child’s name on the bag.  I have one bag with blueberries and strawberries on it with blue handles that was dropped off and I cannot for the life of me remember who dropped it off.  There isn’t a name on anything, so if this bag is your child’s, please email me.  I don’t want to get anybody’s supplies mixed up!

In the supplies that have been dropped off, I have only seen 2 students with a zippered pencil case.  Please make sure your student has a zippered pencil case so I and Ms. Misha can put your child’s supplies in it!

*If you are brand new to the classroom, the school supply list can be found in a tab to the top of our blog.

Snack:  We don’t have anyone signed up for snack for the 1st week of school.  Please sign up for snack up to 2 times for the year.  Also, where you see the name- Kanon Spruill on the snack sign up, that student had to unfortunately leave, so those dates are open.  Only you guys can delete your sign up.  I can only clear the whole sign up sheet.  To delete, please go the email that was sent to you thanking you  for signing up.  On there, there should be a link to edit or delete.

Friday- On Friday, the students are going to be practice rug spaces and their rug name tags.  Your child may bring a few board games or card games to share and build relationships with students in our room.  Please let them bring a few games to share on this day.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me!

Have a great rest of your weekend and week

Cheers!

Ms. Kaley

Happy August everyone!

I got an email from Rosie Alexander who is on our MAPA committee this year.  She said there will be sign ups at the MMA Pool Party for any of our parents who wish to be our Room Mom/Dad 🙂  If you would like to be ours, please email me and let me know, or sign up at the pool party!

Pool Party is August 15th from 7pm-9pm.

New families!  I would love to know more about your child!  I have heard from one family so far (Thank you Bateman family) and would love to hear from you about what your child’s interests are, academic strengths and improvements, and anything you wish for me to know.  Email me at kparsons@mariamontessoriacademy.org

Welcome New Students:

First Graders:

Joseph

Eva

Cooper

Rosalinda

Zaylee

Henry

Parker

Madison

Clara

Krew

3rd Graders:

Makiah

Tai

So far, we are at 29 students 🙂