Welcome February! As one of the scholars asked me this week, "Mrs. Dombrowski, WHY does it feel like SUMMER outside?! It's SO HOT!!!" I guess that cold front is behind us! Another rough week for our Arizona Winter I suppose!
Our newest virtue of the month is FRIENDSHIP! Thanks for talking to your scholar at home about how to show friendship.
Thank you to everyone who helped with Greek Fest today!
Scholar Shout-Outs:
Happy Birthday Vincent (Today, February 3rd)! He also brought donuts for the class today! How fun! Thank you, Vincent!
Jocelyn noticed a book (The Republic of Plato) that her mom had on the bookshelf. We've been learning about Ancient Greece and 3 great thinkers - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Thank you for making this awesome connection to our learning Jocelyn!
Your kiddos did a great job with MAP Testing this week! They are becoming more familiar with working on the laptops and they are learning more about testing with technology.
School-Wide Announcements:
Clubs: Club opportunities are still available for families interested in placing their children in an afterschool club. If you would like to sign your child up, please go to ArchwayArete.Configio.com.
Mondays: K-5th Grade Passport ClubTuesday: 4th-5th Grade Choir Club, 2nd-3rd Grade Art Club, 3rd-5th Grade Book ClubThursday: 3rd-5th Grade Beginning Instruments Club, 3rd-5th Grade French ClubFriday: 2nd-3rd Grade Mallet Masters, 3rd-5th Grade Sports and Activity Club
Toys: In keeping with our aim to nurture a love of intellectual and moral virtue in our students we are asking that all toys be left at home. While playing with toys can be a relaxing healthy pass time for children, having toys at school, that are not part of the academic program, can be distracting. We would like to mention, specifically, Pokemon cards and Gogos as these have been the fad of late. Please refer to pg. 42 in the Arete Family Handbook for more information about prohibited items.
Great Hearts Day & Field Day: Please make sure to read our post about Great Hearts Day and Field Day! Here is a sign up link to donate items for Great Hearts Day. Here is a sign up link to donate items for Field Day.
Curriculum Next Week:
*Don't forget that BOOK REPORTS (Hand Reports for the assigned Magic Tree House) are due back on Monday!*
*Students will be assessed on their recitation for SMART by Shel Silverstein next week*
Language Arts: Next week we will look at direct and indirect quotations in the story The Hare that Ran Away. In Grammar we will also continue studying pronouns and subject pronouns, as well as classifying sentences. The students are doing such a wonderful job classifying sentences, and can go through the question and answer flow of a sentence independently and confidently! Stay tuned for video evidence! In Literature we will read chapters 10-13 in Cricket in Times Square and continue to follow the adventure of Chester Cricket, Tucker Mouse, and Harry Cat!
Spalding Words:
Monday: slide, farther, duty, intend, company, quite, quit, quiet, none, knew, know
Tuesday: remain, direct, direction, appear, liberty, enough, fact, board, September, station
Wednesday: attend, public, music, picnic, friend, friends, endure, during, police, until
Math: In math next week we will work through division problems and fact families! We will discuss different ways to attack a division problem, including repeated subtraction, drawing pictures, and thinking of the “friend” multiplication problem. Students are loving this unit!
History: We will not only journey to another place, but a much later time in history to discuss the American Constitution. Challenge your scholar to make connections between the US and the Ancient Greek democracies.
Science: Next week we will review the functions of our body systems and learn ways we can help make sure that our body systems continue to run smoothly so we can stay healthy. We will also learn a new word: calories! We will spend time reviewing ALL of the concepts we have learned in our Human Body Unit through playing a fun review game. A study guide will be sent home with your scholar on Thursday night. We encourage you to read through it and ask your scholar to retell some of the things they learned.
Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski
Happy Birthday Vincent (Today, February 3rd)! He also brought donuts for the class today! How fun! Thank you, Vincent!
Jocelyn noticed a book (The Republic of Plato) that her mom had on the bookshelf. We've been learning about Ancient Greece and 3 great thinkers - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Thank you for making this awesome connection to our learning Jocelyn!
Your kiddos did a great job with MAP Testing this week! They are becoming more familiar with working on the laptops and they are learning more about testing with technology.
School-Wide Announcements:
Clubs: Club opportunities are still available for families interested in placing their children in an afterschool club. If you would like to sign your child up, please go to ArchwayArete.Configio.com.
Mondays: K-5th Grade Passport ClubTuesday: 4th-5th Grade Choir Club, 2nd-3rd Grade Art Club, 3rd-5th Grade Book ClubThursday: 3rd-5th Grade Beginning Instruments Club, 3rd-5th Grade French ClubFriday: 2nd-3rd Grade Mallet Masters, 3rd-5th Grade Sports and Activity Club
Toys: In keeping with our aim to nurture a love of intellectual and moral virtue in our students we are asking that all toys be left at home. While playing with toys can be a relaxing healthy pass time for children, having toys at school, that are not part of the academic program, can be distracting. We would like to mention, specifically, Pokemon cards and Gogos as these have been the fad of late. Please refer to pg. 42 in the Arete Family Handbook for more information about prohibited items.
Great Hearts Day & Field Day: Please make sure to read our post about Great Hearts Day and Field Day! Here is a sign up link to donate items for Great Hearts Day. Here is a sign up link to donate items for Field Day.
Curriculum Next Week:
*Don't forget that BOOK REPORTS (Hand Reports for the assigned Magic Tree House) are due back on Monday!*
*Students will be assessed on their recitation for SMART by Shel Silverstein next week*
Language Arts: Next week we will look at direct and indirect quotations in the story The Hare that Ran Away. In Grammar we will also continue studying pronouns and subject pronouns, as well as classifying sentences. The students are doing such a wonderful job classifying sentences, and can go through the question and answer flow of a sentence independently and confidently! Stay tuned for video evidence! In Literature we will read chapters 10-13 in Cricket in Times Square and continue to follow the adventure of Chester Cricket, Tucker Mouse, and Harry Cat!
Spalding Words:
Monday: slide, farther, duty, intend, company, quite, quit, quiet, none, knew, know
Tuesday: remain, direct, direction, appear, liberty, enough, fact, board, September, station
Wednesday: attend, public, music, picnic, friend, friends, endure, during, police, until
Math: In math next week we will work through division problems and fact families! We will discuss different ways to attack a division problem, including repeated subtraction, drawing pictures, and thinking of the “friend” multiplication problem. Students are loving this unit!
History: We will not only journey to another place, but a much later time in history to discuss the American Constitution. Challenge your scholar to make connections between the US and the Ancient Greek democracies.
Science: Next week we will review the functions of our body systems and learn ways we can help make sure that our body systems continue to run smoothly so we can stay healthy. We will also learn a new word: calories! We will spend time reviewing ALL of the concepts we have learned in our Human Body Unit through playing a fun review game. A study guide will be sent home with your scholar on Thursday night. We encourage you to read through it and ask your scholar to retell some of the things they learned.
Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski
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