Ms. Israel's Classroom - Archive
ARCHIVED NEWS FROM MS ISRAEL'S CLASSROOM
Mar 2008
This month we will borrow experience boxes from the Field Museum on the topics of animal tracks and early people and animals in Illinois. We will also borrow display cases of animals whose footprints are in the Animal Tracks Box.
Oct 2007
This year we are again taking advantage of the wonderful teacher loan program from the Field Museum. We are enjoying display cases of a hammerhead shark and giant spiders, as welll as experience boxes about ocean life and bats. We look forward to borrowing materials about Native American culture in November.
Nov 2006
We have enjoyed having parents observe our class in October and look forward to new families observing in November. There will be opportunities for parents to work with their children in the classroom during Parent-Child Nights in the coming months.
A special thanks to all the parents who donated items from the Wish List to our class. All art materials will be put to creative use. We also greatly appreciate the stereo/CD player donated by the Hallab Family.
This year we are again borrowing materials from the Field Museum to supplement classroom work. We are enjoying experience boxes about “Life in the Oak Tree” and examining and comparing skulls and teeth of carni-vores, herbivores, and omnivores. The children greatly love the exhibit cases of animals to display in the class-room.
Nick Kitsos, Ben's dad, gave a wonderful interactive presentation to the afternooners in both classrooms about hand-made instruments and body percussion. It was lots of fun and he really engaged the children!
Looking ahead to December, please mark your calendars for the Family Holiday Party. It is always great fun and the children will be giving a short musical performance.
Sept 2006
We wish to welcome Ms. Arlette to our class as Ms. Israel’s assistant. Ms. Arlette is a talented artist and has much experience teaching art to adults and children. She is looking forward to working with our class and sharing her artistic talents with us.
Welcome to all new and returning students. We are looking forward to a new school year. We are excited to work with many new beautiful materials in the classroom.