Week 33 Recap
Posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2018 at 5:59 pmHi Everyone!
I have made sign ups through Track It Forward! You will probably be seeing a few emails come through inviting you to sign up!
I have made both 3rd grade breakfast sign ups for May 1st and May 7th. The 3rd grade parents received those email notifications that they have been posted! For the breakfasts, the school provides me the eggs from our MMA chickens and I make the 3rd grade students scrambled eggs. The rest of the breakfast is up to you guys! Please sign up to contribute to our breakfast if you can. Thanks!
May PTC sign ups are ready! Please sign up through Track It Forward. Once you are into the program you will click on Event Sign-Up and you will see a calendar. Be careful to find our classroom sign up as ALL of the school will be posting their sign up sheets on these 3 days. So far, it is just Ms. Marleen and myself already to rock and roll for sign ups. During the dinner times there is a date where they make us a nice end of the year dinner. I might have to adjust one of the spots once I know the date!
May Spirit Week Events! May 14th- May 18th
Monday- Store Day AND Crazy Sock Day. We will be outside with Ms. Stef’s Class for Store Day (please provide sunblock!). It works like a yard sale! Students will be earning classroom dollars to use towards buying things from others during Store Day. Students may bring in things to sell:
-Sell books and toys they no longer want, but think someone else may want to enjoy
-Sell a treat: Otter Pops, muffins, cookie, etc. Must be wrapped up to take home
-Sell a service/craft: origami, play a game, make a craft, sell a craft etc.
Students should bring their own blanket to be able to set up their own store items and also bring a bag to do their shopping with. We plan on being outside if it is nice out. It could be hot so please allow them to bring sunblock, sunglasses, and hats.
Tuesday- Crazy hat or Hair Day!
Wednesday- PJ and Movie Day. Pillows and blankets allowed
Thursday- Occupation Day! Dress like the occupation you want to be when you grow up or any occupation!
Friday- FIELD DAY! It is also dress down day. We have ours in the morning. It is outside too and will be in the parking lot. Please prepare your child for running around outside and for the weather.
Upcoming Week:
The 6th and and 9th graders are on their big field trips. Some teachers and SPED teachers are helping chaperone and will be out of the building. We will have Ms. Nikki’s assistant, Ms. Missy, on Monday and Tuesday of this week.
I will be leaving for Charlottesville, VA on Thursday and will be out Thursday, Friday, and the following Monday (May 7th). Ms. Lori will be subbing for me. Our schedule will run as it normally does.
Volunteers needed!- Friday the students will be doing Cinco de Mayo learning and activities. I would love to have a parent or 2 come in and help make homemade salsa for snack. If would like to help out in the morning and help the kids prepare salsa, please email me ASAP! We will also need tortilla chips donated too. If you can’t make it, but want to help donate chips, please let me know and send them in with your child this week. Please email me at kparsons@mariamontessoriacademy.org if you can help out on Friday or help donate food supplies! Thanks!
DIBLES- Our end of the year reading testing has begun! Monday (tomorrow) and Tuesday the reading teachers will be testing our students on end of the year DIBELS testing
SAGE Writing- 3rd graders will take their SAGE Writing test Tuesday May 1st. They will have their special breakfast in the morning and then begin testing at 9am. They will miss PE and Music this day.
I will be doing 3rd grade end of the year UURC reading level testing this week. UURC states what reading level your child is reading at.
There will not be any Geometry/Fractions/Measurement lessons this week as each level will work on Problem of the Month with me instead.
No blog post will be posted over next weekend. Here are some May dates to be aware of:
May 7th- 3rd grade Breakfast and SAGE Math 9am.
May 8th-May 10th- 3 3d grade students will shadow in Ms. Stef’s Upper El class for the day to see what Upper El is like.
May 10th- 3d grade party 1:30-2:30
Past Week:
Thank you to a lot of you who attended the field trip with us Thursday. We had beautiful weather and everyone had a great time!
Every language group this week continued to work on their parts of speech with me.
1st graders worked on learning pictographs this week, 2nd graders continued to work on their graphing skills too, and 3rd graders used Tanagrams to solve fraction problems to help their equivalent fraction practice.
In cultural this week: Zoology/Physiology
Level 1s: Endangered Animals
Level 2s: The Nervous System and the Brain
Level 3s: Arthropods and Spiders
Friday- Boat building STEM project. They loved it!
Have a great rest of your weekend, upcoming week, and next week!
Ms. Kaley