Weekly Updates
Sunday, November 30, 2014
A Note from Mrs. Kaye:
Greetings Archway Arete Parents and Guardians,
The first annual Archway Arete Winter Concerts will be here soon. Concerts for grades 2-5 will be held in the Arete gymnatorium on Thursday, December 4th. The second and third grade concert will be held at 5:30 pm. Second and third grade students should meet in their classrooms at 5:00 pm, and parents should proceed to the gym. The fourth and fifth grade concert will begin at 7:00 pm. Students should meet in their classrooms at 6:40 pm, and parents should proceed to the gym.
Please be aware of the limited parking at Arete. Following the first concert, all second and third grade families must depart in a timely manner so fourth and fifth grade families can park for their concert.
The attire for concerts will be as follows:
Boys: Black pants, white dress shirt, black dress shoes, and black socks. Hair should be combed neatly.
Girls: Black skirt, white top, black tights, and black 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.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Stephanie Kaye at skaye@archwayarete.org. We look forward to enjoying this beautiful event with you!
Thank You,
Stephanie Kaye
2nd-5th Grade Music Teacher
Archway Classical Academy │Arete
skaye@archwayarete.org
Dear Parents,
How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful
weekend. Here is a quick look at our 16th week.
LANGUAGE ARTS
SPALDING –
We will continue with our spelling list this week. Please, review homework
as they come home.
List 1: maybe,
across, tonight, tenth, sir, these, those, club, seen, see
List 2: felt, full, fail, setting, set, stamp, light, coming, come, night
List 3: pass,
shut, easy, ease, bone, cloud, draw, drink, garden, goose
READING – READING STRATEGY: We will continue to explore how to organize
non-fiction text in comprehension.
POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is “The Night before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore. Encourage
your scholars to start memorizing this poem. We will complete all poetry
recitals for “Merry autumn” on Monday.
SAYING: “Great
oaks from little acorns grow." We will appreciate it if you use it
at home because children retain sayings when they engage in it through
meaningful use.
GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – Students will learn how
to use quotation marks this week.
WRITING – As we work with Writing
With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and
copy work skills. They will be introduced to letter writing. All students are
expected to bring their postal address to school latest Tuesday.
LEVELED READERS
Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings
seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are
expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of
the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills
thus far. By the beginning of second semester, we will start sending home
chapter books.
MATH
Last week, we introduced
students to the concept of multiplication. This wek, we will focus on the concept
of division.
SCIENCE
We will finish the life cycle of plants and frogs
this week. Children will observe the lima beans planted for the last time and
discuss observations since the last time it was planted.
HISTORY
We will finish learning the names of the most
common gods and goddesses of Greece. We will also learn about the Trojan war
and what let to the beginning of the war. Review guides will come home on
Wednesday. They will complete the test for the first part of the Ancient Greece
unit.
VIRTUE
Courage
Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can
befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. –
Pope John Paul II
Announcements
·
Our winter concert is on Dec
4th. It will begin at 5:30pm.
Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my blog. Make sure your scholars
are dressed in the proper attire. I will repost the letter from Mrs. Kaye.
·
We will have guided reading
on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
·
I will share survey results
with parents in the coming week.
Have
a great week.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Dear Parents,
How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful
weekend. Here is a quick look at our 15th week.
LANGUAGE ARTS
SPALDING –
We will continue with our spelling list this week. Please, review homework
as they come home.
List
1: move, delay, pound, behind, around,
burn, camp, bear, bare, clear, clean, spell, poor, finish, hurt
READING – READING STRATEGY: For comprehension, we will focus on how to
organize non-fiction text. We will continue with chapters 11 in The
Boxcar Children this week. We will have a Boxcar feast on Wednesday to
celebrate the courage of the boxcar children. Also, to give the children the
opportunity to say the things they are thankful for. We will use our left-over
snacks from the Read-a-thon alongside anything else children bring in on
Wednesday.
We started reading the favorite Greek myths too. We
are doing this to coincide with our History unit on Greece. The kids are
enjoying the stories.
POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is
“Merry Autumn” by Charles Dickens. Encourage your scholars to keep practicing.
We will be gin recitals of this poem on Wednesday.
SAYING: “Great
oaks from little acorns grow." We will appreciate it if you use it
at home because children retain sayings when they engage in it through meaningful
use.
GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will review
conjunctions and interjections this week.
WRITING – As we work with Writing
With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and
copy work skills.
LEVELED READERS
Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings
seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are
expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of
the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills
thus far. By the beginning of second semester, we will start sending home
chapter books.
MATH
This week, we will complete
learning the concept of multiplication. Last week, scholars learned the meaning
of multiplication through grouping and repeated addition. This week, we will
focus on using arrays.
SCIENCE
Last week, we focused on the
life cycle of a plant. We planted lima beans, and students have been observing
the growth and writing in their journals. This week, we will focus on the life
cycle of a frog.
HISTORY
Last week, we introduced the Geography of
Greece. This week, we will label the map of Greece and discuss the gods and goddesses.
VIRTUE
Courage
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's
life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other
people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own
inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. - Steve Jobs
Overcome
Struggle with HEART
The
quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty and danger with
firmness and nobility.
Announcements
· This Wednesday is half day.
Our winter concert is on Dec 4th. It will begin at 5:30pm. Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my blog.
Our winter concert is on Dec 4th. It will begin at 5:30pm. Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my blog.
·
There will be no guided
reading this week. Special thanks to our parent volunteers that come in once
every week to help. Mrs. Everhart, Mrs. Lavell, Mrs. Zinke, Mrs. Antoniello,
Mrs. Sinykin, and Mrs. Gerson. I thank Mrs. Lockery too for filling in with
very short notice. We appreciate you all and are thankful for the help.
·
Progress reports went home
last week. Please, if you received one for your scholar sign and return on
Monday.
·
Please, join the Archway
Arete Hope and Relief Effort for Ayuda, Arizona. I have posted more information
on my blog.
·
Thank you for responding to
the homework survey monkey. I am encouraging those who still haven’t
participated to complete it this week, so that I can share the result with you
all.
Have
a great week.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Dear Parents,
How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful
weekend. Here is a quick look at our 14th week.
LANGUAGE ARTS
SPALDING –
We will continue with our spelling list this week. Please, review homework
as they come home.
List 1: first, sent, cent, mile, seem, even,
without, afternoon, Friday, hour, our
List 2: wife, state, July, head, story, open,
short, lady, reach
List 3: better, water, round, cost, price, become, class,
horse, care, try
READING – READING STRATEGY: We will continue to explore the strategy of
visualizing in comprehension. We will continue with chapters 9 & 10
in The Boxcar Children this week.
POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is
“Merry Autumn” by Charles Dickens. Encourage your scholars to keep practicing.
SAYING: “Great
oaks from little acorns grow." We will appreciate it if you use it
at home because children retain sayings when they engage in it through
meaningful use.
GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – Students will learn
about conjunctions and interjections this week. We will also review kinds of
sentences. Students are beginning to understand the importance of editing and
proof reading in writing. Please, continue to encourage them to look back and
correct their writing when doing their reflection logs.
WRITING – As we work with Writing
With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and
copy work skills.
LEVELED READERS
Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings
seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are
expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of
the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills
thus far. By the beginning of second semester, we will start sending home
chapter books.
MATH
This is our last week of
measurement, and I can tell you that we have had so much fun measuring length,
height, width, and weight. We will do a review of the unit, and begin
multiplication on Thursday.
SCIENCE
We will begin our new unit on animal life cycle. We
will discuss the meaning of life cycle again, and then focus on the life cycle
of a plant.
HISTORY
We will finish modern Japan this week, and we
will begin ancient Greece. I am so excited about this unit because it will shed
light on some of our philosophies as a school.
We will begin by studying the Geography of Ancient
Greece, then we will proceed to gods and goddesses.
VIRTUE
Courage
You will never do anything in this world without
courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - Aristotle
Overcome
Struggle with HEART
The
quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty and danger with
firmness and nobility.
Announcements
·
Our winter concert is on Dec
4th. It will begin at 5:30pm.
Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my blog.
·
We will have guided reading
on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
·
Progress reports will be
sent home this week; you will receive a progress report if your child is
struggling in a particular subject or subjects. I will definitely reach out to
you on phone for further discussion or call a meeting immediately.
·
Please, join the Archway
Arete Hope and Relief Effort for Ayuda, Arizona. I have posted more information
on my blog.
·
Thank you for responding to
the homework survey monkey. I am encouraging those who still haven’t participated
to complete it this week, so that I can share the result with you all.
Have
a great week.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson
ARCHWAY ARETE HOPE AND RELIEF EFFORT 2014
I am proud to announce that Archway Arete is working with the Veselovsky family to
help the town of Hyder, Arizona. The information below is to inform you
about our relief effort. We will begin the donation process this
Monday. Please contact me if you have any specific questions!
Our
goal this year collectively as an Archway Arete community is to provide relief
to the town of Hyder, Arizona. The town of Hyder, located in Yuma County,
was once a World War II desert training ground for General Patton’s troops, but
is now known as a ghost town. It is populated today by hardworking
shrimp, tilapia, and date farmers. Income is very low and with only one
general store the people of the town face many challenges to meet daily
nutrition, housing, and hygiene needs.
The drive is being run by the Veselovsky family, one of our own Archway families and we are asking the rest of Archway Arete community if they can generously donate the following items to the people of the town of Hyder, Arizona during this holiday season:
You
may begin dropping off collections to the classroom starting on Monday,
November 17, 2014. The collection will end on, Friday December 5,
2014. Thank you in advance for your generous support and greathearted
effort.
The drive is being run by the Veselovsky family, one of our own Archway families and we are asking the rest of Archway Arete community if they can generously donate the following items to the people of the town of Hyder, Arizona during this holiday season:
Kindergarten: Dental hygiene items such as toothbrushes,
toothpaste, floss, mouthwash
First
Grade: Toilet paper &
paper towels
Second
Grade: Canned food
Third
Grade: Dry rice, dry beans,
dry pasta
Fourth
Grade: Flour, sugar, oats
Fifth
Grade: Hygiene items such
as deodorant, shampoo, conditioner & body wash
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Dear Parents,
How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful
weekend. Here is a quick look at our 13th week.
Read-a-thon
It’s
with heartfelt joy that I thank you all for supporting our class during the
read-a-thon. We were all so proud when the headmaster asked our entire class to
stand during our assembly on Monday, as he announced class 2A as the winner of
the book drive. We ended up with over 70 books in total. I know the read-a-thon
is over, but if you still want to donate books to our class, please, feel free
to visit the sign-up genius for book donations.
LANGUAGE ARTS
SPALDING –
We will continue with our spelling list this week. We have slowed down the
spelling pace again because we have now started our second grade-spelling list.
Please, review homework as they come home.
List 1: : glass, party, upon, two, twin, twice, twelve, twenty, between,
they
List 2: would, could, should, any, many, city,
only, where, week, weak
READING – READING STRATEGY: Our reading strategy this week will be
visualizing. We will do a comprehension quiz on drawing conclusion and making
inferences this week. We will continue with chapters 7 & 8 in The
Boxcar Children this week.
POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is
“Merry Autumn” by Charles Dickens. Encourage your scholars to keep practicing.
SAYING:
“Be true to what you stand for. If you're going to teach others, you should
first live out those truths yourself” .We will appreciate it if you use it at home because
children retain sayings when they engage in it through meaningful use.
GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – Students will review
adjectives and verbs. As I prepare our scholars for diagraming, I have actually
started having them identify parts of speech in sentences. I am amazed at how
well they are doing with this.
WRITING – As we work with Writing
With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and
copy work skills. As the narration and dictation homework goes home every week,
we are asking that you help us pay attention to proof reading their work. I
really want to suggest that you encourage your scholars to write a sentence
every day, and have them look back and correct their mistakes. I really want to
create awareness to writing this quarter.
LEVELED READERS
Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings
seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are
expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of
the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills
thus far. By the beginning of second semester, we will start sending home
chapter books.
MATH
We will begin measuring
weight using grams, pounds, and ounces this week. We will continue to weigh
objects and food items using a scale as well. Please, encourage scholars to
help you weigh food items at the grocery store.
SCIENCE
We will begin our new unit on animal life cycle. We
will discuss the meaning of Life cycle – The sequence of development stages
Birth –Began as an
immature member of a species
Growth – potential to
become mature member of a species
Reproduction – an
organism reaches full maturity and can now have offspring
Death- final stage
HISTORY
We will began a new unit on Modern Japan on
Friday. We discussed the Geography of Japan. This week, we will focus on what
makes Japan a modern country, and the traditions that are still practiced now
in Japan
VIRTUE
Courage
“Courage
is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit
down and listen..” – Winston Churchill
Overcome
Struggle with HEART
The
quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty and danger with
firmness and nobility.
Announcements
·
Our winter concert is on Dec
4th. It will begin at 5:30pm. Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my
blog.
·
We will have guided reading
only on Wednesday this week.
Have
a great week.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson
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