📣 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, if needed.
- Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
May 10th: PSO Used Uniform SaleMay 20th - 23rd - Half days of school - dismissal @ 12:30May 22nd - Half-day - First grade Mexican party (see Sign-up-genius for ways to help); half day dismissal @ 12:30pmMay 23rd - Last day of school/half day dismissal @ 12:30pm - If you are planning on leaving school before the year is over, please communicate that with us. We would like to send your child's things home, instead of throwing it away. Anything left in your child's desks will be thrown away.
Note: There are no more clubs for the remainder of the year. Students need to be picked up at dismissal unless they are an athenaeum scholar. If your child is in athenaeum, please be sure they have a lunch and a snack for the afternoon. Thank you.
IMPORTANT: Medication Pick-Up
Parents or guardians who provided any medication to the school for
student use, should pick up the medication from the school nurse by Friday,
May 23rd. After the last day of school, all medications will be properly
disposed of. Please know that we can't put the medicine inside the
student's backpack, it must be picked up by a responsible adult that has been
approved to be picked up by the parents or guardians.
Please reach out to the school nurse for any questions
or concerns at sspanbauer@archwaychandler.org.
💡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.
Thank you for your continued support in volunteering to read with the students. Last day of volunteering for reading will be Friday, May 16th.
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK:
📕SPALDING: Continue practicing at home the phonograms 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/. (queen)
rule 2: c before e, i, or y says /s/. (cent, city, cycle)
rule 3: g before e, i, or y says /j/. (page, giant, gym)
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 5: I and y may say /i/ (si lent, my)
rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word. (try, fly)
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 an ending beginning with a vowel. (hop + p + ed)
rule 11: Words ending with a silent final e are written without the e when adding a vowel ending. (come - com + ing)
rule 12: ei is used after c to say long /e/ (receive). Otherwise, we say long /a/ or long /i/.
rule 13: sh is used at the beginning or end of a base 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 20: s never follows x.
rule 21: "All" written alone has 2 l's.
rule 23: dge is only used after a single vowel that says a short sound. (edge)
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
📕SAYINGS:
- Hit the nail on the head!
- There's no place like home.
- Never leave 'til tomorrow what you can do today.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
- It could always be worse.
- Let the cat out of the bag.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
📕 LITERATURE: This week, we read the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. We also made crafts and cards for our mothers (superheroes). Happy Mother's Day!!
📕 POETRY: The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
Recitations start on Monday, May 12th.
Thank you for your continued support in volunteering to read with the students.
MATH: We had our final review on time, and took our chapter and cumulative tests. Next week, scholars will be having an end-of-the-year Singapore test of all the skills we learned in first grade.
📕 HISTORY: This week, we closed our West Exploration Unit. They took home the lap books that they have been working on the past weeks. Have them teach you what they have learned. We will start on our study on our last unit of the year - The Culture of Mexico!
📕 SCIENCE: This week, we continued to learn about the solar system particularly Mercury, Venus, and Earth - the inner planets.
The scholars are also starting to bring home some of their class books and notebooks. Please have them empty out their backpacks - ready to fill with other things to come home.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers! We appreciate you ♥️
