Updates and announcements

I hope everyone had a wonderful three-day weekend! Mine was spent sick on the couch and in the ASU library with Mr. Lynch working on my classwork and his dissertation. We can both see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Our field trip is coming up in just two weeks! All of the information was on the permission slip that was sent home. Just a reminder that students must pack a lunch to eat that day. We want to keep the day educational and fair, so we ask that students do not buy their own lunches at the fair as not everyone has the means to do so. Chaperones are more than welcome to buy lunch for themselves. J

It looks like last weekend was an R&R on the Prep side, though none of the Archway calendars reflected that. Fifth grade will work on trying to reduce homework on one of the upcoming weekends.

The "Wish List" items are updated.

Our week in learning

This week, students will learn about the idiom “Vice Versa”.

Students will learn about the roots gradus, plus, akros, and kata. They will be quizzed on these roots next week. Students should expect a similar quiz every week over the previous week’s roots.

In Literature, we will continue reading “The Secret Garden”. We will continue reading through chapter 22. Students will have a journal entry about every two days. If you have not already done so, please send in a physical copy of “The Secret Garden”.

In Writing and Grammar, students will conference with a teacher on their persuasive or informative essay outlines from Friday. They will write a final handwritten draft on Wednesday in class. We will outline two more passages on Thursday and Friday in preparation for another essay the following week. Students will do the majority of work in class and the homework will be to finish the classwork assignment.

We are nearing the end of our botany unit! Study guides will be due the 20th, and our test will be the 21st. Tuesday will be an in-class review day. Because this falls so close to the history test, students have been given ample time to work on their study guide during science to alleviate some of the workload. The science test will be open notes-students may use any of their own notes to help them complete the questions.

This week in History, we will finish our unit on Westward Expansion Before the Civil War. Tuesday will be the last day of formal instruction, when students will discuss the Mormon Trail and the California Gold Rush. On Wednesday, students will discuss readings (read in class) on President Andrew Jackson’s message on Indian Removal in 1830. Study guides are due on Thursday, when we will review the unit, while our test will be administered on Friday.

In math, we will finish a short unit on measures and volumes. Students will solve word problems involving the volume of water in rectangular containers. The test for this unit will be on Thursday, February 22nd. ALL workbook homework assignments will be half of every type of problem. There will be math groups this week on Wednesday, 8:00-9:15. Math groups will be sparse this quarter due to AZMerit preparations.