List A: box, dog, pod, fox, hop, log, mop, tot

List B: mixing, catching, stink, crank, prong, shrunk

List C: ape, brain, branch, cavern, chimney, dozen, flame, net, spear, torch

List D: average, border, cocoon, flutter, moisture, nectar, process, span, suitable, timber

Please help your child study spelling words at home.

Below is the link to pay for your child’s field trip to Black Island Farms.  Please remember that adults who are attending will need to pay Black Island Farms directly the morning of the field trip.  Thank you!

https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=2440

Also, please sign up on the link below if you can drive your own child and any others to/from the field trip on October 5th.

https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/rcako

Dear Parents,

I sent waiver forms home with the children yesterday.  Please sign the waiver and return no later than Friday.  There was one mistake on the waiver.  It should say “Thursday, October 5”,.  Below are the details of the field trip for your reference.:

Maria Montessori Academy

Field Experience on ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Thursday, October 5, 2017

at Black Island Farms

3178 S. 3000 W, Syracuse, UT 84075

• We will be visiting Black Island Farms
• We will be going on a hayride and picking pumpkins
• We will be participating in various outdoor activities (slides, corn mazes, etc), and interacting with various animals.

• A sack lunch and disposable water bottle
• A jacket depending on the weather
• $4 donation would be appreciated to cover the cost of the field trip (please pay prior to the field trip at the online link or at the office.) Parents attending will need to pay Black Island Farms the morning of the field trip.

• We will leave from North Shore parking lot by 10:15. Parents will drive their child to Black Island Farms.
• Our hayride will begin at 11am.
• We will have lunch together after the hayride, then groups will be free to explore the farm.
• Students will need to be picked up no later than 2:30. (Please pick your child up at Black Island Farms before returning to school to pick up other children.)

• Dena Stephenson (room mother) lanejay2002@yahoo.com

Dear Parents,

Here are the spelling lists for next week.  Spelling tests are on Thursday.  We highly encourage all students to study their words at home with a parent or sibling.

List A:  bib, fin, kid, pig, rib, wig, lid, pin

List B:long, strong, tongs, gong, song, honk, prong, wrong

List C: antenna, balance, boulder, cliff, joint, machine, motor, muscle, planet, slope

List D:ambition, auction, coast, current, frail, intelligent, novel, resident, starve, volunteer

Calendar updates:

October 5: Field trip to Black Island Farms.  Waiver forms and detailed information will be coming home next week.  Students will need transportation to and from Black Island Farms. Please let me know if you will be attending this field trip with your child so I can make sure we have enough chaperones.  The requested donation for the field trip is $4.. Students need to pay in advance at the office or on the online payment link which will be emailed next week.  Adults attending will need to pay for themselves at Black Island Farms the morning of the field trip.

October 16-18: Parent Teacher Conferences (sign-up sheets will be posted the first week of October)

October 19-20:Fall Break. No school.

October 27: Fall Festival at MMA (more details to come)

List A: ax, bag, cab, van, cap, dad, gas, ham  (all first graders are currently on this list)

List B: bank, tank, plank, sank, fang, hang

List C: accident, acrobat, alarm, bounce, enormous, gap, scoop, support, tangle, weigh

List D: attract, crew, dangle, drift, event, launch, opposite, reverse, signal, steer

We went over what list each students is on last week.  All second and third graders should know what list they are on.

Dear Parents,

Our first home projects are due next week.  This is meant to be a fun, simple project.  Students will present a favorite book they have read.  If they are not yet reading fluently they may choose a book someone has read to them.  Students will need to tell about the main characters, a brief summary of the book, and share why they liked it.  As with all home projects, they will need a visual aid (e.g. puppet, mini-book, shadow box, mobile, clay model, etc.) to accompany their report.  If possible I would like them to bring the book as well.

Students will be presenting their reports on the following days:

Monday, Sept. 18: Christine, Denver, Lucas, Christian, Halee, Kalia, Brody, Alejandro

Wednesday, Sept. 20: Eli, Graysha, Pranet, Taylor, Gage, Evan,  Xienna, Sam

Thursday, Sept. 21: Daxton, A.J., Savannah C, Evie, Axel, Luca, Aaron,

Friday, Sept. 22: Camdyn, Asher, Tony, Crystal, Savannah B, Lily

Dear Parents,

This year MMA is hosting a parent/guardian only Open House this Thursday, September 7th from 6-7:30pm.  The schedule was set-up to accommodate families that want to attend early, attend later, and who have more than one child at this school. From 6-6:30pm there will be classroom tours. From 6:30-7pm we will host a Montessori 101 workshop in the gym for elementary and in the yurt for junior high. Then, from 7–7:30pm there will be classroom tours again. If parents work late and want to attend the Montessori 101 and then do the later classroom tour – that works for them and vice versa for parents who want to attend and leave earlier. If parents have two children at the school they can attend both classroom tours. If our seasoned Montessori parents do not want to attend the Montessori 101, they can attend either the early or late classroom tours. 

Hope to see you there!

Ms. Krista