School at home

Hello Everyone,

I hope this post finds you well.

During this temporary school closure, the lower-el team has put together some amazing resources for you and your child to help ensure that they can continue learning and progressing as they have been this year. We have created a blog that will have all the digital resources for you to use at home. Please take advantage of this and use it daily. We will also use this blog to update you on any new info and resources we have. The link for the blog is:  http://blogs.mariamontessoriacademy.org/lowerel/. Please register for the blog using the Subscribe to this blog link to the right of the page. During this time of school closure, this will be our main way of communicating.

Take care and stay safe and healthy.

Ms. Krista

Spelling words and MCWs

List A: ring, sling, sing, wing, swing, king, bring

List B: yawn, hawk, crawl, claw, ball, salt, small, wall

List C: act, additional, advice, crumple. fan, memorize, mystify, pause, transparent, vanish

List D: audition, create, elevate, eliminate, engage, entrance, essential, foremost, forsake, recognize, sentimental, source, tour, tradition, trio

MCW words this week: large, must, big, even, such, because, turn, here, why, ask, went, men, read, need, land  (Please help your child practice reading these words at home.)

Spelling Words

List A: drink, pink, link, mink, sink, wink

List B: wrench, wring, wrap, wrist, write, wrecker, wren, wristband

List C: chasm, continent, credit, enable, foul, gust, ordeal, plateau, rig, schedule

List D: abreast, barrier, breadth, capital, ensure, external, feud, fortress, frequent, frontier, peasant, petty, threat, utilize, vast

MCW words this week: following, came, want, show, also, around, form, three, small, set, put, end, does, another, well  (Please help your child practice reading these words at home.)

Zoology home projects

Dear Parents,

Zoology home projects are due the week of March 16. Each grade has been assigned the following project to research:

1st graders-Students will research an example of a specific animal in the category they have been assigned (e.g. salmon, seagull, frog, llama, etc.), provide interesting facts about their specific animal, describe the general characteristics of the type of animal (e.g. Feathers, warm blooded, lays eggs, etc.), and describe the habitat it lives in. (e.g. water, land, both, etc.)

Alex-fish

Kariann-Amphibian

Liam-Reptile

Milly-Bird

Karmy-water mammal

Roman-land mammal

2nd Graders-Student will need to research the category of invertebrate animal that they have been assigned. The following are things they will be expected to cover in their presentation:
How it looks– its physical characteristics
Where it lives
How it moves
How and what it eats
Other interesting facts

Jacklyn-sea sponge

Zeke-flatworms

Olyvia-Jellyfish

Elijah-insect

Owen-Mollusk

Maylin-earthworm

Maya-spider

3rd graders– Students will research a biome. They will need to include information about the climate(weather, temperature, etc.), natural resources, people, plants, and animals. They should also have a picture of a map that shows where this biome is located.

Grant-Desert

Savannah-Marine

Greir-temperate grassland

Evie-Rainforest

Axel-Temperate forest

Alvin-Taiga/Boreal forest

Tony-Savannah (tropical grassland)