This week is the readathon and we're looking forward to a day of celebrating reading! Have a wonderful week!
In the pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness,
Ms. Kaye
Calendar
Wednesday, October 31st: Read-a-thon (please see below for additional information)
Friday, November 2nd: Half Day
Monday, November 12th: No school in observance of Veteran's Day
Wednesday, November 14th: Winter Concert. Please see the announcement below.
Wednesday, November 21st - Friday, November 23rd: Thanksgiving Recess
Homework
Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute)
phonograms: ea, ch, oo, ay, ai, ew, ui, er, th, ei
Monday: put, each, soon, came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon, yet, find and math wkbk. pg. 87-89
Tuesday: give, new, letter, take, Mr., Mister, after, thing, what, than and math wkbk. pg. 93-95
Wednesday: no homework
Thursday: All Words 1X and math wkbk. pg. 99-101
Friday: Practice phonograms and math wkbk. pg. 105-107
Read-a-thon Costumes: In celebration of Read-a-thon, students are welcome to dress-up as a storybook character or a historical figure. Please have your child return their costume proposal.
Read-a-thon Celebration: Please visit this link to sign -up to help with our readathon celebration!
Winter Concert: Our Winter Concert is quickly approaching! It will be at Higley Center for the Performing Arts on November 14th. Students’ attire for our performances is NOT school uniform. Gentlemen are expected to wear a plain white collard shirt, black pants, black socks and black closed toed shoes. Solid dark colored vests and ties are optional for gentlemen. Ladies are expected to wear a white top, black skirt, black tights and black closed toed shoes. Please have your first graders at Higley Center for the Performing Arts by 5:00pm.
Please visit aretek-2music.blogspot.com or email jweddle@archwayarete.org for questions regarding the concert!
Academics
Poem: Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child Idiom: Never Leave Till Tomorrow What You Can Do Today
*While the goal will be to memorize the whole poem, scholars will only be assessed on two stanzas.Spalding:
Monday: put, each, soon, came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon, yet ,find
Tuesday: give, new, letter, take, Mr., Mister, after, thing, what, than
Wednesday: no homework
Thursday: All Words 1X
Friday: Practice phonograms
Grammar: We will practice identifying nouns and verbs, create sentences using these parts of speech, and learn how to distinguish between the two.We will have a noun/verb quiz on Thursday.
Math: We will learn various strategies when adding two digit numbers including “making ten”, adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number and subtracting from a two-digit number
Literature: We will continue to enjoy and respond to Frog and Toad are Friends. We will finish the book on Friday!
History: This week in history we will begin our world religions unit. On Monday we will introduce what religion means and where it comes from. On Wednesday and Friday we will look closely at Judaism and the story of Moses.
Science: We will review all that we have learned about oceans this quarter including sanity and density, ocean zones, sea animals and plants, and coral reefs. There will be an oceans test on Thursday. An optional review will be sent home on Tuesday.
Science: We will review all that we have learned about oceans this quarter including sanity and density, ocean zones, sea animals and plants, and coral reefs. There will be an oceans test on Thursday. An optional review will be sent home on Tuesday.
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