Hello Parents,
Upon reflection, I realize that the amount of homework for tonight is unreasonable. As such, the Colosseum/ Circus Maximus posters will be due Monday. I do not expect any additional research to be completed for this assignment. Students have all the information they need with the reading we completed today in class. If you have any further questions, please email me.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Upcoming Dates & This Week
Hello Families!
I hope you all enjoyed our short break. The next break is just around the corner, and we will soon be at the end of our first semester. Here are some dates to put on your calendar between now and then:
I hope you all enjoyed our short break. The next break is just around the corner, and we will soon be at the end of our first semester. Here are some dates to put on your calendar between now and then:
- November 30th: November birthdays bring snack to snack time
- December 7: Nervous System Quiz
- December 11th: Test on Rome Unit --study guides will be provided prior to the test
- December 12th: ALICE IN WONDERLAND PARTY! 9-11 A.M.
- December 11th-14th: Half-days for students
- Week of December 10th-14th: Human Body cumulative assessment (skeletal, muscular, nervous systems)
- December 14th: Last day of First Semester (and Second Quarter)
Thank you to all parents who volunteered at the Fortune-Telling booth. It was truly a fun event and it was only possible because our wonderful volunteers. Thank you. I am already looking forward to next year.
We have another amazing event coming up very quickly: the famed 3rd grade celebration of reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! You should have received an email about the Alice in Wonderland party, including a link to a signup genius. We will need many volunteers for this event, as the entire third grade participates. If you are unable to donate your time, please donate supplies for the event.
Click for link to Volunteer Sign Up
Click for link to Supplies Sign Up
On Monday and Tuesday this week we worked on getting our list of spelling words back to a full 20 and practice testing on whiteboards. Students will be tested on the list starting with the word "muscle" tomorrow. Friday, they will be tested on the list starting with "relieve." In literature, we are focusing on Point of View. We are working on editing our second drafts of our expository paragraphs in writing. Finally, in grammar, we will review prepositional phrases, discuss subject-verb agreement, and classify nouns with skill building exercises.
Students took a quiz on the muscular system on Tuesday and overall did very well. We will introduce the nervous system this week, which will include discussion of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System (CNS & PNS), spinal cord, neurons, and parts of the brain including: medulla, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, and cerebrum. Next week we will discuss how messages are sent through the body and take a more in depth look at some of the wonders of the nervous system and the senses. We plan to have a quiz by the end of next week, depending on how the week goes.
In History, we are continuing to study the wonders of Ancient Rome. Students are learning Roman Trivia of the Day in addition to daily lessons. Lessons for the week: Roman Expansion and Two Roman Leaders (Caesar and Augustus), Engineering Feats of the Romans, Famous Buildings I, Famous Buildings II, and Pompeii.
Monday, November 5, 2012
This Week
Hello, Parents and Guardians!
I hope this blog update finds all of you happy and healthy. We are certainly happy and healthy in the classroom!
This week in Language Arts, we are reading the fifth and sixth chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The children are really enjoying the story. There is a lot of humor in the classic tale, but the meaning lies within the language. Encourage your child to talk about what we learn about interpretation of words as well as the events in the chapter to help increase their comprehension of the text. We are talking about character traits and learning how to better understand Alice as a main character. In spelling, our rule of focus is dropping the final e when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. Riggs words are available on the school website. We are continuing to learn cursive--much to the excitement of students. We are working on expository writing in our grammar/writing study and students submitted their rough drafts today. We will have a quiz about classifying sentences this week. Students may study using their Shurley textbook. We will also review in class.
In Science, we are continuing or study of the human body by focusing on the skeletal system. We learned about joints today. Tomorrow, we will learn about x-rays and hips. We will review together on Thursday. On Friday, students will take a quiz over the skeletal system before moving on to the muscular system. Students should study using their Science notebooks. Your children have been doing a great job keeping up their notebooks organized and participating in discussion about the skeletal system.
In History, we are continuing to learn about Ancient Rome. Last week, we talked about religion and social classes in Ancient Rome. This week, we are focusing on the political structure and military of the ancient civilization. We are learning that Ancient Rome was at times a kingdom, republic, and an empire.
Chess pairs are changing this week so that more students have the opportunity to learn with and from one another and also receive appropriate amounts of challenge. The core virtue this week is Wisdom.
Finally, the Medieval Faire will be upon us shortly. Ms. Bruno and myself are getting really excited to tell some fortunes! I am also excited to see this event for the first time. As a first year participant, I can only imagine the fun to be had. Please come out to attend and, if you can, volunteer. I cannot say enough how impressed and thankful I am for all of the parent involvement at Archway.
I hope this blog update finds all of you happy and healthy. We are certainly happy and healthy in the classroom!
This week in Language Arts, we are reading the fifth and sixth chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The children are really enjoying the story. There is a lot of humor in the classic tale, but the meaning lies within the language. Encourage your child to talk about what we learn about interpretation of words as well as the events in the chapter to help increase their comprehension of the text. We are talking about character traits and learning how to better understand Alice as a main character. In spelling, our rule of focus is dropping the final e when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. Riggs words are available on the school website. We are continuing to learn cursive--much to the excitement of students. We are working on expository writing in our grammar/writing study and students submitted their rough drafts today. We will have a quiz about classifying sentences this week. Students may study using their Shurley textbook. We will also review in class.
In Science, we are continuing or study of the human body by focusing on the skeletal system. We learned about joints today. Tomorrow, we will learn about x-rays and hips. We will review together on Thursday. On Friday, students will take a quiz over the skeletal system before moving on to the muscular system. Students should study using their Science notebooks. Your children have been doing a great job keeping up their notebooks organized and participating in discussion about the skeletal system.
In History, we are continuing to learn about Ancient Rome. Last week, we talked about religion and social classes in Ancient Rome. This week, we are focusing on the political structure and military of the ancient civilization. We are learning that Ancient Rome was at times a kingdom, republic, and an empire.
Chess pairs are changing this week so that more students have the opportunity to learn with and from one another and also receive appropriate amounts of challenge. The core virtue this week is Wisdom.
Finally, the Medieval Faire will be upon us shortly. Ms. Bruno and myself are getting really excited to tell some fortunes! I am also excited to see this event for the first time. As a first year participant, I can only imagine the fun to be had. Please come out to attend and, if you can, volunteer. I cannot say enough how impressed and thankful I am for all of the parent involvement at Archway.
Here ye here ye~
The Medieval Faire is
approaching quickly – Saturday, November 17th from 1:00-4:00 p.m.!
This is THE BIGGEST school event of the year and tons of fun! As you know, each
classroom is responsible for running one booth. This year, our class will be
running the “Fortune Teller” booth. Apparently this was one of the most popular
booths so we need to make it pretty awesome this year. We need volunteers to help with booth set up,
running the booth, and booth clean-up. Running the booth primarily involves having
students come in to have the fortune teller give them their fortune. Ms.
Headrick and Ms. Bruno have agreed to be the fortune tellers… yahoo! However we
do need some help with donations of candy, small toy, fortune cookies,
stickers, something that would be fun and creative! Ms. Headrick could hand it out to the student
after they had their fortune told. If anyone has any great decorations left
over from Halloween or that would be fun for the booth, please let me
know. Outside of the donations we will
need one parent to help manage the lineup of children, fortune telling takes
some time and the kids may need some adult supervision while they are
waiting. There are also slots to help at the bounce
houses and general Faire set-up and clean-up. The school is asking each
Archway family to support the Faire by volunteering for at least one hour
(that's just two 30 minute slots). The committee has asked that we make sure
that each class has the bounce house time slots filled in as it is absolutely
necessary for the safety of our children to have adult supervision at these
spots. Please help us and the school
-- it's actually a lot of fun and is a great way to meet other Archway
families. We are working hard to get the decorations for the booth accomplished
Please sign up and help
us make our booth a success!! Here is the link for the volunteer sign up,
however you can find it on the Archway website too: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F094CA9AC229-medieval8
Prizes will be awarded
for the top three booths and I have a feeling our booth is going to be pretty
awesome! Let’s make Ms. Headrick proud with lots a parent involvement and
support the school with this amazing event!
If you have CPA students
in your family, they can earn service hours for volunteering, plus CPA student
volunteers get to enjoy the Faire activities without purchasing a wristband
($10 at the gate). Please make sure to indicate they are a CPA volunteer on the
sign up. CPA student volunteers will receive a name tag at the volunteer check
in.
Also, don't forget to
pre-order your Medieval Faire meals, T-Shirts and Wristbands by Thursday, Nov.
8th at 4:00! Wristbands are $7 presale ($3 savings); all meals along with
the REALLY COOL Faire T-Shirts MUST be pre-ordered (you cannot buy them at the
Faire). Online orders can be placed here: http://www.archwaychandler.org/faire-food there are additional links to printable order
forms found under Medieval Faire on the Archway website homepage.
As always, we are so
grateful for your support! Feel free to
contact me with any questions, concerns or suggestions. I can be reached by
email at khahn16@cox.net or by my cell phone at 602-885-4432.
Sincerely,
Kristy
Hahn-McDonald (Tatum’s mom J)
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