Tutoring Update

There will be no Language Arts tutoring tomorrow morning. Ms. Headrick has a doctor's appointment in the morning.

There will be a Math test on Thursday. Ms. Headrick will host a study session in her classroom Thursday morning. Please come prepared with questions.

Work Coming Home

Dear Parents,

Today, your child's yellow folder will be stuffed with completed work from first quarter. Some is recent and some is rather old. The older things were being kept for the purposes of writing evaluations. You will not see any assessments in the folder--I am keeping those in their permanent file. Additionally, you may see pink "Missing Homework Slips" in your child's things. This is a classroom tool that I use to keep a paper trail of any assignment that is not turned in on time. Your child has completed these assignments, and they are no longer missing. Please email me with questions or concerns. Thank you, and have a great weekend!

Ms. Headrick

Conferences This Week

Please be sure to sign up for a conference slot via the school website. The link is available on this blog to the Archway website. There are still many openings available. I hope to meet with each of you about your children

Tutoring Update

All students are invited to attend tutoring!

Math tutoring will occur Tuesday mornings at 7:15 in the classroom.

Language Arts will occur Wednesday mornings at 7:15. This week's tutoring session is cancelled due to a meeting with a conflicting time.

Finally, I will host a study session prior to our Rivers test. All students interested should come to the classroom at 7:15 on Thursday. Please come prepared with questions.

This Week's News

This week in Language Arts, we will discuss the reading skill of character traits. Using various texts, students will make inferences to think about how to describe characters. As a warm-up to this, students today talked about how to describe their close friends. Students will also be equipped with a character traits word bank. Related to this, our words of the day are character traits. We are working to see how many times we can use these words in a relevant context. Please encourage your child to use these words at home with you.

·         Monday: Arrogant

·         Tuesday: Mischievous

·         Wednesday: Inventive

·         Thursday: Graceful

We are finishing our first book, Shiloh, this week. On Friday, students will complete a graphic organizer in the shape of a beagle to draw together all of our reading skills we have studied while reading Shiloh. These will be on display in the hallway following Fall Break.

We are continuing to go through our grammar textbook. As we continue to work through the second chapter, students are learning more “jingles” and using the information they learn to write increasingly complex practice sentences. Through this, students gain writing practice and learn about the parts of speech and English language in a cohesive manner.

Our spelling words this week are commonly misspelled/ misused words: its & it’s; you’re & your; two, to & too. In this way, we hope to help children understand the proper usage of commonly misunderstood words. Additionally, students will not have an ongoing spelling list to study over Fall Break.

In Science this week, students are continuing the study of ecology—defined as the study of relationships between living things and their environment. We are studying habitats, predator/ prey relationships, and the food chain. This study will continue after fall break. Then, Science study will transition into the study of the human body.

Geography this week focuses on the study of important world rivers. Within this unit, students will learn the vocabulary words rill, canyon, erosion, meander, source, mouth, delta, dam, tributary, drainage basin and reservoir. A study guide will be sent home on Tuesday for the upcoming Geography test on Friday. This test will be the last test of the quarter and focus only on content covered in the Rivers unit.