💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Monday, September 2nd - No school (Labor Day)
- Friday, September 6th - start of Reading Bags (leveled reader and sight words)
- Monday, September 9th - start of Reading volunteers
- Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service)Friday, September 20th -
- Friday, September 27th - Early dismissal at 12:30
- September 30th - October 8th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 7th-8th - Parent Teacher Conferences
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure they empty it at home)
- Reading bag from Kindergarten (If you're new to Archway, please purchase one from the school website: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/4188?source=search&returncom=productlist&cid=394&diid=4198#Detail)
- Parent questionnaire
- Literature books (Owl at Home, Bargain for Frances, My Father's Dragon, Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Frog and Toad)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We listened to the stories of Tom Thumb, Thumbelina and Issun Boshi, and used a venn diagram to compare and contrast them. We also continued to practice identifying and capitalizing proper nouns of people.
📕 SAYINGS:
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 SAYINGS: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
📕 POETRY:
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!"
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.
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
📕 READING: We will welcome parent volunteers for Reading on Sept. 9th. Use 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 will start in two weeks. 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. 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 have been learning our first phonograms until oi. 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 consanant and make the vowel say its name.
Job 2: English words don't end in v or u.
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 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound
📕 MATHEMATICS: We wrapped up our unit of numbers 1-10, and took a Chapter Test. We started with our unit on addition, and reviewed different ways to add. Please practice their addition facts especially with the Rocket Math pages they take home.
📕 HISTORY: We learned about Mesopotamian writing "cuneiform" and made our own clay tablets. We also learned about how city life was like then for families, children, rulers, and other jobs. We made puppets of people in Mesopotamia and played with them.📕 SCIENCE: We talked about measuring capacity with the concept of Mr. Gallon and measuring temperature with thermometers. We also started our unit on electricity and conducted an experiment called "Magic Spoons" were they observed static electricity.