Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I write my final newsletter for the school year with immense gratitude to you all for making this year a wonderful one for our scholars and all of us in class 2A. It means a lot to me that our year ran smoothly without any problems. I thank you all for supporting your child in every way possible. Your dedication made a huge difference to your child’s love for learning. We will continue with our usual schedule, and here is a bird’s eye view of our final week.

LANGUAGE ARTS

SPALDING –We will continue our spelling words this week. Encourage your scholars to continue to practice writing their cursive. We will continue practicing in class as well. Students are not mandated to write in cursive now.

List 1: waist, waste, waiting, weary, writing, writer, write, spend, enjoy

List 2: awful, awe, usual, complaint, auto, vacation, beautiful, beauty, flight, travel

List 3: rapid, repair, troubling, trouble, entrance, importance, important, carried, carry, loss

READING – READING STRATEGY: We will continue to review all comprehension strategies learned throughout the school year.

POETRY: Title: “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. Students will do their recitals during the last week of school. Students will do their recitals on Thursday.

SAYING: None

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will do a review of all parts of speech.

WRITING – We have finished our unit in writing, but students will write their final paragraph this week.

LEVELED READERS – Students must return all their chapter books by Wednesday.

MATH

We complete our final unit in Math: Geometry. Students will identify and make basic 3-D shapes. They will also identify flat and curved surfaces on a 3-D object. We will identify vertices and edges on 3-D shapes.

SCIENCE

The class will review all we learned about simple machines. We will send a review guide home on Tuesday. The Science quiz will be on Thursday. We will read 4 science biographies this week as well: Florence Nightingale, Daniel Hale Williams, Anton Van Leuwenhoek,  and Elijah McCoy.

HISTORY

  In History, We will continue learning about Civil Rights leaders.

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH – Wisdom

Understanding of what is true and right that leads to just judgment as to action.

Know, then ACT

Wisdom is being wise, making trustworthy decisions, and making wise choices. Abraham Lincoln showed wisdom when he made the Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves.

                                                                             – Julia Garner (Class 2A)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

·       Students will empty their desk on Thursday. It is important that they bring to school a plastic bag or grocery bag to empty their desk.

·       Friday will be a busy day and we will be celebrating the last day of school! In the midst of all the activities, students will be allowed to bring whatever treats they would like to share. We will be celebrating all summer birthday as well, so all the students that wish to celebrate their birthdays will be encouraged to do so. Parents are allowed to bring as many treats as possible. The kids will  eat some in class, and the rest will be distributed evenly amongst the whole class 

·       Please, all chapter books should be returned to school.

·       Your child went home with a brochure that outlines all of the exciting camps being held, here at Archway Arete, during the Great Hearts Summer Academy. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Posner atjposner@archwayarete.org. 

• You are encouraged to try out this wonderful Math Resource during the summer holiday to keep your scholar busy KhanAcademy.org

·       The used uniform drive is underway. If you have any uniforms that you would like to donate or exchange, please fill out this form and drop off your items at the front desk. Please contact Dee Ulano with any questions.

Thank you for all you do to support our class!

Have a great summer break!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  On behalf of Ms. Peterson and I, I want to say a very big thank you to you all for making last week a memorable one. The food, the gifts, the flowers, and thank you notes are so very much appreciated. We cannot do what we do without your cooperation, so we thank you too. It was also nice seeing everyone at the concert. The kids did great! We are so proud of them.

Here is a quick look at our 36th week:

LANGUAGE ARTS

SPALDING –We will continue our spelling words this week. Encourage your scholars to continue to practice writing their cursive. We will continue practicing in class as well. Students are not mandated to write in cursive now.

List 1: curtain, declared, declare, distance, distant, explain, floated, ghost, holiday, holy

 List 2: knee, lemon, lying, lie, nails, needle, nobody, oar, palace, penny

List 3: regular, repeats, sailor, sentence, shining, shine, surface, sweeping, sweep, thief

READING – READING STRATEGY: We will continue to review all comprehension strategies learned throughout the school year.

POETRY: Title: “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. Students will do their recitals during the last week of school.

SAYING: None

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will do a review of all parts of speech.

WRITING – As we continue working on Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. We will continue to write paragraphs. Students learned that a paragraph is made up of at least 3-5 sentences. It must have an introductory sentence, three support sentences, and a closing sentence.

LEVELED READERS – The class will continue to read chapter books.

MATH

We will continue working on gathering data and plotting graphs. They are all finding this concept easy, but I will love to see them continue to practice telling time.

SCIENCE

The class will review all we learned about simple machines. We will send a review guide home this week. They will do a quiz on Thursday.

HISTORY

  In History, We will talk about the process of becoming a citizen. We will do a review for the Immigration and citizenship unit. The test for this unit will be on Wednesday. We will begin our last unit for history: Civil Rights leaders.

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH – Wisdom

Understanding of what is true and right that leads to just judgment as to action.

Know, then ACT

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

·       We will have Math and Reading groups this week.

·       We will conduct DIBELS reading assessments May 4^th – May 11th

·       Your child went home with a brochure that outlines all of the exciting camps being held, here at Archway Arete, during the Great Hearts Summer Academy. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Posner atjposner@archwayarete.org. 

• You are encouraged to try out this wonderful Math Resource KhanAcademy.org

·       The used uniform drive is underway. If you have any uniforms that you would like to donate or exchange, please fill out this form and drop off your items at the front desk. Please contact Dee Ulano with any questions.

Thank you for all you do to support our class!

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It’s so hard to believe that we are in the final month of the school year. It flew by so fast. I look forward to seeing you all at the concert on Thursday.  I wish everyone a great week.

Here is a quick look at our 35th week:

LANGUAGE ARTS

SPALDING –We will continue our spelling words this week. Encourage your scholars to continue to practice writing their cursive. We will continue practicing in class as well. Students are not mandated to write in cursive now.

List 1: public, music, picnic, friends, friend, during, police, until, truly, true

List 2: whole, hole, address, request, raise, August, struck, getting, get, don’t

List 3: Thursday, Saturday, admission, canoe, captain, cautious, caution, cellar, covered, creature

READING – READING STRATEGY: We will continue to review all comprehension strategies learned throughout the school year.

POETRY: Title: “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. Students will do their recitals during the last week of school.

SAYING: None

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will do a review of all parts of speech.

WRITING – As we continue working on Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. We will continue to write paragraphs. Students learned that a paragraph is made up of at least 3-5 sentences. It must have an introductory sentence, three support sentences, and a closing sentence.

LEVELED READERS – Your scholar will bring home a chapter book to read. Please, encourage them to continue to write their reflection logs. Please, have them take care of the book as well.

MATH

We will compare the capacity of containers, understand liter as a unit of measurement, and solve word problems relating to measuring capacity. We will begin making tally charts and working with simple picture graphs as well.

SCIENCE

This week, we will focus on wheel and axle, and pulleys as examples of simple machines.

HISTORY

  In History, We will talk about the role immigrants like – Andrew Carnegie, Albert Sabin, and Irvin Berlin played in the making of USA.

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH – Wisdom

Understanding of what is true and right that leads to just judgment as to action.

Know, then ACT

“When you know better: you do better.” - Maya Angelou

ANNOUNCEMENTS

·       We will have Math and Reading groups.

·       We will conduct DIBELS reading assessments May 4^th – May 11th

·       Your child went home with a brochure that outlines all of the exciting camps being held, here at Archway Arete, during the Great Hearts Summer Academy. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Posner atjposner@archwayarete.org. 

• You are encouraged to try out this wonderful Math Resource KhanAcademy.org
• K-1 students will perform on Tuesday, May 5th at 5:30 p.m.
• 2-3 students will perform on Thursday, May 7th at 5:30 p.m.
• 4-5 students will perform on Thursday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m.

·       The used uniform drive is underway. If you have any uniforms that you would like to donate or exchange, please fill out this form and drop off your items at the front desk. Please contact Dee Ulano with any questions.

Thank you for all you do to support our class!

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. There is still so much to learn, so please encourage your scholars to continue to give their best.

Here is a quick look at our 34th week:

LANGUAGE ARTS

SPALDING –We will continue our spelling words this week. 

List 1: throw, threw, personal, everything, rate, chief, perfect, second, slide, farther

List 2: duty, intend, company, quite, quit, quiet, none, knew, know, remain

List 3: direction, direct, appear, liberty, enough, fact, board, September, station, attend

READING – READING STRATEGY: In comprehension, we will focus on making inferences.

POETRY: Title: “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. Students will do their recitals during the last week of school.

SAYING: Our saying this week is, “Get a taste of your own medicine."

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will review contractions.

WRITING – As we continue working on Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. We will continue to write paragraphs. Students learned that a paragraph is made up of at least 3-5 sentences. It must have an introductory sentence, three support sentences, and a closing sentence.

LEVELED READERS – Your scholar will bring home a chapter book to read. Please, encourage them to continue to write their reflection logs. Please, have them take care of the book as well.

MATH

This week, we will learn how to measure liquid content in capacity. We will compare the capacity of containers, understand liter as a unit of measurement, and solve word problems relating to measuring in capacity.

SCIENCE

We will continue learning about Simple Machines. Last week, we learned about work, force, energy and levers. This week, we will focus on wedges and inclined planes as examples of simple machine.

HISTORY

  In History, We will begin a new unit on Immigration and Citizenship. Students will learn about why and how Europeans migrated to USA. We will talk about the role immigrants played in the making of USA.

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH – Responsibility/Humility

To not be proud or arrogant, but to have a modest sense of one’s importance.

Let OTHERS go FIRST

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

                                                                                                        - Saint Augustine

ANNOUNCEMENTS

·       We will have Math and Reading groups.

·       Your child went home with a brochure that outlines all of the exciting camps being held, here at Archway Arete, during the Great Hearts Summer Academy. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Posner atjposner@archwayarete.org. 

• You are encouraged to try out this wonderful Math Resource KhanAcademy.org
• K-1 students will perform on Tuesday, May 5th at 5:30 p.m.
• 2-3 students will perform on Thursday, May 7th at 5:30 p.m.
• 4-5 students will perform on Thursday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m.

·       The PSO Appreciation Dinner is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29th at 6:00 p.m. The teachers at both Archway and Prep are very excited to show their gratitude toward these incredible volunteers who gave their time during the 2014-15 school year. More details to come.

·       The used uniform drive is underway. If you have any uniforms that you would like to donate or exchange, please fill out this form and drop off your items at the front desk. Please contact Dee Ulano with any questions.

Thank you for all you do to support our class!

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. The count down continues into the fifth week of our final quarter.  There is still so much to learn, so please encourage your scholars to continue to give their best. It has been a little rowdy in the past week.

Here is a quick look at our 33rd week for the school year:

LANGUAGE ARTS

SPALDING –We will continue our spelling words this week. Encourage your scholars to continue to practice writing their cursive. We will continue practicing in class as well. Students are not mandated to write in cursive now.

List 1: election, elect, aboard, jail, shed, refuse, district, restrain, royal

List 2: objection, object, pleasure, measure, treasure, navy, forty, fourteen, fourth, four

List 3: population, proper, judge, weather, whether, worth, contain, figure, sudden, instead

READING – READING STRATEGY: In comprehension, we will focus on compare and contrast. Students will engage in telling the difference and similarities in things, people, and places.

POETRY: Title: “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. Students will do their recitals during the last week of school.

SAYING: Our saying this week is, “Get a taste of your own medicine."

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will review all the parts of speech we have learnt so far: verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, interjections and preposition.

WRITING – As we continue working on Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. We will continue to write paragraphs. Students learned that a paragraph is made up of at least 3-5 sentences. It must have an introductory sentence, three support sentences, and a closing sentence.

LEVELED READERS – Your scholar will bring home a chapter book to read. Please, encourage them to continue to write their reflection logs. Please, have them take care of the book as well.

MATH

This week, we will continue learning how to tell time. Last week was quite challenging for the entire class, but I think we are making good progress with telling time after and before the hour. We will focus on the start or end time for a time interval. Please, help reinforce telling time at home.

SCIENCE

We have finished our unit on Magnets. Students will come home with their packets and study guides. Science test will be on Thursday. We will begin a new unit on Simple Machines. We will explore what a simple machine is and list several examples of what they are used for.

HISTORY

  In History, We will finish our unit on Civil war by reviewing all they learned about the war, slavery, people that made a difference, how the war started, and how it ended. There will be a test on Friday.

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH – Responsibility/Humility

To hold yourself morally accountable for actions within your control.

OWN your actions

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

                                                                                            - Ralph Marston

ANNOUNCEMENTS

·       We will resume Math and Reading groups.

·       Your child went home two weeks ago with a brochure that outlines all of the exciting camps being held, here at Archway Arete, during the Great Hearts Summer Academy. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Posner atjposner@archwayarete.org. 

• You are encouraged to try out this wonderful Math Resource KhanAcademy.org
• K-1 students will perform on Tuesday, May 5th at 5:30 p.m. (For Spring Concert).
• 2-3 students will perform on Thursday, May 7th at 5:30 p.m.(For Spring Concert).
• 4-5 students will perform on Thursday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m.(For Spring Concert).

·       The PSO Appreciation Dinner is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29th at 6:00 p.m. The teachers at both Archway and Prep are very excited to show their gratitude toward these incredible volunteers who gave their time during the 2014-15 school year. More details to come.

·       The used uniform drive is underway. If you have any uniforms that you would like to donate or exchange, please fill out this form and drop off your items at the front desk. Please contact Dee Ulano with any questions.

Thank you for all you do to support our class!

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson