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:

Dear Parents and Guardians,

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

May 2^nd: 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!