Hello!
I hope everyone has enjoyed this beautiful fall weekend! I know I am enjoying this weather before it gets too cold. Having grown up in Mississippi, I’m not a huge fan of the cold winters!
I want to thank those of you who attended our recent parent teacher conferences. I really enjoyed meeting with all of you and sharing the progress your children have made.
I realized last week that we are already a quarter into the school year. It is hard to believe! It has gone by really quickly. I’m proud of the progress the students have made so far. I love our class! They are a wonderful group of children. Of course we have our challenges, but for the most part, the students work hard and want to do what’s right. They help each other and try to be kind. I’ve seen many students really grow and mature this year. I love to see how proud they are of their accomplishments!
Last week was Red Ribbon Week. Our class enjoyed participating in all of the fun activities. We had several students enter the essay writing contest and I want to congratulate Lexi from our class for winning 2nd place! Our class also won the door decorating contest! We collaborated with Ms. Jalee and combined our doors. The students worked really hard and did an awesome job. We will be having a pizza party at a future date! I’ll let you know when so you won’t pack a lunch that day.
I’ve received some questions about whether or not our class is having a Halloween party on Tuesday. We will not be having a party, but we do have some fun activities planned. We have some things that have become traditions that the students look forward to doing every year. We will have our pancake breakfast, explore science with exploding pumpkins, learn anatomy by making a skeleton hand, and test our engineering skills by making pumpkin catapults. At this time, I do not anticipate needing any parent volunteers, but if you have a strong desire to help, please e-mail me.
We have been talking about our next home project in class. I had some students request doing a project based on their favorite book. I have decided that this would be a great idea! I asked the class how many of them had a favorite book and would enjoy doing a project about it and almost every hand went up. I will send home more details with the students tomorrow. It will be due on November 17th and then we’ll move right into preparing our country/continent reports for the International Festival in December.
With Halloween coming up, I just want to remind everyone that our school’s policy is that students are not allowed to have candy or soda at school. Thanks for your support!
Please e-mail me at kgonzales@mariamontessoriacademy.org if you have any concerns or questions.
Kirsten