Week of August 24^th Classroom Work

Spalding: Review Phonograms, Practice writing skills (proper posture, pencil and paper placement)

Literature: Tom Thumb and various tales

Geography: Our lovely state of Arizona

Science: Animal Habitats

Announcements and Reminders:

Please remember to send a water bottle with your student. It is very hot outside still and the children are thirsty throughout the day. Having a water bottle handy helps them to keep hydrated.

We are going to implement an additional snack in the afternoon. We are finding the children are hungry in the afternoon and want to make sure we are not sending them home with hungry tummies.

Archway Arete has decided to implement homework on Fridays starting this week. The first grade team has decided to make weekend homework reading for 15 minutes and phonogram practice for 5 minutes.

Our classroom will have a new face starting next week. Ms. Vance has been hired to assist in our classroom on Tuesday and Wednesday. The rest of the week she will be assisting in 4^th grade. She is an experienced 1^st grade teacher and shares the philosophy of making learning fun with love and logic strategies. Mrs. Powers will be filling in on Friday’s as our classroom assistant. This will be Mrs. Powers second year at Archway Arete. She started last year as a 1^st grade assistant and then became a lead kindergarten teacher. These lovely two ladies will make our classroom complete.

It was so wonderful to see all of you on Thursday night. I hope I gave you the information you need to understand what will be happening in our classroom and what my philosophies on teaching are. If you were unable to attend, I sent home a packet in your child’s folder on Friday.