Dear Parents,

The Annual International Festival is approaching. This is the time of year when each student has the opportunity to present a country from the continent we are studying. This semester we have been learning about Europe.

The International Festival is a way to explore other cultures from around the world.  Each student will research and explore their chosen country and find a creative way to share what they have learned with the whole school.  This project will need to include the country’s flag, a landform in the country, and how fundamental human
needs are met there (such as transportation, food, housing, etc.). Students may include any other interesting facts about their particular country. They will need to have a display of their country. This can include pictures, artifacts, clothing, music, and food. Students will present their projects individually in their own class in addition to presenting to the entire school during the cultural festival. During the festival, students will have the opportunity to visit each classroom and experience all of the continents and countries throughout the world as they view the presentations prepared by their schoolmates. Each student is expected to participate in the festival.

The International Festival will be November 22.  Students will present their projects individually to our class on November 18-21.

I have created a signup sheet so you can help your child select a country that has not been chosen already.  Some of the children have already let me know which country they would like to present, so I have added their name to the list.  Please click on the link below.  If you have not signed up by next Friday, I will help your child choose a country during class.

Countries of Europe Sign-up

List A: bed, hen, jet, leg, net, ten, web, red

List B:  snail, tail, train, hay, crayon, gray, rein, vein

List C: cone, cube, earth, fern, fuel, grain, lizard, miner, present, seam

List D:  applaud, crafty, disclose, drab, entire, exclaim, exquisite, intend, jeer, peer, progress, refine, scoundrel, uneasy, vain

A: bug, bus, cub, cup, sun, rug, hug, nut

B: cube, flute, mule, plume, tube, dune, rule, cute

C: absorb, anchor, brush, bud, center, core, factory, hive, sapling, trunk

D: abrupt, achieve, attempt, contempt, entertain, glimpse, mock, persist, persuade, phase, quaint, recall, reject, revise, sensitive

MCW words: will, up, other, about, out, many, then, them, these, so (please help your child practice reading these words at home).

Dear Parents,

If you would like to order pictures for your child please go to the link below and follow the directions on the form.  School picture day is Tuesday, October 22.

Pictureday 

Dear Families,

There will be no spelling words this week due to fall break on Thursday and Friday

These are the MCW words for the week: there, use, an, each, which, she, do how, their, if   (Please practice these words with your child at home.)

Oct. 22-School Picture Day.

Oct. 24-Boxtop store

Spelling Words

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

B: bike, dime, lime, pipe, smile, stripe, vine, bride

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

D: active, astound, attend, cherish, contract, eager, expose, grace, impose, modest, parallel, paralyze, pessimist, recite, respond

Our MCWs (most common words) for this week are: but, not, what, all, were, we, when, your, can, said

Dear Parents,

Here is the schedule for our home projects next week:

Monday, Oct. 7: Alex, Kariann, Liam, Milly, Roman, Emma

Tuesday, Oct. 8: Karmy, Jacklyn, Zeke, Olyvia, Elijah,

Wednesday, Oct. 9: Maylin, Maya, Grant, Savannah,

Thursday, Oct. 10:  Axel, Alvin, Tony, Alora, Greir, Evie

Spelling words

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

List B: bone, cone, globe, home, mole, rope, stove, smoke

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

List D: approach, burrow, cease, destructive, drowsy, famished, forecast, hibernate, migrate, nestle, observe, prepare, reduce, severe, venture

These are the “Most Common Words” of the week. They are part of our reading curriculum this year.  Please assist your child in learning to read them at home:  at, be, this, have, from, or, one, had, by, word

We are in need of dish soap in our classroom.  If you would be willing to donate a bottle we would be very grateful.

Thank you,

Ms. Krista

Maria Montessori Academy 

Field Experience on October 11, 2019

at Discovery Gateway Clark Planetarium

110 400 W. Salt Lake City

The lead instructors are all lower elementary teachers.

We will participate in interactive displays and a workshop on planets. We will also attend a movie at the IMAX theater about the life of lemurs.

What you will do and what you will learn:

• Discover, explore, and create with interactive, hands-on exhibits
• Science and space through interactive displays
• Workshop on planets
• Attend and IMAX movie on the life of lemurs

What you will need to wear or bring:

• School uniform
• Sack lunch and water bottle with easy to carry back pack

Our Schedule:

• 8:10 am – Meet at UTA train station on Wall Ave (2350 Wall Ave) and board Frontrunner. Train leaves at 8:37 am.
• Arrive at Clark Planetarium by 9:45 am. Explore the planetarium and its interactive exhibits.
• 10:15 am – Holly, Karen, Leslee, and Mikaela’s classes will participate in Science Around the Sphere.
• 11:00 am – All classes will attend a movie at the IMAX Theater on the life of lemurs. Lunch will be eaten during the IMAX movie. Students and chaperones will be allowed to eat a sack lunch while in the theater. They must clean up after themselves and restore their environment before leaving the theater.
• 12:15 pm – Jalee, Shauna, Pat, and Krista’s classes will participate in Science Around the Sphere.
• 1:00 pm – Meet at the front of Planetarium and leave Clark Planetarium by 1:10 to board frontrunner for ride home. Will arrive back at the station on Wall Ave in Ogden at 2:24 pm. Parents will need to pick children up there. Please arrive early.  

Spelling words:

List A: ax, bag, cab, van, cap, dad, gas, ham

List B: lake, plate, rake, flame, grave, snake, tape, wave

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

List D: affect, calculate, climate, column, decay, exceed, forbid, grove, limb, mammoth, mature, permit, resist, scorch, tower

Dear Parents,

I have put each child into a specific spelling group.  We went over this in class so each student should know what group they are in.  I will be posting the upcoming week’s spelling words each Friday.  Spelling tests will be on Thursday.  Please help your child practice his/her words throughout the week.   Here are the spelling words for next week.

Group A: bat, cat, mat, sat, hat, fan, can, ram

Group B: pin, pine, kit, kite, mat, mate, cap, cape

Group C: calf, claw, couple, cushion, flap, groom, share, shelter, yard, zero

Group D: benefit, complete, develop, dismay, ease, hail, lack, master, patriot, project, recommend, remark, represent, sufficient, utter