May 15 - 19

     Upcoming Events: 

May 17th & 18th Lower School Music Concerts

May 20th GHWH Annual Spartan Fiesta & Art Show

May 25th Kinder 9am - 11am 

May 26th Last Day of School

• We will continue to send home extra supplies like we did this week. Please make sure you take the extra supplies out of your child’s backpack and keep them at home. 

Our virtue of the month is Wisdom

Letter from The Headmaster: 

Dear Spartan Families,   Last week we were excited and proud to host so many of you on campus to observe and sit in your scholar's classrooms. An open house is a unique opportunity for parents to get a meaningful glimpse into the classroom and experience what occurs daily at school. This is something that we will continue to do around February of each school year.  We are so appreciative to all who could take advantage of this opportunity. Not only is this a unique experience for you as a parent, but your presence on campus supporting your scholar and their education is so important. We hope that this was an enjoyable time for all and hope to see those of you that missed it this year in the future.  Looking ahead, we have many exciting events on campus to look forward to. This spring, students will focus on the virtue of friendship on Great Hearts Day; we will gather together at our Spartan Fiesta and Car Show, will welcome new families at new family orientation, and celebrate our kindergartners and fifth graders at their promotion ceremonies, and students will participate in the last of their curricular celebrations for the year.    Kyla Absher Headmaster | Lower School

Quarterly Poem: 

" April Rain Song" By Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you. 

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby. 

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk. 

The rain makes running pools in the gutter. 

The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night-

And I love the rain. 

Weekly Poem:

"Ladybug! Ladybug! by a Traditional Nursery Rhyme 

The week ahead: 

SPALDING:  Scholars will review the phonograms learned in the weeks prior:  a-z, sh, ee, th, ow, ou, oo, ch, ar, ay, oy, ai, oi, er ,ir, ur, wor, ear, ng, ea, ar, aw, au, or, ck, wh, ed, ew, ui, oa, gu, ph, ough, oe, ey, igh, kn, gn, wr, ie, dge, ei, eigh, ti, si, ci. We are now finished learning all 70 phonograms for Kindergarten level, and review continues. Scholars will be assessed in written form of 10 phonograms on Friday. Please review their pre-assessment on Wednesday to assess where your scholar needs extra support. Scholars will learn and review 12 words a week and be assessed on them on Friday. The words for this week are: was, that, his, led, lay, apple, ate, author, bread, brown, dog, eats. Scholars will continue to bring home their book bag.  It is important that they read it daily to an adult. Scholars are being graded on homework with a focus on correct completion, penmanship, and overall neatness.  

Math:   As we continue learning about numbers to 100, this week we will specifically focus on all number less than 100. We will work on counting by tens then adding ones, and also practice our counting-on skills.  Later in the week we will have the opportunity to start learning about number patterns and how they apply to our every-day lives.

Science/History:  This week we will continue our “Taking Care of the Earth” unit. We will learn more on the significance of recycling, its importance and how it can change the planet. We will also learn about composting, land, air, and water pollution and lastly water conservation.

Literature: : As we come upon our last book in our Classics to Keep series we have the wonderful opportunity to read the story Grasshopper on the Road. Just like our previous book, it is a chapter book of many tales and adventures. We will look at the numerous, nouns, verbs, and adjectives throughout the book, as well as complete another Venn Diagram to compare and contrast 2 characters.