Last Week of March 2019!

Dear 2B Families,

I am posting this one day early since I'll be out tomorrow. I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Scholar Shout-Outs:

Happy Birthday Month to these sweet scholars: Ainsley, Austin and Lucy! We enjoyed a little birthday lunch today!

Congratulations Trinity on winning the virtue award for perseverance!

Book Fair

Please use this link to sign up and volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f4ea5a72da7f58-book

Fine Arts and French Night (A Note from Ms. Arce-Lindsay): Hello Archway Arete Family! Fine Arts and French Night is Wednesday, April 10th from 5:30 to 7:30. Please bring your friends and family for a night of celebrating our student’s achievements in Art and French! Art will be displayed on the walls by classrooms, French videos and performances will take place in the MPR, and there will be mini art lessons in the art room. Light refreshments will be served on the playground courtyard by our lovely PSO. Excited to see you there!

Thanks everyone! Let me know if you have any questions!

Next Week in 2B...

Literature: Please send in a copy of our newest novel: Little House in the Big Woods. We will discuss the setting and how it relates to us in Arizona. We will outline the 5 main characters in the story. After reading we will discuss how Laura’s house and our homes differ. We will learn the steps of food preservation. Ask your literature master what the vocabulary word ‘headcheese’ means!

Spalding Words Next Week:
Monday: support, does, goes, Tuesday, regard, escape, since, which, witch
Tuesday: length, long, strength, strong, destroy, newspaper, daughter, naughty, caught, taught, answer
Wednesday: reply, sail, sale, cities, city, known, know, several, desire, nearly

Writing and Grammar: We will start a new unit on dictionary skills. We will be Dictionary Daredevils! We will become alphabetical order experts, and learn to use guide words. We will also read a few tall tales.

Math: It's about that time....to start our Time Unit! If you have watches or analog clocks at home, encourage your child to practice identifying the long hand vs. the short hand this week.
Quizzes: Tuesday, Wednesday

History: The test over Westward Expansion in on Monday! Please help your child study over the weekend. Remind them that they should use complete sentences when answering questions (capital letter, period, restate the question). We will begin the Civil War unit on Wednesday. We do begin with a discussion on slavery, so it would be helpful to have a discussion at home with your child about the sensitivity of the subject. We will discuss at school as well.

Science: We will continue the unit on magnets and magnetism. Ask your child about which part of the magnet is the strongest and why two ends might repel each other.

Love,

Mrs. Dombrowski

Field Trip Friday Fun!

Dear 2B Families,

We had an amazing Field Trip today! Thank you to the parents who joined us and helped chaperone.

A note about PE...

Greetings families,

Due to various scheduling conflicts, all P.E. classes will take place outside for the next several weeks. As the temperatures heat up, please send a water bottle to school with your child/ren. We will be sure to give students water breaks during P.E. If your child requires sunscreen, please apply it before school starts. Students may also wear a hat (free of pop-culture) during P.E. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. Have a great day and Go Chargers!

Best regards,
Coach Gethings and Coach Warren

Next Week in 2B...

Poetry: Please ask your child to recite Lincoln by Nancy Byrd Turner.

Literature: Sarah, Plain and Tall, has come to an end! We will review important events we read about. Please send your child to school with a copy of our last novel: Little House in the Big Woods. Don't forget that book reports are due April 18th!

Writing and Grammar: We will continue to practice all parts of speech by classifying sentences and apply these skills to our writing. Our story for next week is from Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jeansson. We will focus on the use of commas in direct quotes and how adverbs modify verbs.

Spalding Words:
Monday: importance, important, carried, carry, loss, fortune, empire, mayor, wait, degree
Tuesday: prison, engine, visit, guest, guessed, guess, department, obtain, family, favor
Wednesday: Mrs. = Mis tress, Mr. = Mis ter, Miss, husband, amount, human, view, clerk, though, o'clock = o(f the) clock

Math: We are finishing up our fantastic fraction unit this week! We will be having check in quizzes and our cumulative test towards the end of the week. Our next unit will be come tic-tocking away before you know it!
Quizzes: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

History: Your child will learn about early jobs in the wild west this week: ranchers, cowboys, and miners. We will also talk about the negative impact westward expansion had on the Native American tribes living in those territories. The study guide is coming home on Friday. Please help your child remember everything they have learned in this unit.

Science: We will start a new unit about MAGNETS! See if your child can notice the many ways magnets are used at home.

With Grateful Hearts,

Mrs. Dombrowski & Miss Monk

Please take this survey!

Dear 2B Families,

We hope you are enjoying your Spring Break! We may have already received this e-mail from Great Hearts. We are here to encourage your participation and we want to thank you in advance for your comments. Your feedback is taken to heart and helps us to become better educators each year.

With Grateful Hearts,

Mrs. Dombrowski & Miss Monk

*E-mail from Great Hearts America*

Dear Great Hearts Families,

Please take 7-10 minutes to help us make a good thing better! This survey is a key tool to help us understand what is important to each of you and where we can improve Great Hearts. Your responses are anonymous. Everything you write will be read by your headmaster and regional executive team to help identify and prioritize areas for improvement in the coming year.

Please take one survey for each school where you have a child enrolled and note that Archway and Prep are different schools.

Survey link: https://greatheartsamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2nPoNACPctctj7

The survey will remain available until 11:59 PM PST on March 31. Please contact Katie Carmer at kcarmer@greatheartsamerica.org with questions or if you have difficulties completing the survey.

Additionally, if you would like to speak with your headmaster or someone at your child’s school about a specific issue or concern, you are always welcome to contact the school directly.

Sincerely,

Robert Wagner
Chief Administrative Officer
Great Hearts America

Happy Spring Break!

Dear 2B Families,

Happy Spring Break! I hope you enjoy the next week of rest and relaxation. Did your children tell you about our DANCE PARTY today? We had so much fun!

Scholar Shout-Outs:
Happy Birthday, Lucy! Thank you for the goodie bags today!

Field Trip: Our field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum is on Friday, March 22! We will be leaving at 8:15 am and returning around 2:00. A permission slip came home yesterday. Please return it by Tuesday, March 19.

Please be sure your child brings the following:

• Sack lunch (everything should be able to be thrown out after eating)
• Disposable water bottle (label with name and section)
• Wear tennis shoes and sunblock
• Hat & sunglasses (optional)

Chaperones: We have found five chaperones already, but you can still join us! If you want to come and hang out with your child's group, you are welcome to drive up and join us! The admission is only $8. We would LOVE to have you!

Link for permission slip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLRcVYuTeF6kcxFQHAVKrP1MqBsZEA8q/view?usp=sharing

When we return from Spring Break here is what we are going to be focusing on....

Poetry: We are learning a new poem, Lincoln by Nancy Byrd Turner.

Literature: After Spring Break we will read Chapters 7-9 of Sarah, Plain and Tall. We will talk about what it means to be homesick and learn what the word "ayuh" means. We'll also find out why Sarah wants to learn to drive the wagon.

Writing and Grammar: We will jump back into paragraph writing when we return from Spring Break! We will write a personal narrative about two things that happened over Spring Break.

Spalding Words Next Week (20 words only due to No School on 3/19):
Tuesday: enjoy, awful, awesome, awe, usual, usually, complaint, complained, complain, auto
Wednesday: vacation, beautiful, beauty, flight, travel, rapid, repair, troubling, trouble, entrance

Math: We are continuing our fun filled fraction unit with working more on splitting items equally and equivalents. Encourage your child to see what snacks and dinner items they can make into fractions!

History: Upon our return from Spring Break, we will learn about why and how pioneers traveled west. Your child will discuss the Oregon Trail, California gold rush, and the Transcontinental Railroad. Ask your child how the Pony Express worked. Our Pioneers are gearing up for their field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum on March 22!

Science: Students will study levers and learn how they make work easier. We will also have just a short quiz on Tuesday. Ask your student to tell you about all six types of simple machines.

Love,

Mrs. D and Miss Monk

Happy March!

Dear 2B Families,

Can you believe it is March 1st?! Only one more week until Spring Break! Time is flying!

Scholar Shout-Outs:

Happy Birthday to our February girls: Lola and Trinity! We enjoyed our lunch together on Thursday!

Happy Birthday to these two sweet twins: Ainsley and Austin!

Field Trip: Our field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum is on Friday, March 22! We will be leaving at 8:15 am and returning around 2:00. Be on the lookout for a permission slip coming home in your child's homework folder. If you would like to chaperone this fun field trip, please email me by Wednesday, March 13. Please be sure your child brings the following:

• Sack lunch (everything should be able to be thrown out after eating)
• Disposable water bottle
• Wear tennis shoes and sunblock
• Hat & sunglasses (optional)

Next Week in 2B...

Book Reports are due on Monday! We will also assign new chapter books and books after Spring Break.

Literature: What has your child been sharing with you about Sarah, Plain and Tall? Next week we will learn more about the characters through reading chapters 4-6. We are working on context clues with new vocabulary words, and we will write an advertisement (WANTED Ad) for someone we would love to have in our own life. This assignment is sure to be quite interesting :-).

Writing and Grammar: We will read an excerpt from The Elephant's Child and practice classifying sentences with some new parts of speech we've been learning about.

Spelling Words Next Week:
Monday: holiday, holy, knee, lemon, lying, lie, nails, needle, nobody, oar
Tuesday: palace, penny, regular, repeats, sailor, sentence, shining, shine, surface, sweeping, sweeps
Wednesday: thief, waist, waste, waiting, weary (weak), writing, writer, write, spend 

Math: We are finishing up our money unit this week and looking towards our next unit, fractions! This unit will be extra fun! Whether you're slicing a pizza or looking to divide up a candy bar, see if your child can cut things in half or quarters!
Weekly Quizzes: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

History: Your children took home a study guide for the Constitution and War of 1812 on Friday. Please help them study for Monday's test. We will be starting a new unit on Wednesday! Welcome to the Wild West! We will begin our study of Americans moving west. Ask your pioneer about different ways people traveled during this time.

Science: Simple machines will continue into next week. We will take a closer look at how pulleys allow us to use gravity to help move heavy loads. We will create our own pulley using a soda can! Next, we will review how wheels and axles help us move heavy loads by decreasing the amount of friction. How do simple machines make work easier?

Love,

Mrs. D and Miss Monk