💡ANNOUNCEMENTS
- First Responders Day - October 28th - To make our first responders feel special and extra loved, our Kingdom classrooms are coloring and writing special cards to be given to our first responders like policemen, firefighters, doctors, etc... In addition, we're also collecting snacks, baked goodies and useful supplies. Donations can be placed inside the Kingdom boxed at the front of the school. Let's show our first responders how much the Archway Knights care about them.
- Classical Character Day - October 29th - Classical Character Day 25-26.docx Classical Character Day Form 25-26.docx
- 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/parent volunteers)
- Tuesday, October 21st - Picture Retakes
- Friday, October 24th - Classical Character permission slips due
- Saturday, October 25: Trunk or Treat (4:30–7:00 pm)
- Wednesday, October 29th - Classical Character Day
- Saturday, November 15: Mother Son Kickball (12 pm)
- Tuesday, 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 started reading the first book of the series of Frog and Toad, "Frog and Toad Are Friends". Frog was such a patient friend of Toad's. We learn a lot from their friendship. We practiced reading aloud the first few chapters and answered questions in a comprehension packet.
In Grammar, we learned about names of our aunts, uncles, and cousins.
📕 SAYINGS:
- Let the cat out of the bag.
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 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 11:10 - 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 5: i and y may say /i/
rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word
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
rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
📕 POETRY:
by George Cooper
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came
📕 MATHEMATICS: The students reviewed subtraction concepts. We ended the week with a test on subtraction (chapter 3) and a cumulative test as well.
📕 HISTORY: We learned about the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt and the Egyptian writing called hieroglyphics! Ask your child if they remember the paper the Egyptians used for writing. ;)
📕 SCIENCE: This week, we continued our unit on plants and animals. We talked about the things we use that are similar to animal and plant parts. We talked about problems that animals/plants have that we can solve. We also completed an animal report to prepare for our upcoming animal reports.
