Mrs. Elliott's Montessori Classroom

We spent much of the day today working on our Heritage Fair projects.  The goal is to have these completed next week.  We will be having a Heritage Fair viewing day in the gym on April 16th from 10:30 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 2:15.  We also completed our word study sentence dictations today. Homework tonight:  - home reading  - Heritage Fair  - word study dictations tomorrow  - BBQ Fun Fair basket Have a good night.

This afternoon we worked on our Typing Pal programs.  We also had a chance to answer some challenge questions in Prodigy.  In the morning we worked on writing our Heritage Fair paragraphs.  These should be completed by the end of the week.  Next week we will focus on editing and creating our backboards.  I have heard that some stores are sold out, but the children are telling me that they have found them at Dollar Tree and the dollar store by Save on Foods, as well as the one by Shoppers in Valleyview. Homework tonight:   - home reading out loud  - BBQ basket  - Heritage Fair writing and notes Have a good night!

This afternoon we created three dimensional shapes using one point perspective.  We will continue to work with this concept in art for the next couple of weeks.  We were pranked by our little buddies for April Fool's Day today.  They came down to offer us some "brown es."  They had a baking tray of cut out upper and lower case brown es.   Homework tonight:  - home reading  - Heritage Fair notes we will be writing more of our paragraphs tomorrow so please bring your notes  - Lap Book if not complete.  Emails will be coming home tomorrow for children who have not completed this project as it was due before Spring Break  - Gym tomorrow  Have a good night!

 Welcome back!  I hope that everyone had a wonderful break.  Over the next few days we will be turning notes into paragraphs for Heritage Fair.  Please make sure your child has all their notes with them tomorrow. We did our Math Monday estimating today.  The children had to estimate four images of strawberries and justify their thinking.  This afternoon we made gyrocopters to help us understand air force and lift. Homework:  - home reading  - Heritage Fair notes  - library tomorrow  - gym   - Fun Fair BBQ basket items  - grade six band information sheet Have a good night!

A reminder that progress reports were published yesterday.  We had another work block day today.  The children continued to work on finishing their Lap Books and Heritage Fair research.  Some of them are bringing home this work to complete over the break.  Please check with your child to complete it sooner than later.  We will start working with paragraph writing for our projects once we return from the break so they need to have their notes completed.   Homework:  - take lunch kit and place in kitchen  - home reading  - Lap Book if not complete  - Heritage Research if not complete (we will start paragraph writing when we get back)  Have a wonderful Spring Break!  Happy and safe travels to those heading out on a holiday.  See you March 31st!

Today we finished creating our boats and tested them to learn about drag in water.  Most of the day today was a work block day.  We have been working to finish our Lap Books and get our research completed for Heritage Fair (1 page of notes for each subheading is the goal!).  These will both be homework if not completed at the end of the day tomorrow as we have had many hours of class time dedicated to this over the past few weeks. Homework tonight:  - home reading  - Lap Book due tomorrow  - Heritage Fair research  - Core Competencies  - Fun Fair notice (early I know, I just know I always like to plan ahead)  Have a great night!