Sep
Week 3 Recap
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Volunteers needed:
I will be out of town beginning Wednesday. If anyone would like to come volunteer some time to help check off works and help Misha with some afternoon activities then I am looking to 1 person during the times of:
Wednesday morning 8:30-11:00
Wednesday afternoon- 12:45-2:30
Thursday afternoon- 12:45-2:30
Friday afternoon- 12:45-2:30
Past Week and Upcoming Week:
This past week we went over the 2nd Great Lesson: The Coming of Life. I showed them the Timeline of Life and how life began in the water and then went on to have the Ages of Invertebrates, Ages of Fish, Ages of Amphibians, and Ages of Mammals. Birds didn’t get an “explosion” period, as other vertebrates did. Students got the choice to color a timeline of their own. This coming week I will talk to the students about the 3rd Great Lesson: The Coming of Man. I don’t dive heavily into this. I will read a story to them and talk about how their are theories of evolution and how creationism teaches these theories on how humans came to be on Earth. Teaching them this way helps link all the Great Lessons together.
I am still working on UURC reading tests little by little. Students worked on their Alpha Math U See placement tests and will continue to finish them and move on to Beta tests this week.
In Cultural this week: Geography
Wednesday afternoon was Geography lessons! I was able to see the 1st and 3rd graders. The 2nd graders Geography will be presented as a whole class lesson this coming Thursday as it will involve looking at the states in the northeast. Students will learn what “demarcation” means and also learn about the Mason-Dixon Line.
Friday our students had their first art lesson with Ms. Trudy! Ms. Trudy had them work on early cave drawings to tell a story- a great tie in to our upcoming 3rd Great Lesson!
Friday afternoon I read the students about Benjamin Franklin and who he was. The students will be working on a kite follow up work where they can draw pictures of what Ben Franklin did. These kites will be due this coming Friday.
This coming week Ms. Lana will be coming in Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, Friday morning and afternoon to teach lessons for me while I am gone. Ms. Misha will be presenting an art lesson Wednesday afternoon and a Measurement activity.
Thursday is also Back to School Night from 6pm-8pm. Come get your pretty parent flip book and project overviews for the year!
This coming Monday will also be our class’s 1st whole class Botany lesson with our school’s botanist Ms. Rachael Bush! We will be at her lesson at 12:35pm-1:25.
Field Trip!
Again, if you can drive students to our field trip, please let Katie James, our room mother know! misskt2558@yahoo.com Please also let her know if your child needs a ride so our room mother and room mother assistant can see who needs what and who can go with who. As your child’s teacher, I am not legally allowed to create carpools for your child. Certified drivers will pick up in the school parking lot and drivers able to do carpools will park in the North Shore parking lot. We need to leave at 11:45am, so if you plan on driving, please be there in the parking lots you need to be in at 11:30am. We will do an early lunch and recess that day (Sept. 21st)
Thanks everyone! I come back from Maryland Sunday, so we’ll see about a blog post next weekend.
Have a great upcoming week!
Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha