Dear Parents,

How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful weekend. Here is a quick look at our 14^th 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 4^th. 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