The Montgomery Memo

Transdisciplinary Theme: Where We Are in Place and Time (Our Artifacts and Symbols Unit)

Central Idea: Artifacts and symbols provide clues to understanding culture.

Lines of Inquiry:

• Symbols and artifacts inform us about culture
  
• Local, national and global symbols have meaning
  
• Timelines put artifacts and symbols into different time periods

Learner Profile Words: Communicator, Knowledgeable, Thinker

Approaches to Learning: Research Skills, Thinking Skills

This week we worked on Timelines. We made a personal timeline, and timelines of schools long ago and today and transportation long ago and today. Next week we will use our homework papers and put our houses/buildings that we researched into a timeline! We will also do a research project of long ago and today.

There is a note from Mrs. Swadley, our school counselor, coming home in folders today about an upcoming counseling lesson. Please make sure you find and read that. Contact Mrs. Swadley if you have any questions.

This week we read some books about schools long ago, and some Little House on the Prairie picture books. In small group we worked on listening comprehension on some holiday reading passages.

For writing, we picked four things that have happened in our lives and wrote about them, and then put them into a timeline.

In Phonics, we added consonants "w" and "y" to our letters and sounds and practiced sight words and writing complete sentences.

For math this week, we worked on story problems, including story problems with missing addends. We also reviewed addition and subtraction. Next week we will do some comparison story problems.

How can you help? Make sure your student is fluent in their addition and subtraction math facts up to 10, and then if they have mastered that, up to 20.

This week we had 5-7 students coming in late each day and 2 students absent each day. :(

I'm still hoping for a day with 100% attendance!

Doors open at 7:00 for students eating breakfast. If your student needs breakfast from school, PLEASE make sure they arrive in time to eat it!!!

Tardy bell rings at 7:20 - by that time students need to be in their seats ready for learning! Thank you for your support. Breakfast is served until 7:15.

Reminder, we do math at the end of the day, so when students are pulled out early they may be missing a math lesson!

Here is the link to the November snack calendar.

Monday: No school

Tuesday: No school

Wednesday: Kayden

Thursday: Lettie

Friday: Luna

Please send a snack for 21 students on or before your assigned day! Thank you for your help!

We have a drinking fountain near our classroom. However, if your student wants to bring a water bottle to refill they can keep that at their table as long as it does not cause a distraction to our learning.

Here is my schedule for Parent-Teacher conferences. If you do not have a time scheduled, please send me a message about which open slot will work for you. Thanks!

Monday, Nov. 13

3:00 Knox

3:15

3:30 Jaxson

3:45 Luna

Tuesday, Nov. 14

3:00 Lettie

3:15

3:30

3:45 Maliyah

4:00

4:15

4:30 Josiah

4:45 Epsilon

5:30 Autumn

5:45 Paighten

6:00 Kayden

6:15 Brilynn

Wednesday, Nov. 15

4:00

4:15 Walker

4:30

4:45 Emily

5:00 Ja'ceon

Thursday, Nov. 16

4:00 Okemeus

4:15 Emmett

4:30 Destiny

4:45

5:00 Alyssa

Monday, Nov. 27

2:30 Akira and Heavenly

The best way to contact me is by Toddle message or email (jmontgomery1@spsmail.org)

Nov. 6-7: No school for students

Nov. 9: Mrs. Montgomery out in the morning for PYP planning, Mrs. Case to substitute

Nov. 13-17: Parent-teacher conference week

Nov. 14: Picture retake day

Nov. 20-24: No school, Thanksgiving break

Dec. 8: Field Trip in the morning, more info to come - Parents needed!

Dec. 14: Early release @ 12:20

Dec. 22: Holiday Parties 1:00 (Please let me know if you are willing to help!)

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Toddle message or email is the best way to reach me!

Email: jmontgomery1@spsmail.org
Website: https://www.sps.org/rountree
Location: 1333 East Grand Street, Springfield, MO, USA
Phone: 417-523-4900
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Twitter: @RountreeOwls