Week of February 10th

Dear Parents,      

We are very excited this year to be carrying on the special Great Hearts tradition of celebrating “Great Hearts Day” on Friday, February 14^th.  At Great Hearts, we make it a habit to celebrate the curriculum instead of holidays and most often do it through literature celebrations.  On this special day, in our classrooms, we will be celebrating all that Great Hearts embodies: those things that make us unique as scholars in a community of learners, and particularly the virtue of friendship.

We would also like to invite our scholars to create small friendship cards for their classmates.  This is an optional activity.  Should you choose to participate, please observe the following guidelines:

•   Scholars should make one card for each person in the class  
• Cards should be homemade (not store bought).
• Cards should focus on the virtue of friendship and NOT Valentine’s Day. (i.e. “You are a great friend” or “Thank you for being my friend.”)
• NO candy!
• Please send completed cards to school in a Ziploc bag on Thursday, February 13^th.
• Cards may be addressed “To my friend,” or the class list may be used to address cards individually. (A class list was sent home on Monday.) 

In other news, we will begin reading our classic-to-keep A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle next week. Please make sure your student has a copy that can be annotated. 

Our Week at a Glance

Spalding
2x dictation
Phonograms
Test Friday

Grammar/Writing
How to use a Thesaurus
Description of Place
Description of Person

Mathematics
Measurement Conversion
Classifying Triangles and Quadrilaterals
Perimeter

Science
Food Chains: Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores, Decomposers
Ecosystems
Food Webs

History
Battle of Lepanto
The English Civil War
Charles II
"Sonnet 29" by William Shakespeare

Literature
Ch. 26 & 27 of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Literature Test on The Secret Garden

Vocabulary
Servile
Haughty
Contrary
Tapestry
Corridor
Invalid
Indifferent
Vexed
Fretful

Poetry
Week 4 of "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Assessments
Thursday - Math Quiz
Friday - Literature Test, Spalding Test

Upcoming Events
February 14 - Great Hearts Day

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