Weekly Update 1/24

 Important upcoming dates:

LOVE AND LOGIC Parent Class Event Details:

📅 Date: Tuesday, January 28th
⏰ Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
📍 Location: Archway Lincoln MPR

 We encourage every parent to join us for this special evening. Please Sign Up HERE!

We know how important it is to support our students both in and outside the classroom, and we believe this evening will empower you with tools to do just that. Parenting doesn’t have to be perfect—just consistent, caring, and intentional. 

1/31: Treat Friday, Birthday Book Club, Spirit Wear Day

2/7: Early Dismissal at 12:30

2/8: Daddy-Daughter Dance 6-8:30 pm (tickets on Payment Portal)

2/11:  Class picture day

2/14: Great Hearts Day - A celebration of Friendship (NO valentines)

2/17: No school - President's Day

2/21: Birthday Book Club, Treat Friday, Spirit Wear Day

2/28: School Field Day

3/4: Kindergarten graduation pictures

3/7: Early Dismissal at 12:30

3/10-3/14: Spring Break

**Field Trip for Kindergarten is scheduled for May 9th- more info to come **

Check out what we learned this week:

Spalding

We are so close to knowing all our 70 phonograms. Keep reviewing 1-67 by picking 10-15 at a time. Recognize which ones your scholar struggles with most and keep them in rotation for a few weeks to help them memorize as you do the cards. Remember, reviewing cards should be a nightly activity, and it is perfectly fine to tell them the sound if they are stuck and have them repeat it after you. We talk about using three senses to practice: sight (reading the phonogram), sound (hearing ourselves say it), and (touch) using and feeling our mouth/tongue to make the sounds. We also learned a new job for silent e. 

Job 4

Job 1, 2, 3, 4

Syl-la-ble----CHeck!

Every syllable needs a vowel.

Math

We extended our learning of measurement from length, to height this week. We discussed the vocabulary terms; short, tall, shorter, and taller. We also started to measure objects (length and height) with nonstandard units. We measured with hands, cans, and blocks mostly. This is always a fun way to introduce measurement as the kids use silly objects to measure. At one point the scholars rolled up a piece of construction paper and searched the classroom for taller and shorter objects and then shared their findings with their peers.

History

This week we learned about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The children learned about his life and how he believed all people should be treated equally no matter what they looked like or where they were from. Race is a difficult discussion to have with children, so we always emphasize it's what is on the inside that counts. To display this, we had two plastic eggs. They were the same size, but different colors. We talked about the differences and then we opened the eggs to find what was inside. There was a paper heart to represent love and kindness, a rubber band because everyone can be flexible when different situations arise, an eraser because we all make mistakes and can learn from them, and finally a penny because everyone has value. The children enjoyed this lesson and had a lovely discussion about the different people that made the Civil Right Movement possible. 

Science

Our Push and Pull unit continued investigating how various 3D shapes will move. We played with our playdough and explored how it reacts when we push and pull on it. We realized that the motions of pushing and pulling play a significant role in our daily lives.