Mrs. Elliott's Montessori Classroom

This morning we started our Friday with our usual routine that included Big 5, Journal writing and Word Study Dictations.  We spent much of the day today working on our Heritage Fair projects.  Our goal is to have these completed by next Friday so that we can practice our presentations on Monday and Tuesday the following week.  Our Heritage Fair will be taking place in the gym on April 16th.   Homework:  - Heritage Fair writing should be completed so we can work on editing next week. Have a good weekend!

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!