💡ANNOUNCEMENTS
Just a reminder that there are no clubs this coming Wednesday, September 17th due to the faculty in-service day.Regular attendance and arriving on
time are essential for every ACA student’s success. Consistent routines build
confidence and help students stay on track with their learning.
Excused Absences
According to Arizona law, excused
absences include:
- Illness or medical appointments
- Mental or behavioral health
- Bereavement or family emergencies
- Homelessness
- Military processing
- Out-of-school suspensions
-Parents/guardians must call or
email the school before 8:00 a.m. to report an absence. Without a
message, the absence is recorded as unexcused. Students with chronic illness
should contact the office for a Chronic Illness form.
-After an excused absence, it is
the student’s responsibility to make up missed work. Each teacher
will share their own policy and deadlines for completing assignments.
Unexcused Absences &
Vacations
All other
absences are considered unexcused under state law, including
vacations. Please schedule family trips during school breaks.
⚠️ Important: Teachers will not provide homework
or classwork in advance for unexcused absences such as vacations. Students are
also not guaranteed make-up work for these absences.
State Requirements
- Five or more unexcused absences = “habitually truant”
- Missing more than 10% of school days (excused +
unexcused) may result in a citation
- Ten consecutive unexcused absences will result in
withdrawal from ACA
Key Takeaways for Families
- Always call/email before 8:00 a.m. to report absences
- Excused absences = work can be made up
- Vacations/unexcused absences = no work provided ahead
of time
- Consistent attendance is critical to your child’s
academic success
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service); PSO Dining Fundraiser at Carolina's (7 am–7 pm)Wednesday, September 17th -
- October 1st - Kingdom Meeting (wear Kingdom colors)
- Friday, October 3rd - Early dismissal at 12:30
- October 6th - October 10th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 13th-14th - Parent Teacher Conferences
- October 25: Trunk or Treat (4:30–6:30 pm)
- November 15: Mother Son Kickball (12 pm)
- 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 continue our series on The House at Pooh's Corner. We read the chapter about Tigger not climbing trees, another about Pooh's invented game, and another about Christopher Robin's notice.
We are starting our Owl at Home reading next week. Please bring the book to the class if you haven't done it yet!
📕 SAYINGS:
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Practice makes perfect
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 POETRY: The students practice reciting and memorizing these every week. They will do a poetry recitation in front of the class on the last week of the quarter.
Flint
by Christina Rossetti
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue 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 (Work While You 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!"
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: 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: We introduced the rest of the first 69 phonograms this week. 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:
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 18: Use 'ay' to say /a/ at the end of a base word, never /a/ alone.
rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
📕 MATHEMATICS: Students practiced addition facts. We learned about "true statements" in Math. Students reviewed addition concepts and they will take a test on Monday. Our next unit is on subtraction within 10.
📕 SCIENCE: We are coming to the end of our unit on the sun, moon and stars. This week we talked about what we know about stars and how stars move. We also read a little about Galileo and explored the term 'astronomy'.
