Dear Families,
Get ready because April is going to be an event filled month. Just as a repeat from my last BLOG, the following events need your participation.
On Thursday, March 25th, there is a fund raiser at Chevy's from 4-7pm. All IA families will receive 20% off all receipts. I hope to see you all there!
A science field trip is on our class calendar for Tuesday, April 13th. We are going to the Ruben H. Fleet to study electromagnatism and to tour the museum in general. After, we will head over to the Automotive Museum where we will see electricity in action as we will see an electric car. The cost is $10.00 for students, so please start bringing your money in. This will be a full-day activity and all students need to bring a packed lunch, snacks, and beverages. Drivers are needed and there is no cost for volunteering adults.
We also have a chance this year to participate in an upcoming field trip to Junior Achievements Biz Town on Thursday, April 22nd. This is a highly acclaimed program that only reaches a small percentage of student. We are extremely fortunate to be included. There will be a full curriculum taught to the students that has already begun, focusing on market-based economies. The unit culminates with our visit to Biz Town, a two-story mini-city with town hall and businesses. Each student will assume a job, produce or sell products, receive a paycheck, work on a team, repay business loans, and shop/manage personal bank accounts. The cost per student is $18 to cover the entire program. I need lots of adults for supervision. The 5th and 6th grade classes will also be attending, so between the three classes, we need 25-40 adults. Please start looking at your calendar and let me know as soon as possible if you can volunteer for this full day event!!! Volunteers will go to Biztown at 8am to train before the students arrive a bit after 9am. Supervising adults are free. I went for my training last Friday and Biztown is amazing. I was fortunate to see kids in action and they all looked engaged and excited!
In addition, your child can now win a trip to Magic Mountain for summer break. The only thing required is reading. Students will be bringing home a weekly reading log with a required reading time of 85 minutes a week. These logs are to be returned to me every Monday and require a parents initials daily. They do not have to read over Spring Break. Please see the IA master calendar for Spring Break dates.
For the next Family Meeting on April 8th, my class is in charge of the food, desserts, and drinks. You will be pleased to hear I've already lined up a restaurant that will be donating all the pizzas and salad. I need you (a parent(s)) to help organize other parents to help set-up, bring lots of desserts which we will sell, drinks, cups, plates, napkins, utensils, and finally to help break everything down. As usual the pizza (two pieces, I think), salad, and drinks will cost just $3.00. The pizza is from Mona Lisa's Italian restaurant in Little Italy. Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In class we are busy with vocabulary and grammar work, finishing up By the Great Horn Spoon and our study of California Indians, we are moving into the next unit in math which includes higher level multiplication and division, and before STAR testing I want to take time for lessons on fractions. We have begun our lessons for Biztown and have already covered what a community and economy are. They have been introduced to the circular flow of our economy and played games exchanging money, goods and services, and resources. Whew!!!
For reading, we will next to be breaking into leveled reading groups. I hope to have this up and running sometime next week. In writing we have just begun to learn how to write a summary. Finally, I am beginning to introduce them to test taking strategies for taking a test such as the STAR test, which is coming up in about a month. We don't teach to the test, but as we are reviewing, I am finding places students need extra support. I will be sending home optional work/practice packets over the next few weeks, so they feel a bit more confident as they take the test.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions and concerns, and please let me know how you might help where volunteers are needed above.
Kim
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Arriving at Smith Ranch!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Exciting News!
Hello IA families,
I am sorry I am a few days late getting my BLOG out to you! Get your calendars out to mark some very important dates!
First on the agenda is our IA Family Night on Thursday, March 11th sponsored by the Karrlie's first grade class. The menu includes pasta, salad, and breadsticks for $3.00 each. Dinner is at 5pm. Please plan to eat in your student's classroom. This Thursday, I will be showing a video of an upcoming activity your children are going to participate in. Keep reading for details! During the actual parent meeting, students/kids will be assigned to classrooms where they will be safely supervised.
On Thursday, March 25th, there is a fund raiser at Chevy's from 4-7pm. All IA families will receive 20% off all receipts. I hope to see you all there.
A science field trip is on our class calendar for Tuesday, April 13th. We are going to the Ruben H. Fleet to study electromagnatism and to tour the museum in general. After, we will head over to the Automotive Museum where we will see electricity in action as we will see an electric car. The cost is $10.00 for students, so please start bringing your money in. This will be a full-day activity and all students need to bring a packed lunch, snacks, and beverages. Drivers are needed and there is no cost for volunteering adults.
We also have a chance this year to participate in an upcoming field trip to Junior Achievements Biz Town on Thursday, April 22nd. This is a highly acclaimed program that only reaches a small percentage of student. We are extremely fortunate to be included. There will be a full curriculum taught to the students beginning next week, focusing on market-based economies. The unit culminates with our visit to Biz Town, a two-story mini-city with town hall and businesses. Each student will assume a job, produce or sell products, receive a paycheck, work on a team, repay business loans, and shop/manage personal bank accounts. As mentioned above, I will be showing a video about Biz Town at this week's Family Night. The cost per student is $18 to cover the entire program. I need lots of adults for supervision. The 5th and 6th grade classes will also be attending, so between the three classes, we need 25-40 adults. Please start looking at your calendar and let me know as soon as possible if you can volunteer for this full day event!!! Supervising adults are free.
In addition, your child can now win a trip to Magic Mountain for summer break. The only thing required is reading. Students will be bringing home a weekly reading log today with a required reading time of 75 minutes a week. These logs are to be returned to me every Monday and require a parents initials everyday. They do not have to read over Spring Break. Please see the IA master calendar for Spring Break dates.
In science, I need the following supplies brought into class next Tuesday, March 16th. Each child needs to gather three different looking rock specimens about 2 cm in diameter, bring in an empty coffee tin with a lid, and a large steel nail. We are finishing looking at types of rock and moving on to weathering . By the way, we are studying the metric system in math, so let them measure the rocks to determine if they qualify as the correct size.
That's it for now! Please email or come by with questions or concerns.
Kim
I am sorry I am a few days late getting my BLOG out to you! Get your calendars out to mark some very important dates!
First on the agenda is our IA Family Night on Thursday, March 11th sponsored by the Karrlie's first grade class. The menu includes pasta, salad, and breadsticks for $3.00 each. Dinner is at 5pm. Please plan to eat in your student's classroom. This Thursday, I will be showing a video of an upcoming activity your children are going to participate in. Keep reading for details! During the actual parent meeting, students/kids will be assigned to classrooms where they will be safely supervised.
On Thursday, March 25th, there is a fund raiser at Chevy's from 4-7pm. All IA families will receive 20% off all receipts. I hope to see you all there.
A science field trip is on our class calendar for Tuesday, April 13th. We are going to the Ruben H. Fleet to study electromagnatism and to tour the museum in general. After, we will head over to the Automotive Museum where we will see electricity in action as we will see an electric car. The cost is $10.00 for students, so please start bringing your money in. This will be a full-day activity and all students need to bring a packed lunch, snacks, and beverages. Drivers are needed and there is no cost for volunteering adults.
We also have a chance this year to participate in an upcoming field trip to Junior Achievements Biz Town on Thursday, April 22nd. This is a highly acclaimed program that only reaches a small percentage of student. We are extremely fortunate to be included. There will be a full curriculum taught to the students beginning next week, focusing on market-based economies. The unit culminates with our visit to Biz Town, a two-story mini-city with town hall and businesses. Each student will assume a job, produce or sell products, receive a paycheck, work on a team, repay business loans, and shop/manage personal bank accounts. As mentioned above, I will be showing a video about Biz Town at this week's Family Night. The cost per student is $18 to cover the entire program. I need lots of adults for supervision. The 5th and 6th grade classes will also be attending, so between the three classes, we need 25-40 adults. Please start looking at your calendar and let me know as soon as possible if you can volunteer for this full day event!!! Supervising adults are free.
In addition, your child can now win a trip to Magic Mountain for summer break. The only thing required is reading. Students will be bringing home a weekly reading log today with a required reading time of 75 minutes a week. These logs are to be returned to me every Monday and require a parents initials everyday. They do not have to read over Spring Break. Please see the IA master calendar for Spring Break dates.
In science, I need the following supplies brought into class next Tuesday, March 16th. Each child needs to gather three different looking rock specimens about 2 cm in diameter, bring in an empty coffee tin with a lid, and a large steel nail. We are finishing looking at types of rock and moving on to weathering . By the way, we are studying the metric system in math, so let them measure the rocks to determine if they qualify as the correct size.
That's it for now! Please email or come by with questions or concerns.
Kim
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