Week of October 23-27

Welcome to the second week of our second quarter of school! It's hard to believe that the year is already on quarter past! Our class has grown academically and as a community. Each day the scholars come together, learn together, play together, and grow together as a united community.

Thank you to each of you for taking time from your busy lives last week to come to conferences.  I enjoyed meeting with each of you and getting to know each of you a little bit better as we join together in teaching your amazing children.

As we look ahead to this week in Spalding we will add 29 new words to our Spalding notebooks!  We will have a spelling and phonogram test on Friday, October 27. New this quarter the scholars will also receive a handwriting grade on each Spalding test. Only the phonogram section of the test will be graded for handwriting. Please continue to encourage your student to practice beautiful and careful letter formations as we continue to seek all that is true, good, and beautiful in our daily learning.

In math we will continue with leaning multiplication facts and also begin division this week. Please continue to spend 10 minutes each night practicing the multiplication facts for 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10. We will have a math test on Friday.

Language arts this week will center around our reading of the second selection of "Mr. Revere and I." Through this text we will practice reading fluency, comprehension, summarization, and descriptive writing skills! In Grammar this week we will continue out study of adjectives and sentence diagramming.

We will finish reading Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights in literature this week. The scholars have enjoyed reading of Aladdin and Princess Badr-al-Budur and are anxious to hear the ending of the story!  We will also begin our next literature book, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe this week.  Please send this book to school with your scholar by Thursday.

In history we will return to our study of Ancient Rome.  We have hand many wonderful class discussions about this rich time in history and look forward to many more this week.

Finally, Astronomy is the topic of our Science lessons this week.  We will continue to wonder about the amazing world around us as we learn about our solar system.

A Look Ahead:

October 26: Parent Singapore Night from 6:00-7:00.  This is a wonderful opportunity to come learn more about our Singapore mathematics instruction.
November 3: Half Day