Kinder and First Grade Fall Artwork

Here's a sampling of some of the projects our younger students have been working on. They learned about value (light and shadow) while making their pumpkins (and of course, they could not resist adding a face to their creations), and they learned about blending warm colors while making their fall leaves. Enjoy!

Art Club: Kusudama and Club on Friday!

Hello Archway Art Club families!

Just to confirm, there is art club this Friday, the 30th, for the 1-2nd graders. We are working on a fall themed project, and they are doing a spectacular job. Also, please be aware that, due to the number of Fridays we were unable to have club in the past month, I am trying to schedule a couple "catch-up" clubs for the 1-2nd grade art clubbers. More on that later!

As for our 3-5th grade art clubbers, we just finished working on our Kusudama project. Kusudama are made using the art of origami to make multiple interlocking units that unite to form a spherical form. Here is what the finished product looks like!

Read-A-Thon and Book Fair

Read-a-Thon 

Mark your calendars for our second annual Read-a-thon! This special day will be on Friday, October 30th, and will occur alongside our first on-site book fair! Students may come to school dressed as their favorite classical literary characters, scientists, or historical figures. The goal of this event is to stir a continuous love for reading and an opportunity for lifelong learning. Costumes need not come directly from the grade level curriculum, though they must be classically on-mission. We kindly ask that you send costume ideas to your classroom teacher for approval by Friday, October 23rd. Be sure that costumes allow students to engage in regular school day activities like recess, lunch, and some curricular instruction. The headmasters, teachers, fellow scholars, and students' family members will read to students throughout the day. The Read-a-thon will be a huge celebration of reading for our entire school community!

Book Fair 

The Archway Arete book fair will run from Monday, October 26th - Friday, October 30th in the resource room. We look forward to providing this exciting opportunity for students and parents to purchase books for their personal and classroom libraries. The class that purchases the most books from the week-long book fair will be awarded a pizza party. Profits from the book fair will go directly to children's books for the Arete library. The book fair will be open for parents at specific times during the school day, so please plan to attend! There are prizes to be won for participating!

1st Quarter Letter Grades and Parent Conferences

Hello 4th-5th Grade Archway Families!

It has come to my attention that due to a technical error, your student's letter grades did not get printed on his or her quarterly report card. First of all, I apologize for any confusion or distress this may have caused. Secondly, please rest assured that each student did receive a letter grade for their 1st quarter. I will send out that letter grade with the second quarter grade, so that you can easily view what grade your student received their first quarter as well. However, if you would like that letter grade sooner, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to send it as soon as possible. Again, I apologize for any inconvenience this situation may have caused, and if there is anything further you need from me, please do not hesitate to ask.

I look forward to meeting with some of you for conferences this week, and I hope your fall break was splendid.

Cheers!

-Ms. Arce-Lindsay

Quarter 1 Conferences!

Happy Fall Archway Families!

Below is a link to the Sign-Up Genius for Quarter 1 conferences. Feel free to sign up, although conferences are not required for Specials classes. Either way, I'd love to see whoever does sign up. I hope you have a fantastic fall break and I will see you all soon!

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0948AAAB28A7F85-quarter1

-Ms. Arce-Lindsay