Just a reminder that the International Festival for Upper El is tomorrow morning from 9-11!  Parents are invited to attend and enjoy all of the projects.  If your child did not bring in their project today, they need to be sure to bring it tomorrow or they won’t be able to participate.

I also wanted to share with you how amazing your children were today.  We had the most beautiful, peaceful work cycle this morning.  Everyone was working quietly and productively and there was such a peaceful feeling on our classroom.  We also put up a little tree in our classroom this week.  The children are using it to acknowledge kind deeds and give compliments to each other.  When the want to say something nice about someone, they write it on an ornament and then put it on the tree.  We are hoping to have a tree full of beautiful decorations and compliments by the end of the week.

I also wanted to let you know that I sincerely care about your children and I want them to be happy and comfortable while they are at school.  If you ever have a concern please talk about it with me.  I can’t do anything to resolve any issues that may arise if I don’t know about them.  Your children are amazing.  It is an honor and a privilege to be able to teach them and spend time with them.  I value your input as their parents and I know that your children are best served when we work together to ensure their success.  Please e-mail me at kgonzales@mariamontessoriacademy.org if you have any questions, comments, or concerns that I can address.

Thank you for all you do!

Kirsten

Hello there!

Just a reminder that the continent/country reports are due tomorrow!  This has been the due date all along, yet some of the students seemed surprised.  We have talked about this assignment nearly every day since I gave it to them.  I told them that if they can have their packets done by tomorrow and their display here by Wednesday, then I would accept that.  Here are the packets, in case your student lost theirs…

Continent Research

Country report

Also, your students have decided that they would like to do a gift exchange on Friday.  If you can, please send a gender neutral gift that costs $5 or less to school with your students on Friday.

Remember that this Friday is an early out day and school will get out at 1:00 PM.

All of the 6th graders have Singapore math assignments to work on this week.  We have ended up with a few different groups with different assignments, so ask them what they are working on.

Thanks for all you do!

Kirsten

Hello!  Just a reminder that our Nutcracker field trip is on Monday!  We have enough certified drivers to transport all of the students back and forth.  Yeah!  Thank you so much for all of your help!  We will be leaving the school between 11 and 11:15 and returning by about 2.  The students are to come in their best dress for the theater.  They do not have to be in dress code, but they should be dressed nicer than dress code.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank You!

Kirsten

Here are this week’s spelling words:

Green:  eat, ear, read, dream, speak, meat, clean, team, near, treat

Blue:  astronomy, besides, crater, degree, diameter, gaze, gravity, reflect, telescope, universe

Orange:  cable, cathedral, convey, device, freight, landmark, method, rod, shaft, structure

Yellow:  anticipate, bankrupt, brief, brisk, budget, compete, complicate, effect, err, factor, fad, gripe, knack, leisure, unique

Red:  abject, advocate, atrocity, commemorate, dialect, dire, elite, enhance, flagrant, languish, mute, raze, reprisal, turmoil, wreak

Wednesday, December 17^th– 

Just a reminder that we will be doing our Interim SAGE Testing for Science this Thursday morning.  Please send your child to school well-rested and be sure they eat a good breakfast.

Kirsten

Hello!

A couple of our 6th grade boys asked permission to plan a talent show for our class.  It has kind of become a class tradition of ours.  With a busy school with lots of things happening, we were able to schedule the gym for this Wednesday morning at 9:00.  If your child is performing in the talent show, we would love to have you come and watch!  Please ask your child if they have signed up.  We will likely have another talent show in the Spring, with a little more planning time.

Thanks!

Kirsten

Hello,

Our Nutcracker field trip is next Monday!  I sent home permission slips this afternoon, so please make sure to sign those and send them back to school ASAP.

I am a little worried about our transportation.  At this point, I have 3 certified drivers:  Jeannie Smith, Monique Penman, and Sheralin Noble.  Will you please let me know if you will be able to drive and how many students you can bring?  If we have no other certified drivers by Monday, I will need some parents to coordinate to transport the other students to the theater.  Legally, I cannot arrange rides for the students with drivers who are not certified.   I have enough tickets for 5 parents to stay and watch the performance.

I have been telling the students since our Veteran’s Day reports were due that they would not be allowed to go on the field trip if they have not turned in their report.  I still have a few students who have not done this assignment.  Please speak with your students about this.  I don’t want to have to make anyone stay behind!

Thanks for all of your help and support to make this field trip possible!

Kirsten

Here are this week’s spelling words:

Green:  see, feet, sleep, tree, street, peel, seed, week, teen heed

Blue:  aboard, blast, career, cautious, girder, invent, rotate, story, strand, tower

Orange:  attitude, confess, defend, gradual, hint, individual, malice, misery, solution, survey

Yellow:  accumulate, aggravate, contaminate, diminish, drastic, extravagant, frugal, impurity, peril, perpetual, resource, substitute, sustain, vital, conserve

Red:  abet, agile, allot, balmy, congregate, divert, humdrum, influx, intricate, memento, query, sporadic, staple, tumult, unseemly