Due to my illness the past two days, we will postpone the event for this evening. I will notify you with a new date as soon as possible. We will need some wonderful volunteers to bring in some things too, so a wejoin will also be available. Thank you!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
MONDAY, November 13th, TIMELINES DUE
November 14th Pizza and Game Night @ 6:30pm in the North Kiva and our classroom.
November 20th to 24th Thanksgiving Holiday Week – NO SCHOOL
I am so thankful to our class of students for their hard work and diligence in being friends with each other. I am also thankful for their efforts to learn and grow. In addition, I am thankful for the parents who saw the vision of Montessori and wished to give it to their children, so brought their child to MMA. I am thankful for MMA for building a charter Montessori so that children could have the exposure to Montessori education without the huge expense usually related to Montessori schools. My gratitude extends beyond what I can record here; so please know, I am so grateful.
This time of the year is our usual time to remember those things for which we are most appreciative. In class this past week, students began working on a Thankfulness essay. We are concentrating on the elements of paragraphs and the patterns we need to use to create effective paragraphs. Our spelling is individually focused; therefore, the students are alerted to a word they need to review throughout their writing and then they seek to improve it. Spelling is a process. Thus, through this intensive process of essay writing, the hope is that students will understand the fundamentals and comprehend that revision is essential and that seeking answers that improve us is our major job while in school. It is beautiful to see the children’s thoughts on their lives and what they appreciate most.
As a class, we have delved into fractions in Math, weather and seasons in Science, knowing continents by finding countries in Geography, and manners in our Social Skills circles. In smaller groups, children are working with large number addition and subtraction, long division, multi-digit multiplication, squares and square roots in the thousands through the ten thousands – both concretely and abstractly. In grammar and writing, students are learning sentence types, greater comprehension of the parts of speech and their roles, homophones, synonyms, antonyms, and much more. These groups will all expand to further ideas in the upcoming weeks.
This week will be exciting to see all the children’s timelines, their interests and understandings of those interests. They will present on Thursday and Friday to groups of three or four students. The rubric includes a peer review piece; I’m curious to see how everyone takes to it!
Students brought home a letter titled “Upper Elementary Expectations” this past week. Ask for it and go over it with your child. Look for a pink or green conference sheet, as well as further feedback, by the end of the week. HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE ON TUESDAY EVENING FOR PIZZA AND GAMES!
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