Dear Parents,
We are back to full weeks of school and the second quarter is officially underway! I spoke to most of you last week, and mentioned that the curriculum is going to get a little more difficult. Expect the homework to ask more of your students and maybe take a bit longer, but let me know if it becomes too much. All homework should take about 90 minutes to complete, if it is taking significantly more than that for your student, let us know and we will work with them.
This Week
1) In History we will continue to learn about Mohammed and the rise of Islam. Make sure your students are doing the readings and focus questions that will be going home and feel free to discuss and ask them questions about the early days of the Muslim religion. This is a topic many students are much less familiar with than Medieval and Christian history, so extra discussion at home will help a lot!
2) In Reading we will be reading the story of Sir Gareth in King Arthur and also starting the tale of Tristram and Isolde. Read along with your students and focus on discussions of bravery in its different forms. There will be a quiz at the end of the week that will ask them to discuss the bravery of these two knights (and of Isolde) and try to define the difference between bravery and brashness.
3) In Writing we will be learning about adjectives, the great describers of the English language. A great thing to do at home is to ask your students to identify the different parts of everyday sentences. Questions like "Is that a noun or a verb?" or "Can you find the subject of this sentence?" help give students the experience to be confident in their understanding of the parts of speech.
Lets start the quarter off strong!
Best,
Mr. Ohbayashi
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