Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

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!

On January 31st in the evening there is our annual Chili Cook off.  Our class and Ms. Stef’s will be making chili in the afternoon on Wednesday Jan. 31st.  Any parents who wish to help out, please email me. I am looking for 3 volunteers.  The students will get the COW again on the 31st, so while they are doing their computer assignments, students will be called to help.

President reports due FRIDAY! Jan. 26th– Students who are finished may bring theirs in early to share.  Reports are due by Friday.  Again, all project information is on the Projects tab at the top of our blog.

Class party- Valentine’s Day is approaching!  Our class party will be in the morning on Feb. 14th since it is an early release day (beginning of Parent Teacher Conferences- Mid Year).  Our room mom is working on some activities and will need volunteers to help out.  Please keep an eye out soon for her sign ups

Gala basket- The school’s annual Gala fundraiser night is Sat. March 17th.  Each classroom gets a basket theme then the baskets are bid on through a silent auction.  Our room, Katie, will be needing donations for our basket soon.  Keep an eye out for that email as well!  Thanks everyone!

Past Week:

We focused on Zoology and Physiology this week in cultural.

Level 1s:  Reptiles.  Parts of, facts about, and different kinds of reptiles

Level 2s: The tongue and how we taste.  Parts of a tooth and teeth care

Level 3s: Annelids.  Earthworm facts and built a pillow earthworm for parts of an earthworm

Level 1s and 3s focused on fractions this week while 2nd graders checked in with me on time.  A lot of our 2nd graders are struggling with telling time, so on Monday I will be holding an open lesson to review time.  Any student may attend, but it is an opportunity to review and go over it again.  Level 1s are learning to name fractions based on a picture.  So, if the picture of a circle shows 3 equal pieces and 2 are shaded gray, they are naming that fraction as 2/3rds.  Level 3s are beginning to name fractions on a number line.  This is a difficult lesson and when the directions have an explanation where they have to decode what it is asking them to do, many of our 3rd graders struggle with what they are asking.  Here is the page we worked on this week that a lot of the 3rd graders had questions about:  3rd grade Fractions on a Number Line

Upcoming Week:

Colder this week.  Have your child remember their cold weather attire for recess

Monday– Lexi’s Celebration of Life at 2:30.  Heather, I know Janessa’s was Sunday, so if you want to email me to schedule a time to do Janessa’s Celebration of Life let me know 🙂

Wednesday– COW 12:30-2:30

Friday– President reports are due!

PTC sign ups will be posted next weekend!  They begin Wednesday Feb 14th and run until Friday Feb 16th.

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week

Ms. Kaley

Hi Everyone!

This past week a lot of our students began the journey of recording their own work progress in their planner.  I am so proud of them.  They really lived up to the expectations and they feel a sense of pride of taking it over.

Even though the students did not have school on Friday, we were able to talk and learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the week and also discuss fairness- January’s character topic.  For Dr. MLK, each language group read the same passage and our Antelopes language group did listening and tracking while I read and we would stop at certain vocabulary and discuss what they meant.  Words such as segregation, color, violence, and fairness were some of the words that we went over.  The Badgers language group read the same passage, but they completed some sentences that were missing a vocabulary word.  They had to figure out which word fit the sentence and then for the last question they got to pick which one they wanted to use in their own sentence.  The Crocs group read the passage and completed the fill in the blank vocal page the Badgers had, but also there were story questions responses they were asked to complete.

The students also went over fairness.  The students left off their conversations regarding fairness about how fairness is about equality.  The students also discussed how fairness to them meant that everyone gets the same because that is equality- you get what you want and someone else gets that too.  We replaced the sentence “You get what you want” to “You get what you need.”  I showed them this picture:
This was a powerful picture to the students.  It lead to our discussion on how everyone is on a different path and has different needs, so some students or people may need a different approach then the person next to them.

Home Project: President Report- Up top in the Projects tab, I added the links to the President’s report pages.  I also sent home a physical copy this past week.  January’s home project is due Jan. 26th.

Past Week:

In cultural this past week: History

Level 1s: Learning that clocks have an hour and minute hand and what does that mean. Began telling time to the hour (A great lesson to practice at home on digital and analog clocks!)

Level 2s: The Sun and Mercury facts

Level 3s: Permian period and Mesozoic Era overview

Each grade level worked on their Geometry lessons this past week:

Level 1s: Endpoint/vertex, line, line segment, ray

Level 2s: Identifying angles given to them (right, obtuse, and acute)

Level 3s: Perimeter

Upcoming Week:

This coming week each level will work in different math areas.  Level 1s will work on fractions, Level 2s will go over time, and Level 3s: will do fractions as well.

We will do Zoology/Physiology this week

Thursday- We have a lockdown drill

Have a great extra day off and rest of your week

Ms. Kaley

Hello Everyone!

Happy 2018!  Hope you all had a wonderful break. The students came back ready to work and did a great job despite it being a short week.  Our construction team for the new junior high building is busily growing and they delivered the new Early Childhood playground on Friday.  Once that playground is put together then our students will have a chance to play on it until the new big playground is complete.

Home Project- January’s home project is a report on a past president.  Students are to begin researching which president they want to choose for their project and then I will provide a handout for them to record their research on.  Students will need to write facts about their president based on the questions that are on the handout.  For a visual, your child may do a poster, puppet, paper doll, model, diorama etc (again, this is the creative part that the student gets to pick). Due Jan. 26th

There is no school on Friday because of an all day teacher development.  That following Monday is MLK Day which is a no school day as well.

We have the COW (computers on wheels) this Wednesday afternoon

Past Week:

On Friday, we usually have out classroom meeting in the afternoon.  We began discussing fairness and what do the students believe it is.  I gave 5 scenarios and students had to decide whether they believed the situation was fair or unfair.  When there were differences in opinions we heard why those students thought that way.  It was pretty powerful.  This coming week we will continue the conversation of fairness by learning who Martin Luther King Jr was and what he stood for.  As the rest of January continues we will continue our fairness learning in understanding that fairness is equality, but how equality can look different, especially when it comes to people who learn differently or who are differently abled.

Another large part of our class meeting on Friday was the choice to take over the responsibility of planning their own planners.  About 2/3rd of the class were truly interested, so this coming week will be a new lesson in learning how to record lessons from my lesson plan and continuing the independent work they do.  This is a great practical life lesson, especially for the 3rd graders, as they will be going into 4th grade knowing how to take care of a planner and knowing that they need to plan their work from their teacher and for themselves.

We got a chance to do Botany this past week.  Ms. Rachel came in on Wednesday and held her monthly lesson.  On Thursday we had Botany in our leveled groups.  We are back to History this coming week.

1st grade parents: Your 1st grader has so far been introduced to the penny, nickel, and dime coins.  Most are working with adding pennies and nickels.  By the end of 1st grade they should know: pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.  1st grade students should know their name, worth, and know some simple adding with these coins.  Coin counting and conversations at home would be great practice for them.  Also, we using the rest of year in History talking about telling time.  We will go over parts of the clock this week and begin to learn how to tell time to the hour.  They will get to practice their time during work cycle next week.  Use any opportunity to you can find to have your 1st grader practice their time to the hour on an analog clock and digital.  Continue the great sight word, nonsense, and letter work at home.  It is showing. Reading at home for at least 20 minutes in each night shows dramatic improvement in a child’s reading growth.  In our classroom, it is best homework they can do

3rd grade parents: the 3rd graders goal are to work on their multiplication facts.  Please check in with your child often and take a  few minutes of each day practicing flash cards or counting objects in groups (if they need a visual).  Most are where they should be, having completed times tables of 5s and are beyond that.

Upcoming Week:

We have rain in the forecast this coming week.  Keep providing warm attire to wear outside.

Tuesday- specials in the morning

Wednesday- COW in the afternoon and Ms Misha has to leave at 12 noon

Thursday- Ms. Misha has to leave at 10am.

Friday- No School

Have a great upcoming week and rest of your Sunday!

Ms. Kaley

Hello Everyone!

Past Week:

This past week our class took their mid year DIBELS reading assessment with the reading specialists.  The 3rd graders will do the second part of their assessment after we get back from Winter Break.

In cultural we did Geography this week.  Thursday Ms. Misha wasn’t there and the kids worked on unfinished work in the afternoon while waiting for our fire drill, so we missed out on some cultural time that afternoon.  We will circle back to what we didn’t get back to Geography in January.

Level 1s: The compass and learning directions on a simple map

Level 2s: Earthquakes

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

Friday we had studio and then in the afternoon we visited the library and then did our class meeting check in with going over what Random Acts of Kindness are and what does that mean.

Upcoming Week:

This coming week will be a lot of fun, but also very busy!

Monday– will be our classroom feast.  If you wish to come help set up the tables and chairs, please come at 11am.  The kids go outside to recess at 11:30 and I’d like all the food and set up to be ready to go by the time they come in and are ready to eat.  Since we will be having a Holiday luncheon, you do not have to send a lunch with your child on Monday.  Please make sure you visit our sign up sheet to bring something for our feast and if you plan on attending.  If you are providing food, please make sure it feeds a crowd.  I will be making chili and will bring some bowls.

Tuesday– we will still have early morning recess and then will do morning cultural before the students go off to specials until lunch time.  In the afternoon the Junior High will be in the gym to share their International Festival projects.  We will visit at some point in the afternoon during their 1-2:30 time frame.

Wednesday– Upper El’s International Festival will begin at 9:00am.  We will spend the morning visiting their projects.  In the afternoon will be our class Christmas party.  The set up can begin at 11:30am.  The festivities will begin after the kids eat lunch.  It is also Box Tops Day on the 20th.

Thursday– in the morning we will get our room ready for Lower El’s International Festival and get all the projects set up.  Ms. Stef’s class will join up with our class to make Christmas cards and paper ornaments.

Friday– No School- Winter Break Begins.

Hello Everyone!

Holiday Feast Approaching- Sign Up 

Our Classroom Feast has been reserved for December 18th beginning at 12:00 noon and going to around 1:30.  If you would like to come help set up, please come at 11:00am.  Here is the sign up to bring food/supplies for our luncheon:

Holiday Feast Luncheon Sign Up

After we are done eating the students will present their research on how other countries from around the world celebrate their December holidays.

Box Tops:  I have been told that The Box Top Store will be Dec. 20th

Construction for New Junior High Building:

As you can see, the construction for the new junior high building is underway!  Since the playground is being torn down, we have figured out how to accommodate recess.  Recess will be held out back where the tether ball and basketball hoops are.  Since it is a smaller space, we arranged to have only 4 classes outside at a time during certain times.  Our classroom will still go outside at 11:30am, except on Tuesdays which is still first thing in the morning.

International Festival:

Remember that International Festival is approaching!  Projects on South America are due by Dec. 21st.  Please visit the Projects tab up at the top for additional project how to details 🙂

EPIC! Online Library

The online library program Epic, can only be used while at school 🙁  Home access can be obtained for a monthly fee of $5.99 right now.  We will add Epic to our repertoire of programs for when students need to do at school research, or would like to read.

Past Week:

Ms. Nikki began her in class co-teaching with us this past week and gave lessons on handwriting, adding/subtracting, and addition/subtraction math games.  Ms. Misha is beginning to take on more lessons as well, so we have a nice schedule going on where many students are being seen for lessons, reviews, check ins, and extra support from the teachers.

We had the COW Wednesday afternoon and we worked on Zoology/Physiology in cultural lessons this past week.

Friday we had our classroom meeting time to discuss kindness.  We did an activity with toothpaste.  I had students break into 4 groups and they all were give some toothpicks.  I squeezed out some toothpaste onto to some paper for them.  The toothpaste represented unkind words that we some times say and how it can be a challenge to take back those words.  For most people, unkind words hurt and some can leave a mark on us.  The students had the task of putting the toothpaste back into the tube of toothpaste using only toothpicks.

Friday we also read a book A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree and the students made a bird seed treat to bring birds to one of your trees at home.

In cultural this past week:

Level 1s: Amphibians learning and lifecycle of a frog

Level 2s: The ear and how we hear

Level 3s: Flat and roundworms (Platyhelminthes and Nematodes)

Upcoming Week:

Nothing too much is going on this week.  Thursday will be a Fire Drill.  Level 2s and 3s will do Geometry in leveled group lessons and Level 1s will do money. Geography will be up for cultural lessons.

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!

Ms. Kaley

Hello Everyone!

DATE REDOS!

I have some dates to edit!  School will go until December 21st.  I marked until the 20th.  The International Festival will begin on December 19th with the Junior High, December 20th will be Upper El, and December 21st will be Lower El’s presentation day.  The RED paper that went home this past week has all the information regarding the International Festival.  If your child misplaced it, please visit the project tab up top and then click on the link to review the information.  Remember that the project is due by Dec. 21st!  Thanks!

Our Holiday Classroom Party will then be December 20th in the afternoon still.  Our room mom, Katie, will email you with any details she might need for the party 🙂

I am also rescheduling our Class Feast date.  I am moving it to Monday December 18th.  It will begin at noon.  We will have a sign up sheet to bring food to share for this event. After our lunch we will have the students share their research on December holiday/Christmas traditions from around the world.  They all chose their topic this past week in class as part of their December writing prompt assignment.  this week they will begin reading the research and learn to write responses based on what they read to share with you on feast day!

A Note from MAPA (MMA’s parent committee):

Past Week:

Hello Everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and some time off!

Past Week:

Students made decorations for the North Ogden Community Gratitude Feast at our school on Tuesday afternoon.  Our students also did a school survey in the school’s computer lab Thursday morning.

The projects for the fractions family November home projects were FANTASTIC!  The presentations and how they are made made for an excellent focus on your home community and learning about others families.  A lot of the kids liked seeing the similarities and I got to learn some new interests about the kids!

December’s home project is a pretty big one.  Our school does an annual International Festival that focuses on our continent studies throughout the school.  The Junior High will do theirs December 18th, Upper El December 19th and ours will be December 20th.  Lower El usually does theirs in the afternoons, but I will get a confirmation on that soon.  If the plan is still to do Lower El’s International Festival December 20th in the afternoon, the our class Holiday Party will be December 19th in the afternoon since Upper El does their International Festival in the morning.  Our continent is South America.  I will be talking with the students this week about it and will be sending home a project take home sheet this week.  Students are asked to choose an interest about South America.  It can be a city, country, animal, tradition, clothing, landmark…literally anything from South America can be chosen.  Students usually choose to use a project trip-fold board to present their project, but posters and presentations such as PowerPoint or Prezi can also be used.  Some students have done dioramas with a poster, so if your child likes to get crafty, visuals are great for this project.

In cultural this week we did Botany and in group math we did fractions

Level 1s: Food chains both land and water

Level 2s: Pinnate and palmate margins of a leaf’s margin

Level 3s: Kinds of calyx and petals (Gamopetalous/1 single petal and Polypetalous/multiple petals)

Upcoming Week:

This week we will talk about International Festival and begin our December writing prompt: Informational Writing about Holidays around the World.

Ms. Rachel will also be coming Wednesday afternoon for December’s Botany lesson

December Dates to Remember:

December 8th- Early Release 1pm

December 14th- Class Holiday Feast 12pm-1:30 in South Kiva *More info to come 🙂

December 18-20th- International Festival.  Lower El’s projects are due by Dec. 20th.  They may bring them in early, but the presentations are the 20th.

December 19th- Class Holiday Party in the afternoon- 12:45-2:30

*I believe there is a Box Tops those last 3 days before Xmas break.  If I hear other wise I will let you know.

The week is mostly in the 40s, so please make sure students have the attire they need for playing outside.  Tuesday is our day that recess is first thing in the morning and it is colder.  Students might start needing hats and gloves.

Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!

Ms. Kaley