💡ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Please bring "Frog and Toad" by this Wednesday, October 1st, if you haven't yet. Thank you!
- We are doing an Animal Report during the second quarter to be due in January. More information about this will be given during the Parent-Teacher Conferences.
- Sign-up link for the Parent-Teacher Conferences on October 13-15 through this link: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/
- From our nurse, Mrs. Sheila Spanbauer: Dear Parents and Guardians, Flu/cold season is coming very soon. Please continue to teach your children proper hygiene habits such as washing their hands right after using the bathroom, after they cough or sneeze and before they eat or touch their eyes or mouth. Help them practice sneezing or coughing on their sleeve, to help prevent any possible spread of microorganisms. I would like also to remind you that scholars are not allowed to have medications (pre-scribed or over the counter) in their backpacks. This can cause a serious safety concern for all the scholars. Please reach out to me if your scholar needs to take any prescribed or over the counter medications. I do need these medications to be in their original packaging and for prescribed medications to be labeled with the scholar's name. All medications should not be expired. Thank you for your cooperation in our goal of keeping our school healthy!
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- October 1st - Kingdom Meeting (wear Kingdom colors)
- Friday, October 3rd - Early dismissal at 12:30
- October 6th - October 10th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 13th-14th - Parent Teacher Conferences
- Monday, October 20th - Egypt Party (organized by room parents)
- October 25: Trunk or Treat (4:30–6:30 pm)
- October 29th - Classical Character Day
- November 15: Mother Son Kickball (12 pm)
- November 25th - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (We need 10 parent chaperones for each class. Sign up coming on October 20th.)
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We finished our Owl at Home series, and started Aesop's Fables! We retold the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" through a reader's theater. We also read about "The Dog in the Manger and The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing" Next week, we will kick off our Frog and Toad Series.
In Grammar, we continued to talk about nouns, and practiced story narration.
📕 SAYINGS:
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 POETRY: We are proud to see our scholars recite their poems next week!
📕 READING: Thank you to our first parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:15 - 11:45. Check your teacher's page on top for the reading volunteer signup.
Sight Word Bookmarks will be on a ring in your child's reading bag or in a binder sleeve. We will be testing for sight word knowledge once a week. During this time, we will be moving students to the next sight word list if they have mastered the previous one. (Please do not mark off sight words at home- we will do this in class).
📕 SPALDING: Continue practicing at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
We practiced jobs of silent final e:
Job 1: Silent final e jumps over the consonant and makes the vowel say its name.
Job 2: English words don't end in u or v.
Job 3: c and g will say their second sound.
Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel.
Job 5: No job (silent final e does not do anything, it just has to be there).
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 8: /er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early."
rule 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound
rule 18: "ay" is used to say a at the end of a base word
📕 SCIENCE: In our current unit we talked about how animals use their parts. We also talked about plant parts and how plant parts help the plant. We also wrote in our journals about what things we use as humans that are similar to animal and plant parts.
Have a good weekend. One more week until Fall Break!