Thank you for making teacher appreciation week so amazingly
wonderful. I am so grateful to work in
such an appreciative and generous community.
I am so grateful for you kind and encouraging notes and gifts. It has been a true honor to learn with your
children this year. Thank you, thank
you, thank you!!
We are now moving into the final two weeks of school! Here
is a look at our studies for the coming week.
Literature: Wilbur is now at the fair and this week he will be
meeting his competition, a pig named Uncle. Charlotte interviews Uncle to
learn more about him, and the students will also be practicing some
interviewing skills. We will also learn about a project that Charlotte is
working on for herself. She has some exciting news as well as some sad
news for Wilbur. Near the end of the week, we will find out what happens
at the fair and if Wilbur’s life is still in danger or not. Students will have
the chance to point out some admirable, award-worthy characteristics of both
Wilbur and Charlotte.
Grammar/Riggs: This week in grammar, we will be studying helping
verbs (she will run, I am studying) and
students will practice finding the verb phrases which include the helping verbs
and the main verb. We will also have our last set of Riggs words for the
year this week.
History: We will learn about Eleanor Roosevelt at the beginning of
the week. Then we will begin to learn about Jackie Robinson, a baseball hero
who worked toward integration in major league baseball. As the week draws
to a close, we will learn about the Rosa Parks and the bus boycott for which
she is famous. As we learn about these leaders, we are compiling
information in a biography booklet that your child will take home at the end of
the unit.
Science: We continue to study magnets this week. We will be
discussing the geographical North Pole versus the location of the magnetic
north pole, experiment with how to compare the strengths of two magnets, and
read some books about magnets. We will end the week with a fun Jeopardy
game to review the units from the whole year.
Important Notes:
-We love our volunteers!!! The Archway teachers would like
to thank all of the parent volunteers with a breakfast at school on Thursday,
May 15 at 8:15am (you can start to come in after dropping your kids off for
school).
-Please begin to send in any Archway library books, books that are
labeled “ACA,” or books that are labeled “DKN.” We are trying to collect
all the books that are currently being borrowed as the year comes to a close.
