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