Dear Parents,

Important Dates:
Fall Concert - Thursday, November 17th - This is mandatory.

• We are collecting empty, small food cardboard boxes (like mac and cheese and cracker boxes). They will be used by the PSO to make decorations for the Fall Concert.

• The fourth grade is collecting stuffing for our school-wide food drive.

The students will be having a spelling bee and the top finishers in class will compete for the school and continue on from there. 

We will have a test in Middle Ages on Wednesday, and on Friday there will be a math and spelling test.

We will be finishing up Prince Caspian on Friday and the test will be at the beginning of the next week. Our next book will be Robin Hood.

UPDATE

Literature Day - Friday,  October 28th, Dress as your favorite Character (optional) and the end of the Read-A-Thon. In addition, students may bring a pillow, blanket, and/or flashlight so that they may read in comfort on Friday. 

Students may also bring a few books from home on Friday as there will be additional reading time that day. 

Thank you!

Dear Families,

Important Dates:

Literature Day - Friday,  October 28th, Dress as your favorite Character (optional) and the end of the Read-A-Thon

Fall Concert - Thursday, November 17th (mandatory)

The students brought home a permission slip for you to sign if they would like to dress as a favorite character. On Monday, I hope to have clarification on what is and is not acceptable. 

Here's some more information from Ms. Blasi about the Fall Concert:

We will be having an Archway Lincoln Library Book Drive at our Fall Concert on Thursday, November 17th.

We would love to raise the book count in our lovely library, and we need your help!
Bring new or lightly used books to donate in the following genres:
• Biographies
• Non-Fiction
• Classic Literature
Check out the Archway Lincoln PSO website for the Book Wish List!
http://amzn.to/2dqWBVB
Thank you for supporting our school!

Please contact Ms. Blasi, our music teacher, if you have any questions.

This week we will continue with Prince Caspian, the Middle Ages, Chemistry, Spalding and Grammar. The only test this week is the spelling/phonogram test on Friday.

Please continue practicing phonograms

Thank You!
Mr. Leonard

Dear Parents,

I would like to thank Mrs. Filleman for bringing cookies in today as well as a card for the students to sign for my birthday. They wrote beautiful notes and I was moved by their kind words.

Thank you,

Mr. Leonard

Dear Parents,

Welcome back from break! I hope it was relaxing and enjoyable for your students. They certainly earned it.  Thank you all of those who were here for Parent Teacher Conferences. I enjoyed talking about your child's progress and their performance thus far. If you have not yet conferenced with me, please reach out to me via email at jleonard@archwaylincoln.org and we can find a time to meet.

I am excited to announce the addition of Mrs. Fullerton to the 4th grade team. She is going to be an excellent teacher's assistance and we are blessed to have her.

This week, due to the shortness of it, we will not be having any Spalding words. Spelling will begin again starting next Monday.

We have a Prince Caspian quiz on Friday on Chapters 1-7. Students will be bringing their completed work home with them on Wednesday which they can use to help review what we have read thus far.

On the Friday before break I gave each student a copy of Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow. They are expected to memorize this poem by the start of the 3rd quarter for Project Week. We will be going over it in parts as a class and rubrics will be going home to practice from. It is your job to practice with your student and sign the rubric to confirm they have memorized the part assigned for that week.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you and have a great week!

Mr. Leonard

Dear Parents,


Please enjoy the R&R Fall Break, there will be no homework. I'm sending students home with a copy of Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Students are expected to memorize the entire poem by project week, the week after winter break. We will practice reciting the poem in parts, but if you would and your student would like to get a head start over fall break, please feel free to do so.

Sincerely,

Mr. Leonard

Dear Parents,

We struggled earlier in the year to make sure our names were on all of the assignments. We put in place a policy that if every student put their name on all their assignments ten times the students would not have homework that night.

We have reached ten days of "No No Names," so tonight, students only have math homework and need to study for their history and spalding quiz. They do not need to write down all thirty words one time but it would be encouraged.

The students have worked very hard this quarter and I am very proud of their progress. Please enjoy fall break!

Mr. Leonard

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our final week of the quarter. A few announcements before fall break:

Wednesday and Friday are half days this week. Please plan accordingly. My apologies for not returning graded materials to you the past two weeks. I have been holding onto tests and homework from all of the core subjects to review with you at Parent Teacher Conferences following break. If you have still not signed up please do at

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4fa9ac2ea4fe3-parentteacher

We will be having our second Middle Ages test on Friday. It will cover chapters 6-10 study guide. Make sure your student is familiar with the Feudal system, the roles of knights and the roles of serfs.

In science we will be having a quiz on Volcanoes, Geysers, and Mountains. a study guide will come home on Monday that is partially filled out. They will be completely filled out by Tuesday, giving time to review Tuesday and Wednesday night.

In Math, we are starting a new unit on fractions. This is a time when pictorial representation in our Singapore curriculum is very helpful. We will start by comparing fractions and slowly move into operational functions.

In literature we are continuing to enjoy Prince Caspian. If you want to start memorizing Paul Revere's Ride over fall break feel free to do that. Students are expected to have the entire poem memorized by project week, the week we come back from Winter Break.

Thank you and have a wonderful week,

Mr. Leonard