Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Week 35!

Good Morning, Parents! 

I apologize for my lateness with this blog post. As your children may have mentioned, I was not at school last Friday or this Monday. Your children were in very capable and safe hands with Mrs. Moore. I was able to take those two days off to travel to Denver, Colorado with my partner, Noah, to pick up our new puppy, Q. Here are some pictures of her. I hope to bring her in briefly at the end of this week or the beginning of next to meet the class. 










I was so happy to come back this morning and truly missed all of your children! With just a few weeks left of school, the students are starting to feel the summer itch, however, we still have plenty of time for great learning! Please encourage and remind your child of the choices they can make to finish the year strong. Thank you!

Announcements

Red Book Bags: Due to my absence, red book bags were not sent home last night with leveled readers. Your children will be excused from last nights homework and the book bags will be sent home tonight.

Class Health: Strep Throat and Pink Eye have been reported in our classroom as of Friday & Monday, respectively. The students with these conditions are at home recovering. We will be keeping an extra special eye on your children at school and making sure to clean up our desks and areas to stay clean and healthy. We would appreciate any support you can offer at home as well in regards to their health and wellness.

Music Concert: Our Spring Concert is this week! It will be at Higley Center for the Performing Arts on May 1st.  Students’ attire for our performances is NOT school uniform. Gentlemen are expected to wear a plain white dress 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 1st 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!

PSO Survey: PSO would love your thoughts and opinions. Please take a few moments to complete their survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs3gqBF0kc0rdyzpLP6sqTsnoi4iSRHAM_OEQUsdlPM0N5DA/viewform

Homework

Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute) 

Practice phonograms: th, ie, ei, au, aw, ch, sh, ey, i, y,

Monday: thread, thunder, try, tried, vein, except, ant, aunt, capture, else and math wb pg. 150-152

Tuesday: bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, run, running, rule, carry, chain and math wb pg. 153-155

Wednesday: no homework this night due to the spring concert 

Thursday: Review all words and Test B

Friday: Read for 15 minutes


Academics

Spalding: We will have 30 words this week and the Spelling Test will be on Friday!

Monday: thread, thunder, try, tried, vein, except, ant, aunt, capture, else

Tuesday: bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, run, running, rule, carry, chain 

Wednesday: death, learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check, prove, hear, heard

*no homework this night due to the spring concert 

Phonograms: th, ie, ei, au, aw, ch, sh, ey, i, y,

Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from The Nightingale and The Glow Worm poems by William Cowper as well as Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. 

Grammar: This week we will be learning about pronouns. A pronoun is a word that is used in the place of a noun. We will learn these pronouns: I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, he, him his, she, her, hers, it, and its. We will practice reading them, identifying them, and using them in a sentence, both orally and written

Math: We will continue to explore numbers 1-100 as we identify 1 more, 1 less, 10 more and 10 less.  We will also work to manipulate numbers into various parts and order the numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest.

Literature: We will read chapters 4-5 in my Father’s Dragon as we retell and respond to what we have read.

History: We will continue to journey westward as we learn about Sacagawea’s influence on the Lewis and Clark expedition.  On Friday, we will make a lap book page to show what we have learned about Lewis and Clark.

Science: This week we will continue our exploration in to the solar system. We will be studying Saturn and Uranus this week. We will compare and contrast Saturn and Uranus to see how a day on their planet might be like in terms of time, temperature, size, and weather. 

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