A special “Toast” to Demeter!! Thank you for the amazing harvest and seasons!
Hello Room 109 Families! We had an excellent week together! This is what we have been up to! Our Myths this week included: Daughter of the Seasons..Persephone & Demeter-We discovered this myth explains the reasons for our seasons!! Some of the symbolism we discussed is…The changing of the seasons directly mirror Persephone’s presence and absence. Mother-Daughter Bond-It highlights the powerful, protective love between Mother and Daughter. We had a harvest feast and created a chapter summary with this myth. Our Harvest Feast included: Wine (Sparkling Grape Juice), Feta Cheese, Pita Bread, Olives, Honey and Grapes.
Create the other half of the Goblet…Can you make it symmetrical?
King Midas and The Golden Touch...We explored this myth during our unit on The Chocolate Touch so we knew a little about what to expect. The myth of King Midas teaches that greed is destructive, true happiness isn’t found in material wealth, and it’s crucial to appreciate simple joys and loved ones over riches, as Midas’s wish to turn everything to gold backfired, making him unable to eat or even touch his daughter, turning love into sorrow. Key lessons include being careful what you wish for, understanding that power and wealth have costs, and recognizing the dangers of unchecked desire.
Multiplicity Math…
What do you notice? What do you wonder? What stands out to you? Why?
Ms. Georgia’s Math Game Visit!
Teaching us different ways to play conventional games we love! Please ask your child how he/she played the game Sorry in our class!
Mythological Math…
Our completed Pandora Box Display!!
Challenge Centers…
Help Aphrodite find her heart in the odd/even number maze!What did the mystery picture reveal?
Attack of the Aloadae is…
The myth of the Aloadae giants (Ephialtes and Otos) from Greek mythology features two brothers who fight against the gods and each other. They attempted to storm Olympus by piling mountains, but Artemis tricked them into killing each other with their own spears by dashing between them in the form of a deer. We are creating a triangular diorama of our favorite scene in this myth…Stay tuned for our final product!
Our special tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his Dream…“My hand-prints build a bridge so wide, Where friends can cross from side to side, With caring hands and hearts so true, We share the kindness Dr. King knew!”Greek Mythology Pinch Pots with Ms. Andrea in Art Class! I can’t wait to see the final product!! We love reading in Room 109!!Outdoor/Indoor Recess Fun!!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Our classes collaborated to create this amazing mythical masterpiece!
Hello Room 109 Families!
We have had an incredibly busy week together! Here is what we have been up to…We are LOVING our Greek Myths! So far in our book, Greeking Out, we have read “The Olympians Versus The Titans”, The Fire, The Jar, and The Very First Humans”, The Flying Stallion, A Fearless Mortal, And a Feisty Fly”, “The Reflection and The Voice. We are enjoying learning about all the different characters in Greek Mythology! Our projects this week included: Creating a Greek Mythology Family Tree which we will continue to add to throughout our studies, Pandora’s Box Clay creation and writing and currently working on a collaborative project with Ms. Melissa’s Class with Pegasus! We are being introduced to new vocabulary and important lessons these myths teach us!
Our Greek Mythology Family Tree!! We will continue to add characters as we explore!
Pandora’s Box…Lessons Learned: 🎁
Curiosity & Temptation: Don’t let curiosity lead to destructive actions; sometimes, it’s best to leave the unknown alone.
Consequences of Actions: Unthinking actions (like opening the box) have far-reaching negative consequences for everyone.
Inescapable Suffering: Life includes evils like pain, disease, and sorrow, which are part of the human condition.
The Power of Hope: Even after releasing all evils, hope (represented by the single entity remaining in the jar) stays behind, giving humans strength to persevere.
Responsibility: The story highlights the need for caution and responsibility, especially in innovations, as actions can have unforeseen impacts.
Pandora’s Box Journal Prompt…🎁
We created our Pandora’s Boxes using clay, beads, jewels, tools, rocks, glitter and paint! Inside we created little scrolls of ideas that we want locked up forever-things that bother us in our own world! Please discuss with your child what your child chose! Here is the list our class brainstormed together…Meanness, Sickness, Exclusion, Fighting, Death, Guns, Cruelty to animals, Rumors, Lack of Trust, Sins and Abuse.❤ Our final products….Remember…”Don’t Open Pandora’s Box” 🫢
Challenge Centers/Choice Time!
Can you unscramble our new vocabulary? Mythological Math!!🪽Coin/Dollar Bingo!! 🪙Partner Reading ❤📚Geometry Challenges! 🛑What did our grid reveal? Which God/Goddess would need this? 🔱
The Reflection And The Voice…The Greek Myth of Echo and Narcissus.Lessons from Narcissus include:
Dangers of Vanity & Self-Obsession: Narcissus’s downfall is the ultimate warning against extreme self-love, showing how obsession with one’s own image (or self) leads to a loss of self and inability to connect with others.
The “Know Thyself” Paradox: A prophecy stated he would live long if he never knew himself; his eventual self-knowledge (seeing his reflection) led to his tragic end, suggesting true self-knowledge can be destructive if it’s just vanity, not wisdom.
Cruelty & Lack of Empathy: His rejection of Echo and others demonstrates how self-centeredness can make one cruel and blind to the needs and affections of others.
Lessons from Echo…
Codependency: Her desperate, unfulfilled love for Narcissus shows the destructive nature of being hyper-focused on someone else, leading to her withering away until only her voice remained.
Consequences of Gossip/Dishonesty: Echo was cursed for distracting Hera, teaching a lesson against idle talk or deceit, but her story goes deeper.
Loss of Identity: Her curse, forcing her to only repeat others’ words, symbolizes the loss of self, voice, and individuality when one becomes completely defined by another person.
Creating Daffodils! We discovered that a Daffodil symbolizes Narcissus’s Death as the God’s replaced his body after death with many Daffodils. Nature’s Explanation: It provides a mythical explanation for the natural phenomenon of an echo and the origin of the narcissus flower. *＊✿❀ ❀✿＊*
The Flying Stallion, A Fearless Mortal, And A Feisty Fly!!…The Myth of Bellerophon and Pegasus 🪽
Mindset Math-Dozens of Dice! This lesson focuses on developing strategies for counting equal groups by rolling many dice and counting the dots. We connected these strategies to multiplication!🎲
Mindset Math! Playing with Pairs…We are learning to develop ways of illustrating multiplication and look for patterns that emerge while investigating the puzzle: Two numbers add up to 10. What might you get if you multiply these numbers? The vocabulary words Sum and Product were discovered as well! 🎲🎲
Some ideas from our activity…Great work Room 109!
Multiplicity Math…Our guiding questions below!
Are there more green squares or orange squares? How do you know? How did you see it? How could you figure it out? Presentations from classmates who used choice time to develop a proud project! We asked questions and worked on giving specific, positive feedback! 🤩Indoor Recess Fun! We love spending time with Ms. Melissa’s Class! Building, Creating and even a special treat..watching Hercules! 🪅Ms. Beth’s Class developed a “What Are You READING?” wall! Sooo….we added what we are currently reading independently at home or during our class independent silent reading time! It’s fun to see what everyone is reading these days! It may give us some other good ideas for literature to check out! 💚
Amazing Art with Ms. Andrea!🎨
We had a great time with our new Art Teacher…Ms. Andrea! Our first project is below…Ask your child what different tools he/she used to create these beautiful masterpieces!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Hello Room 109 Families! Happy New Year! It was wonderful to see our classmates back this week smiling and sharing all about winter break! They did an excellent job getting right back into our school routine! We were very busy!! This what we have been up to this week…
Sharing our favorite times over Winter Break during Morning Meeting! ❄
New Year…New Experiences…🥳❤💫
Deciding on a pattern for our Disco Ball!🪩Putting our project together with our writing and of course adding glitter to make it shine bright!Reflection on 2025! How can we make 2026 even better?!Final Project!
We created New Year’s Eve Disco Balls along with writing to the prompt of In 2026, I will….Prior to this activity, we discussed the word “Resolution”and how it applies to us! We had a good discussion of what promises we would like to keep to our families, ourselves and our classroom. Please ask your child to talk with your about his/her resolutions for 2026!
Greek Mythology…
We began our new unit of study this week! Room 109 was thrilled to hear that we will be experiencing Greek Mythology together! We brainstormed about what we thought a Myth was…Here is what we shared so far…It could be a mythical tale, not real or fake in some way and teaches us a moral or lesson. Not bad Room 109! We are creating a flip book within our writing journals where we will be recording our thoughts and connections! Our main source of information is the book Greeking Out: Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths! Our first Greek Myth is “The Olympians Vs The Titans”. After completion of this read-aloud we worked on our story maps which included the following: Important Events (Beginning, Middle, End) What are you thinking so far? Who is your favorite character? Why? How are the characters trying to solve the problem? What did the characters learn about themselves? The message of the myth? How many stars would you give it?
Creating & Writing in our Flip Book Journals!
We are in the process of designing a Greek Mythology Family Tree! Each child chose an important person that is relative to what we are currently studying in our myths. We will continue to build on to this tree as we move forward through our unit.
Learning to illustrate our Greek God/Goddess!
Challenge Centers/Choice Time
Journal Prompt: What do you think would happen if the Titans won the war? Explain your thinking and illustrate a picture!
Chess Class with Mr. Leo!Math Multiplicity…Some of our guiding questions: What patterns do you see? How do you see them? Other questions to extend our thinking…How could you extend (or add onto) this pattern? What would you add next? Where would you add the next blocks? Why?Creating our own designs to present to our classmates during Choice Time!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Hello Room 109 Families! We have had a FESTIVE week together! Here is what we have been up to…
We worked diligently on our props and our reader’s Theater script! We performed it for Ms. Demetra’s and Ms. Melissa’s classes! Room 109 enjoyed performing and learning about a famous Greek Myth! We presented our Chocolate Touch Diorama’s to all the classes as Plato and had so much fun reading and discussing our projects with everyone! I hope your child presented it to you! They all worked so hard and did an incredible job!!
We listened to the Legend of the Poinsettia retold and illustrated by Tomie and illustrated our own! We used our oil pastels! Take a moment to discuss the legend with your child!
We enjoyed our fun challenge holiday centers such as Christmas Bingo, 100 Chart reveal puzzle, creating words out of MERRY CHRISTMAS! and much more!
We were very busy this week rehearsing for our Holiday Show! We hope you enjoyed it! I hope you all have an amazing winter break! Best wishes for a HAPPY & HEALTHY 2026! I will see Room 109 on Tuesday, January 6th! All of the pictures and a video of our class performing are in the Google Photo link that I send out every week. Enjoy! They did a fabulous job with their performance! 🎄❤💚 I also included the Reader’s Theater performance we did for 2 classrooms here at Plato.
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
**There will be no book bags coming home over winter break! We will resume on January 6th! Please encourage your child to read and/or visit your local library!**
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
Class resumes on Tuesday, January 6th. Please send back your child’s snow gear on that day as well!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Hello Room 109 Families! We have had a very JOYFUL week together here at Plato! Here is what we have been up to! We are working on our culminating project for the novel: The Chocolate Touch! Each student chose a scene and connected it to one of our book’s main themes: Gratitude, Selfish, Greed and Moderation is Key! They each will be creating this scene in their own Diorama and writing a summary including the chosen scene and its significance to the story. Key characters will be present in the Diorama using chosen materials from our classroom and Art closet! We will be presenting our amazing masterpieces next Monday to other classes!
King Midas and The Golden Touch! 👑🪙
We watched a video story of the myth, Kind Midas and The Golden Touch. We noticed there were many similarities between our novel The Chocolate Touch and the myth King Midas and The Golden Touch. In groups we discussed King Midas and his traits before “The Golden Touch”, start of “The Golden Touch”, the middle of “The Golden Touch” and “The end of “The Golden Touch.” We also created a Venn Diagram between the two stories! Please ask your child about what he/she noticed!
We have our parts for our Reader’s Theater: King Midas and The Golden Touch-A Greek Myth!. Research shows that Reader’s Theater helps boosts fluency (smooth reading with expression), comprehension (deeper understanding of story/characters), confidence (less fear reading aloud), vocabulary, and teamwork, all while making reading fun through performance, repetition, and character exploration, meeting many literacy standards. We will be creating costume and props for our performance in other classrooms next week! Please ask your child which character and/or part he/she is reading! 🎭
Multiplicity Lab Math…We looked at two interesting photos! These are questions that helped to guide us through a deeper understanding of the picture! (Hexagon with Star for reference) 🌟
What patterns do you see?
How do you see them?
What shapes do you see?
How do shapes or lines repeat?
This picture shows things that could be skip counted. (Picture of LEGOs) What could you skip count in this image? How would you do it?
Where can you find things that could be skip counted in your world? (Guiding Questions) You can take a picture, make a sketch, or bring objects to show. Bring back at least one example of something that could be skip counted. We each explored our classroom to find something and we illustrated/wrote in our journal what it is and what we skip counted by to find our number.
Project for Parents! 🎄
Today your child brought home a special holiday gift he/she created for you! It is up to you and your child if it should be opened before Christmas or placed under the tree! Enjoy! We loved being little elves!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Hello Room 109 Families! We have had a HOLLY JOLLY week together! Here is what we have been up to!
We finished our novel The Chocolate Touch! And it didn’t even make us too hungry for chocolate! 🙂 We enjoyed working in our literature circles creating thoughtful discussion questions, connecting to the text, illustrating in our minds what the author was trying to portray, journaling, exploring interesting vocabulary and of course reading to our classmates! Next up…A Reader’s Theater with our novel, a culminating project and investigating King Midas and The Magic Touch! 🙂
Our Journal Prompt…Do you think there will be severe consequences of John’s wish? Explain your thinking!Journal Prompt..Problem Solving…John finally tells his parents about his “Chocolatitis” and sees a doctor, but the advice isn’t immediately helpful. What do you think John should do next to find a cure? Brainstorm a new idea he hasn’t tried yet!
Math Games…Ms. Georgia’s Visit! We love when Ms. Georgia visits our school! She brings in new math games for us to learn and keep for our classroom! This visit she brought in Guess My Number, 20/20 and 40 cards! We enjoy the challenges! Please ask your child about his/her favorite game so far!
The Main Street Shopping Game! We loved reading the passages and figuring out the main idea! We also learned some fun, interesting facts along the way!Math Multiplicity-Off You Go! Look around our room! What did you find?Turkey Talk! A fun way to write and present what we did over Thanksgiving Break!
Ms. Stephanie’s Library Visit 📚
Ms. Stephanie read us the book Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator by Emma Bland Smith is a non-fiction picture book that tells the real-life, heartwarming story of an albino alligator who overcomes rejection and finds acceptance in a new home. Here is a link explaining some highlights of his life! https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/claude-the-albino-alligator-passes-away-at-age-30
Creating our own Alligators! 🐊Uno Stacko!! A combination of Uno & Jenga!! 🙂We found all the Chocolate Touch vocabulary!Making our list…Checking it twice 🙂 We had so much fun making our labels and shopping for our loved ones! A special “Thanks!” to all of the parents who helped to make this experience amazing for our Plato Kiddos! 🎄Ornament Workshop!! 🙂 💫Play production!!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
We have had a wonderful week together! Here is what we have been up to…
With Thanksgiving right around the corner we shifted our focus to the word Gratitude and what that means to all of us! We discussed what we are “Thankful” for in our classroom and our lives! We created a special wreath with our painted hand prints and ideas: In Room 109, we are THANKFUL for each other because we are…Inclusive, Kind, Helpful, Respectful, Playful, Laughing, Joyful, Loving, Social and Friendly❤ We created an Acrostic Poem about our wish for Thanksgiving, illustrated that wish and wrote a paragraph using our words in the poem. We also created our Gratitude Jars..Writing everything we are grateful for in our lives!
In other news…The Chocolate Touch! We only have a few more chapters to go in our novel and literature circles! In our writing journals…If you had the power to turn one thing into chocolate, what would it be and why?
John feels frustrated and angry that others don’t understand the problem. Imagine you are one of his classmates watching him at lunch. What are you thinking? What would you do to help him?Predict…How do you think other people will react when they see John’s “magic” in action, especially after he’s kept it a secret so far?
Book Fair Wishes💫
We enjoyed listening to Ms. Filisa read us the story, The Gift of Words by Peter Reynolds (Author of The Dot!) and writing down our Book Fair list!
The Gift of Wordsis a holiday picture book by Peter H. Reynolds about a boy named Jerome who discovers that inspirational words are hard to find and instead decides to collect and share positive words from his community. Jerome decorates a bare tree in the park with words of hope, love, and joy, which brings his community together to contribute their own words. The book highlights how kind and positive words can unite people, emphasizing that the gift of words is a powerful, free gift everyone can share.
Challenge Centers/Choice Time
Multiplication Puzzles! Find all 3 parts! Equation, Array and Equation!We did it! Yay!Amazing Autumn Art!We love designing with our oil pastels!
The Three Magical Creatures..Play written and produced by Ada, Akira and Jenny!! Amazing job girls!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Thank you to all of our Veterans! We appreciate all that you have done to keep us safe! ❤🤍💙
Hello Room 109 Families! We have had a very productive and fun week here at Plato! Here is what we have been up to…We continue enjoying our novel, The Chocolate Touch and our Literature Circle Groups! We have read through chapter 5! We love all of our roles as we take turns reading aloud to our group members, Discussion Leader, Word Wiz and the Connector! For this chapter we explored making our own comics learning about captions and word bubbles to give our characters personalities! We each created one on an event in this chapter and read aloud to our classmates!
The Chocolate Touch!!🍫
Our journal writing…📝
More Journaling!!! 📝
Our Prompt is…John feels frustrated and angry that others don’t understand his problem. Imagine you are one of his classmates watching him struggle at lunch. What are you thinking? What could you do to help him? How could you show empathy?
Literature Circle Time!!
Sharing our comics with our classmates!
Challenge Centers/Choice Time
Roll and Race Multiplication!Logic Challenge!Sharing Crackers! You choose the number!
Left, Right, Center!!
Creating our self-portraits for portfolio conferences! We will create again in the Spring to see how much we have changed! Multiplicity Lab Math…Our guiding questions…What patterns do you see? How do you see them? How could you describe the patterns you see in words?
First Snow!! ❄ We loved every minute of playing outside in the snow!
Happy to Hang!!
Veteran’s Day❤🤍💙
We discussed the meaning behind this special holiday, watched a short kid friendly video and created cards which were mailed to Veterans in Illinois! We loved creating this special project and home it brings a smile to those who have served our country!❤🤍💙
Happy Birthday Akira!! 🩷
We loved celebrating you on your 8th Birthday! We enjoyed creating your special Birthday Book and having your Mom come in to read and do a fun science experiment with us! We hope all of your wishes come true!!
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day Akira!🎂Having fun creating our classmate’s Birthday Book!Akira’s Mom celebrates her Birthday by being our guest reader! A book about germs! Perfect for this season!Magic powder science experiment (Germs)Ooh…Look at all those germs on our hands under the special light!! And how easily they spread! 🔍Happy Birthday Song! Make a wish Akira!🎶
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information! Conference sign-up is available. Please sign-up by November 17th!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Congratulations Room 109! You did an amazing job and have such big hearts!! 📚💚
Hello Room 109 Families!! We have had an excellent week together! Here is what we have been up to…
We enjoyed our field trip to Bernie’s Book Bank! We stickered 4,000 books, donated 480 books and created as a school, 70 book marks to donate to any volunteer at Bernie’s Book Bank that wants one! Enjoy the pictures!!
We have arrived! We can’t wait to get inside and help!!We get to do some fun activities while we wait for instructions!Listening carefully to what our jobs will be today!!Ready, Set, Sticker!! Thank you to Arlo’s sister for volunteering to help us!We did it! 4,000 books stickered and stacked!! Bernie’s Book Bank Symbol!Thank you letters received from the books that are donated and volunteers that helped along the way!Bye-Bye Bernie’s Book Bank! Hope to see you another time!
Our Runaway Pumpkin Stories! 🎃
We wrote stories and presented them to our classmates about our own Runaway Pumpkins!
Challenge Centers/Choice Time!
Friends of 10!Writing our Field Trip Reflections-Bernie’s Book Bank! What did you learn? What did you enjoy? Did you have a favorite part? Multiplicity Math! Our guiding questions included: How Many Do You See? How did you see it? What did you notice that helped you figure out how many? Below are our big ideas we explored!
We have so much fun learning from Ms. Georgia and playing the math games she has created for us! Please take some time to talk with your children about the new games they learned and what they love about them!
Touchdown Football Game!🏈More Pick-Up Sticks!! Coin Game!🪙Tic-Tac-15! Writing and illustrating in our journals about The Chocolate Touch! Thinking about Chapter 4 and what we have learned so far about John (our main character) and his ability. How will this affect him? How will it affect other people? Objects?🍫Multiplication Domino Success! We did it!Looking for evidence in our text-The Chocolate Touch!🔍
Fall Fun Photo Shoot!! 🍂🩷
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
Book Bags...Books are taken home by your child on Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. They are to spend time reading independently and also with/to you. When your child finishes the book for the week, he/she may bring it back and hang it on their hook at school. The following week is when I read with each child from the book that was read. After I listen and discuss the book with your child, he/she chooses a new book to bring home!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information! Conference sign-up is available. Please sign-up by November 17th!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
Hello Room 109 Families! We have been busy bees this week!! 🐝 This is what we have been up to…
We kicked off our week together researching Bernie’s Book Bank which is our service project for this year! We discussed the importance of literacy in each of our lives! We discovered through our research, their mission is to: Ensure literacy for children tomorrow by helping to build a library in every home in America today. 🩷
How is Room 109 and our Plato Community helping? We presented our service project to every classroom at Plato! We asked for books to be donated and book marks to be made for the volunteers at Bernie’s Book Bank. On November 4, our class will be traveling to Bernie’s Book Bank to volunteer our time and energy to help in ways needed. We are very excited for the opportunity to help under-served communities. Fun Fact: If a child participates this program from Kindergarten through 6th grade, he/she will have built a library of 96 books! 📚
Working on our presentation posters! We are in the Bernie’s Mission Group, Rules of Bernie’s Book Bank or How Plato Can Help Bernie’s Book Bank!Counting out bookmarks to give to each class on our visit! Creating book marks to give to Bernie’s Book Bank for their volunteers!Taking time to look through each book carefully that was donated to ensure it follows the rules for Bernie’s Book Bank!Sorting through acceptable and not acceptable books to donate to Bernie’s Book Bank! Let the presentations begin!! 🤩
Challenge Centers/Choice Time
Adding different values to the game pick-up sticks! I love to see Room 109 challenging their brains!! Fraction Pizza’s!Creating our portfolio cover! We can’t wait to share these during conferences with you! Connect 4 Tournament! Flash!Our expert designers! It’s NOT a pumpkin…It is a snake!A fishing man!Shooting Star!Frankenstein!Boy sitting on the moon!Our pumpkin Investigation included counting the lines on our pumpkin, weighing our pumpkin, discovering how many blocks tall our pumpkin is, figuring out the circumference of our pumpkin and planning a face for our pumpkin! Ask your child all about the investigation! 🎃🔍
Mindset Math🎲
Sharing Crackers Lesson…There are 36 crackers to be shared equally for snack. As Partners, we explored how many kids can share the crackers and how many crackers each friend will get, building an understanding of equal groups, division and multiplication! We will continue to explore these questions: What patterns do you notice in the solutions we found? How could we organize what we’ve found to see patterns? Please see below what we have found…
The Runaway Pumpkin 🎃
We listened to this story and then were inspired to create our own pumpkins! In addition we wrote our own stories about our pumpkin and it’s adventures!
Busily writing our stories about our pumpkin!Voila!!! Our final masterpieces! Halloween Bingo!🕸Spooky Clay Creations!Halloween Roll!🦇Joke of the day! Why was the Jack-O-Lantern afraid?? Because he had no “guts”. 😄Thank you to the PTO for our amazing lunch! We loved every bite!!😍Twinning!!Spidey Twins!
Halloween Scavenger Hunt!
Following our clues around the room to find our surprise!Congrats Room 109! You did it!! Happy Halloween!
*Please encourage your child to spend 15-20 minutes reading, playing card games, writing/illustrating in a journal etc. as homework!
*Please have your child practice tying shoes at home if he/she is having difficulty. Thank you!
*A reminder that all lunches/snacks need to be nut free. Thank you for your cooperation!
*Please check out Ms. Maria’s Home Notes for important information! Conference sign-up is available. Please sign-up by November 17th!
*Please continue to send a healthy snack & water bottle with your child as we don’t have snacks to give if a child forgets. You may want your child to keep a Plato sweater or sweatshirt at school. At times it can be cooler in our classroom. As the weather begins to change, please make sure your child is prepared to go outside every day for recess. We only stay indoors for extreme weather. A jacket, mittens/gloves and a hat are beginning to become more necessary. You may have your child keep an extra set at school if you wish!
*Please label clothing that is sent to school.*
*Red folders are our designated “Take Home” folder. Be sure to check this folder for important notes and/or work from your child! Please have your child empty the folder each week. It is important for your child to bring this folder back on Mondays. Thank you!!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I can be reached by my Plato email:
