Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hi Everyone!

The end of the year is here already!  This past week we had the kids work on their end of the year packets that reflect on what they have learned and enjoyed this year in our classroom.  Students also worked on their final drafts and finished up any math check ins.  We got to a little bit of cultural this week too.  Field Day turned out alright for it ending up being inside.  The kids said they really enjoyed it. Thank you for preparing them for the weather.  The rain is going to continue into next week, so please prepare your child for rain into next week

Last Week of School

PTC meetings begin Tuesday and end Thursday.  Please bring your child to our meeting.  Tuesday’s slots are almost full, but we have plenty of spots for Wednesday and Thursday.  I still have a few of you needing to sign up on Track it Forward.  I am needing:

Abbie

Boston

Kaulin

Jaxston

Lili

Janessa

*If you cannot make it and I know a few of you work nights and can’t, I will send home their folder that has all their chosen works and progress.

Monday- FULL Day.  Store Day!  Looking to rain this day, so students can bring a blanket to set up their shop most likely in the school.  Have a back up plan in case the rain breaks and we end up being outside. Students will need:

Morning:

1. Their sellable items and have them priced and ready
2. A bag or container for their sellable items and their store set up
3. Some kind of shopping bag to put anything that they buy in

Afternoon:

1. Board or card game to play and share with one another.  No iPads, iPods, Kindles, GameBoy/Switches of any kinds.  It’s okay if their board game has an electronic part to it.  I’m looking for no screens

Please make sure students have a lunch for each day of this week 🙂

10:30am will be Kindergartener’s Bridging Ceremony in the big gym

Tuesday: Early Out-1pm.  PTC meetings begin.  Cleaning day in our classroom.  We will visit the book fair preview at 9am.  This Book Fair is BOGO!  Book fair is open Tuesday-Thursday during conferences.

10:30am- 3rd grade bridging.  3rd graders may be checked out after their ceremony.  Ms. Amity’s class will welcome all our 3rd graders to Upper El.  We are first in the ceremony.

Wednesday: Early Out-1pm.  PTC meetings.  Cultural activity morning.  1st graders will have a parts of a plant salad and decorate landform cookies.  2nd graders will go over phases of the moon and also decorate planet cookies.  3rd graders will learn about crustaceans and make crab dip.  I am looking for about 1 more volunteer for Wednesday to help us out.  Ms. Misha is going to see her girls bridge at 10:30am, so an extra adult on hand would be great 🙂

Thursday: Early Out-1pm.  PTC meetings last day.  Movie morning and cleaning out lockers and taking things home. Please provide a large bag for your child to bring some things home.  We found the bigger the bag the better!  Students may bring a pillow for the movie.

Friday: Early Out-1pm.  LAST DAY.  Yearbooks are distributed.  LE signing is from 9:30am-10:00am.  We will play some classroom games together and make sure students have all their things needed to take home before 9:30am.  10:00amish the school’s kickball game will take place.  K-5 grades are welcome to watch, play on the playground, and sign more yearbooks.  If the kickball games are rained out then the kids will continue to clean up the classroom more.

Last Blog Post: I have enjoyed our year together and teaching your child for however long I have had them.  For some of you I have had your other children and I am thankful you continued your journey with me. It means a lot.  Thank you for all your support, love, dedication to our classroom, your child, and to our school.  Your child has grown a lot this year and I am so proud of all them.  Thank you for the 2018-2019 school year 🙂  I wish them and your family all the best, support, and well wishes. <3

Hello 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

Past Week:

Hi Everyone!

Past Week:

This past week we talked about what an Economy is.  To learn how an economy works we are having the students earn fake paper money for tasks during their day.  This last Monday we held a classroom meeting and students talked about how they will earn money.  We all agreed that if you:

1. Do your classroom job you can get a $1.00 (a total of $5.00 if done every day at the end of the week.)
2. If someone borrows something of yours you can charge $1.00.  This will be the same for wanting to have or borrow something that belongs to the teachers or classroom supplies.  It will be the teacher’s decision on how much to charge depending on the item and the frequency of use.
3. Students can earn $5.00 for doing their assigned follow up works on time.
4. Students can earn $5.00 for completing all work goals done for the day
5. Students can earn $10.00 at the end of the week if all Spiral Math, Word Work, Text Time, and any needed writing assignments are in the “done” bins before recess on Fridays.

Students are also learning the business side of an economy.  If a student has completed all of their work goals for the day (Coming to lessons included), then that student may participate in what we are calling Market Time.  A student may open their own small business to sell a skill of theirs to others.  A lot of our students like to craft really inventive things and some students are learning to crochet.  Students who want to participate can then work on things to make and then on Fridays if your student gets to Earned Friday Time they can sell their crafts.

When we get to the week of conferences and Valentine’s Day week, on one of those half days we will have what is called Store Day.  If you have been with me in the years past, we have done this activity before.  Students can elaborate on the business they want to run and sell items during that morning with the money they are collecting over these next few weeks.  Students may make baked goods, do hair/nails, sell unused toys they don’t want anymore, auction something they no longer want, but someone else may want, and sell crafts (bracelets, drawings, origami etc.).  We like to debrief with the student after to see how much money they began with, how much they earned through their business, and how much they spent.

PTC- Mid Year is approaching!  Please sign up on Track It Forward for your time slot!  These conferences  are students led.  Each student has a portfolio that they have been doing reflections in and putting in works that pertain to a standard.  If a student isn’t quite achieving that standard then we will show you how they are working towards it.  If your student doesn’t have that piece for their portfolio then that student isn’t abiding by their turn in due dates.  We work with each child in our classroom at their own individual pace and each student works and different rates and paces.  Seeing real work samples of your child’s work will allow you to see how they are doing.  Since your student will be talking and showing their examples it will be a showcase of their current progress and how they want to progress on those standards for the end of the year.  The hope is to show growth and that your child isn’t just a number on a progress report 🙂

This past week was STEM Week.  What a week!  We had assemblies and project presentations throughout the week.  This past Friday we set up our class’s projects like a mini cultural festival and half the students presented and the other half visited the others.  Then we switched.  I was able to make it around to all the projects that were there to hear their presentations.  This week, our 3rd graders will display their projects in the hall on Wednesday.  2nd graders will display theirs on Thursday and 1st graders will display theirs on Friday.  After their display day they can take their projects home.

Home projects are on break for now and the rest of the themes have events to participate in.  The next one in February will be The Spelling Bee.  We will have each student participate in trying their best and then I will test who will represent our class at the MMA Spelling Bee.  Our students will have a month to practice and prepare.  The Spelling Bee will be February 26th from 9am-10am.  The last event will be in March for Literacy Week.

Upcoming Week:

We will be back to a regular schedule this coming week.  We will get into some Geography lessons for cultural and work on learning about the Westward Expansion for our Group History and Geography.  This week we will learn about the Louisiana Purchase.

Remember: Pizza Money is due Tuesdays!

We are in need of some snack!  The next few weeks are not signed up for.  If you can, please sign up for snack support 🙂

Have a great rest of your long weekend. Please sign up for conferences!

Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha

Hi Everyone!

It is crazy to think that there are 10 more school days left.  This past week I have completed the student’s reading level assessments and the students have worked on their end of the year Math U See assessments.  Some students may be asked to take more Math U See because their score was high enough to move on to the next level.  It will be a very busy upcoming week with a very modified schedule here on out.  Please help me by reminding your student to use their best grace and courtesy while at school and work on what is asked of them.

This upcoming week we will work on preparing the end of the year folders for each child’s PTC.  This upcoming PTC is student led.  Your child will be giving you a few lessons on shelf works and also sharing writing, and work samples.  If you haven’t already, please visit www.trackitforward.com and sign up for PTC.  I have blocked off a time to do my daughter’s conference right before dinner on Thursday.

This week the students also be catching up on some cultural lessons.  They might be doing Zoology one day and Geography the next so that I can give as much as the cultural curriculum to them as possible.

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.  We will be watching a move in the afternoon.  If anyone has Wonder on DVD, please let me know I’d like to borrow it for the class to watch.

Thursday- Occupation Day!  Dress like the occupation you want to be when you grow up or any occupation! Ms. Kaley out of town

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. Ms. Kaley out of town

Game afternoon on Friday!– Our students have worked hard on their grace and courtesy points and may bring a board game or card game for the afternoon.  Please nothing electronic or toy wise.  If you board game is electronic like Operation, for example, that is perfectly fine.

Out of Town-I will be going out of town back to Maryland for my stepbrother’s wedding.  I leave early Thursday morning and will be flying back to UT on Monday.  We will have the same substitute schedule as before.

Last Week of School:

Monday– Ms Kaley out of town.  Last Full Day of school 8:30-3:00pm.  I’d love to have an end of the year breakfast for our class.  If anyone would like to come in and help do a pancake breakfast.  It is going to be a very busy few days for me this coming week and I don’t think I’ll be able to get around to creating a sign up sheet for the pancake breakfast.  I sure will try though!  Monday is also Early Childhood Bridging.  The ceremony will begin at 11am.  After the ceremony the Kindergarteners and any pre schoolers are welcome to have a picnic outside with their Early Childhood class from 11:45am-12:30pm.  There will not be a regular early childhood day this day just come for the ceremony.  The only role our class has with Kinder bridging is welcoming them.  Since our school is under construction with the Junior High, all ceremonies this year are being held in the gym.

Tuesday– Early out at 1pm.  PTCs begin.  3rd Grade Bridging Ceremony from 11am-12pm.  Families of 3rd graders are invited to come to see their child bridge onto the next level!  After the ceremony, parents may take their 3rd graders and siblings.

Wednesday– Early Out at 1pm- PTC. Upper El’s Bridging ceremony is you have an older child at MMA.

Thursday– 3rd grade multiplication official test.  Early Out at 1pm- PTC end this night

Friday– Yearbook distribution and signing.  Early Out at 1pm

3rd grade Upper El placement– The list of where your 3rd grader will be going next year is still in the works.  I have seen a tentative placement of where the students are going.  If I feel like I need your opinion on the matter I may ask you a question so that I can relay it the office.  The potential teacher will not be mentioned, but just the question I have.

Thank You– I want to thank you all for being part of our classroom and for choosing MMA for your child.  I cannot describe the amount of love and care I have for the school and for our students.  Thank you to all of you for the loving amount of kindness and appreciation Misha and I received during Teacher Appreciation week.  Thank you to Katie James, our room mom, for being amazing and for all the work you have done for me and for the class this year.  To all my 3rd grade parents, thank you for our journey together and you all are amazing with amazing children.

Thank you and Happy Mother’s Day!  Enjoy your upcoming week!

Ms. Kaley

Hi 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

Hello Everyone!

Past Week:

Our students met their next achievement goal this past week!  They collected 20 points of quiet and 20 points be kind.  This coming Friday, Feb. 16th, they may either bring a board/card game, show and teach, or a craft to share/teach others.  We will still hold our classroom meeting and we’ll do some group learning Friday morning, but they will get time to have their sharing.

Ms. Rachel came in on Wednesday afternoon and shared with the students about where their food comes from and what kinds of plants go into our recipes.

In our leveled math lessons our groups were learning their specific needs this week.  1st graders worked on fractions and are learning simple fraction equivalency.  2nd graders are learning how to measure in inches and centimeters and 3rd graders did fractions also, but are learning to identify fractions on a number line.

In cultural this past week: History

Level 1s: Learning time to the half hour.  Most 1st graders are doing pretty well, so continue working on time at home too!

Level 2s: Venus and Earth

Level 3s: Triassic and Jurassic periods and the dinosaurs that lived during those times.

Feb. Home Project!– This past week I also sent home a pink and white paper that is about the February home project.  Students have until the last day of Feb to complete their service.  When your child has accomplished their service they don’t have to wait to share, they can bring in their reflection and poster/or PowerPoint and we’ll make time to have the students share.

February’s character awareness is learning what forgiveness is and how to forgive others.  We just began discussing it this past Friday and the students are doing a really job participating and hearing each other when it comes to our social skill review and how to use our grace and courtesy within our community.

Upcoming Week:

This coming week we have adjustments to our normal routines.  Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday will be full work cycles in the morning.  Tuesday we will still do our morning recess, cultural/journal time in the morning, and then head off to PE and Music.  Wednesday morning will be our Valentine’s Day activity morning.  Those who are coming in to help may come in with their child in the morning.  We will hold our circle time at 8:35 and that circle time goes close to 9am.  We can begin at 9:00am.  I have 4 paper crafts and Ms. Misha and I can do with the kids too as groups wait to transition or are done all the stations.

Valentine’s Day School Rules– If your child is bringing in any candy with their cards the candy may NOT be eaten at school!  The candy will stay in their Valentine’s Day boxes or bags.  Candy must be eaten at home with your permission.  The same will be true for any treats at the Valentine’s Day party.  Any treats made will be taken home and can be eaten after school hours.  Our school has a wellness policy, so please remember that the wellness policy extends into student’s lunches and brought snack.  Snack has been going well, but the kids ask me about things packed in their lunches

Please no treats, sugary foods, or highly processed foods-as per our wellness policy outline.  Thanks!

PTC- Beginning on Wednesday-Friday there will be 1pm dismissals.  Please remember that students will need to be picked up at 1pm and those who have Early Childhood students will be on a reduced time as well in order to fit on both the morning and afternoon classes.

Please remember to sign up for conferences if you haven’t. I emailed out the link to those needed to sign up, so I hope to see you there!  Please bring your child to conferences.  We will review their progress since the beginning of the year and make goals for the end of the year.

My daughter’s PTC is the first slot on Wednesday and Ms. Misha will have to attend her daughters’ conferences as well throughout the week.  Ms. Nikki will join on some conferences to review progress and goals as well.

Take care and I hope to see all you this upcoming week!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend and week!

Ms. Kaley

Hi Everyone!

Past Week:

This past week we had the Chili Cook Off on Wednesday.  Our classroom made a chili and the kids had a great time.  The cook off was a great time and our chili was practically gone by the end!

We also had the COW again since Ms. Stef was out of town.

Wednesday was also our Internet Safety assembly.  They educated on to never give out your personal information and if something pops up that is inappropriate to turn it off and seek an adult’s help.

We finished up our January writing prompt which was “Which in your option is the better pet?  A cat or a dog?”  Students will be working on opinion writing into February learning how to support their opinions with facts.  For this past prompt they learned how to state their opinion.

PTC– I have emailed out and also posted on last week’s blog to sign up for PTC.  They begin on Feb 14th and go until Friday Feb. 16th.  After this wejoinin the school is switching over to Track It Forward.  Please make yourself an account as all sign ups will now be through that site.  I had already made my mid year PTC sign up when  it was decided that for all sign ups from here on out we will need to use Track It Forward.

SIGN UP FOR PTC HERE AND BRING YOUR CHILD

Sick Season– Nasty colds and flus are going around.  Some of the kids who are got over something are catching something again.  Ms. Misha and I are making sure the classroom stays clean.  I also chatted with the kids about the importance of hand washing and using a tissue and not their fingers to clean their nose.

This past week in cultural: Botany

Level 1s: Parts of a plant review and about roots (parts of a root and different kinds of root types)

Level 2s: Reviewed parts of a leaf and then looked at leaves from native Utah trees

Level 3s: The stamen of a flower

Each level also studied more in Geometry this week.  Level 1s also had a time box check in to see who needed to practice time to the hour more or if they needed a new lesson

Upcoming Week:

We have our monthly Botany lesson with Ms. Rachel on Wednesday afternoon

Since it is now February we on to February’s Home Project.  We have been studying about community all year.  It is the children’s turn to get out into their community and do a service project. Service project are open ended, but some examples would be: volunteering somewhere, donating clothes/food etc., helping out a neighbor/church, picking up trash, helping at a local shelter, serving at a retirement center/vet center.  Students will complete a reflection on how the experience was to them, but also beneficial to the community.  They may take pictures and make a poster to share about their experience.  Service projects are due by the last day of February.  Those who complete their project earlier on in the month can share about their experience when they have done it.

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week

Ms. Kaley

Hi Everyone!

Upcoming Week/Reminder

Chili Cook Off:

This coming Wednesday is the annual Chili Cook off!  Our students will be making some chili to submit.  The cook off starts at 5:30 and goes until 7pm.  Kids under 5 are free!  It is a fundraiser for the school and there will be gluten free and vegetarian options.   If your family would like to submit a pot of chili for the contest the link is: https://wejoinin.com/sheets/WGKPP

Our students will help chop veggies and measure out ingredients while we have the laptops Wednesday afternoon.

Wednesday morning will also be an assembly on Net Safety which is an Internet safety assembly.  It will be right away in the morning and go until 9:30.

Lateness:  Please make sure students are on time to school.  We’ve had a few students coming late often they are missing out on important instruction.

Community Goals:  Our students met their first community goal this week.  The goal was to achieve moments of quiet as a whole class and achieve 20 points by the end of Thursday.  The next goal is Be Kind.  We will be talking about noticing moments of true kindness.  The students will need 20 points of quiet and 20 moments of true kindness in order to get their next achievement ticket to take home.

Winter/Mid Year Conferences:  You may begin to sign up for our mid year conferences!  https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/phhos

Water bottles!-  Our school safety committee reviewed every classroom’s emergency bag and it used to be filled with packs of water.  It made our bag incredibly heavy and the bagged water no longer was good, so they took all of it out.  It is asked that every student has their water bottle at school.  If we were asked to go to our North Shore safety spot, the students would have their water bottle which could be filled from either North Shore Pool or the Fire Dept.  It also helps our students to not leave class as their need for a drink is right in the classroom.  Please make sure your student is coming to class with a refillable water bottle, not a plastic one.

Past Week:

The students focused on Fractions this past week in their leveled lessons.  Geography was also studied in the afternoon.

Level 1s:  Continent and Ocean review and they learned our Geography game we have on the shelf.  They got to the next level which has them learning about landforms- our next big unit we will cover beginning next month in Geography

Level 2s: All about volcanoes- kinds of, parts of, how volcanoes are formed and happen

Level 3s: The water cycle- what it is and how it happens

Wednesday afternoon we had the COW.  We have the laptops again this coming week because Ms. Stef will be out of town.

The students who brought in their President Report all got to share.  They are terrific!  I hung everyones up outside our room for everyone to see.

Have a great upcoming week and rest of your weekend

Ms. Kaley

Hello Everyone!

A reminder that Parent Teacher Conferences begin Monday afternoon.  Monday-Wednesday are early outs at 1pm.  Please make sure you have signed up as well.  Students do not have to come to ours for this conference round, but if they come with you they can sit out in the kiva or choose to join us.

I have printed out Nonsense words and Letter names/sounds fluency practice, as well as sight words up to 3rd grade and multiplication practice to give out at conferences.  You will receive a packet to take home if your child needs to work on these items at home.  Even a few minutes a day working on reading and math skills can make a drastic difference in your child’s learning.

Past Week:

Wednesday we tried out having the laptops all afternoon.  I checked in with 3rd graders on Utah Compose and then everyone worked on Prodigy Math.  The students are really enjoying the game!  There are parts in the game where your child will come across an item to buy.  This isn’t necessary at all and doesn’t effect the assignment I give them that they are accomplishing.  Your child should just X out and continue in the game.  A few minutes a day on the game helps and allows me to see if anyone needs any extra support.

Thursday we had the Utah Rotary Club come and give the 3rd graders their dictionaries.  We also had our Fall Trash Pick Up community field trip.  Thank you thank you for those parents who came to chaperone.  The kids really had a good time!  Our kids were still even looking for trash on the playground after we had gotten back to the school.

Friday we went over tattling vs an needed comment to the teacher.  We also learned about Mother Teresa.  Some students mentioned who their peacemaker is going to be.  Peacemaker projects are due Oct. 27th.  We don’t have studio that day, so we will share projects that morning.

In cultural this week we did Geography:

Level 1s: Continents and zones of the Earth

Level 2s: Tectonic plates

Level 3s: Earth’s Atmosphere

Geometry was the focused leveled math lesson this week.

Level 1s: Types of shapes (circle, triangles, quadrilaterals, curvilinear shapes)

Level 2s: Introduction to angles: their parts and acute, obtuse, right, and straight angle

Level 3s: Angles in triangles

Upcoming Week:

We will focus on work cycle in the mornings.  As far as I know, we still have PE Tuesday morning. We still don’t have a music yet.  Therefore, on the progress report, you will not see music filled out.  If other areas are blank on your child’s progress report then we have not gotten to it yet.

Our progress report is on a 1-4 grading scale.  4s are absolute mastery.  The child not only knows the content, but applies it on other areas of learning, can explain it, teach it, and have gone beyond the expectations.  Most students are in the 1-2 range for this time of year.  Please don’t read our scale as 1s=poor,  2s=satisfactory, 3s=good, and 4s=exceptional.  The way to view the scale is based on how much you child can do/remember the work by themselves and show the learning through independence.  Our scale is on the report and if you have any questions, please ask at our conference time.

We will get one day of Botany (Tuesday morning) to get our cultural in.  Fractions will also be the math subject of the week for each grade level.

There is no school Thursday and Friday.

Friday Oct. 27th is also our annual Fall Festival!  Here is a note from MAPA:

• Wristbands – allow access to bounce houses, dunk tank, and climbing wall – provided by Custom Events
• Tickets – allow access to all other events and goodies, including haunted house, root bier garden, cotton candy and more

Hello Everyone!

Please sign up for Fall Conferences.  Students may come if they would like, but are not required to come.

My daughter’s conference is at 1:30 on Monday the 16th.  The first sign up will begin at 1:50pm on Monday the 16th.

Click Here for Conference Sign Up!