Antelope Canyon Elementary Events

We have chosen our school colors: Blue, Grey, White to go with our mascot: The Pronghorn.

Students, faculty and community helped with voting on our choice and the students celebrated the decision!

We are looking forward to an amazing month in November.&nbsp; The Ogden Nature Center came to our school and did an outside presentation that taught us about habitats and animal adaptations.&nbsp; We got to touch artifacts and make observations about animals that live in wetlands, deserts and forests.&nbsp; We will also have a zoom class with them about animals.

At the beginning of this school year, fifth-grade has been super excited to jump into our brand-new science curriculum. Over the last two months, we've been doing hands-on experiments in every class. In Miss Andy's class, they've been learning about Living Systems and actually&nbsp;have jars of worms creating their own compost in their class! Ew! In Mrs. Thacker's class, they've been learning all about mixtures, solutions, and the differences between&nbsp;physical and chemical reactions. The last experiment that they did required the kids to compare the density of four different liquids in order to layer them in a vial. In Mrs. Palmer's class, the students have been learning all about soil, rocks, and landforms. They've had a lot of fun (and ended up quite dirty) making cliff-like landforms out of clay and sand, and causing floods in stream table models. Students were also able to add different types of rocks to vinegar to get a better understanding of acid rain. As the kids have had more of an opportunity to experiment this year, we've noticed more of an excitement each day for science!

In September, each class was able to learn how to code using Sphero-robots. The kids could actually make the robots turn in certain directions, change colors, and speed! The kids had a blast working in small groups and learning how to put their robots through mazes.&nbsp;

5th Grade

Third grade has started off with a bang! We are so happy to be the teachers of a great group of third graders! Students are already learning and growing so much.&nbsp; Math In October our wonderful third graders started to learn about multiplying. Students can solve&nbsp;the&nbsp;2, 5, 10, 9, 3, and 4&nbsp;multiplication facts using the equal group model, repeated addition, skip counting, and arrays.&nbsp;As a 3rd grade we have learned some nifty&nbsp;rhymes&nbsp;and songs to help us remember our facts. You should ask any of us to sing and share one of our songs with you! We have even started to learn about division and how to solve division problems with repeated subtraction, an equal group model, and on a number line.&nbsp; Reading In the month of October for reading we have been learning about&nbsp;different stories&nbsp;main idea and how to identify the most important&nbsp;point or idea of a nonfiction story. We used supporting details to help determine the main idea.&nbsp; Writing As a class we learned the different elements of a spooky story and had a chance to plan and write our own spooky stories. It was fun planning and creating our own spin and we can't wait to share these stories with you.&nbsp; Social Studies&nbsp; For social studies we learned the differences between rights and responsibilities. As a class we are learning to be good class, school, and community citizens.&nbsp; Last month was filled with a lot of firsts, laughs, and learning. We can't wait to see what next month will bring!

4th Grade

Special Education

Happy Halloween! The Special Education Team dressed up as the characters from Inside Out for Halloween this year!

Guidance: WHAT HAVE WE DONE?! At the beginning of the school year, students worked on building rapport with myself (Haley Kirk) and other students in their respective grade level groups. It is important to build rapport so students can be comfortable with one another. Next, students learned group rules. Group Rules are important for all students to succeed in group! It is important to keep topics private or confidential so group members feel comfortable talking to each other in the group setting. It is also important to respect each other while in the group as well as be kind. Finally, it is important for students to know that they should always try their best but never have to share if they are uncomfortable or don’t know an answer!&nbsp;

In November the third grade teachers have a lot of great things planned and we can't wait to share it with our students. Here is a quick snapshot of what's to come.&nbsp; Math In math we will continue to learn about multiplication and how it relates to division. Students will learn the 6, 7, and 8 facts as well as multiples of 10. Once we have learned these new facts we will start to dive deep into place value.&nbsp; Reading For reading students will learn about&nbsp;author's&nbsp;purpose. We will learn about the different reasons why authors&nbsp;write for our readers. Authors choose to write to either entertain, persuade, or to inform readers.&nbsp; Writing This month students will learn the elements of a paragraph and practice writing different examples of paragraphs about what they are reading and learning.&nbsp; Science In science students will explore magnets and learn about&nbsp;force and&nbsp;motion.

3rd Grade

Speech: Parents will be given access to my virtual therapy classroom where they can have instant access to activities to help their children at home to practice their skills within the home environment.

Resource: Students receive positive points on their points cards any time they are following the classroom rules, working hard, and when they are being KIND. These points are like money and they can use them on Thursdays to buy something from our classroom store. If students “break” the rules three times a week they are not allowed to buy anything from the store that Thursday.

In the Learning Lab students are working so hard and making so much progress in their IEP goals. It is why we like to recognize our students’ hard work by giving them a certificate of accomplishment and a prize from the Treasure Chest.

Reading We have been hard at work here in 4th grade! Our students are doing amazing at summarizing informational and narrative texts. Together with our students we created a set of criteria to help them be successful at writing summaries. Our students can now analyze a summary they have written and determine what makes their summary great and what the next steps are to achieve mastery. We have also been practicing what it looks like when giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback. To introduce how to give feedback, we had our students draw a fish and then they worked with a partner to identify things that they had done well and areas where they could improve their drawing. The students created multiple drafts of their fish based on the feedback they received. After students were confident in giving feedback, we took this skill and applied it to our summaries. We will continue to write summaries all year long, and are proud of the resilience your students have shown! Math We have been working hard at beginning to develop strategies for solving multi-digit multiplication. We have focused on the meaning of multiplication as groups of groups and have discovered that there is a relationship between addition and multiplication. Not only are your students beginning to multiply 2 digits by 1 digit, but they can explain how and why it works. We are so proud of how hard your students are working to justify and explain their thinking mathematically. We are learning to try hard things and to grow from our mistakes!

Halloween was definitely different this year, but still a blast! The kids loved trying to guess what the teachers were going to be dressed as, and we think surprised them pretty well! We all loved watching the sixth-graders put on Michael Jackson's Thriller, and look forward to doing that every&nbsp;year now as a school tradition. In addition to all the&nbsp;amazing class parties (thanks for all the donations parents), Antelope Canyon did&nbsp;The Monster Mash as an entire school. Students were also able to experience The Leonardo virtually, which was pretty cool.&nbsp;All-in-all, it was a great day!

Throughout November and December, we are looking forward to switching our science units with the other classes and continuing on with the experiments. We are excited to learn more about different instruments in Mrs. Elliot's music class, as well as use newly acquired math skills to solve problems in our amazing STEM Lab. Above all, we are most looking forward to teaching your kids during the holidays, and feel that learning more about each other's traditions will enable us to appreciate our similarities and honor our differences.&nbsp; Thank you so much for your willingness to support your child's fifth-grade teachers!&nbsp;

We have been busy in First Grade.&nbsp; In math we have been learning strategies to add and subtract.&nbsp; We just got a new computer program called Freckle that will help us practice our math skills. &nbsp; In October we learned how to write 5 star sentences and started learning about Informative Writing.&nbsp; We used our writing skills to write about the jack-o-lanterns we created in class.

We also had fun decorating our classrooms for Halloween.&nbsp; We want to thank all the parents that helped us have a great Halloween celebration.

First Grade

2nd Grade

September - October Wrote about community helpers Learned how our school and class is like a community Wrote opinion papers on monsters We learned about the 3 stages of matter. Learned nouns, pronouns, irregular nouns, collective nouns Learned about the 3 types of matter, liquid, solid, gas Learned about doubles, making tens and fact families, as well as the value of coins and counting coins. Learned to spell words with long vowel patterns.

November - December Writing informative papers about a superstorm Writing about How to Catch A Turkey Learning about Christmas traditions around the world. Learning when to use questions marks. Learning to add two digit addition with and without regrouping. Learning about measurement, line plots and shapes. Learning to spell words with el, al, oo, ew, ue and oy. Learning about verbs.

Our class has had so much fun this quarter!&nbsp;The students have been working hard and learning a lot.&nbsp;In addition to reading, writing, and math, we have studied our community in social studies and learned about animals and their needs in science.&nbsp;Rotations to P.E., library, music and STEM lab are a highlight for our class every day.&nbsp;The past month or so we have been putting extra effort into writing quality sentences.&nbsp;No matter where they started out, every single child in our class has shown improvement in their writing.&nbsp;During the next couple of months we will be focusing on reading comprehension; identifying characters, sequencing, making inferences and predictions are all skills we will be practicing.&nbsp;These kids surprise and amaze me every day and I am so excited&nbsp;to see what they do next!

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Antelope Canyon Elementary Pronghorn

Music class has been a blast! I have so enjoyed getting to meet all of our Pronghorns, and continue to try to learn their names. We have spent a lot of time learning about beat and rhythm, and trying to be expressive. October was especially fun--many grade levels enjoyed playing instruments along with the book "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Sixth grade performed Michael Jackson's iconic "Thriller" for the whole school to see!&nbsp;

<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ve2nrmP3mf7zpq5EIDoYqdZw1odxEumV/view">Thriller Video</a>

I am excited for the rest of this school year. My goal is to continue to get to know my students,&nbsp;and share fun musical&nbsp;experiences together. They amaze me with their flexibility and willingness to try new things. Here are a few things Pronghorns can look forward to in music class: Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades will continue practicing the beat and expression! Third grade is about to start their opera about Goldilocks. Fourth grade will dive deep into instrument families (look at their cute turkeys!), playing xylophones, researching composers, and more. Fifth and sixth grades are about to start playing ukuleles, and will hopefully be able to show off their skills later this year with a 5th Grade US History program and 6th grade Renaissance Fair. Mrs. Elliot

Music

Our Halloween party was a spooktastic success thanks to the kindness of our students, parents, and team. We loved getting are dressed for a day of haunting fun. Our spiderweb hallway helped us remember to enjoy the season. Our in-class costume parade was a pumpkin smashing success! Our online friends even made a guest appearance to everyone's delight. As we've worked on specific skills relating to our learning programs, we've focused on letter identification and letter sounds as a class.&nbsp;Students have been asked to identify letter shapes, names, sounds, and words beginning with those letters in an effort to connect and expand our phonics. We will wrap up letters and move on to numbers to 30 before the end of the year.

We rise to challenges every day and it's amazing seeing what these students conjure and master. Here's to more magic along the way!

Take a glance at our magical world in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade Academic Communication!&nbsp; We have had so many adventures in our classroom, including practicing the alphabet and letter sounds, studying animals and their characteristics, and learning number sequences and identification. We've worked hard in our rotations (STEM, Music, PE, and Library) to learn routines and readjust to school with it's various settings. We've learned how to juggle safety with learning and it has been so much fun! We EXPECTO PATRONUM a lot of continued success and fun.&nbsp;

Take a glance at our magical world in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade Academic Communication!&nbsp; We have had so many adventures in our classroom, including practicing the alphabet and letter sounds, studying animals and their characteristics, and learning number sequences and identification. We've worked hard in our rotations (STEM, Music, PE, and Library) to learn routines and readjust to school with it's various settings. We've learned how to juggle safety with learning and it has been so much fun! We EXPECTO PATRONUM a lot of continued success and fun.&nbsp;

Drawings of our smiles as part of the Golden Gate Kids program

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6th Grade Happenings

Dear Parents,&nbsp; We are so happy to have your awesome 6th graders back into the classroom! We’ve been busy learning many new things, and catching up with friends! Some of the topics and skills we have covered so far this year are:&nbsp; Math: Geometry and Ratios and Proportions&nbsp; Science: Ecosystems &amp; Populations Writing: Narrative Writing Of course it hasn’t been all work, there’s been some play such as Music, learning the Thriller dance, and numerous STEM activities like coding and Robotics! Some upcoming topics to look forward to will include more Ratios and Proportions as well as Dividing Fractions, Planetary Science, Argumentative writing, and plenty of little morsels of fun in between!

Things to Look Forward to in Reading: -Continue working on summarizing -Main Idea &amp; Theme&nbsp; -Opinion Writing&nbsp;

Things to Look Forward to in Math: -2 digit by 1 digit multiplication -3 digit by 1 digit multiplication -4 digit by 1 digit multiplication -2 digit by 2 digit multiplication

Mrs. Freeman's Golden Gate Pledges

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten we have been working hard and having fun! We have been working on letters, letter sounds, numbers and sight words. We finished going through the alphabet for the first time. All students should be able to name all their letters and sounds. Kindergarten has also started using Chromebooks during class time! We have been able to log in to Lexia to practice reading! Looking forward we are implementing choice boards. Students will safely be able to choose an activity to practice a variety of skills in the classroom. In Language Arts we are starting to read consonant vowel consonant words (CVC)! In Math we are beginning addition and subtraction!

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