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