Week 8 Recap
Posted on Sunday, October 14th, 2018 at 4:26 pmHi Everyone!
Please don’t forget that this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday is Fall Parent Teacher Conferences.
Monday’s PTC- https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/439125
Tuesday’s PTC- https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/439126
Wednesday’s PTC- https://www.trackitforward.com/site/389525/event/439127
Misha and I will be going over normalization observations and talk about goals. I will also give out Dibel’s reading progress reports that have fantastic information regarding what you can do to help your child’s reading. It shows’s their strengths and areas that might need improving. I will also have the MMA progress report. Since our school revamped it’s curriculum and we hoping to show portfolio’s at our Winter PTC, the progress report will only have Executive Functions, Math, and Language progress stated on the report. The cultural areas on the progress report didn’t align with our new revamp, so you will not see it on this go round. Please know your child is getting cultural lessons and cultural is one of my favorite areas to teach. I state what cultural lessons your child gets on our blog, so please keep referring to our blog for updated information 🙂
Thank you parents for helped on our field trip and got everyone there. The children had a great time even with the weather sprinkling on us a little. Thank you all again.
No school will be held on Thursday and Friday of this week because of Fall Break. Monday-Wednesday are early release days- 1 pm dismissal.
The Original Art submission is due to the office on Oct. 12th. If some student’s need more time or the form isn’t submitted by the 12th, there will be another submission time before October is over. Please submit those yellow folders with the art and order form in them to our office by Oct. 12th.
Pizza order forms are due by Tuesday this year. This will allow MAPA to have all the money in to order on Wednesdays. Our class will submit their money to the office at 10:30am on Tuesdays. After Tuesdays, any order forms will have to wait until the next week. Order forms are on the Montessori Mondays email that Rene sends out. I also had order forms go home this past Friday.
Past Week:
Picture order forms went home Friday. If your child happened to not get one, you can order online once your child’s picture is taken or you can ask the office for another order form. Please note that picture day is October 22nd. Please have your child in school dress code and have their picture order form turned into Ms. Kaley.
1st graders are working knowing pennies, nickels, and dimes coin names and their worth. I have them adding up pennies with one of our shelf works, but any student needing more will then be moved onto adding up nickels. I have the first graders also learning to identify the coin’s faces on both sides. 2nd graders are working on measuring length and learning to compare and contrast, but also learn to explain their reasoning on why they believe one object is longer or shorter than the other. They are learning word problems as well where they are putting lengths together, but also finding the differences too. 3rd graders will get their lesson on bar graphs this Monday.
All three levels focused on triangles this week in geometry. 2nd graders got to learn the Detective Adjective game in a language lesson this week, but it tied in their geometry too. Some 1st and 3rd graders sat in on the lesson or watched.
In cultural this week: History and Zoology
We had our monthly Botany lesson on Monday with Ms. Rachel.
Level 1s: Timeline of their life
Level 2s: BC/AD timeline
Level 3s: Stratification of rocks
Level 1s: 5 classes of vertebrate sorting
Level 2s: Internal parts of a fish
Level 3s: Porifera (sea sponges) external parts and their role
Friday– last Art session with with Ms. Trudy. I had a funeral to attend Friday afternoon, so our students worked on scientific method this week with their mentor class from Junior High. 1st and 2nd graders teamed up to observe, predict, and experiment on the pumpkins bought on the field trip. 3rd graders had the challenge of building candy corn towers that were free standing with just the materials they were given. I heard they had a great time and enjoyed the activities.
Welcome INDEPENDENCE! Change projects were due Friday and we started presenting them. Our new focus will be getting to know the 13 colonies of the early USA and knowing the eastern states of the USA in our group geography lessons we do on Thursdays. I had the students get to know what states were the 13 colonies and I read them a book on the 1st colony, Virginia. We will be taking a look at each colony more in-depth and working on learning what the Revolutionary War was and why it took place. As your child reaches Upper Elementary the cycle of the USA will come back and then your student will learn more detail about that time period.
This coming week we will get to part of our schedule. It will also be a great catching up week.
Please visit the book fair after school this week and I’ll see you during our PTC this week!
Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha