Weekly Update 9/13

Upcoming Dates:

9/16-20: Unity in the Community Week - Ask how you can support Archway Lincoln and our students

9/20: Early Dismissal at 12:30

9/25-29: Book Fair

9/26: Literacy Night - Come have a fun night at school and celebrate reading

9/27: Spirit Wear, Treat Friday (popsicles for $1), September Birthday Book Club

10/7-11: No School - Fall Break

Check out what we learned this week

Spalding

This week we finished up with our final single phonograms w, x, y, and z. We now know 26 phonograms and will spend a week reviewing them before we add new phonograms. We also continued sounding out words and writing them. Please continue to focus on letter formation as you practice homework and continue to review phonogram cards daily. Remember you can choose 10-15 cards from the number listed, focusing on the ones your scholar needs to practice. You can use the same cards all week or switch them up each day. Do not feel the need to review all the cards every night, especially as we begin to add more phonograms.

Literature

We continued learning about Folktales this week and read a story called How many Spots Does Leopard Have?, which is a Folktale from Africa. We talked about how the animals counted in different ways. We also practiced retelling the story. Who is it about? What were they doing? What was the problem? How was it solved? Practicing answering these questions helps us in our retelling so we don’t try to say every detail. We read two other stories. One was Rainbow Fish and the other was Harold and the Purple Crayon. We talked about friendship and learned about imagination. We had fun creating a picture in our journal using only 1 color but lots of details. In Grammar, we spent time talking about opposites. See if your scholar can tell you some opposites they might have learned. (ie: hill/valley; up/down; in/out; hot/cold) In Poetry, we listened to a silly poem Hey Diddle, Diddle. Ask your scholar if they remember any of the silly things that happened in the poem.

Math:

The students finished their study of numbers 1-10 this week. We focused on number order (in both ascending and descending order). Make sure that you practice writing the numbers as well as counting. Try naming a random number and have your child count on from the number or count back from that number. Also, make sure to point out numbers in real life situations and why it is important for us to know what each number represents. We will begin talking about 3D shapes in our next unit.

Science

To finish our 5 senses unit we are spending time talking about how to be healthy and to stay healthy. This week we focused on how we grow and what foods help our body to grow best. We learned about the food groups and what foods fit in those groups. We also discussed what it means to exercise and why it is helpful for our body. We learned about some of the organs that benefit from exercising. 

History

This week in history the children dove deeper into their learning of North America. They learned of some of the animals found on our continent. They also learned so many great facts! Did you know the largest city in North America is Mexico City with 9 million people? It also sinks 4 inches each year due to the fact that it was built on a dried lake bed. The children were surprised by that fact! The children love learning about the continent we all live on, and the variety of traditions, languages, and climates in our continent.