Greetings on the second day of Autumn!
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Hope to find that you are all doing well. It truly feels like we're in the groove in our work and in our play. This week during one of our community meetings, we discussed what is Your Job (students) and what is My Job (guides). This is a tool we were refer to in order to uphold our classroom beliefs. We've heard that doing the "My Job/Your Job" discussion can be great tool to use at home as well. Here's what the class came up with.
Your Job (Students)
- Stay focused on our work
- Clean when it's time to clean
- Play games that keep us together and that do not separate us
- Eat well and peacefully
- Respect nature, our environment, the materials, and each other.
My Job (Guides)
- Give lessons
- Help students
- Teach
- Help everyone stay safe
- Enforce guidelines
- To help students take care of themselves and others
- Respect nature, our environment, the materials, and each other.
What We're working on...
First years are continuing to work on the concept of time and the passage of time. They are also creating large lists (some as tall as the adults!) filled with nouns - people, places, things. In science, the first years are classifying and writing about living and nonliving things. In math, the students are "searching for 10" in their addition math fact work.
Second years are creating their own calendars as well as creating line graphs that documents the weather. They are also reviewing the grammar that they learned from last year and are focusing on the noun family, verb, and prepositions. In science, the students are writing animal stories and riddles as well as reviewing the 5 vertebrates.
Third years are continuing their focus on planets with rings and are getting excited about an exhibit they plan to create for the class. They are taking their knowledge of the Four Brothers of mathematics to learning how to +, -, x, / fractions. In science, they are creating elaborate classification charts and researching about poriferas (sea sponges).
Upcoming Dates
Oct. 7 - All Lower Elementary field trip to Buttermilk Falls Farm in Osceola, WI. More news on this soon!
Oct. 15 - All School Harvest Festival with Lower El Folk Dance Performance!
That's all for now.
It continues to be joy to work with all of your children.
Enjoy your weekend!
Jessy Eaton Fabel
Lower Elementary Guide"Our aim therefore is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core." ~ Maria Montessori
