“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves Hello, Parents. This week students will be given a daily schedule to support them in transitioning to their classes with more confidence. The five minute transitions given should be used wisely so that class time is not lost or unnecessarily interrupted. Please consult these times when needing to schedule doctor or dental appointments for your child, and note the weekly lunch times in the case of a lunch being delivered. Our first seminar discussion of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was beautiful. Scholars expressed ideas with a small group about what characters they thought had inner beauty and which ones did not. We will be covering Chapters 6 through 8 this week. Students will have a comprehension quiz once per week as a pop quiz for reading accountability, but will also be answering and discussing response questions to deepen understanding of reading assignments. Students should be reviewing phonograms nightly. We will be adding 8 new phonograms each week until we have covered the first 70. Handwriting should be neat, as students are being attentive to meet the checkpoints taught in Spalding. We are going to begin marking words from lists A-G in class as we practice manuscript writing this week, and will continue to do both oral and written phonogram reviews several times each week. Our class supplies needed an overhaul, so a re-organization sheet was sent home as homework tonight. The binder will now be the ELA (English Language Arts) binder, and students should have handouts and papers filed in the appropriate section. Also, extra composition books were sent home to reduce locker clutter. Better systems with more order is the goal. Friday is a half day, so students will be released at 12 noon. No lunch will be served at school. Warm regards, Mrs. Baird
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