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.