2 / 6 / 2026

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
• Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes. 
• Please make sure to read the letter below regarding the upcoming field day in March.

Dear Parents,

    Athletic Field Day will be on Thursday, March 5^th. Students will participate in active and healthy competitions with their peers striving to do their best. Students have been practicing in these events, and they will be ready for Field Day.

Field Day Schedule
Grades K-2	Thursday, March 5th	8:05am-11:25am
Grades 3-5	Thursday, March 5th	11:45am -2:55pm

The help of the community is integral to the success of Field Day. We need a lot of parent volunteers, and your help makes Field Day run smoothly. All volunteers must be cleared through Raptor. If you need Raptor clearance, use this link to complete the process. It’s a short and simple process. Every volunteer needs to be cleared, not one per household. Please do it now through this link to be sure you're cleared in time:

apps.raptortech.com/Apply/NDEwNjplbi1VUw==

Below is the sign up link to volunteer. The students would love to see you on their Field Day. Please select only one station. Don’t wait, volunteer spots fill up fast!

Grade	Volunteer Link
K-2 Volunteers	https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45ACA823AAFECF8-62018335-kto2
3-5 Volunteers	https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45ACA823AAFECF8-62114163-3rdto5th

 Dress code:

• Students and parent volunteers may wear athletic pants, joggers, or long shorts that go to the top of or past the knee.
• No spandex allowed - Yoga pants or leggings are ok
• No tank tops
• T-shirts may be school spirit shirts, a favorite team jersey, or any other T-shirt that does not have pop culture references or inappropriate messages
• You may wear athletic shoes of any color - No pop culture shoes or light up shoes
• Make sure your students apply sunscreen and bring a positive attitude

Please note that due to our school’s security policy, which is in place to keep our campus safe at all times, nobody is permitted on campus to participate in or to watch Field Day unless they are signed up in advance as a volunteer. Feel free to reach out with questions to the P.E. teaching team.

(K-1^st) Coach Roberts – MRoberts@archwaychandler.org

(2^nd to 5^th) Coach Tong – Vtong@archwaychandler.org

With Gratitude,

Coach Roberts & Coach Tong

💡DATES TO REMEMBER
February 10th: Spring Photo Day
February 16th: NO SCHOOL (President's Day) R&R weekend
February 21st: Medieval Faire
March 3rd: Field trip to Herberger Theater to see Childsplay' s Hare and Tortoise
March 5th: K - 5 Athletic Field Day
March 6th: Half Day Dismissal (12:30pm)
March 9th - 13th: Spring Break - No School

💡REMINDERS:

1. Please double check your child's uniform to make sure they still have the right length.

2. The scholars should bring the following daily:

• Water bottle with name
• Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
• Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)

*Your child may use the small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring to help them pack their things. 

3. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage. 

💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK 

📕 LITERATURE: This week, we learned the values of responsibility and wisdom from The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Tom Kitten and we started The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. 

All first-grade classes are in need of reading volunteers! Please use the sign up located under your teacher's page. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer at a different time, please contact your teacher.

📕 SPALDING: Continue practicing at home the phonograms the scholars haven't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.

         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 1: q is always followed by u, and together they say /kw/. 

 

rule 2: c before e, i, or y says /s/ 

 

rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable

 

rule 5: i and y may say 'long' i. 

rule 6: y not i, is used at the end of an English word. 

 

rule 8: /er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early."

rule 9: 1-1-1 rule: One syllable words with one vowel followed by one consonant need to double its last consonant before adding on ending beginning with a vowel. 

rule 11: Words ending with a silent final e are written without the e when adding a vowel ending.

rule 13: 'sh' is used at the beginning of a base word or the end of a syllable. 

                                         

   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 25:  ck is used after a single vowel that says its short sound.

sick

block 

rock, back, neck

rule 26:  Capitalize proper nouns.

      rule 27: Words beginning with the sound /z/ are always spelled with z never s. (zoo)

      rule 28: ed has three sounds and is added to form the past tense of regular verbs.

      rule 29:  divide words between double consonants

ap ple

lit tle

Key:

new rules covered 

rules covered this week

rules covered in the past

📕 SAYINGS: 

• The more the merrier. 

• Land of Nod

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• Sour grapes 

• Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. 

• It could always be worse. 

• 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

📕POETRY:

My Shadow  
by Robert Louis Stevenson 

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. 
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; 
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. 

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow— 
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, 
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. 

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

There Once Was a Puffin 

by Florence Page Jacques

Oh, there once was a Puffin 

Just the shape of a muffin, 

And he lived on an island

In the bright blue sea!

He ate little fishes,

That were most delicious, 

And he had them for supper 

And he had them for tea.

But this poor little Puffin, 

He couldn’t play nothin’, 

For he hadn’t anybody 

To play with at all.

So he sat on his island,

And he cried for awhile, 

and He felt very lonely,

And he felt very small.

Then along came the fishes, 

And they said, “If you wishes, 

You can have us for playmates, 

Instead of for tea!”

So they now play together,

In all sorts of weather,

And the Puffin eats pancakes, 

Like you and like me.

The Swing 

by Robert Louis Stevenson 

How do you like to go up in a swing, 

Up in the air so blue?


Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing, 

Ever a child can do! 

Up in the air and over the wall,


Till I can see so wide,


Rivers and trees and cattle and all, 

Over the countryside – 

Till I look down on the garden green, 

Down on the roof so brown –

Up in the air I go flying again,

Up in the air and down! 

 

📕MATH: This week, we finished up our chapter on Numbers 1 to 120 and had a test. We also introduced our new chapter on addition and subtraction within 100. Kindly see the letter about this chapter that was sent home today, Friday, February 6th.

📕HISTORY: We read and talked about Benjamin Franklin's political cartoon, "Join or Die". We also continued to study about how the colonies united and made a letter to King George III. We pretended to make our own letter too in class and signed our names on it. 

📕SCIENCE:  Scholars listened to a book about a boy who recognizes his shadow for the first time. We then listed objects that cause light to be blocked and the light sources that are blocked. Scholars also investigated different interactions of light with opaque materials. We determined what kinds of shadows can be recognized depending on the unique materials involved with blocking light. We also discussed - with these same materials - which ones allowed some or all light to pass through them.

  

Have a great weekend!

1st Grade Teachers