Friday, September 9, 2022

There is a wonderful speaker coming to our campus to talk about parenting! Larry Kirby will speak to parents this Thursday, September 15th, 6-7pm in the CPA theater. Larry is the author of Teaching with Love and Logic and Parenting with Love and Logic. All teachers at Great Hearts are all trained on this philosophy. It would be helpful for you as parents to understand the concepts in his book, Parenting the Love and Logic Way.

Here is the link to RSVP. 

https://parenting.rocks/AC/

Our school uses this philosophy to guide your students with positive discipline techniques and to gain student cooperation in problem solving. It is highly recommended. Thank you for all you do and we hope you can attend!

NOTE:  We are noticing some missing work, and we would like parents to know that you should expect homework every night.  Students always need to read 20 min., study their roots, and math facts, math practice of the concept taught, and often have upcoming tests to practice for.  We have given the students a sheet titled “Active Study Strategies” to help them review and retain information.  When students do not do the assigned work they ae behind the next day and it is difficult for them to catch up. 

Watch this short video with your child about Personality vs. Character and discuss how it relates to Archway's Core Virtues (found in student agendas).

MATH

This week we will be continuing our study of factors, multiples, prime numbers and multiplying 3 and 4-digit numbers by a 2-digit number.

SCIENCE

 We will culminate our chemistry unit.  We will explore mixtures, solutions, and suspensions and will look into the concept s of concentration and saturation as well as what is a solute and what is a solvent.  They will have their chemistry comprehension check this Friday, Sept 16th.  They will need to write about matter, using these terms correctly:  atoms, elements, molecules and compounds, compare and contrast two items using the terms mass, volume and density, explain what a physical change is and a chemical change and give an example of each.  They should practice writing their paragraph this week using their spiral notes and folds.   

 Language Arts

     Grammar – Students will begin "Chapter 3 Adjectives" in Well Ordered Language workbook. Each week we complete a page of Daily Grams where students practice editing and parts of speech. Your students have worked hard with nouns, verbs, and adverbs up to this point. We continue identifying declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences and finding the principal elements in a sentence.

Writing – We review paragraphs, transitions, and different kinds of hooks. Students will practice writing their own hooks. An essay hook is 1-2 opening sentences that capture readers' attention and help them decide if they want to continue reading the text. We also will review different kinds of fiction writing and do reading comprehension practice with text.

 

Poetry – Ozymandias is our new poem and is due on September 23rd. Video Here

Literature – We begin our new literature book, Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter. Students will need to bring it on Monday. They will have an assignment on Wednesday where they have to draw Pollyanna's room in the attic. 

Latin & Greek Roots – Students will have a spelling test on the roots derived from re, syn/sym. This list of words is accessible by clicking the link to the right.

Reading - Make sure your students are reading a 150+ page chapter book, at the rate of about 150 pages every week to week and a half.  They then record this in their Roots Journal on their Book List page.

 

HISTORY

There is a test on Mountains of the World on Thursday, 9/15.  We will be reviewing world mountains on Monday and Tuesday.