💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Mon, August 25th - start of Spalding Homework
- Friday, August 29th, Early dismissal at 12:30 (R&R Weekend)
- Monday, September 1st - No school (Labor Day)
- Wednesday, September 3rd - start of Reading Bags (leveled reader and sight words)
- Wednesday, September 3rd - Spalding and Singapore Math Night
- Thursday, September 4th - start of Reading volunteers (see sign-up on teacher page)
- Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service)Wednesday, September 17th -
- Friday, October 3rd - Early dismissal at 12:30
- October 6th - October 10th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 13th-14th - 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/)
- Parent questionnaire
- Literature books (Owl at Home, Bargain for Frances, My Father's Dragon, Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Frog and Toad)
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 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!"
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 will welcome parent volunteers on September 4th. Use your teacher's sign-up to volunteer to read with the students (see link in your teacher's page on top of blog). Please send your child's reading bag by Monday, August 25th if you haven't done so.
📕 SPALDING: We have been learning/reviewing our first phonograms until 'or'. 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: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable.
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).
Next Friday, we will start with Spelling Test of the 30 words we will learn next week and 20 phonograms up to 'or'. Kindly guide your child in their Spalding Homework and review all phonograms.
📕 MATHEMATICS: We practiced how to show numbers 1-10 in number bonds! We are having a Chapter Test next week about writing, ordering, and comparing numbers, as well as and showing them into number bonds.
📕 HISTORY: We learned about timelines and created our own timeline of past, present and future. We also learned how history is defined, and some words we need to know as we study history. We created a vocabulary foldable about that. Then, we went back in time talked and all the way to Mesopotamia, the oldest ancient civilization. We learned about its geography and why the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were important for their civilization.
📕 SCIENCE: This week we continued learning from our unit of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. The students wrote/drew in their journals about how the earth takes 24 hours to complete one full rotation on its axis. We also had a discussion about what is true about the moon's appearance in the sky. The moon's movement was viewed during time lapse videos and observations were made about its movement throughout the day.
