Week 33 Recap
Posted on Sunday, April 28th, 2019 at 3:27 pmHello Everyone!
Upcoming Week!
We have our last field trip of the year on Wednesday! I sent out an email Friday afternoon that outlined the needed information for this field trip. Please read everything carefully! Here the information restated:
Wednesday May 1st- Planetarium
For any of our students in our class who NEED a ride TO and/or FROM MMA (see link below) to go on the Planetarium field trip, I have a sign up ready for you all!
*Has to be a wejoinin sheet because I needed the two columns. Add your volunteer time to Track It Forward.
If you can take a student(s) from our class, please sign up- certified or not. If you are parent who’s child needs a ride to the TRAX station in the morning and a ride back to MMA after, please look at the drivers who are available and you can pick who you want your child to go with.
Drivers and student drop off will take place at North Shore. Please catch your ride at 7:30am. If you are willing to drive others, please be there at this time. It is imperative to be on time for this field trip as the Frontrunner will not wait for anyone. We are leaving a good amount of time so nobody feels rushed.
If you are dropping your child off/meeting us at the Ogden Station to catch the Frontrunner, we ask you be there at 7:50am. This gives chaperones plenty of time to park, get a ticket to ride the Frontrunner (your child is covered!) We can get the children banded with their Frontrunner wristband and do a headcount.
Information Quick Glance!
1. Catching rides from MMA to Ogden Station Frontrunner will need begin at 7:30am (PLEASE BE ON TIME!)
2. If meeting/dropping off at Ogden Station- 7:50am meeting time. 8:10am is the very latest I would like to see students being dropped off. This is a built in buffer time.
3. Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha will both be present at Ogden Station. NOT facilitating rides at MMA.
4. First 8 chaperones to come to me at Ogden Station get a free Frontrunner wrist band. If I am out, the ticket station is right where we meet.
5. Your child NEEDS a backpack, lunch, water dressed for the weather, comfy shoes, school dress code
6. There is a nice gift shop, food trucks, and places to eat around the Gateway. We will be eating outside by the big fountains at The Gateway. Money for your child to eat out or buy things is your decision. Eating at a restaurant will depend on the chaperone.
7. If you are chaperoning, you will get other kids who you need to help us look after. I want to put those groups together and tell you as soon as possible.
8. We leave the Planetarium at 1:10pm at the very latest. We will meet at the front of the Planetarium beginning at 1pm. Please be aware of time chaperones 🙂
9. We catch the Frontrunner back to Ogden Station at 1:31pm. The train arrives back to Ogden Station at 2:24pm
10. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE have your child picked up at Ogden Station at 2:24pm. Every year we are waiting and are needing to call the office to call parents who are tardy. This is important to be on time to pick up your child.
*Please read Planetarium cover letter for further information.
Clark Chaperone Letter01_Adults Rules and Tips (1) *The cover letter doesn’t attach to the blog, but it cover letter is attached in the email that was sent out Friday afternoon from me.
We will have an Evacuation Drill sometime Tuesday
Monday we will have Kindergarteners visiting for their shadowing experience. Monday afternoon at 1pm we will gather the Lower El to have a mini assembly on how to travel on Frontrunner, go over the safety video, and go over rules.
Students will begin to earn classroom dollars again beginning next week May 6th. The big end of the year Store Day that will take place with other classrooms will be on May 20th from 9am-11am.
Past Week:
This past week our students worked on their last Word Work! Their Spiral Math has introduced them to their next grade level and is a review of the grade they are currently in and is getting them ready for their next grade. We also finished up final drafts for the first opinion piece, “What Pet Makes the Best Pet?” Starting Monday, students will pick their own topic they want to write an opinion piece on and do their last writing piece for the year! It’s crazy how April is done this coming week, but that’s how it is every year! May is going to be here and gone in a blink of an eye.
During May I will be doing some end of the year checking in on some skills for our portfolio. We’ll focus on showing some current math, writing (from our opinion pieces), language arts, and some favorite cultural lessons. We have pretty much wrapped up our scientific method processes for science at the beginning of April.
All reading testing from me is complete! I focused on getting everyone done this past week andMs. Jamie, our reading specialist, has done the end of the year DIBELS reading part on everyone too! Only thing that needs to be wrapped up is the 3rd graders need to do their DAZE (vocab word fill in the blank) part. Ms. Jamie will grab them Thursday of this week.
Shadowing for the 3rd graders is underway! We had about half of them shadow this week and rest will go next week. Janessa will shadow this Thursday.
Thank you for everyone helping with transportation to and from our field trip to Sunshine Farms this past Wednesday. I’m glad it was such a nice day to be outside. It was interesting to hear how farmer Dan plans our his farm and gets the vegetables to local restaurants around Ogden. The kids helped plant wildflowers, got a tour of the beds, helped move wood chips, and released lady bugs to help with the growing season. For some students it was hard work that they normally don’t or haven’t ever experienced. It was a good outside experience and it got our class their service time for the year by helping out farmer Dan.
PTC Sign Up: As a reminder, PTC sign ups are already up and ready for you all to sign up! Students will run this conference to share their end of the year reflections and their portfolio. I will have an end of the year progress report for Math and Language too. Please visit Track It Forward to sign up!
Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!
Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha