Week 7

Dear Parents,

It's incredible that we have already gotten through 6 weeks of school. Time flies by! You may be starting to notice that its getting a little more challenging for your students. Don't be discouraged if they are struggling more than you have seen them do so before, we want them to struggle (at least a little bit) so they can learn that learning is sometimes difficult and frustrating, but always worth it!

Keeping that in mind, we also don't want to utterly defeat a student. Please let me know if you think the workload is overtaxing your student and we can meet to figure out how to help balance it.

This week:

1) In History we will be continuing to learn about the age of Feudalism. We will study the life of knight and codes of Chivalry. We will also learn about some important people who lived during the Medieval Age. Keep asking your students questions about what they are learning in history, it absolutely helps them understand and retain information when they can explain it to someone else.

2) In Reading  we will continue to read the adventures of King Arthur and his knights. This book is much more difficult to Caspian was, so I recommend you continue to read it with your student if you have time. If you explain words they don't understand and have a conversation about what is happening in the story it will greatly increase their comprehension.

3) In Writing we will be copying and deconstructing sentences. The goal is to give students more practice reading and writing cursive and also start to explore what make beautiful sentences beautiful.

Other announcements:

1) There isa Peter Piper Pizza night for the whole school this coming Monday, 15% off all pizza! Ask your students for more details, they should have a flier.

2) A few parents have approached me wanting to organize a 4th grade family day. I am going to forward them all the contact info I have. If you would prefer your contact info NOT be forwarded, please send me an email at bohbayashi@archwaytriviumeast.org.

I am also going to send out a mass email asking this question, to make sure everyone gets it. If you do not respond I am going to share your email with a select few parents who want to organize the outing.

Can't wait to see your students for another awesome week!

Best,

Mr. Ohbayashi