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 16^th.  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 11^th; 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 2^nd: 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 Dike, It 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.