Hello!

Some information from the Office!  Thursday November 21st is our school’s Gratitude Feast.

To help with our Gratitude Feast please sign up below!

This field trip does require a $2.00 fee.  The Office has conveniently given us a payment link so you can pay from home!  Please follow the link below and post a comment or email me that you have submitted payment for your child! Thank you!

Nutcracker Ballet Field Trip Payment Link: https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=1151

Don’t forget that the November Home Project has been posted!  Please have them due the week of the 18th.  Please HAVE them in ON the 18th, but if a child forgets, you have a few days.  It takes that week to have all the kids share.

On November 22nd the student’s do not have any studio.  That Friday I wanted to use to educate the kids on the history of Thanksgiving during the morning.  In the afternoon I have found some fun Thanksgiving projects.  Please let me know if you would like to volunteer to help or help with supplies!   I would like to have a helper per craft 🙂 I am going to oversee the corn painting wreath, but I would like a helper.

Supplies: No supplies needed for poem/hand turkey craft

Supplies: Gumdrops, mini-marshmallows, nerds, toothpicks, gummy worms (enough for 25 students)

Supplies: Clear plastic gloves (nobody has a latex allergy), Cheerios, Fruit Loops

Supplies: No supplies needed

Supplies: No supplies needed

Now that our upcoming events are out of the way, this week in group lessons:

Level 1s:

Level 2s:

Level 3s:

In Cultural:

History:

Level 1s: Body Measurements/ Project Sharing

Level 2s: Galaxies/ The Milky Way

Level 3s: Ordovician Period

Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Types of Fish

Level 2s: Building an eye

Level 3s: Intro to Nematodes

Geography:

Level 1s: Building a 3D Earth

Level 2s: Faults

Level 3s: Weather elements

Botany:

Level 1s: Water food chains

Level 2s: Margins: entire/indented (the outline shapes of a leaf)

Level 3s: Calyx: gamosepalous & polysepalous

Friday: Cleaning, Australian animals and crafts

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Thank you everyone for coming out to conferences!  It was a pleasure to meet with all with all of you and talk about your child!  I love my job and especially your child 🙂

With the short week there wasn’t any group lessons, we focused on individual lessons.

They enjoyed their little break day on Wednesday and seemed to be the calmest class in the school that day!

Let’s talk about this coming week since we have some events!….

Tuesday 10/22 is Picture Day!  I sent home a picture form with your child 2 weeks ago.  They should bring that form on Tuesday with your choice.

10/ 24 FIELD TRIP TO BLACK ISLAND FARMS:

Black Island Farms Address:

3178 S 3000 W  Syracuse, UT 84075
(801) 825-6236

 Click here for Black Island Farms’ Website!

If you are dropping your child off at the school to get a ride with a certified driver, please drop them off at normal morning drop off time. Here are the drivers taking the children to Black Island Farms:

-Melinda Montgomery

-Austin Teuscher

-Jen Noyes

Drivers, please be at the school by 8:20am.  We will be leaving the school around 8:55am, loading the children around quarter of 9.  Black Island Farms opens at 10am.

Drivers taking their own children or are coordinating carpools outside MMA are:

-Urbano Cortes (own child)

-Dixie Brenchley (own child)

-Annie Petree (own child)

-Sandy Ruiz (own child)

-Kim Patterson (carpool, (own children + 1 student)

-Liz Herring (own child)

– Brady Panter (own child)

– Irene Linenberger (own child)

– Kim Winward (own child)

-Heather Misner (own child)

Drivers taking their own children or are doing carpools, please meet us AT BLACK ISLAND FARMS between 9:30am and 9:45am.

We will be departing at 1:45pm

Please pack a picnic lunch and a water bottle in a backpack.  Please dress your child is layers and also warmly!  

Friday’s Halloween Party!

Friday afternoon will be our Halloween party.  The children have studio in the morning from 8:40am until 11:30am.  From 11:30am-12:00pm we do lunch.  12:00pm-12:30pm we have recess.  When we come back in we will do our Halloween activities from 12:30pm-2:30pm.  Here are the helpers and activities:

Helpers:

-Sandy Ruiz

-Dianne Cortes 

-Kim Winward

– Kim Patterson

-Dixie Brenchley

Activities for 26 students:

Need: paper plates, googly eyes

Need: Play sand (Home depot: a 50lb bag is $3.99), 3 things of pumpkin spice, 6 cans of cornstarch, orange food coloring or orange powered paint.  Each child will get 1 cup to take home in a baggie.

Need: Pretzel sticks, cream cheese, 1 jar of peanut butter, raisins

Need: Graham crackers, white frosting, red frosting, plastic knives

Even if you cannot come help Friday, you can help donate the supplies we need 🙂

Come out Saturday 10/26 4:00pm-6:00pm to our Annual Fall Festival!  It helps raise money for our 6th grade field trip and it is a blast!  There is food, games, and you can dress up!

Hope you all are enjoying your Fall Break.  Please email me and let me know if you can drive or something changes.

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello!

Few things to pass along to you all!

On Fridays, please no characters on shirts!  Not even sports teams.  If your child wears a hoodie, they must put them in their locker while inside the building.  I have the heat on in our room if it is chilly, but if it becomes cold, please have your child wear a sweater.

Fall Festival is Saturday October 26th.  This is the day we can wear costumes.

I am looking at having an afternoon Fall/Halloween small party for the kids on Friday October 25th.  Please let me know if you would like to participate and help out.  I have some craft and snack ideas I just need the help getting the supplies and helpers on that day for it to be successful.  Please email me if you would be interested!

October’s Pumpkin book report is up!  Please look under the Home Project tab!

Thursday, October 24th is our first field trip to Black Island Farms.  Permission slips went out Friday.  They are brightly colored.  I asked the children to try and return them by Wednesday 10/16.  That way I can work on putting together rides.  However, at the very latest, permission slips are due NO LATER than 10/22! 

Here is the information for Black Island Farms:

3178 S 3000 W  Syracuse, UT 84075
(801) 825-6236

If your child needs a ride, please drop them off at the school at normal time.  Please no later than 8:30am, so I can take roll.  Certified drivers will take your children.  If you are a certified driver, please be at the school by 8:20am at the latest!  If you wish to take your own child or want to carpool with another parent form our class, I, nor the school can have any part in your arrangement.  The carpool must take place off school ground and I can not arrange anything for you.  Please see the pink page (2nd page) for times on the permission slip.  If your child loses their permission slip, please look under the Field Trip tab.  I will post everything under there as well, as well as the permission slip so you can reprint it.  We are allotted 1 chaperone per 5 students.  Accounted for chaperones for field trips will always go to certified drivers.  If you wish to come you are welcome, but you will have to pay separately.  If you have younger children I would suggest a babysitter for this field trip.  Their numbers are limited and between our class and Ms. Jalee’s class we meet the exact maximum number of 55.  However, I would call Black Island Farms to double check, but from their emails they seem strict about their numbers.  On other field trips we go on, paying for a sibling has been okay.

In group lessons this week:

Level 1s: quadrilaterals, ways to make 10, making wholes with fractions, one step word problems

Level 2s: vertical angles and vertical angles are equal, one step word problems

Level 3s: one step word problems

In cultural this week:

History:

Level 1s: Birthday beads

Level 2s: Centripetal and Centrifugal forces

Level 3s: Introduction to the Timeline of Life

Zoology:

Level 1s: Fish- External parts

Level 2s: Manatees and Dugongs

Level 3s: Hydras

Geography:

Level 1s: Zones

Level 2s: Tectonic plates booklet

Level 3s: Earth’s atmosphere usefulness

Botany:

Level 1s: Use of plants

Level 2s: Forms set A- with art

Level 3s: Calyx and Sepals

Friday: Studio, Static electricity

Please sign up for Fall Conferences if you haven’t!

Wednesday I will let the kids have a free morning.  They are welcome to bring 1 or 2 board games or card games.  No electronics.  

Cheers!

Ms. K