Updates and announcements
I hope everyone had a wonderful
and restful Spring Break! Mine was spent cuddling with my cats and working on
several small quilting projects. I am at that time in my life when many of my friends
and colleagues are having babies, so many adorable baby quilts are in the
works.
Be sure to check your email for
a family survey from Great Hearts.
The tutoring schedule will be
the same this quarter up until AZMerit, then we will reevaluate the needs of
our students.
Our week in learning
This week, students will learn about the idiom
“What will be will be”.
Students will learn about the roots ana, duco, ago,
and pendo. There will be a routine roots quiz over these next week.
Students will learn about the poem “Jabberwocky” on
3/20. The recitation will be on 4/3.
In Literature, we will start learning about the
dialect in “Across Five Aprils”. Students will start reading on Wednesday,
3/20. Please send in the copy of the book as soon as possible.
In Writing and Grammar, students will continue
working on reading passages and answering questions for comprehension. This
week, we will focus on informational texts regarding articles, persuasive
texts, and historical texts. We will review the essay outline format and there
will be a short quiz on Friday. Also on Friday, students will take a practice
AZMerit ELA test on the computers.
This
week in science, we will be starting our unit on human anatomy with the
skeleton. Students will begin by learning about the different types of tissue
that make up bones. We will then study the different bones in the human body.
This week in History, we will
continue our unit on the American Civil War and see how the War began with the
battles of Fort Sumter and Bull Run. We will discuss the Union’s strategy, put
forth by General Scott, and its attempted execution in the east by General
McClellan. We will discuss figures such as General Robert E. Lee and the
different goals of the Union and Confederacy that determined many of their
actions early in the War.
