Quarter 3, Week 6

Hello Families!

I hope you all enjoyed the 3-day weekend! Here's a look at what we have going on in week 6!

What's going on in 4A:

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

• You can sign up here to help with our Great Hearts Day party by volunteering or sending in supplies. 

• As always, dates given in this update are approximate and subject to change. Sometimes students grasp material quicker than I anticipate, and the dates are moved up, or we need more time to practice and learn, so the dates are moved back. The information in your students planner will be the most accurate and up to date. Feel free to email if you have any questions. 

Lessons

Roots: There will be a comprehension check on roots #62-64 Monday. This week we will learn three new roots.

Writing: We will hold a writing workshop on Thursday. Starting first thing in the morning, the students will spend the entire day working on their writing project. We will start at the beginning, by reading the articles, and work through the entire process until they type their final draft. The only other subject we will have on Thursday will be math. We will not have an ELA block on the other days this week. 

Math: This week students will start learning about decimals! We will start with tenths, and continue to hundredths by the end of the week. There will be a test on tenths on Wednesday.

Poetry: Students should continue to work on memorizing their stanza of Paul Revere's Ride. We will recite these the week of March 2, week 9. 

Spalding: Students will learn 15 words Monday: solution, source, speech, steak, successful, tails, tales, tear, tear, telephone, throughout, traffic, United States, unite, unit; and 15 words Tuesday: valuable, value, wore, worn, circular, circle, argument, argue, volume, organize. We will review the words on Wednesday. There will be no Spalding on Thursday, and we will test on Friday. 

Science: Students will learn about mountains and rocks. On Tuesday students will take a life science review quiz. 

History: Students will take the unit test Monday. This unit begins with the early colonists and covers up to the Boston Tea Party. Next, students will learn about how the colonies resisted the Intolerable Acts and how the Revolutionary War began. We will read Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death" speech.

Literature: We will continue reading Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. We have had many students without books. Please remind your child to bring their book in. If your child does not have a book, please let me know and I can check one out of the library for them. 

Important Dates

Monday: history test, roots check

Wednesday: math test

Thursday: Writing Workshop

Friday: Spalding test, Great Hearts Day