Ms. Karen's Blog

Hello Families,

In light of our recent tragic event, I am eager to express to each of you and to your children how grateful I am to be working with you.  It is impossible to work so closely with your sweet ones without loving them.  Thank you for sharing them with me.

Our school has a newsletter that goes out weekly to update parents.  Here is the link to the most recent one.  If you have not been receiving them, your email address may need to be updated.  To do so, please contact the front office.

As a classroom community, we have decided on the expectations during our morning meeting and lessons.  The students decided that if those expectations aren’t followed, the teacher will:

1. Give a warning
2. Ask the student to move (in the form of a tug on the ear and a pointed look at the student)
3. Ask the student to bring a chair to sit in
4. Invite the student to fill out a reflection sheet and send home an email to parents.  The reflection sheet will go home to be signed by the parents.

If you would like your child to access Imagine Learning from home, please contact me and I will send you their SSID number.  For returning students, it is the same number as last year.

The students have been working with spelling lists for the last 2 weeks.  We will test them on words tomorrow.  I apologize for not posting this list sooner, however, they have had considerable practice in class.  Your students are familiar with the color of the group they are in, and their spelling groups is also listed on their progress reports.

Red (Beginning Consonant)- The skill we are looking for is being able to identify the first sound in the word

1. bug
2. map
3. man
4. six
5. boy
6. saw
7. road
8. rain

Orange (Short vowel sounds)

1. cat
2. mat
3. hat
4. rat
5. bat
6. fat
7. sat
8. pat

Yellow (Consonant Digraphs)

1. horse
2. shirt
3. saw
4. shark
5. sock
6. ham
7. seal
8. shed
9. hose
10. house
11. ship
12. soap

Blue (long vowel patterns)

1. trade
2. Spain
3. clay
4. tray
5. nail
6. shape
7. past
8. glass
9. raise
10. brave
11. stray
12. lay
13. grain
14. taste
15. aid
16. stand

Families,

For those students who are working towards mastering letter names and sounds, we have started using “fundations” card materials.  These cards show an image and give a prompt to help students remember letter names and sounds.  The skills they develop are later revisited in the University of Utah Reading Clinic lessons, as well as in the Wilson program.

This site is a great resource for students who are working on letter names and sounds.  Please look at the downloadable files to get your own copies of the cards, as well as reading tips and handwriting lessons.

Thanks!

Karen

Families,

As you know, this week is Parent Teacher Conferences.  I still have openings for Wednesday afternoon if you have not yet signed up.  To sign up, go to track it forward (trackitforward.com) and click on events.  Scroll down to Ms. Karen PTC.  Click on a time that works for you.

If you are not available this week, please contact me at kclements@mariamontessoriacademy.org to schedule another time to meet.

Thank you!

Karen

Hello families!

Students at Maria Montessori have the opportunity to use Imagine Learning, a great website for practicing both reading and math.

To get your child onto the program, first open the site:

https://www.imaginelearning.com/

Then go to Sign in the top right hand corner.

Select the icon for Imagine Learning and Literacy (student).

The user name and password for your student is their student ID number.  I will email it to all of you.  The site code for Maria Montessori Academy is 4900144.

You can also use the same information to log into imagine math on the same home imagine learning web page.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Karen