Week 7 Recap
Posted on Sunday, October 7th, 2018 at 6:58 pmHi Everyone! Important info below! Please read carefully!
Upcoming Week:
Monday– Permission slips for our field trip Tuesday are DUE! Please make sure you have emailed our room mom, Katie James, to let her know if you are:
- Taking your own child to and from the field trip on our wejoinin sign up sheet (that way I can see who is going with who)
- If you have extra seats and are willing to do a carpool (please also do that on our wejoinin)
- Email Ms. Kaley to let her know if you are chaperoning (if you haven’t already)
Tuesday– Please drop your child at regular time. We will have a small work cycle in the AM and 3rd graders will do their computer class. If you are driving, please be at MMA no later than 9:45am.
- Please make sure your child has a collared shirt on. Jeans are allowed! (no holes). Comfy shoes on
- Is dressed for the weather outside. It is in the 50s this week, so hoodies, jackets etc. are welcome!
- A sack lunch. We will be eating there at the farm
- Backpack to hold everything
- Water bottle
If you are chaperoning I have groups that our class is split into. When we get to the farm I will put the students into their groups. I am hoping to use colored stickers for the groups too. Chaperones are responsible for watching those children in our classroom to make sure they stay in their assigned group. We will congregate at 1:40pm to have students catch their rides.
Taking your child home after the field trip (if you are): PLEASE PLEASE call the office in the AM to let them know if you are checking out your child right after the field trip. If you are returning to MMA after our field trip, you may also come in and sign your child out. Have your ID ready 🙂
Pumpkins on the field trip are for purchase. If you would like your child to purchase a pumpkin you may provide them with $1 or $2. I’ve been told that for every 5 pounds it costs $1 more. 1st and 2nd grade students who purchase a pumpkin will keep it in class for the week. I have a fun scientific method activity they will be doing on Friday. Students can also weigh, measure, and make stories this week on/about their pumpkin 🙂 3rd graders will be doing a candy corn STEM scientific method activity this Friday 🙂 3rd graders are totally welcome to still purchase a pumpkin and join in on measuring, weighing, and writing about their pumpkin this week too.
Wednesday– Since Tuesday we are on our field trip, we will be missing our normal PE/Music time. Ms. Jalee and I have switched our days so that our classes can still have PE and Music. Wednesday our class will make up their PE class from 10:50am-11:20am. Lunch is after PE and then Music is from 12:20pm-1:10pm. Cultural lessons afterwards and then we will restore early to provide an end of the day recess for our class. Please let your child know that this Wednesday will be a little different.
Friday– Fall Festival after school starting at 4pm! Come join in on the fun! Purchase your wristbands and tickets to play the games and have your child enjoy the bounce houses and slides! Food trucks on site for dinner 🙂 CHANGE PROJECT DUE TODAY! Thank you to those students who brought in their projects early! We will start sharing them and then display them outside our classroom.
PTC Sign Ups are Ready!
Parent Teacher Conferences are upon us! Beginning October 15th we will have early outs. Conferences run in 20 minute increments and begin at 1:30pm. PTC days are on Oct. 15th, Oct. 16th, and Oct. 17th. No School on October 18th and 19th. Please sign up on Track it Forward!
Monday- https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/439125
Tuesday- https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/439126
Wednesday- https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/439127
Original Art!
A yellow folder went home on Friday that I’m pretty excited about! Every year, we do a special fundraiser that goes directly to JUST OUR CLASSROOM. This year, we made a special piece of art for our classroom community- The Red Maples. Students who are done, brought home that piece of art in the yellow folder. Student who have been absent or are almost done, will bring their leaf art home very soon. Your child’s classroom art can be turned into anything on that purchase sheet. This is also a great time to think about Christmas gifts for family members 🙂 Please please review the papers carefully. The purchasing is not online this year 🙁 It will be on the purchase form also provided in the yellow folder. Money raised for our classroom will either go towards:
- a field trip for just our class
- materials/works for our classroom
Past Week:
This past week our students worked on a writing prompt about which Great Lesson was their favorite and what they liked best about it. This coming week our students will write a formal assessment also related to the Great Lessons since our time with the theme of CHANGE has now come to an end! We will now welcome the theme of INDEPENDENCE and students will work on learning about states in the eastern region of the USA, the 13 colonies, and intro to The American Revolution. We will also look at Eli Whitney as an inventor and continue our study on the scientific method.
Students in our class wrapped up learning about the states in the northeastern region will now see how some of those states will be applied to the 13 colonies.
We made up some cultural lessons in Geography and Botany this week and learned about the Water Cycle as a whole class in science this week. We also made our first Library trip too this past Friday.
Geography
Level 1s: Zones of the Earth
Level 2s: Zones of the Earth
Level 3s: Heat energy
Botany
Level 1s: Parts of a plant
Level 2s: Parts of a leaf
Level 3s: Seed germination
Reading Volunteers!
If you have signed up to be a reading volunteer for our classroom I am ready for you to come in! Please email me if you can come in 1 day each week to help our students with reading goals. I have sight words, group books, games, and materials for you to help our students with. Please email me your best day and time you can come in and help out. Helpers will work with students out in our kiva space or at the student’s work space. As I gather the list of volunteers and their day they can come in I can then begin our reading volunteers after Fall Break 🙂 Thanks!
Picture Day!
Picture day will be Oct. 22nd. Forms will be coming soon!