Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

Upcoming Week:

Book Reports:  We have some students that still need to turn in their book report.  Please have them turn it in as soon as possible so they can get credit on their progress report for completing it.

In school 2nd grade Zoo presentation rescheduled:  The zoo had to reschedule this past Thursday due to weather.  They are coming this coming Thursday Feb. 2nd.  Please have students bring back their games. We still stuck to the schedule this past Thursday and the students really well.  We made popsicle stick puzzles that were related to their geography lessons this past week.  We also had the marble maze open and then the board/card game area.  Students are welcome to bring in board and card games (no Pokemon/Magic or trading/collecting cards.  Also, please no electronics such as tablets etc.)

*The morning assembly on internet safety was also cancelled this past Thursday morning and will be rescheduled.

Parent Teacher Conference sign up:  Please sign up, if you haven’t already 🙂

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Class pictures makeup:  With the 2 day 2 hour delay that happened this past week the Yearbook Club didn’t do class pictures this past Tuesday afternoon.  They are wanting to make it up this coming Thursday.

Valentine’s Day Party:  I know that Valentine’s Day isn’t this coming week, but we will be doing a little party on February 14th from 1:00pm-2:30pm.  Students are welcome to bring in Valentine’s Day cards for their peers.  Students whose cards have a piece of candy can be brought, but all treats will have to wait to be eaten at home.  If you want to make a Valentine’s mailbox ahead of time and bring it in that is fine.  Student’s will make a bag or box for their cards at the party if they don’t make their own personal one.

Snack Sign up!: We don’t have anyone for snack this week or next.  If you guys could look at the sign up and do the 2nd half of the year, we have a lot of open slots to fill.  Snack has been going really well and working out nicely, so thank you all for your generous contributions!

School Gala class basket donations:  Our school gala is coming up on March 25th.  Each class is to have a basket to auction off.  Our basket theme is Rainy Day.  If you have any donations for our basket, please contact our room mother, Alicia, at tempygirl@gmail.com.  She is putting the basket together.  I can send anything home with her son too if need be.

Past Week:

This week in group leveled lessons:

Level 2s: Interior and exterior angles in geometry

Level 3s: Fractions on a number line “I have…Who has” card game

In cultural this week: Geography

Level 1s: Compass review, compass map activity, continent game with compass dice

Level 2s: Volcanoes: what are they, parts of a volcano, volcano model

Level 3s: Water cycle: what is it, sequence

Have a great upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

Upcoming Week:

Book Reports are DUE FRIDAY the 27th!

Assemblies: We have the Hogle Zoo coming this Thursday for just 2nd graders.  They are going to do 2-1 hour rotations and our room and Ms. Marleen’s room will be used for their presentation.  This puts our 1st and 3rd graders without a room for a little bit.  I’m reserving our kiva space for them to be in to do some cooking with Ms. Anna.  If anyone would like to come in and help or provide some board games for them to play during this time, we would greatly appreciate it.

Thursday morning is also the Net Safety assembly from 8:45-9:15.  This yearly presentation is given to all students about the importance of internet safety.  Ms. Lori, please come after this time 🙂

Studio resumes this Friday!  With the exception of early outs, studio will go until March 31st.

Class Pictures: Tuesday will be class pictures for the yearbook.  Our class is signed up for Tuesday at 12:45pm.  This picture will be the whole classroom together, not individual pictures.

Winter Parent Teacher Conference Sign Ups!:  It’s that time again!  Please click on the link and sign up for your spot.  Please bring your child.  They will share a few favorite pieces of work.

PARENT TEACHER CONFERNCE- SIGN UP HERE!

Past Week:

We didn’t have any afternoon math groups this week because we had some celebrations of lives or I had to take care of school issues since Ms. Stephanie and Ms. Kacee were out of the building a few days this week.

We did get to:

Weekly writing: Review of MLK and what are the student’s dreams for the future?  Each student made a poster and they are hanging outside our room

Friday: We read Dr. Seuss’ ABC Book because it has great alliteration examples!  We went over alliteration and each student got a letter of the alphabet and an animal to focus on.  They made a funny fictional alliterative piece of writing, but also a non-fictional page for their animal.  Once they are all complete, we will laminate the pages and make a classroom alliteration book!

In cultural this week: Zoology/Physiology

Level 1s: Reptiles: what is a reptile and different kinds of reptiles

Level 2s: The nose, the tongue, and teeth intro.

Level 3s: Mollusks: what are mollusks, the 3 classes of mollusks, clam facts and model

Snack this coming week: Erik

Have a great upcoming week!  Please email me if you want to come in on Friday 12:30-2:30 to help 🙂

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hi Everyone!

Thank you to all for Wednesday’s field trip!  It was nice that the weather held off and the kids could go snowshoeing.  The students were broken into groups and rotated through a presentation on animal tracks, exploration, about the smallest hawk, and outside snow shoeing.  Everything went very smoothly with drop off and pick up, so we got back to school at a decent time.  Students then did an afternoon activity with one of our student’s grandpa, Mr. Will, a retired art professor.  He had them work on dinosaur tracks.

Upcoming Week and Dates:

Field Trips: Ms. Anna’s dad manages the manages the Mrs. Cavanaugh’s in SLC.  We are thinking of squeezing that field trip into our schedule.  I have to look into it a little bit, but we want to aim for February and make it a Valentine’s Day kind of field trip.  Students would learn about where chocolate comes from as well as how they make their chocolate.  This kind of field trip would require parent drivers.  We would start off a school and then leave late in the morning.  I’ll let you know soon if it will work out.

The Hogle Zoo has been touring around school districts and giving a presentation to second graders.  All Lower El teachers signed up to give our second graders an in-school zoo field trip.  The presentation will be an hour long in the afternoon on January 26th.  That morning of the 26th will be the Internet Safety assembly as well.

January Book Report:  I fell a little short on updating on this, but let’s get back on track!  January is a book report month!  Students will focus on a FICTION (made up) book of their reading ability and choose another project choice from the list provided.  Book’s may be from MyOn.  Projects are due January 27th.  This will allow students to share that Friday afternoon.

Book Report Presentation Choices

*You may only do 1 choice once

___Book cover

___Oral report to the teacher and/or class

___1 page written report

___A wanted poster for a character in your book

___Poster advertising your book

___Design a bookmark

___Make a poem about your book

___Create a picture book about your favorite parts from the beginning, middle, and end

___Create a video about the book

___Dress up as favorite character and tell about the book

___Create a mobile with 5 events

___Write and draw an alternative ending

___Create a timeline with at least 10 events

___Draw a map describing places

___Create a travel brochure

___Make a puppet show explaining your book

___Create a board game

___Diorama of a scene

___Do a 1 page report about the author

___Create a week long journal as if you were the character

Ms. Rachel’s next monthly Botany lesson is this Wednesday!  We have a fire drill in the afternoon and then when that is over, Ms. Rachel will be in.  Wednesday’s afternoon schedule will have to skip over the 2 math groups so that all 3 cultural lessons can happen.

*Second graders are in Physiology this week and will do some introductions on the nose, teeth, and the tongue.  I’m curious if anyone knows a dentist or hygienist to come in and further explain about teeth.  It doesn’t have to be this week.  If nobody knows a dentist, I’m also interested in a dermatologist, ENT, or really anyone who’s focus involves the 5 senses.  Second graders are wrapping that up so we can get into the body systems.  If anyone knows nurses and/or doctors to come in next month who would like to present, let me know 🙂

Past Week:

In group lessons this past week:

Level 1s: Time to the hour

Level 2s: Perimeter practice

Level 3s: Equivalent fractions practice

Weekly writing: MLK

In cultural this past week: History

Level 1s: field trip, Time to the hour

Level 2s: field trip, Mercury

Level 3s: field trip, Mesozoic Era and the Triassic Period

Have a great rest of your long weekend!

Snack for upcoming week: Kanon

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello and Happy 2017!  I hope you all enjoyed your holiday and beginnings of 2017

Looks like January is going to be quite the cold snowy and rainy month!  Our office made the decision that when the weather got as cold as it did these past couple of days then the students will stay inside.  Since we are looking at snow being on the ground for awhile, please make sure your child has proper attire to be outside.  Waterproof boots are needed, as well as coats.  Snow pants, hats, and gloves are highly advised!

Field Trip Wednesday Jan 11th!– Last month, I posted that we have a field trip to the Nature Center on 12th street in Ogden.  Wednesday the 11th will be our half day field trip!  Students received their permission slips this past week.  I need them by Tuesday.  Students will MEET AT THE NATURE CENTER.  It is only a 2 hour trip.  We will begin at 9am and go until 11am.  Please drop off your child between 8:30-8:45am.  If you would like to attend this field trip, please email me and let me know.  We will need drivers/carpools to pick up your child to bring them back to MMA!  Once we are back to the school, it will be recess time, lunch, and then we are going to do a class art lesson on printing (since we will be learning about animal tracks in the winter at the Nature Center) in the afternoon.  Ms. Jalee’s class is also attending, so if you know someone in her class to help you arrange pick up for your child, then you may certainly plan for that.  I cannot arrange a carpool or pick up for you child.  If you need help finding a carpool for your child because you are unable to take and/or pick up your own child then please contact our room mother, Alicia Thomas to help you.  Her email is on the permission slip at the bottom (tempygirl@gmail.com)  We will be outside for a good part of this trip, so please make sure your child is wearing winter weather gear as the weather is calling for a mix of rain and snow on this day.

This Friday the students do not have school. It is an all day professional development for the teachers.  Monday is also a holiday 🙂

A skate night as been planned for January 24th!  A flyer will be coming soon for your child to take home.

Past Week (Wed-Fri)

Wednesday, when the students returned, we jumped right back into our schedule.  Even with the 2 hour delay this past Thursday, we switched our day around so that we did cultural in the morning and then had the students do their work cycle in the afternoon.  Friday I read the students the book Snowmen at Night and then we discussed how to do a creative narrative on if they made a snowman and it came alive at night, what would it do first, next, and last?  They turned out amazing!  Since it is our class’s turn to have work shown on the south side hallway hanger, I hung up our classroom’s work for all to see!

Snack for upcoming week- Brett (No snack needs to provided for Wednesday)

Have a great upcoming week!  Looking forward to seeing some of you Wednesday 🙂

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

Upcoming Week:

With the two days before Holiday Break our upcoming Monday (tomorrow) will consist of visiting the Upper Elementary for their International Festival in the morning 9am-11am.  Students will come back and share some facts they learned and then get ready for recess and lunch.  In the afternoon, after lunch, I have signed our students up to visit three Junior High activities.  We will go to Ms. Shilo who is doing Germany from 1-1:30, Mr. Casey for Jingle Bell Toss from 1:30-2:00, and then to Mr. Rob for Art from 2:00-2:30.  Tuesday will be our turn to present for the International Festival in the afternoon.  Tuesday morning we will prep the room for the projects, have a group snack, add final touches to projects, then finished students will get to choose to make a paper Christmas tree or build a 3D snowflake using geometric shapes.  After recess and lunch, we will begin the Lower Elementary International Festival from 1:00-2:30.  Parents are welcome to attend both days.

This past Tuesday was not the Box Top store, so those who brought theirs should pack them again this week.  They might still have Box Top store, I’m not 100% sure.

If you need another pizza form for pizza Friday, the office should have some.  Pizza is $1.75 per slice and due to me by Wednesday morning as soon as they walk in.

January 11th will be a field trip to the Nature Center. More details to come!  This field trip will need parent drivers.  If you would like to come on this field trip, please let me know.

Past Week:

Thank you so much for everyone who came by or helped support  our Holiday feast, Holiday party, or both!  Both were a great success and a lot of fun!  We couldn’t have done it without your support, so thank you again!

In group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Penny, nickel, and dime lesson, point and lines on 2D and 3D shapes, soup making and learning how carrots are a taproot and celery is actually a special kind of leaf!  It is considered the petiole.

Level 2s: Graphing with pictographs and bar graphs, bread making and what is yeast?

Level 3s: Chocolate pie making and how measuring and equivalent fractions can show up in cooking/baking

In cultural this week: Geography

Level 1s: The compass rose and continent game with the compass dice

Level 2s: Earthquakes

Level 3s: 5 kinds of precipitation: sleet, rain, snow, freezing rain, hail

Have a great rest of your weekend and have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Next blog post in 2017!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hi Everyone!

We had a nice productive week!  Our kids have come up with some great systems to help out our classroom management.  They have come up with 2 solutions, so far, to help everyone out.  Our first problem was a common step by step process for if someone isn’t going to listen to a direction from a teacher.  Here is what they came up with:

Problem 1: Some students won’t listen to a direction from a teacher.  What should happen?

Solution: Students came up with a 3 strike system.  If a teacher has to tell the direction the student then has 3 chances/steps to go through.

Strike/Step 1- You get a strike against your Friday afternoon earned free time.  If you collect 3 strikes by Friday.  You don’t get free time-you do work.  If you strike out early, you go to strike 2

Strike/Step 2- You stay in from recess and work if you are asked in the morning.  You stay after the bell for a few minutes and have a discussion with a teacher.  Your parent might need to pick you up too if you are asked in the afternoon

Strike/Step 3- You get a school behavior report

Problem 2: Tattling is an issue.  What can a STUDENT do first?

Solution: Students came up with another 3 step system to help them feel like they are a powerful person that can help them understand that they need to practice their social skills with someone.

Step 1- Set your boundary with that person.  Another person’s words or thoughts might not be like yours.  Have that discussion with your classmate.

Step 2- If it continues and you begin to get annoyed, irritated etc., but are still in control, count to 10 and take some needed deep breaths.

Step 3- If you are upset and are not able to have step 1 right away, you remove yourself to a safe space of your choice until you are able to be more in control and have step 1’s discussion.

These solutions may change as needed and might need tweaking.  However, this is what your child has come up with and feels comfortable implementing.  As teachers, we feel proud of them for coming up with great solutions and work on how to solve rather than how to blame or not learn to take responsibility for themselves.

Upcoming Week:

We have a busy upcoming week!

Monday- Music/PE.  Please make sure your child has sneakers to run around in.

Tuesday- Level 2 bread making and Level 3 dessert making for our Holiday Luncheon on Wednesday. BOX TOPS MIGHT BE THIS DAY

2nd graders will be making homemade dinner rolls.  They will learn about yeast and measurement

3rd graders will make 2 chocolate pies.  They will learn about measurement in a no-bake pie.  Alicia Thomas will help oversee

Wednesday- Level 1 soup making, Holiday Luncheon 12-1pm

1st graders will make homemade chicken noodle soup.  They will learn simple vegetable cutting skills and measurement.  Alicia Thomas will help assist.

Friday- Christmas Party 12:45-2:30pm.  Alicia Thomas has sent out an email for signing up to help out.

International Festival is NEXT week!  Our lower el presentations will be Tuesday the 20th.  We have ours in the afternoon and will start around 12:30-1pm.  Parents and families are welcome to come and see the projects and tour the school to see what other classrooms did on the morning of the 19th and the afternoon of the 20th.  Please scroll down to Week 14 on International Festival Expectations.  We had a few girls this past week who worked on their project a little bit because they wanted to partner up with another classmate.  Again, your child is welcome to bring in their project and work on it at school if at home doesn’t permit much time.

Past Week:

In group lessons this past week:

Level 1s: Color the fraction according to the numerator

Level 2s: Vertical angles introduction and the 4 kinds of angles review

Level 3s: Equivalency in fractions and different kinds of triangles game called Detective Adjective

Tuesday we had our monthly Botany lesson with Ms. Rachel Bush on stems from kinds of trees

In cultural this past week: Zoology/Physiology

Level 1s: All about our 2nd vertebrate class: Amphibians.  Students also learned the lifecycle of the frog

Level 2s: All about the ear (parts of the ear)

Level 3s: All about the invertebrate class: Annelids.  Our focus was on the earthworm for this class

I look forward to seeing a lot of you on Wednesday at our luncheon and our party on Friday!

Have a great upcoming week and rest of your weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello Everyone!

I must say, from coming back from a week long break, our classroom really responded this week with getting works done and showing more of their best!  Ms. Anna and I are very proud of them for how they are exuding their actions and hard work.  As much as we told them this week, please ask your child how they did this week and discuss what did they do this week that they feel the most proud of?  What did the class do their best at this week?  Students and kids alike are prone to be informed more about the negative and what is wrong.  Have your child always talk about a few positives for every negative that they might speak of.  Let’s continue the positive vibes going!

December Holiday Feast- Our holiday luncheon will be held on December 14th at 12 noon.  Here is the sign up sheet to sign up to bring supplies or a dish: LUNCHEON FEAST SIGN UP

International Festival- I went over the International Festival with our students this week.  We had a discussion about topics and read them the expectations that were posted in green and red last week.  Please follow those expectations.  If you are unsure or need clarification, please email me or find me after school.  My parking lot duty is by the fence on the north side.  Projects are DUE December 20th.

Holiday Classroom Party- I would love to do a holiday party for our students on December 16th at 12:45pm.  I have told Alicia the date as well, so if you would like to contribute a craft/activity idea, please let Alicia know at tempygirl@gmail.com.  Alicia will also want to know who can bring supplies and who would like to come in and help out!  That Friday, the 16th, our students do not have studio, so they will be at recess first from 11:30am until 12 noon and then will eat from 12-12:30pm.  After their clean up, we will have them come to circle to hear what activities will occur.

Upcoming Week:

Monday- PE class is on Mondays and since the colder days have brought boots, please make sure your child has sneakers to run around the gym in.

Tuesday- We have our 4th monthly lesson with Ms. Rachael Bush from 1:50-2:50pm

Friday- Early Out!  Please make sure your child is picked up at 1pm.  Lunch still happens on early outs 🙂

Past Week:

In group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Pennies and nickels, 2D and 3D shapes, fraction’s numerator and denominator, Personal Narrative writing

Level 2s: Money tower with all coins, naming fractions, names of angles (acute, obtuse, right, and straight), Personal Narrative writing

Level 3s: Equivalent fractions, parts of a triangle (base, altitude, hypotenuse), Personal Narrative writing

In cultural lessons this week: History

Level 1s: Past, Present, Future review.  What is a decade, century, millennium?  Making a clock to prepare for how to tell time lessons

Level 2s: What is the sun and how far are the planets from the sun?

Level 3s: PreCambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian time periods

Snack for upcoming week: Tae’Lynn

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and some enjoyable time off!

We had a nice past week with our little reset right before the Thanksgiving break.  We enjoyed some group cooperative games/activities together, went over expectations again, and worked on our work cycle.  It was nice to have that right before break.  We still continued with cultural lessons in the afternoon to keep those lessons going.  We introduced some silent reading time and 3 activities to do at afternoon circle, and the day’s circle challenge.  Each day there will be a note on the morning board that states what the day’s circle challenge will be.  This past week we had challenges such as sit by boy/girl, shirt color, and if you could choose questions.  It helped mix our circle seating and put a little fun into the day.  Also, we introduced having an afternoon circle leader who will choose between a song, book, or game to do before we begin the afternoon part of our day.  They all really enjoyed that!

Book Reports were due Friday and we got through 6 of them on Friday.  We will do more projects when the kids get back from Music and PE on Monday afternoon and finish up with everyone’s this week.

Blue Reading Folder– Reminder to have those kiddos who take home a reading folder to have their homework in by tomorrow so I can hand out new hw sheets.  On Mondays when I give them their new hw sheets I leave them to be picked up on our black table outside our classroom.  If your child forgets to pick his or hers up or was absent, the folder will be right there.

December Holiday Feast!- Our classroom does a Holiday luncheon every year.  This year our luncheon will be December 14th.  It will begin at 12pm.  Parents and siblings welcome to come!  A sign up sheet for food to be brought will go out this week.  We’ll have each grade make something for the feast.  1st graders will make a soup, 2nd graders will make a bread, and 3rd graders will make a dessert.  If you would like to help out with cooking, we will be making these dishes the 13th and 14th.  1st and 3rd graders will get theres ready on the 13th and 2nd graders will make theres the morning of the 14th.

International Festival is December’s Home Project!- Every year, our school celebrates different cultures and facts about other countries and continents in the month of December.  On December 20th will be the  lower elementary date.  Upper elementary goes first on the morning of December 19th.  They start at 9am and go until 11am.  Some junior high will also present that day.  December 20th in the afternoon will our time to present.  We usually begin around 12:30 and go until 2:30, but I’ll make sure those times are confirmed for this year.  Projects will be on either the continents of Australia or Antarctica.

Expectations for Lower Elementary International Festival

1. Choose to present a point of interest from the continent of either Australia/Oceania or Antarctica
2. Have a visual presentation (trifold board, diorama, puppet show, etc.) Get creative!
3. Must have topic’s name displayed and be easy to see
4. Must have flag displayed
5. Must have a map displayed and geographical area highlighted that topic lives or comes from. (examples: If the topic is koalas, then the map will display where in Australia koala’s live.  If researching Tasmania, then Tasmania will be highlighted on the map.)  We are wanting students to know where they are talking about.
6. Have at least 10 facts displayed about their interest and know them in case questions are asked.  
7. Be able to give an oral presentation about their project.  
8. Food is allowed, but not required for project. 
9. Project is DUE December 20th.  Families welcome to come and see!

*Please let me know if your child needs support in getting their project completed (email me).  We can have your child work on it in class.

Up next for snack: Jaxston

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hi Everyone!

Snack: Nobody has signed up for snack for this coming week!  Please take a look at our snack link to the right of this blog.

Assistant change: This week was Ms. Emilee’s last week.  Ms. Anna and I met on Friday to discuss what kind of transition we wanted to take place.  This coming week we will go back and do a mini renormalization.  It will help Anna understand the procedures and routines for our class, but also have the kids get used to her expectations that she is going to bringing to the classroom.  We will be doing cooperative team building games amongst work cycle.  The first half of the week will be dedicated to working together and relearning the expectations from the teachers and school rules.  The second part of the week will have the kids do a shortening work cycle to help our students utilize Ms. Anna so that when they come back after Thanksgiving break they know what to expect.  I’m very optimistic for what will transpire from this change.

Upcoming Week:

Monday– Original Art work form (That was handed out around the week of Halloween) is due tomorrow.

Tuesday– Box Top store

Wednesday– COW (computers on wheels) in the afternoon.  There will be another MyOn assignment that the kids will begin in class

Thursday– The school’s Gratitude Feast for members in our community will be going on that day.  It will also be a fire drill for the school. Ms. Lori will be in to read with a few of our students as well.

Friday– Book report #2 is due today!  We will get to around 6 book reports and then have the rest of the kids finish up when break is over.  Anna and I have a great plan for how Friday afternoons are going to go an we wanted to begin that process with the students this Friday.  We are also going to continue weaving.  Ms. Anna and I are thinking about creating a service project for our class that involves weaving.  Please bring back yarn for Friday.

Past Week:

I moved our room around in terms of the layout and the students really responded to that.  Having a change of the environment made for Ms. Anna’s transition an easier step.

Thursday we had the COW and students began their reading assignments from me.  I chose books that would enhance our Geography lessons for each grade level, as well as some Australia books for the level 2s and 3s.  Your child should have these books finished by today.  Most students were able to finish that afternoon, but level 2s and 3s had more books, so a few were still working on them.

3rd graders finished up their practice SAGE tests!  Tomorrow is a makeup day for only 3 students who either need to finish a test or because they were absent on testing day.

This week in group lessons:

Level 1s: *No afternoon group lessons because of Botany and COW in the afternoon on their group days.

Level 2s: Naming angles

Level 3s: Fractions equivalency

Weekly writing- graphic organizer was due

Monthly Botany: Ms. Rachel’s monthly Botany lesson took place this past Tuesday afternoon

This week in cultural: Geography

Level 1s: About maps and kinds of maps, continent and oceans naming on map

Level 2s: Faults and folding of the Earth from tectonic plates moving

Level 3s: Atmosphere review, 7 weather elements, and kinds of fronts

Reminder that towards the end of this week (Thurs. and Fri.) the weather will be getting chilly.  Please provide coats and outside garments for your child to wear at recess.

Have a great upcoming week and rest of your weekend.

Blog is back up and working this week!

Reminder: Ella has snack this coming week (Week 13)

Last week the school’s administration and I made the decision to go through with an assistant change.  Ms. Emilee has been great support for almost 2 years, but with her other other job and the needs of our classroom, we are looking for what is best for our class.  Ms. Anna, who many of you know from the office, was the one who approached me and wanted to be back in our classroom.  3 years ago, Anna, was my wonderful assistant, and I am very excited to have her back.  She will still also take care of our school’s athletic program from 3pm-4pm and during the morning studio hours when I am teaching 3rd grade studio.  She will also be our class in the afternoon hours on Friday too!  Ms. Emilee’s last day will be this coming Thursday (the 10th).  

Upcoming Week:

Friday is a Professional Development afternoon for the teachers, so dismissal is at 1pm this week.

Monday is the last SAGE practice test for 3rd graders.  They will be taking their Math test from 10:45am-12:00pm.  3rd graders will stop and clean up at 10:10, so they can get their recess in before testing.  Again, they are allowed a snack and their water bottle.

The computers on wheels (COW) cart is back in our room this week!  Thursday right after lunch until dismissal, students will be doing IXL lessons from lessons they have received in the classroom and also begin their first MyOn assignment that I will create.  Our first one will be an in class assignment.  Assignments not completed by the end of the day will be due by Sunday.  Since cultural is Geography this week, each grade will read assigned geography books that I pick from the MyOn library and each student will do a simple assignment in conjunction with the reading.

I signed our classroom up to have Officer Childs’ do a simple DARE presentation that will be 30 minutes long.  Officer Childs is our usual officer that patrols our school.  I put in for him to come in Friday, so we’ll see what day works out best for the other 2 classrooms he’s presenting to also.

Reading Folders!  If your child has been doing the take home reading folders, I only received 2 back this past Friday (Janessa and Hunter).  Monday is that cushion day where they can turn it in and still be considered on time.  I give out the new homeworks on Mondays.  Have a look and maybe a chat with your child who is doing those folders to make sure they get them in.  I still make copies for those kids who aren’t turning them in, so I am hoping they make it home.

Please have your child be working on a Non-Fiction book choice (MyOn books allowed).  Here is the project list for book reports:

Book Report Presentation Choices

*You may only do 1 choice once

___Book cover

___Oral report to the teacher and/or class

___1 page written report

___A wanted poster for a character in your book

___Poster advertising your book

___Design a bookmark

___Make a poem about your book

___Create a picture book about your favorite parts from the beginning, middle, and end

___Create a video about the book

___Dress up as favorite character and tell about the book

___Create a mobile with 5 events

___Write and draw an alternative ending

___Create a timeline with at least 10 events

___Draw a map describing places

___Create a travel brochure

___Make a puppet show explaining your book

___Create a board game

___Diorama of a scene

___Do a 1 page report about the author

___Create a week long journal as if you were the character

Box Tops will be NEXT Tuesday!  (Nov. 15th)

Past Week:

Thank you to our room mom, Alicia, and for Susan who helped set up beginners crochet.  The kids who had needles found the needles a bit difficult, but they learned a crochet style with their fingers. I gave a lesson on straw weaving and most students found great success between the two lessons.

Individual lessons are moving and goovin according to your child’s needs.  During Friday’s PD, I will be working Anna on who is where and what can be continued and what could use some reworking to help support our schedule.

In leveled group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Penny review, 2D curvilinear shapes and quadrilateral shapes (4 sided shapes)

Level 2s: Naming fractions, simple money adding word problems, intro to angles (right, obtuse, acute, and straight)

Level 3s: Working with numbers that having missing addends, sums and unknowns

Weekly Writing: Personal Narrative graphic organizer.  Our students are going to be working on a Personal Narrative story about a favorite memory.  I gave a lesson on how to use a simple graphic organizer.  It is due this Tuesday afternoon right after lunch.  I have the students keep in a folder on shelf so it doesn’t go anywhere and get lost.

In cultural this week: Zoology/Physiology

Level 1s: All about the vertebrate: Fish! (What is a fish, internal/external parts of the fish, Different kinds of fish)

Level 2s: The eye: How do we see, external/internal parts of the eye, paper parts of the eye book/model)

Level 3s: Platyhelminthes (flatworms) and Nematodes (roundworms, such as parasites): What are each, what do they do, and simple parts of each.  We didn’t get a lot of time with the roundworms, so we’ll pick back up with a review on them next Zoology week.

Have a great upcoming week!  Happy upcoming Election Day!

Cheers!

Ms. K