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Monday, April 30, 2018

Week 35


We have had a full week full of book fair fun and a delightful parent volunteer social! We are looking forward to seeing our scholars shine during our music concert on Wednesday. See you there!

Homework for the week of 4/30 
Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- y, ai, ay, ea, ear, ck, k, ar, ee, c

Poem- April poem recitation on Monday; May’s Poem: The Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Monday: Poem Recitation Today! rule, carry, chain, death, learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check and math wkbk. pg. 150-152

Tuesday: prove, heard, hear, inspect, itself, always, something, expect, need, thus and math wkbk. pg. 153-155

Wednesday: No homework due to the spring concert.  See you there!

Thursday: Review words and phonograms for test tomorrow and Test B 18.4/18.5

Friday: math wkbk. pg. 163-166

Announcements

Toilet Paper Rolls: We are collecting empty toilet paper rolls for an upcoming project.  Thank you in advance for your help and sending the rolls in with your child over the next few weeks!

Astronomy Night: Arete Prep will be hosting Astronomy night on Friday, May 4th from 7:00 - 9:30 pm.  Archway Arete and Arete Prep families are welcome to enjoy a walk-in Planetarium in the MPR, meteorites on display, telescopic observation on the field, scale of the solar system, impact crater demonstration, an astronaut experience and much more! 

Music Concert: K-2nd grade concert at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 2nd. Please have students arrive promptly at 5:00pm.

AttireBoys- Black pants, white dress shirt, black dress shoes, and black socks. Hair should be combed neatly. Optional: dark solid colored neckties or vests. Girls- Black shirt, white top and black closed- toed dress shoes. Hair should be pulled away from the face with no distracting adornment. Please follow the Archway Arete dress code for guidelines on jewelry.

A Note from our French Teachers:


The summer is fast approaching, and with it the end of the school year! While we in the French team are excited for the break, we’re even more eager to gear up for next year—and a major part of gearing up is taking care of our books.

Unlike other class materials, which go home with our scholars, the French activity book will live on campus during the summer. In the next five weeks, we will be labeling and collecting these books for safekeeping. We want our Les Loustics program, which serves students for 2 consecutive years, to be ready and waiting for scholars when they return. During the summer, we invite scholars and families to use their French notebooks and online resources to review all material taught throughout the year.

If you plan to move to another Great Hearts Academy, especially one which follows the Les Loustics program, please contact the French team by email before the end of May to request your books. If you plan to change school networks, or if your child will not be using Les Loustics level 1 or 2 at their academy, we ask kindly that you donate it to Arete where it will surely serve a child in need. Thank you for your understanding and your cooperation in this matter.



The French Teachers,

Madame Gebara

Monsieur Gaudin



Calendar 

May 2nd: Spring Concert

May 4th: Astronomy Night



Academics
Math: This week we will be working on building our subtraction skills! We will learn about and practice the process for subtracting a one digit number from a two digit number and subtracting one two digit number from another two digit number. 

 Poem: My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson Idiom: Hit the Nail on the Head

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from two poems called "The Sandpiper" by Celia Thaxter and "The Nightingale and the Glow Worm" by William Cowper. We will also read and write about "King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table" by Roger Lancelyn Green. 

Grammar:  This week we will be learning about pronouns and how they can be used in place of a noun. We will learn how to use pronouns when speaking to and about someone. For example, we might use the pronoun "we" when talking about a group of people or we might use the pronoun "I" when referring to ourselves instead of using our name. 

Spalding: 

Monday: rule, carry, chain, death, learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check

Tuesday: prove, heard, hear, inspect, itself, always, something, expect, need, thus 

Wednesday: woman, women, young, fair, fare, dollar, evening, plan, broke, feel 

(no homework this night due to the Spring Concert)

phonograms: y, ai, ay, ea, ear, ck, k, ar, ee, c

Literature: We will continue to read “My Father’s Dragon” as Elmer meets a rhino, lion and a gorilla!.

Science: Next week in science we will continue our planet journey, learning about Saturn and Uranus.

History: We will review what we have learned about westward expansion and take a quiz on Wednesday. A review sheet will be sent home on Monday.  On Friday, we will learn about Benjamin Franklin and his many inventions.

Please have your child bring in any empty toilet paper rolls that you may have.  Thank you!

We are collecting empty toilet paper rolls for an upcoming project.  Thank you in advance for your help and sending the rolls in with your child over the next few weeks!

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Week 34


Happy Tuesday 1C families!  I hope you and your kiddo enjoyed the long weekend and are ready for the final stretch of the school year! We have several announcements listed below including our parent volunteer social on Friday.  I have been overwhelmed with gratitude for the amount of parent support our class has received this year!  Thank you so very, very much for all of the time and love you have given our class.  You make a huge difference in what we are able to accomplish here are school! 



Homework for the week of 4/24 
Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- w, ew, ui, ea, ie, ei, au, aw, er, dge

Poem- The Rope Rhyme by: Eloise Greenfield

Tuesday: sew, sow, so, steam, thread, thunder, tried, try, vein, except and math wkbk pg. 141-143

Wednesday: aunt, ant, capture, else, bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, running, run and math wkbk pg. 144-146

Thursday: Review words for test tomorrow and Test B

Friday: math wkbk. pg. 147-149

Announcements

Toilet Paper Rolls: We are collecting empty toilet paper rolls for an upcoming project.  Thank you in advance for your help and sending the rolls in with your child over the next few weeks!

Usborne Book Fair

The Archway Arete Usborne Book Fair will be open from April 25th - April 27th in the Teacher Resource room. We look forward to providing this exciting opportunity for students and parents to purchase book for their personal and classroom libraries. Check in at the front office to visit the book fair on the days and times below: 

  • 4/24- Noon - 3:00 (preview only)
  • 4/25- 7:20-8:20; 11:00-4:00 
  • 4/26- 7:20-8:20; 11:00-1:30; 2:30-4:00 
  • 4/27- 7:20-9:00; 11:00-1:30; 2:30-8:00 

Astronomy Night

Arete Prep will be hosting Astronomy night on Friday, May 4th from 7:00 - 9:30 pm.  Archway Arete and Arete Prep families are welcome to enjoy a walk-in Planetarium in the MPR, meteorites on display, telescopic observation on the field, scale of the solar system, impact crater demonstration, an astronaut experience and much more! 

A Note from our French Teachers:


The summer is fast approaching, and with it the end of the school year! While we in the French team are excited for the break, we’re even more eager to gear up for next year—and a major part of gearing up is taking care of our books.

Unlike other class materials, which go home with our scholars, the French activity book will live on campus during the summer. In the next five weeks, we will be labeling and collecting these books for safekeeping. We want our Les Loustics program, which serves students for 2 consecutive years, to be ready and waiting for scholars when they return. During the summer, we invite scholars and families to use their French notebooks and online resources to review all material taught throughout the year.

If you plan to move to another Great Hearts Academy, especially one which follows the Les Loustics program, please contact the French team by email before the end of May to request your books. If you plan to change school networks, or if your child will not be using Les Loustics level 1 or 2 at their academy, we ask kindly that you donate it to Arete where it will surely serve a child in need. Thank you for your understanding and your cooperation in this matter.



The French Teachers,

Madame Gebara

Monsieur Gaudin



Calendar 

April 24-27: Usborne Book Fair

April 27th: Parent Volunteer Appreciation Social from 7:50-9:50.

May 2nd: Spring Concert


Academics
Math: This week will practice comparing and ordering numbers within 100. We will count on and back by ones or tens from a number within 100. Lastly, we will estimate quantities and determine which is "more" and "less". 

 Poem: Rope Rhyme Idiom: Land of Nod

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from "The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India" and "The Jataka Tales" by W.H.D Rouse as well as "The Sandpiper" by Celia Thaxter. 

Grammar:  This week we will learn about transition words. Students will learn that transition words are used to help connect ideas, sentences, and events together so that a story can be told. Transition words help stories have a clear beginning, middle, and end. 

Spalding: 

Tuesday: sew, sow, so, steam, thread, thunder, tried, try, vein, except

Wednesday: aunt, ant, capture, else, bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, running, run

phonograms: ow, ew, ui, ea, ie, ei, au, aw, er, dge

Literature: This week we will continue to join Elmer Elevator on his travels to Wild Island! We will read and respond to chapter 4 and 5.

Science: This week we will continue to learn about the planets.

History: We will continue to journey westward as we learn about Sacagawea’s influence on the Lewis and Clark expedition.  On Friday, we will make a lap book page to show what we have learned about Lewis and Clark.

We are collecting empty toilet paper rolls for an upcoming project.  Thank you in advance for your help and sending the rolls in with your child over the next few weeks!

Monday, April 16, 2018

Week 33

The scholars of 1C worked incredibly hard last week as we enjoyed wrapping up our unit on the American Revolution.  We are looking forward to going on an adventure  next week as we begin reading My Father's Dragon! 

I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather we had over the weekend! 


Homework for the week of 4/16

Nightly: read for 15 minutes phonograms to practice- ea, eigh, ai, ay, or, y, ee, ow, oa, ey

Poem- The Rope Rhyme by: Eloise Greenfield

Monday: ready, omit, anyway, eight, breakfast, chance, climb, coffee, color, contains and math wkbk. pg. 133-134

Tuesday: daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, holes and math wkbk. pg. 133-134

Wednesday: hotel, iron, living, live, monkey, myself, noise, pencil, pie, pull and math wkbk. pg. 135-136

Thursday: Review all words and math wkbk. pg. 137-138

Friday: math wkbk. pg. 139-140

Announcements

My Father’s Dragon: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon on Monday, April 16th.  Please ensure that your child brings in their copy by this date. Thank you!

Calendar

Monday, April 23rdNo school 

April 24-27: Usborne Book Fair
April 27th from 7:50 – 9:50 amAppreciation Social 


May 2nd: Spring Concert



Academics
Math: We will start the week by taking a unit test on time, we will make sure to review amply before taking this test due to the weekend. We will practice counting within 100 by making tens. We will review place value and read and write number symbols and their corresponding number words. 

 Poem: Rope Rhyme Idiom: Land of Nod

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from "All of a Kind Family" by Sydney Taylor and "The Crocodile and The Monkey" from the Buddhist Jataka Tales. Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. 

Grammar:  This week we will learn about contractions and compound words. Students will learn that a contraction is when two words are shortened in to one word using an apostrophe and that a compound word is when two or more words that have their own meanings are combined to make one new word. 

Spalding: 

Monday: ready, omit, anyway, eight, breakfast, chance, climb, coffee, color, contains

Tuesday: daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, holes

Wednesday: hotel, iron, living, live, monkey, myself, noise, pencil, pie, pull

phonograms: ea, eigh, ai, ay, or, y, ee, ow, oa, ey

Literature: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon this week! On Wednesday, students will bring home a paper sack and instructions to fill the bag with items that they would bring on an adventure.

Science: This week students in science we are beginning to learn about the planets.

History: We will begin our westward expansion unit.  Students will learn about Daniel Boone, The Louisiana Purchase and the Louis and Clark expedition.

Monday, April 9, 2018

Week 32

Happy Monday!  We are looking forward to expanding the truth, beauty and goodness of all things this week. We are particularly excited about fine arts and French night on Wednesday. We hope to see you there!

Homework for the week of 4/9

Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- ai, ay, er, ou, ea, o, u, oo, s, th

Poem- The Rope Rhyme by: Eloise Greenfield

Monday: heart, month, children, child, build, built, understand, follow, charge, member and math workbook pg. 121-123

Tuesday: case, while, also, return, office, great, Miss, miss, who, died, die and 17.1 Test B

Wednesday: Spalding homework is optional tonight due to Fine Arts and French night. changing, change, few, pleasant, please, picture, pitcher, pitch, money and no math homework.

Thursday: Read and write all words and math workbook pg. 127-129

Friday: 17.2 Test B

Announcements

My Father’s Dragon: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon on Monday, April 16th.  Please ensure that your child brings in their copy by this date. Thank you!

Calendar

Wednesday, April 11th; Fine Arts and French night at 5pm: Please join Archway Arete as we celebrate the fine arts and French that your child has been immersed in all year!  Selections of students work will be displayed. We hope to see you there! 

March 24-27: Usborne Book Fair

May 2nd: Spring Concert



Academics

Math: This week in math we will begin learning all about clocks and how to tell time! Students will practice telling time on the hour and at half past the hour. Students will also work to sequence events according to time and will be able to recognize what events take place at certain times throughout the day (i.e. morning or night). 

 Poem: Rope Rhyme Idiom: Land of Nod

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from Little House on the Prairie and On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. 

Grammar:  This week we will review nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs and we can use them and identify them within sentences. 

Spalding: 

Monday: heart, month, children, child, build, built, understand, follow, charge, member

Tuesday: case, while, also, return, office, great, Miss, miss, who, died, die

Wednesday: changing, change, few, pleasant, please, picture, pitcher, pitch, money

*Due to Fine Arts and French Night on Wednesday, 4/11, there will be no homework. We will work on the homework in class on Wednesday.

LiteratureWe will finish our folktales around the world unit by reading “The Knee High Man” and taking a quiz on Wednesday.  We will finish the week by reading a selection from Winnie the Pooh on Friday

Science: This week students will describe the movement of Earth around the sun, and the moon around Earth and list and describe objects in our solar system.

History: We will finish our unit on the American Revolution by learning about American symbols and our nation’s Capital.  We will take a unit test on Friday.  A review sheet will be sent home on Monday.

Monday, April 2, 2018

Week 31

Week 31


This week flew by and now we are all off to enjoy a nice, long weekend!  The coming weeks are getting busier but we will continue to seek the truth, beauty and goodness in all that we learn and do!

I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday weekend!


Homework for the week of 4/2

Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- ai, ay, er, ou, ea, o, u, oo, s, th

Poem- The Rope Rhyme by: Eloise Greenfield

Monday: paid, laid, said, enter, railroad, unable, ticket, account, driven, real and math workbook pg. 110-112

Tuesday: recover, mountain, speak, past, might, contract, deal, almost, all, brought, bring and math wkbk. pg. 113-115

Wednesday: less, event, off, of, true, truth, took, again, inform, both and math wkbk. pg. 116-118

Thursday: Read and write all words and Test B

Friday: math wkbk. pg. 119-120

Announcements
My Father’s Dragon: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon on Monday, April 16th.  Please ensure that your child brings in their copy by this date. Thank you!

Lego Club- Let your imagination run wild with tens of thousands of LEGO parts! Build engineer designed projects such as: motorcycles, castles, airplanes, and monorails. Register your child for Play-Well STEM club on Fridays from April 6th - May 18th from 3:05-4:35 p.m. The cost is $155 per student and the club is open to K-2nd grades. For questions, please call Jennifer at (602) 317-7448 or email jennifer@play-well.org. [https://play-well-registration.com/registration/new/64338]
Calendar
Wednesday, April 11th; Fine Arts and French night at 5pm: Please join Archway Arete as we celebrate the fine arts and French that your child has been immersed in all year!  Selections of students work will be displayed. We hope to see you there! 

March 24-27: Usborne Book Fair

May 2nd: Spring Concert

Academics

Math: This week we will begin a new unit on fraction concepts. We will practice breaking things into "halves" and "fourths" and creating and identifying patterns. We will continue to review addition and subtraction concepts from previous units.

Poem: Rope Rhyme Idiom: Land of Nod

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence.

Grammar:  We will begin learning about articles this week. The articles "a", "an", and "the" are used in sentences to help the nouns. "A" is almost always used before consonants and "An" before vowels. 

Spalding: 

Monday: paid, laid, said, enter, railroad, unable, ticket, account, driven, real

Tuesday: recover, mountain, speak, past, might, contract, deal, almost, all, brought, bring

Wednesday:less, event, off, of, true, truth, took, again, inform, both

Literature: This week we will read various folktales from around the world includingThe Boy at the DikeIt Could Always be Worse, and Medio Pollito.

Science: This week we continue our unit on astronomy as we learn about the moon and it’s phases.  

History: This week the students will learn about the battle at Lexington and Concord, the Declaration of Independence, the birth of our country and the father of our country, George Washington.