Hello, Families!
Many exciting things are happening in the school and in the classroom this week. Saturday will be the first annual Fine Arts Night at Archway--for more information, please click on the flyer posted on the blog. Thank you for your donations to our classroom auction basket. Also, this week we will begin reading our last book of the fourth quarter---Little House on the Prairie. To sign up for a slot for reading groups, please visit the link pasted below. The time for literature circles has changed from after lunch to right at the beginning of the school day. I am hoping this will be more convenient for volunteers.
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/9040E44ADAA2E5-spring/4640262
This Week In....
Language Arts: We will read chapters 1 through 3 of Little House on the Prairie. Many children are excited to reunite with the Ingalls family after reading Little House in the Big Woods in 2nd grade. We will take our first Riggs test of the quarter on Monday, and resume our regular Riggs schedule. Spelling lists are available on the Archway website. In grammar, we will continue practicing in order to understand direct objects, transitive verbs, and verb tenses.
Science: Our quarter-long study of space will focus this week on the earth within the solar system. We will study the two ways Earth moves in space--rotation and revolution--in terms of those words, as well as solar system, orbit, and axis. We will study the effects of Earth's movement, including gravity, as related to the terms force, mass, exert, and weight.
History: We will continue to discuss Spanish explorers, but shift our focus to two English explorers--John Cabot and Champlain. We will learn about the Northwest Passage to understand the importance of a waterway through the North American continent. We will review what we learned about explorers and exploration, then take a unit quiz on Thursday.
Don't forget it is a four-day week this week! Enjoy the Friday off.
As always, please contact me with questions, concerns, or ideas.
Yours in Learning,
Ms. Headrick
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