Ellis Supplies on Wheels

The Week of September 4th

Weekly Newsletter

WOW! Last week was a whirlwind of excitement at Charles Ellis! We received news on Thursday that there would be no school on Friday due to severe weather. This weather event ties in perfectly with the cloud research that is happening in Room 21. I hope everyone got to spend some time outside after the storm passed to further investigate the clouds. This week we will have a guest in Room 21 on Tuesday to help us learn more about the Suns's energy and the different ways in which it affects the Earth and it's inhabitants. 

We will also be receiving materials from another Donors Choose project that was funded over the weekend! I am so excited about this one because these materials will allow us to begin cooking in the classroom! Be on the lookout for a sign up genius email so that families can send in nutritious ingredients for smoothies and baking.

Also, after Donors Choose receives our Thank You package, we will have earned enough points to create a project that allows us to use an outside vendor. I intend to create a project to help our classroom get much needed materials from Waseca, a company that specializes in beautiful Montessori materials. I hope to get a match offer for the project so I will wait to send out an email to families after we have a match. This way every donation will be matched by a corporation and we will fund the project twice as fast! Thank you for your help funding this project, I will let you know when to donate.

Ellis Supplies on Wheels

Charles Ellis Montessori Academy Erdkinder students in the CTAE (Career Technical Agricultural Education) program are staffing Ellis Supplies on Wheels cart. They will be coming by our classroom at a designated time and selling the items listed.

 Dates to Remember:

9/5           School Holiday- Labor Day
9/21         International Peace Day-Sing Along
9/22         Fall Equinox
9/30         Dress Down Day $1- Lymphoma (Proceeds to benefit Wyatt Rath)
                

10/18       Parent Education 5:30 PTA 6:30
10/24-28  Great Pumpkin Book Characters (Media Center)
10/28       Dress Down Day $1-Ellis Athletics Program
10/31       Halloween

Upcoming HEALTHY snack weeks for 22 students: 

Some suggestions for snack are: precut fruit (apples, grapes, bananas cut in half, oranges, etc.), precut vegetables with hummus for dipping, cheese and crackers, granola bars or chewies, trail mix, applesauce, hummus and crackers, yogurt or Gogurt, graham crackers…  The purpose of snack is to provide a nutritious energy booster when the students need it.  Please keep in mind the nutritional value when choosing a snack.  

           

9/6     Jaylen

9/12      Alex

9/19      Britt

This Week's Lessons (most of these lessons will be continued from last week): 

Language/Reading

Writing Sentences

Writing Paragraphs

Informational Writing

Editing

Parts of Speech

Nonfiction Reading  

Arithmetic 
Bead Cabinet-Skip Counting

Checker Board Multiplication

Golden Beads Addition
Golden Beads Division

Stamp Game +x-/

Graphing

Geometry

Geometric Shapes- Faces, Vertices, Edges 

Science

Our Planet
Climate Zones

Weather 

Clouds

Biomes

Seasons

Social Studies

Historical Figure Research

Maps

South America
Democracy
Ancient Greece
Olympics

Practical Life

Nutrition