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!

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

Calendar

Monday, April 23^rd: No school 

April 24-27: Usborne Book Fair
April 27^th from 7:50 – 9:50 am: Appreciation Social 

May 2^nd: 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.

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.

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.

Week 30

What a great week back it has been! 1C scholars have been committed to showing excellence in their habits by self-monitoring with respect and no reminders.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Homework for the week of 3/26

Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- p, u, igh, oo, or, ay, ai, ar, ey, ough

Poem- Sing a song of People by Lois Lenski (recitation on Thursday, 3/29)

Monday: happen, begun, collect, file, provide, sight, stood, fixed, fix, born and workbook pages 101-103

Tuesday: goes, does, Tuesday, hold, drill, army, pretty, stole, income, bought and workbook pages 104-106

Wednesday: review all words and Unit 15 Test B and poetry recitation tomorrow

Thursday: workbook pages 107-109

Calendar

March 30^th: No school


Academics

Math: This week we will begin a new unit in math! We will start learning about concepts of division by practicing separating items into equal groups. For example, when given 10 m&m's, how can two friends each end up with the same amount so that they share equally and fairly? 

Poem: Sing a song of People by Lois Lenski   Idiom: A.M., P.M.

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 of The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter. We will review abbreviations and how to use them in a sentence.

Grammar:  We will continue to learn about adverbs and how they help us describe "when", "where", and "how" something can happen. 

Spalding: 

Monday: happen, begun, collect, file, provide, sight, stood, fixed, fix, born

Tuesday: goes, does, Tuesday, hold, drill, army, pretty, stole, income, bought

Literature: We will finish reading George the Drummer Boy and compare and contrast the book to Sam the Minuteman.

Science: This week we will begin our unit on astronomy as we observe the day and night sky as well as studying the sun.

History: We will continue to study the colonist’s journey to the American Revolution. We will learn about how the colonies united and Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride!

Week 29

Homework for the week of 3/19

Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- ei, oe,oy,sh, oa, y, ea, oi, wor, ey

Poem- Sing a song of People by Lois Lenski

Monday: No School 

Tuesday: feather, fence, funny, going, honey, letters, orange, pocket, shoes, shoe and wkbk. pg. 80-82

Wednesday: stairs, stream, talks, tiny, words, trust, extra, dress, beside, teach and wkbk. pg. 83-85

Thursday: Read and write all 20 words and wkbk. pg. 86-88

Friday: Review any errors from the spelling test and math review wksht.

Announcements: Please have students bring in their copy of George the Drummer Boy.  We will begin reading it on Wednesday, March 21. 

Calendar
March 20^th: School Resumes 
Friday, March 23^rd: Archway Arete Movie Night

Academics

Math: This week we will work to review past material from quarter 1-3 before beginning a new math unit. We will practice identifying numbers (tens and ones), counting, making and breaking tens to complete addition and subtraction number with number within 20, as well as general number sense. 

Poem: Sing a song of People by Lois Lenski   Idiom: A.M., P.M.

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 of "Pollyanna" by Eleanor Porter 

Grammar:  We will begin to learn about adverbs and how they modify adjectives and verbs in a sentence.

Spalding: 

Tuesday: feather, fence, funny, going, honey, letters, orange, pocket, shoes, shoe

Wednesday: stairs, stream, talks, tiny, words, trust, extra, dress, beside, teach

Literature: Literature: Students will read a historical fiction selection from the perspective of a British soldier as we read George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley. Please have your child bring their copy of this book to school. 

Science: We will continue to study rocks and the Earth’s core.

History: Students will learn about the 13 colonies, taxation and the Boston Tea Party as we lead up to teaching about the American Revolution.

Week 28

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I enjoyed seeing our scholars at the Spring Fest and spending time with my family.

Charlotte loved getting her face painted and meeting all of Mommy's students!

With one week left before spring break, the 1C scholars will continue to work hard and focus on learning! 

Homework

Nightly: read for 15 minutes, phonograms to practice- ea, ear, ow, oi, ee, dge, ie, m, I, y

Poem- Sing a song of People by Lois Lenski

Monday: dead, leave, early, close, close, flower, flour, nothing, ground and wkbk pg. 71-73

Tuesday: lead, led, lead, such, morning, however, mind, shall, alone, order and wkbk pg. 74-76

Wednesday: third, push, point, within, body, field, belongs, cheese, earn, edge and wkbk pg. 77-80

Thursday: Read and write all 30 words and Test B and study for History test (study guide was sent home Monday night).

Friday: No Homework; Spring Break

Calendar

March 12-March 19: Spring Break 

Friday, March 23^rd: Archway Arete Movie Night
Announcements
Weekly Fluency Passages: We have begun sending home weekly fluency passages on Monday night.  Please have your child read this passage each night for one minute and record the amount of words read on the back of the sheet. Please have your child return the passage on Friday. Weekly fluency passages are a great way to improve reading ability and reading fluency!

Academics

Math: This week we will write number sentences and create number and picture stories for multiplication problems. We will continue to learn about the concept of equal groups and solve repeated addition and multiplication problems. 

Poem: Sing a song of People by Lois Lenski   Idiom: A.M., P.M.

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 of "How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell and "The Happy Hollisters" by Jerry West.

Grammar:  We will review how to write in complete sentences using appropriate punctuation, grammar, and handwriting. We will take an assessment of all 70 phonograms. 

Literature: We will read “Sam the Minuteman”. We will explore the genre of historical fiction and prepare ourselves for our next history unit as we read this selection. Please ensure that your child brings their copy of this book to school.

Spalding:  Monday: next, indeed, four, herself, power, wish, because, cause, world, country

Tuesday: meet, meat, another, tripped, trip, list, people, ever, held, church

Wednesday: once, one, own, before, know, no, were, where, there, here 

Science: The week we are beginning a new unit of study in science! We will be diving into the study of different scientists and their biographies. This week we will study Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur. We will listen to their contributions to science and our world.

History: This week we will continue to learn about the early colonists as we touch on the use of slaves and the Puritan colonies.  We will review and take an assessment on Friday.  A review guide will be sent home on Monday.