Hello!

Our class is working on something special for the Gratitude Feast on Thursday the 21st.  The 3rd graders created a poem together about being thankful.  The 1st and 2nd graders are teamed up in pairs of 2, most groups containing one 2nd grader, one 1st grader.  Each group will draw a visual to each line of the poem.  On Thursday, the 3rd graders will read the poem.  the 1st and 2nd grade pairs will sit with their 3rd grade buddy and hold up their visual as each line is read.  We will finish up the visuals and practice more this coming week to be ready on Thursday.

I will be making permission slips for the Nutcracker Ballet field trip, December 9th, this week.  I will be sending them out Wednesday. If you can have them back ASAP, that would be fantastic.  All permission slips MUST be in 24 hours before the field trip.  Please do not forget to submit your child’s 2 dollar fee for the ballet through the payment link on the right hand side of this blog.  I have heard from one parent so far on submission, so please don’t forget to email me or leave me a comment on the blog that you completed the payment.  That way I can mark your child off on my check off list 🙂

This soon to be Friday is our Thanksgiving party.  In the morning we talk about the history of Thanksgiving.  Since we don’t have studio this Friday, we will do recess first and then lunch, like we do the rest of the week.  By the time the kids get cleaned up it will be around 12:40pm.  I need a few more helpers for Friday.  If you are coming to help, please be at our classroom at 12:30pm.  After they get cleaned up,  I’ll sit them down and explain each of the crafts.  They are then free to choose until 2:30pm.  

Group lessons this week:

Level 1s: Intro to point of a line (geometry)

Level 2s: Interior and exterior angles (geometry), Marshmallow angle review

Level 3s: Features of a triangle (geometry), Arrays of multiplication with fruit loops

Open lessons: fractions equivalence with pizza visuals, how to read a ruler to whole inch, half an inch, 1/4 an inch

In cultural:

History:

Level 1s:  BC and AD timeline.  Introduction to a century with golden bead

Level 2s:  Formation of a star

Level 3s:  Silurian Period

Zoology:

Level 1s: Fish report

Level 2s: Shrews and hedge hogs

Level 3s: Roundworms

Geography:

Level 1s: 3D Earth to 2D using a grapefruit

Level 2s: Faults

Level 3s: Weather reader’s theatre

Botany:

Level 1s: Land and water food chain paper model

Level 2s: Pinnate margins

Level 3s: Position of the calyx

Friday: Studio, Library, Great Barrier Reef animals and learning watercolor painting

Home projects are due Monday and this coming week!

Have a great (wintery) weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

I fixed the links from post Week 12.  Please see where you would sign up for snack!

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

Just FYI, November’s Home Project is posted in the Home Project Tab

Please email me for any questions!

Thanks!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Happy November!  Hope you all had a lovely Halloween Thursday night.

I will be posting November’s Home Project this week.  Since November is about giving thanks and family, this project’s title is called “Family Tree” and is due November 18th.  In a nutshell there are 2 choices: 1) do a basic family tree with some history of where your family came from (siblings may do option 1 together), 2) choose one of your family members to interview and do a report on.  Cannot be mom or dad.  I will post instructions soon, so please visit our Home Project tab by this Friday!  I’m planning on having things posted by Wednesday.

We shared and finished up October’s Pumpkin Book Reports this week.  They were magnificent!

Halloween was relaxed.  The students did a few works and we completed our first class book, The Witches by Roald Dahl appropriately on Halloween.  We then watched the movie to compare the book to it.  The only difference the students saw was how the movie changed the ending compared to the book.  The students wanted a book related to Christmas next, so Ms. Anna and I are on the look for something fun to read before the let out of Winter Break.  Suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Level 1 parents: Mini History project is Due Monday! Please see week 10 for instructions.

This coming Friday November 8th is an early release.  Students will be dismissed at 1pm.  Please mark your calendars!

This coming week will be primarily cold.  Please start sending a coat and warm clothes with your child.  By Thursday it will get back up into the high 50’s, but the rest of the week will not be as warm.

This week in group lessons:

Level 1s: Solid, surface, edges (geometry), Money introduction with penny board layout

Level 2s: Adjacent and complimentary angles (geometry)

Level 3s: Base, vertex, and altitude (measuring types of  triangles in geometry)

Open lesson: Adding fractions, subtracting fractions

In cultural this week:

History:

Level 1s: Timeline of my life

Level 2s: Gravity and inertia

Level 3s: Cambrian period

Zoology:

Level 1s: Fish printing

Level 2s: Platypus

Level 3s: What is a flatworm?

Geography:

Level 1s: Continents and tracing- map making

Level 2s: Graham cracker folding (Earth’s folding)

Level 3s: Defining weather

Botany:

Level 1s: Food chains

Level 2s: Set B of leaves

Level 3s: Types of Calyx

Friday: Studio, Library trip, Electricity

Have a good rest of your weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

Hello!

We sure had a busy week!

Everything went well and the students really enjoyed their field trip and party on Friday.  Thank you to all of you who came out this past week to help out!

Our next field trip will be to see The Nutcracker on December 9th. It won’t be an all day field trip.  We will need to take a bus and each student will need $2.00 for this field trip.  I will send out information as the date approaches, but I putting in the request for us to go this week and wanted you all to be aware that this field trip will have a small cost.  If for any reason a child cannot pay, please email me and let me know.

Level 1s have a mini project.  For History, we have been discussing the calendar and also length of time.  This will lead into our large unit of telling time later on in the year.  This project is very similar to how a celebration of life works in our class, except that it is more visual.  All level 1s need to create a poster timeline of their life for every year they lived on our Earth.  For example: if your child is 7 years old, they need 7 pictures, one for each year of their life on their board.  Under each of the pictures, please help your child out with a memory from that year.  It can be something about that year from the picture they chose or just a general fact from that year.  No more than 2 sentences per picture.  I would like if level 1 students wrote the sentences themselves, but they will need help and maybe motivation.  I want them to each share to the class and then put them on display for about a week.  This project is due: November 4th (a Monday, the day we do History).

This week in group lessons:

Level 1s: Making halves and 3rds with fractions

Level 2s: Expanded notation

Level 3s: Perimeter

In cultural this week:

History:

Level 1s: Story of a Lifetime project assigned

Level 2s: Friction and Equilibrium

Level 3s: Pre-Cambrian

Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Fish parts booklet

Level 2s: The eye introduction

Level 3s: Intro Platyhelminthes

Geography:

Level 1s: Globe booklet

Level 2s: Earth’s folding

Level 3s: Weather layers

Have a great rest of our 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 

We had a lovely week 🙂

This coming week we will use our portfolios and they will choose a few pieces of work that they are proud of to show you for conferences.  See the post below this one and sign up for Fall Conferences!

Please remember to let me know if you are a certified driver, as I have heard from one parent.  You can comment on here to let me know.

If you don’t know how to subscribe or you did, but aren’t receiving an email from “The Enterprise” every time I make a post, then a step was missed.  To subscribe you must:

1. Go to the bottom right of our class blog where it says “Subscribe to Blog” and click on it.

2. Type in your email.

3. You will want to watch your email for a verification link.  Click the link to verify.

4. Your email is now verified and you will get an email every time I make a post.

Please send tennis shoes to keep in your child’s locker for PE!

This week in group lessons:

Level 1s: Curvilinear figures, numerator and denominator along with pieces of a fraction from a family

Level 2s: No level two group lesson this week

Level 3s: Triangles classified by sides and angles

In Cultural this week:

History:

Level 1s: Calendar and its parts

Level 2s: Cohesion and Adhesion

Level 3s: Labeling the Eras

Zoology/Physiology:

Level 1s: Comparison of vertebrates

Level 2s: Exercise and nutrition

Level 3s: Kinds of jellyfish

Geography:

Level 1s: Hemispheres E & W

Level 2s: Tectonic plates model

Level 3s: Density in the Earth’s atmosphere

Botany:

Level 1s: Plants through the seasons

Level 2s: Forms of leaves, set A

Level 3s: Solitary flower

Friday: Studio, Aboriginal art

Have a great weekend!

Cheers!

Ms. K

It’s the most wonderful time of the yeeeaaaarrr…

Our first conference is upon us!  Please use the we join in link below and sign up!  The teachers get a dinner break at 5pm until 5:30 for dinner, so where it says dinner, please DO NOT sign up.  The last conference will end at 4:50 before dinner and the next will commence at 5:30pm.  Conferences go from 1:30-7:00 to accommodate schedules.  It is helpful to me if every sign up is close together, but you do what is best for you!

Please be on time and be aware of other people’s times too.  

Montessori Manager will produce a report for you to see what your child has been working on.  It has been easier to input morning works into the program.  I post what we do in cultural on our blog weekly.  If you have any questions, please ask away!  I will do my very best to answer them!  Ms. Kathy, our reading specialist will also make herself available if you have a child who goes to one of our reading specialists.  Ms. Nancy has stated she will make some time as well if you have a child in social skills.  If you have a child who sees Ms. Rachel, please make a time to sign up with her too!

I hope to see everyone in less than 2 weeks!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR FALL CONFERENCES!