Week 12- October 29- November 2

What a beautiful weekend! I had the opportunity to go see the Sleeping Beauty ballet; it was amazing! 

Happy Birthday to Rohit!

I am so excited for the upcoming week. Wednesday is our annual Read-A-Thon day at Arete. Your child may come to school dressed as their favorite character from a classical book or as a historical figure. Please remember, no pop culture characters will be permitted on this day. If you have not done so already, please send me an email with your costume proposal. Scholastic book orders will be placed at 8am on Tuesday. Thank you to the families that joined us for the Barnes and Noble book fair this Saturday! I had a lot of fun reading. 

          

                                    

Spalding: This week we will continue to learn two letter phonograms adding one new phonogram on each night of homework. We will introduce oo, ay, ar, er. We will practice recognizing these phonograms in words and continue to review the first 30 phonograms. 

Sight Words: Review list two (he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they, I). 

Literature: This week will explore two more of Aesop’s Fables, “The Lion and the Mouse,” and “The Stork and the Fox.”  We will dive into the morals of each story and identify the story elements. Our poem will be Diddle Diddle Dumpling.

Math:

Students will work through different patterns.  They will identify shapes that can be used to make patterns.  They will also use colors and orientation to extend patterns.  An assessment will be taken on Friday.

Science: It’s pumpkin week in science! Students will explore pumpkins using their five senses. We will investigate and experiment with a real pumpkin by touching, tasting, smelling, hearing, and looking. Students will learn all about the life cycle of a pumpkin, from seed to round orange pumpkin.

Winter Concert

Our Winter Concert is quickly approaching! It will be at Higley Center for the Performing Arts on November 14^th.  Students’ attire for our performances is NOT school uniform.

 Gentlemen are expected to wear a plain white dress shirt, black pants, black socks and black closed toed shoes. Solid dark colored vests and ties are optional for gentlemen. 

Ladies are expected to wear a white top, black skirt, black tights and black closed toed shoes. Please have your kindergartners at Higley Center for the Performing Arts by 4:45pm.

Please visit aretek-2music.blogspot.com or email jweddle@archwayarete.org for questions regarding the concert!

Week 11- October 22-October 26 ( No School Monday)

Happy Sunday Families! I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend. Jay and I spend a day at Schnepf Farms and it was perfect! Now I want a baby goat! hehe They were so cute! I cannot wait to start reading with your child this week! Please be sure they come to school with their yellow book bag every day. 

 

      

                                                     

Spalding: We will begin our two letter phonograms this week, we kindly ask that you please do not teach ahead on the phonograms.  We will introduce “sh, ee, th, and ow” phonograms over the week and you will see them on the nightly homework.  We will continue to work on word sounds and syllables. You can practice this skill at home by giving your child a simple CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) word; can, dog, mat, etc, then ask your child to give each sound of the word.  

Sight Words: Review list 2 

Literature: Our story this week will be “Chicken Little,” a numbskull tale about a foolish chicken. Our poem will be “Baa Baa Black Sheep." We will begin reading with students daily so please be sure your child brings their book bag each day. We will also begin reading groups this week so if you have not signed up to volunteer please reach out to me to help. 

Math:

Continuing our lesson on shapes, we will introduce 3D shapes: cone, rectangular block, cylinder, cube, and sphere.  We will find every day items that look like these shapes, and an assessment will be taken on Friday.

History and Science: This week we will spend some time learning all about farms. We will get to know more about pigs and cows as well as how crops grow. On Friday, we will have a special guest from the Arizona Farm Bureau join us to do a presentation all about pumpkins!

Wedding Day!

Happy Sunday Families! I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing fall break. Jay and I had the most beautiful wedding day!  I'm officially Mrs. Woinarowicz and I have the most amazing husband! 

                                                 

Week 10 - October 15- October 19

Happy Friday Families! We had a very fun final week of Quarter 1. Thank you so much for the special "shower" day today! Jay and I had so much fun! 

               

                     

Spalding: 

There will be no new phonograms this week, we will however spend our time reviewing phonograms 1-26. The phonograms that will be tested are those your child practices on their nightly homework. 

Sight Words: 

We will spend another week reviewing the words on list one. A fun way to do this is to put the sight word somewhere around your house, when your child sees it, they have to give it a high five and say the word. We have been doing this as we enter the classroom each day. 

Literature: 

We will be reading the African Trickster tale, How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?  This is a fun story about animals guessing how many spots there really are. To go with our farm unit in science we will compare animals found in this story vs. animals found on a farm. Our Poem will be "Ride a Cockhorse". 

Math-

This week we will start our unit on shapes, focusing on shapes that are 2D. We will look at squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles. Students will identify the shapes by attribute and look for shapes in every day objects. 

No History or Science this week.

Week 9 fun!

Sloane won our virtue of the month award for September! Thank you
Sloane for being a beautiful example of citizenship!

Happy 6th Birthday Kingston!

           

                  

 

             

                         

                      

           
                       

Happy 6th Birthday Emily!