Naaktgeboren's Class Blog

Greetings Families, I hope you had a great weekend. I'm excited to start week three. It will be a short week as we get Friday (and Monday of next week) off. Here is an announcement about our book fair before I get to lessons.  SPRING BOOK FAIR WITH USBORNE BOOKS We are so excited to announce that we will be having a book fair from Wednesday, April 7th to Friday, April 9th. It will be hosted by Usborne online. From the comfort of your own homes, you will be able to browse the complete Usborne catalog on their website and purchase as many books as you would like. Once you purchase your books, they will be sent to Archway Arete and then hand-delivered to your children in their classrooms. Please look for a flyer and instructions sent home by your child's teacher on Monday, March 29th. If you have any additional questions, you may reach out to Miss Modisett at any time at bmodisett@archwayarete.org . Happy reading! LESSONS Language Arts : We will continue to focus on writing this...

Click here to go to the practice test.  --------------------------------------------------------- Greetings Families, Today, students completed the 3rd-grade AzMERIT practice test in class to get some practice with writing an opinion essay and to get used to how to read and type an essay in the AzMERIT portal. If you would like them to get some additional practice, feel free to have them access the 4th-grade practice test at home, which can be found at the same site.  Best, Michael Naaktgeboren 

Greetings Families, I hope you have enjoyed the weekend. Tomorrow starts week two of the fourth quarter. The focus will be on helping students prepare for AzMERIT again this week. There aren't a whole lot of announcements, so let me just into this week's lessons.  LESSONS Language Arts : We will focus on writing again this week! We will be doing real AzMERIT writing practice on the computer. There will be no spelling to accommodate AzMERIT preparation. Students should be ready to recite "For Want of a Nail," which will be recited on the 24th. Math : In math, students will learn about the metric measurement for capacity: liters and milliliters. After that, students will spend time reviewing concepts from this to prepare for AzMERIT. Science : Students will spend their time reading about carnivores during week two and will write a three-paragraph informational essay on them. History : We will continue learning about the 13 colonies! We will learn about the Virginia Col...

Greetings Families, I hope everyone is well and that you had an enjoyable break. I also want to say thank you for all of your gracious gifts that I received before we left for break. I hope you were able to see some of the photos from me opening everything up. We actually got in trouble because the students were cheering as I was opening ballows with the gift cards inside, and we may have gotten a little too loud--loud being they were stomping their feet and screaming. So again, thank you for your charity. You are a very gracious and kind people.    Turning our attention to academics, we are in the AzMERIT prep mode. In math, we have a little bit of content still remaining that is on the test (the metric system), but after that, we will be focused on going over the content we've covered this year that will be on AzMERIT. I know that sometimes people have a poor opinion about preparing students for a test, but I do think it good. Yes, as a teacher and school, the results matte...