Thursday, April 26, 2018

Plus One Day!!

Archway Chandler Spirit Day! Dress Code
During the school day, we will celebrate our achievement by allowing students to have a dress down day. The best way to describe it is to think of it as “Jeans and School Colors”.  We believe the dress code below will allow all students to enjoy the more casual dress code without anyone needing to purchase anything new.

Of course, anyone who chooses may wear their uniform. But for those who would like the alternative for the day, we have the following guidelines. All attire must be free of inappropriate logos or messages.

Pants:
·       School uniforms, denim jeans or shorts, athletic shorts, pants, or leggings.
·       No sweatpants, pajama bottoms.

Shirts:
·       Any shirt that coordinates with the school colors. That is, the shirt must include blue and/or red/maroon.
·       These can include but do not need to be club or athletic attire, spirit wear, or uniform polos.
·       No sleeveless shirts, tank tops, or camisoles. All shirts must be modest, loose fitting, and in good repair.
·       Free of inappropriate messages.

Shoes:
·       Closed-toe shoes (including tennis shoes, casual shoes, flats, boots) are all acceptable.
·       No slippers, open-toed footwear, or shoes with heels above 1½”.

Headwear:
·       No hats or sunglasses may be worn in the school.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Important Dates to Know and Concert Information

Happy Wednesday!

Tonight is our spring concert. 5th grade students' call time is 6:25 at the Higley Center for the Performing Arts, 4132 East Pecos Road, Gilbert AZ. The concert will be 45 minutes. 

It is time for our 5th grade t-shirt contest! The students are invited to create a design for the 5th grade graduation t-shirts. The design must fit on an 8x11 sheet of paper, must be Great Hearts related, and must somehow include the virtues. Final designs are due on Thursday, May 3rd to Ms. Baker.

Other Dates to Remember:
Nervous System and Brain Test: Wednesday, May 2nd
Civil War Test Test: Monday, April 30th
Civil War Poetry Project due Friday, April 27th
Civil War Study Guide due Friday, April 27th
No School: Friday, May 4th






Friday, April 13, 2018

Friday, April 13th, 2018

Dear Parents,

Today was our last day of standardized testing. Some students will need to go back on Monday or Tuesday to makeup anything they missed or did not finish.

Next week, we will start a fun, new method of studying roots in preparation for next year.
The roots and words for next week and their derivatives are below. Students will need to know spellings and definitions.

Roots and Derivatives 4/16-4/20

Spelling Words: musician, music, plane, plain, problem, rehearsal, rehearse, removal, removed, remove

Students will be memorizing the Gettysburg Address in the next few weeks. The first sentence is due on Monday. You can find the breakdown here.

1st paragraph due 4/16
2nd 4/18
3rd 4/20
4th 4/23

Upcoming Tests
Muscles Test, Monday 4/16
Unit 10 Math Test, Wednesday 4/18


Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Tests/Testing Update

Today is our last day of AZ Merit testing. If your child missed a day, they will be making it up this week. 

Spelling Test: Friday, April 13th
MAP Testing: Friday,April 13th
Muscles Test: Monday, April 16th
Unit 10 Math Test: Wednesday, April 18th




Monday, April 9, 2018

Monday, April 9th, 2018


This Week:

Students will be tested on the last section of math and reading AZ Merit tomorrow morning. Make sure they have a good breakfast and lots of rest!

ELA: Students will continue to learn about patterns 4 and 5 and the different roles of prepositional phrases
Literature: We will continue reading Across Five Aprils. 
Math: Students will review line plots and coordinate graphs.
Science: Students will continue to learn about the muscles. We will test on Friday or Monday depending on how far we get this week. You will be updated on this shortly.
History: We will continue learning about the Civil War.


Spelling Words:

ignorance, ignorant, ignore, indication, indicate, interference, interfere, leadership, messenger, message

  • Barbarous (G) foreign
  • Derivatives to use:
    • Barbarian, barbarous, barbaric, barbarism, barbarity, rhubarb
  • Orthos (G) straight, correct
  • Derivatives to use:
    • Orthodox, orthography, orthodontist, orthopedist, orthotics 
  • Dokein (G) think, have an opinion, suppose
  • Derivatives to use:
o   Doxology, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, paradox, paradoxical, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Today, students took their first reading and math AZ merit test. We finished writing on Monday. (Thank goodness!) We will have MAP testing on Friday afternoon and the last day of AZMerit on Tuesday of next week.


Spelling words: gather, generally, grateful, heir, inherit, hoarse, icicle, identification, identified, identify 

Roots:
  • Laborolaboratum (L) work 
  • Derivatives to use: 
  • Labor, laboratory, elaborate, collaborate, laborious, Labor Day  
  • Ergon (G) work 
  • Derivatives to use: 
  • Energy, ergometer, ergonomics, allergy, surgery  
  • Durus (L) hard to the touch, strong, difficult 
  • Derivatives to use: 
  • Endure, endurance, endurable, durable, duress, obdurate, durum, during 
  • Bellum (L) war, combat, fight 
  • Derivatives to use: 
  • Belligerent, bellicose, antebellum, casus belli

Graduation Dress Code

Concert style dress, but can be any colors students would like. Boys: Slacks, button up shirts, dress shoes. Ties and jackets are accepta...