With the semester and the season’s temperatures winding down, our winter dress code is now in full effect. Please see the handbook excerpt below for details:
Students may not wear shorts to school during the winter months. Girls must wear knee-high socks or tights with skirts. Please refer to the Family Handbook for the dress code.
As a reminder, ALL STUDENTS must wear belts with pants and shorts (when shorts season returns). Girls do not have to wear belts with skirts that do not have belt loops. Keep in mind that as our students are growing tall and strong, some of our young ladies may need to update their skirts if it is one they have been wearing since being in the lower grades. As a general rule of thumb, skirts should extend past fingertips when standing casually (arms down at sides).
Congratulations to all of our students for a job well done in our class Spelling Bee! The Annual Archway Arete Spelling Bee will be held on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 6:00 PM in the MPR.
Lastly, keep collecting those box tops! Students can turn in all box tops in a ziploc baggie with their name on it for a chance to win a gift card to Barnes & Noble! Box Tops will be collected on December 11.
This Week:
Math: This week, students will continue practicing fractions of a set to prepare for their unit test on fractions of a set that they will take on either Thursday or Friday. If you feel your student needs more help with this particular concept and would like for them to attend tutoring if they are not yet already, please send me an email so we may further discuss tutoring as an option for them. As a reminder, there will not be any Khan Academy until third quarter.
Grammar/Writing: Last week, students did a lot of hard work to finish up their first writing workshop on water conservation! This week in grammar, students will be learning about sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and they will be introduced to complex sentences and the parts that make up complex sentences.
Spalding: Spalding will continue this week with our next 30 words, mention ---- believe, and will take their weekly test on Friday. On Thursday, our Spalding Coach, Mrs. Clouse, will be coming in to observe.
Science: This week, we will be finishing our meteorology unit. In the beginning of the week, students will continue learning about weather forecasts and we will discuss the difference between weather and climate. Students will have their study guides completed by Wednesday for correction as a class. On Thursday, we will use class time to review for the Meteorology test on Friday.
History: This week, we will continue working through our unit on Arizona history. This week students will be learning about Americans in Arizona, the Mexican War, and how Arizona became a territory of the U.S., and later, the 48th state of the Union.
Literature: Students will study setting and characterization as we continue our reading through Robin Hood.
Greek and Latin Roots: This Wednesday, students will take their weekly quiz and will learn the next three roots in the set. Students should review roots cards to prepare for their quiz they will take every Wednesday.
Poetry: Poetry recitations on “The Flag Goes By” by Henry Holcomb Bennett will be on Friday, December 14.
I hope you are all as eager for December’s arrival as I am! Have a wonderful weekend.
--Mrs. Conforti
