Updates and announcements

Clubs are still available for sign up! Check the Archway Arete newsletter for the link to the list and sign up.

Great Hearts Day is fast approaching. Keep an eye out for an email for volunteers for our classroom celebration.

Athletic Field Day is Friday, February 17 from 8:30-11:00 for K-2 classes and from 12:00-2:30 for grades 3-5.  Each year classes are assigned a Greek City State for their team.  This year, our team is Cornith, and our team color is red.  There will be no school lunch offered on Athletic Field Day.  Please send your child to school with a lunch.  

In order to have Athletic Field Day run smoothly, we need your help!  Coach Rubino & Coach Steinmann need volunteers setting up and running the events.  Please sign up here to help with the events.  Also, we need a few volunteers for class to help with donating a cooler and snacks.  Please email Mrs. Lynch to sign up to be a classroom volunteer or if you could donate a cooler or snacks.  

Please have your child wear a red color t-shirt that day. students may decorate their shirts with their team name and/or symbol of their Greek City State. Students should wear athletic clothing free of pop culture references. Sports teams and brand logos are acceptable clothing. Athletic shoes are mandatory (any color). Hats and sunglasses may be worn. Sunscreen must be applied at home. Please see pg. 52 in the family handbook for more detailed information. 

Class picture day will be on February 16^th.

Our week in learning

We are enjoying reading The Secret Garden and identifying character traits as we read. We are focusing on finding textual evidence to support our inferences and opinions as we read.

This week in grammar we will be learning about transitive verbs and will introduce transitive and intransitive verbs. We will also be discussing our next writing project. Students will be writing a research paper over one of our explorers from our History Unit. The will be bringing home a packet today with all the information and a signature page to complete. This will be a long term project culminating in class presentations with a poster board. Please be on the lookout for this to come home tonight!

We will have our quiz over Roots 59-61 on Wednesday.  Students should study these nightly!

Poem recitations of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost will be Wednesday, February 1st. We will also be learning our new poem, I, Too, by Langston Hughes.

We will continue to learn about the plant kingdom. We are learning about seed plants and Angiosperms specifically this week. There will be a quiz on the parts of a flower on Feb. 2nd.

This week, students will continue to learn about the Age of Exploration. We will be covering Marco Polo, the technology used during this time period, motives for travel, and the prominent Portuguese explorers, Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama.

We began our next unit covering decimals on Friday, and we will continue this week, learning to order, add, and subtract decimals. We will be having math groups on Wednesday and a short quiz on Thursday. Math tests over Unit 6 went home on Friday. This was a very challenging unit and a difficult test. Therefore, as a team we decided to grade this test on a curve, and we will be revisiting these concepts later in the year.

Updates and announcements

We have a very busy week with testing and learning new materials. Be sure students are well rested as we have MAP testing this week, as well as history and math tests.

Some parents have gotten calls home from their child regarding missing or late work. I want to clarify that I do not expect (or want) parents to deliver forgotten homework. This is a measure to ensure students are being held responsible for their missing work.

Our MAP testing days were moved. Students will now test on Monday, 1/23 and Thursday, 1/26.

Our week in learning

This week we will continue reading The Secret Garden and will complete our daily journaling based on the book. We will also be discussing how to identify personality traits of the characters.

In Writing we are finishing up our informative essays about the the interaction of humans and the environment. This will primarily be an in class assignment as we help prepare them for the writing prompts on AZMerit. We will also do a grammar review with a short sentence diagramming quiz on Friday.

We will have our quiz over Roots 55-58 on Wednesday.  Students should study these nightly!

Students should be working on memorizing “The Road  Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Recitations will be Wednesday, February 1st.

We will continue to learn about the plant kingdom. This week will be our first lesson on reproductive life cycles in plants as well. Be on the lookout for science homework in  the form of journal entries too!

This week, students will finish learning about the Glorious Revolution in England with King William and Queen Mary. The study guide is due on Tuesday, January 24, and the test will be on Wednesday, January 25th to accommodate MAP testing (students were made aware of this change last week). The East Coast quiz will be on Friday, January 27th. Students will begin learning about the Age of Exploration on Friday, beginning with Marco Polo.

This week we will complete Unit 5. We will be reviewing Monday and Tuesday and will take the Unit Test on Wednesday. We then move on to decimals! There will be no Math groups on Wednesday due to our testing this week.

Updates and announcements

I hope everyone had a wonderful 3-day weekend while remembering the great work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Our field trip this year will be to the Renaissance Fair on Tuesday, February 28^th. If you would like to volunteer for this trip, please let me know.

Our wish list has been updated. We are running low on glue sticks. Students are very thorough in gluing in their notes.

With the amount of notes we have taken, students are also running out of room in their notebooks and have depleted my supply of extras, if your child has run out of room (particularly in history and writing/grammar), please send an additional notebook with them.

Our week in learning

We have enjoyed reading The Secret Garden in class and have been completing daily journaling based on the book. We also are focusing on comparing and contrasting setting in the story.

This week in Grammar we are beginning our next writing assignment. Students will be using the AZMerit rubric to help them complete an informative essay about the the interaction of humans and the environment. This will primarily be an in class assignment as we help prepare them for the writing prompts on AZMerit.

We will have our quiz over Roots 51-54 on Wednesday.  Students should study these nightly!

Our next poem is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. We will take the time to discuss the meaning of the poem in class and recitations will be Wednesday, February 1st.

We will continue to learn about the plant kingdom. This week will be our first lesson on reproductive life cycles in plants as well. Be on the lookout for science homework in the form of journal entries too!

This week, students will learn about the execution of King Charles I and Britain’s Puritan “King”, Oliver Cromwell. Students will also learn how King Charles I’s sons came to power after Cromwell’s death. Students will be writing a short newspaper article describing the circumstances around King Charles’s trial and execution. Students will be receiving the Unit study guide on Thursday (due on Tuesday, January 24th), and the test will be on Thursday, January 26th. The East Coast study guide is due on Wednesday, January 18th and the quiz will be the following Wednesday, January 25th.

This week we will review finding areas of a triangle and will them move on to finding the area of Parallelograms and rectangular prisms and cubes.  We will have math groups on Wednesday!

Updates and Announcements

I hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing break! My husband and I were able to travel up to Montana to see our family. Thank you for the wonderful gifts! Mr. Korth and I greatly appreciate your kindness.

This semester, we are buckling down on homework. As a class, students have had a difficult time turning in their assignments on time. When an assignment is not turned in, their number is written on the board and stays there until the assignment is turned in. Starting next week, students will be calling home and informing you if their number is on the board for a second day in a row. They will be telling you what assignment they are missing.

Our week in learning

We will begin third quarter by reading The Secret Garden. This is a fun book that the students will enjoy!  Please be sure to have the book to school by tomorrow.

This week in Grammar we will learn how to identify both direct and indirect objects.  We will be using all of the sentencing diagramming skills we have learned this year to diagram these in sentenced

We begin our next set of roots this week as well. Please remember that next Wednesday will be the first quiz covering Roots 51-54.  Study these nightly to make sure you are prepared!

This quarter, we will be studying the Plant Kingdom! We will be introducing the topic this week and studying non-vascular plants.

This week, students will learn about Queen Elizabeth I and the Golden Age of England. Students will explore the success of Sir Frances Drake and King James I, and study the Civil War under King Charles I. In Geography, students will study the states in the South. Students will receive a study guide to fill out with the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and South regions. The Study guide will be due on Wednesday, January 18th and the quiz will be the following Wednesday, January 25th. This gives students plenty of time to refresh their memories and review the material.

Today we began Unit 5 and learned how to find the base of a triangle and find the area of irregular shapes. We will continue discussing areas of irregular figures this week. We will have math groups on Wednesday!