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 16^th.  Please ensure that your child brings in their copy by this date. Thank you!

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 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.

Literature: We 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.