***From the Health Office (Nurse Spanbauer):***
Reminder to all parents/guardians that hearing and vision screening is coming up next month. If your child needs vision aids such as glasses, PLEASE send them to school with these, particularly during the week of screening. We want to eliminate any false vision screening fails. Please reach out to the health office anytime if you have any questions or concern and a big THANK YOU to everyone who is helping with our hearing and vision screening week.
Students will have an opportunity to visit the school library with their class throughout the school year. 1B and 1C's classes library day is on Thursday. 1A's library day is Wednesday. Students are responsible for the proper care and safe return of all items borrowed. Parents/guardians are responsible for overdue, lost or damaged materials. Students may checkout a maximum of 1 book at a time and must return materials within 14 days of checkout. Books may be returned to the classroom.
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Kingdom Meeting (wear Kingdom colors)Wednesday, September 16th -
- Wednesday, September 23rd - Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service)
- Friday, October 2nd - Early dismissal at 12:30
- October 5th - October 9th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 12th-13th - Parent Teacher Conferences
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)
- Reading bag from Kindergarten (If you're new to Archway, please purchase one from the school website: https://archwaychandler.greatheartsamerica.org/book-supply-lists/)
- Parent questionnaire
- Literature books (Owl at Home, Bargain for Frances, My Father's Dragon, Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Frog and Toad)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We started our series on The House at Pooh's Corner. Ask your children to retell what they remember about the stories they have heard so far and what they think about the characters.
📕 SAYINGS:
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 POETRY:
Flint
by Christina Rossetti
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as bright as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
Work
by Anonymous
Work while you work,
Play while you play,
This is the way
To be happy each day.
All that you do,
Do with your might,
Things done by half
Are never done right.
Hearts Are Like Doors
by Anonymous
Hearts, like doors, will open with ease,
To very, very little keys,
And don't forget that two of these
Are "Thank you, sir" and "If you please!"
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
Don’t Worry if Your Job is Small (Mighty Oak)
by Anonymous
Don't worry if your job is small,
And your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.
📕 READING: We welcome parent volunteers for reading. Please see your teacher's sign-up to volunteer to read with the students (see link in your teacher's page on top).
Reading Homework with reading bags and Reading Logs have started. Please spend 20 minutes each night reading with your child, and fill out the Reading Log. This includes sight words practice.
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: We introduced phonograms 46-56 this week, and spelling lists 4 & 5. Students will practice 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:
rule 7: Job 1: e jumps over the consonant to make the vowel say its name
Job 2: English words don't end in u or v
Job 3: e makes the g say /j/ and c say /s/
Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel
Job 5: e has no job
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 5: i and y may say /i/ (long sound)
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 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
Key:
📕 MATHEMATICS: Students have been practicing addition facts 0-3 and different ways to add. We learned how to use numbers bonds in solving addition problems. . They also learned how to write an addition equation, switch the addends, and count on to solve an addition equation.
📕 HISTORY: We have continued our journey into the ancient world of Mesopotamia. In class, we learned about King Hammurabi and his code. We made our own classroom code that we kept in our room. We also discussed the importance of kings and queens during their time, and created our class Gate of Ishtar.
📕 SCIENCE: In our Sun, Moon and Stars unit this week, we learned about the moon phases. We also drew pictures of the moon's phases in our science journal.
