A Day for Friendship

Thursday, February 14th is Great Hearts Day! We have reserved this special day to focus on the virtue of friendship and celebrate the traits that make a great-hearted student. Teachers are planning interactive and fun activities centered around these topics, and time will be set aside for students to create hand-made Great Hearts Day cards for their classmates.  Archway Arete strives to cultivate a rich, academic environment rooted in the classical tradition. This many times requires popular culture to be left at the door. On that note, students will not be permitted to bring store-bought valentines, candy, or gifts to school. Thank you for partnering with us.

Field Day

Athletic Field Day is Friday, February 1st from 8:30-11:00 for K-2 classes and from

12:00-2:30 for grades 3-5! Each year classes are assigned a Greek City State for their team. This year, your child’s team is Crete, and our team color is blue. Your child may wear a plain blue shirt (no logos) other than class section or Greek City State and athletic pants or shorts. There will be no school lunch offered on Athletic Field Day. Please send your child to school with a packed lunch. We will be eating in the classroom.

Volunteers for Athletic Field Day
In order to have Athletic Field Day run smoothly, we need your help! Coach Gethings & Coach Warren need volunteers setting up and running the event. Please sign up at
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084aacaf28a4fd0-field to help with the events. We still need a few volunteers for our class to help with donating snacks and tagging along to all the events as extra supervision/support. If you're interested, please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044aa9a822aaf85-athletic

A look at this week:

Language Arts

We will continue The Trumpet of the Swan this week. Spelling will be typical, with a test on Friday. Writing and grammar will focus on informational writing as we finish our essay on the Titanic. We will continue to work with prepositions and memorize the list together. Students will review their stanzas to memorize Father William. The recitations will be on Feb. 6.

Math

We will be working with fractions on a number line, fractions of money, and adding/subtracting them. On Friday we will take a test on these skills.

Science

This week we will be learning about light. Students will learn how light travels and how shadows are formed.

History

We will take our Vikings assessment on Monday. Then we will begin our Earliest Americans unit. We will see how the earliest Americans crossed the Beringia Land Bridge and then learn about the Inuit people.

Field Day

Athletic Field Day is Friday, February 1st from 8:30-11:00 for K-2 classes and from
12:00-2:30 for grades 3-5! Each year classes are assigned a Greek City State for their
team. This year, your child’s team is Crete, and our team color is blue. Your child may
wear a plain blue shirt (no logos) other than class section or Greek City State and athletic
pants or shorts. There will be no school lunch offered on Athletic Field Day. Please
send your child to school with a packed lunch. We will be eating in the classroom.

Volunteers for Athletic Field Day
In order to have Athletic Field Day run smoothly, we need your help! Coach Gethings &
Coach Warren need volunteers setting up and running the event. Please sign up at
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084aacaf28a4fd0-field to help with the events. We
still need a few volunteers for our class to help with donating snacks and tagging along to all the events as extra supervision/support. If you're interested, please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044aa9a822aaf85-athletic

Quarter 3, Week 3:

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Language Arts

We will continue The Trumpet of the Swan this week. Spelling will be condensed, with a test on Friday. Writing and grammar will focus on informational writing as we create a class essay on the Titanic. Students will review their stanza to memorize The Adventures of Isabel. The recitations will be on Jan. 23rd.

Math

We will be working with fractions still this week. On Thursday we will take a quiz on basic fractions skills: comparing fractions, equivalent fractions, simplest form, and ordering fractions. Afterwards, we will begin adding and subtracting fractions.

Science

This week we will be completing the sound study guide and learning about Alexander Graham Bell. The sound test is planned for Friday the 26th.

History

We will continue our Viking unit this week! Students will learn about the famous Vikings Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson. They will get a study guide this week and the test will be next Monday.

Quarter 3, Week 2:

Upcoming Testing
Please be aware that MAP benchmark testing is coming up for third grade on Jan. 15th. Students should just come to school having had a good night's sleep and a nutritious breakfast to fuel their work! Please make every effort for your child to be on time and in attendance on that day so that they do not lose instructional time doing make-up testing!

Homework
Thank you for taking the time to complete the latest homework survey. We looked carefully at the numeric data and anonymous comments and had good conversations as a team. Every child is unique and homework experiences vary widely, but there are occasional patterns in these surveys that help us to adjust our homework assignments. With this in mind, we are going to make a few adjustments in the third quarter that will hopefully make the homework experience more joyful without sacrificing good learning. We will continue to discuss as a team and will send another survey near the end of third quarter. Beginning January 14th, parents and students can look forward to the following changes: 

• Two days to complete all science or history homework assignments 
• No math homework on nights where a new lesson wasn’t taught (ex. Night after a big test) 
• All students who have turned in 100% of their homework on time each day for the week will receive a homework pass!

Language Arts
We will continue The Trumpet of the Swan this week. Spelling will be normal, with a test on Friday. Writing and grammar will focus on informational writing as we create a class essay on Monarch butterflies.. Students will review their stanza to memorize The Adventures of Isabel. The recitations will be on Jan. 23rd.

Math
We are taking a short fractions quiz on Monday to check for understanding of basic fraction skills. We will then work on mastering equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.

Science
Students will continue learning about sound. They will compare different pitches made by experimenting with various objects.

History
We will continue our Viking unit this week! Students will learn about the farming and trading life of a Viking. They will also learn about the different boats they used. Lastly, they will be introduced to a famous viking, Eric the Red!

Quarter 3, Week 1:

Upcoming Testing
Please be aware that MAP benchmark testing is coming up for third grade on Jan. 15th. Students should just come to school having had a good night's sleep and a nutritious breakfast to fuel their work! Please make every effort for your child to be on time and in attendance on that day so that they do not lose instructional time doing make-up testing!

Language Arts
We will begin The Trumpet of the Swan this week! Please send it in asap. Spelling will be normal, with a test on Friday. Writing and grammar will focus on informational writing. Writing will actually be a big focus this quarter as we learn to formalize our skills. Students will receive their stanza to memorize from The Adventures of Isabel. The recitations will be on Jan. 23rd.

Math

We will start off this quarter learning quickly about probability. There will be a small quiz to check for understanding on Wednesday after math groups. Then we will begin our unit on Fractions! Please sign up to help with math groups here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0D49AFAC2FA1FC1-math

Science
This week we will be learning about Sound! Students will learn what causes sound and how sound travels.

History
We will start our Viking unit this week! Students will begin to learn where the Vikings came from and what they did.