HEADMASTER LETTER
“Sansa kroma ne na woo aw che che kokoma. Sansa kroma ne na woo aw che che kokoma,” sang the sixth-graders as they passed around a small wooden stick in a seated circle. One scholar sat in the middle of the circle with her eyes closed listening to the sound of the stick on the floor amidst the rhythm patterns that the other scholars were making with their hands. Once the singing stopped, all hands went behind their backs, and the scholar in the middle attempted to identify who was holding the hidden stick.
“Do you want to join us?” invited Mr. Lang. I’m not rhythmically gifted, but this seemed like a fairly straightforward pattern that I could replicate without embarrassment, so I forsook my laptop and took a seat in the circle. “Sansa kroma ne na woo aw …” as the stick again made its way around from scholar to scholar. On the first round, I ended up with the stick in my possession and soon found my way into the middle with my eyes closed. Sneaky Mr. Lang pulled out multiple sticks during the next rendition, and when I guessed the location of the stick, I was only one student off (I counted it as a success!).
Sitting among the scholars, I observed their intense level of engagement as they were cheerfully singing the Ghanian folk song, keeping beat, and fine tuning their listening. The class was developing and practicing multiple skills without the students really knowing how much learning was actually transpiring. Such is the art of education! And Mr. Lang’s music class is just one example of the type of encounters with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty that your scholars experience on a daily basis.
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IMPORTANT PARENT INFORMATION & DATES
December 9 Registration is due for the Bard Competition
December 9 2B & 2D Choir Performance
December 10 2A & 2C Choir Performance
December 13
Enrollment
ends for current 6th graders to North Phoenix Prep
December 13 2nd Grade Field Trip
December 16 Schoolwide Spelling Bee Competition
December 17 Choir Club Performance
December 18 Archway Mom's
Party
December 16-20 No clubs before or after school
December 18-2
0 Half Day Dismissal 12pm
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PARTNERING WITH PARENTS
In order for students to have extra practice in math, please take some time with your student to go over the following links this weekend.
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TEACHER SPOTLIGHT
Ms. Redd is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She taught for 15 years in the largest school district in Wisconsin. Before becoming a teacher she earned a Bachelor's degree in Business
Administration with a minor in Accounting. She worked for five years at U.S. Bank as a retirement specialist. Then one day she decided she wanted to make a difference in the lives of children by guiding them through their educational journey. She completed an alternative certification program to obtain an initial five-year teaching license. Since that time she has received two Master’s degrees one in Curriculum Instruction and the other in Administration Leadership. She has taught grades K- 3rd and 5th-8th. Ms. Redd and her husband moved to Arizona in March of 2016; they didn’t know anyone in the state, but knew they wanted to move somewhere that didn’t have snow! Ms. Redd feels Archway North Phoenix is the most dedicated, inspiring, and welcoming teaching
environment. She feels Great Hearts is like no other school she has had the pleasure of educating young minds.
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EARLY MORNING DROPOFF
As a reminder, we provide supervision for students beginning at 7:30 a.m., thirty minutes prior to the start of the school day. Many students are being dropped off unattended prior to 7:30 a.m. and participating in increasingly dangerous behavior. For the safety of all, please keep your children with you in the vehicle until the school doors open at 7:30 a.m. and proper supervision is available. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
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FALL MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
1
st
semester musical performances
Location:
Archway MPR from 3:45 to 4:10
Details:
Two class sections will join forces at each performance to sing various autumnal and wintry tunes for you! Students will not wear concert attire.
Invited:
All family and friends are welcome to attend; you will be able to pick siblings up as usual and then walk right into the MPR when the doors open at 3:30. Please check the schedule below to see when your scholars will be performing, and do not hesitate to email their music teacher with any questions.
Parking:
Parent parking will be located in the Paradise Valley Baptist Church parking lot to the South of Archway North Phoenix school across Hearn Road for the performances.
Questions:
Ms. Park (K-2)
Mr. Lang (5-6)
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Argonaut families,
Thank you for all the many ways that you support our great school.
A special thank you to everyone that took part in our first annual Giving Tuesday Campaign. Through this national giving day, we increased our overall family participation and made great progress on our Community Investment goal for the year.
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BARD COMPETITION
It is time for our annual Bard Competition! This poetry recitation opportunity is available to students in grades 3-6. Registration is due December 9th, and Round 1 of the competition will take place January 13
th and 14
th. Registration form. Questions? Contact Ms. Van Leeuwen at
tvanleeuwen@archwaynorthphoenix.org.
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FINGERPRINT UPDATE
Great Hearts has purchased a new system for fingerprinting our volunteers. The system should be live by the end of January. There will be a new sign up as soon as we have a date. The turnaround time for the new system is 24 hours after the fingerprints have been taken. We thank you for your patience and understanding while we wait for the new system.
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LOST & FOUND
Check online to take a look at our current Lost and Found Inventory. Labeled items will be returned to your scholar.
www.anppso.org/lostandfound
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YEARBOOK PHOTO
Don't miss your chance to help us preserve memories of the 2019-20 school year and see your photography in print! Please take pictures at upcoming concerts, field trips, club and classroom events, movie night, and more and send your photographs to the yearbook committee:
ANPyearbook@gmail.com
If possible, please include names of students in the photo, grade level, and the event name and date. Thank you for your help!
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PSO PASSIVE
FUNDRAISING
Bookmark
www.anppso.org/amazon/
when you shop through our special Amazon link, ANP will earn up to 10.5% on qualifying purchases.
Shop Shutterfly and Raise Money for ANP! For your holiday cards and gifts this year, please use this link:
http://www.anp.shutterflystorefront.com/ and ANP will receive 8% back on your purchase. Find cute gifts for grandparents, memorialize your last vacation with a photobook, or get your holiday cards completed. Please share this link with others.
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ARCHWAY MOMS
Wednesday, December 18 from 7-9 PM at Heather Keehn’s Home 40th St & Camelback Rd;
RSVP
for Address. Wrap up your favorite item under $10 and participate in this special gift exchange. Or, simply come for a fun evening with Archway moms. Questions?
momsclub@anppso.org
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PREP GIRL SCOUT TROOP OFFERING A DROP N' SHOP
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5TH & 6TH GRADES WINTER SPORTS TEAMS
Registration Now Open
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DADDY DAUGHTER DANCE
Save the date for the daddy daughter dance February 22, 2020
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GREAT HEARTS BOARD OF DIRECTOR MEETINGS
February 13, 2020
May 14, 2020
Board meeting notices are posted at least 24 hours in advance on the Archway North Phoenix webpage. The notice will include time, location and agenda.
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GREAT-
FUL
HEARTS
Thank you from the bottom of our great-ful hearts for all the love and generosity from our ANP families toward this holiday campaign for our faculty and staff. We will be sending an update early next week to share how our efforts have come together!
While the campaign has officially ended,there is still another component taking place: the holiday luncheon! This Italian feast for the teachers will take place on December 18 and is when they will be presented with the generous monetary gifts that our community has donated for them as their holiday bonus. It's such a wonderful luncheon where they can all actually celebrate and be merry together .
To sign up for an item, please visit this this link: Thanks in advance for your help!
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INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER
Tuesday, December 10th Archway North Phoenix will be taking over the Great Hearts Instagram site! We will be posting photos and videos of our students throughout the day.
If you are on Instagram please follow Great Hearts so you can see all the fun photos and videos that will be posted.
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LOVE AND LOGIC
(Below is an excerpt taken from the LoveandLogic.com blog.)
It can be an easy thing to say: “Be thankful”.
We are often trying to get our kids to express outward gratitude. It’s the polite thing to do.
But what if genuine, heartfelt gratitude is more than just a polite duty? What if it is really good for our mental health? And what if modeling such an attitude could be incredibly beneficial to our kids’ overall mental health?
Well, it turns out that is exactly the case. Researchers are now telling us that consistent (think practice) expressions of gratitude help our brains to notice MORE things to feel thankful about. This makes sense based on what we know about the brain. We know that our brains take in massive amounts of information via our senses (too much to process) and MUST filter out lots of less-important information.
That means that when we make efforts to focus on certain things (this is why I use sticky notes), our brains will NOTICE those things more! In Love and Logic, we say that one of the things we can always control is what we notice more or pay more attention to. We may not be able to control events but we can make an effort to control our attitude toward those events (victim vs. victor).
I recently heard that researchers have zeroed in on data emphasizing the other side of this coin. When we continuously notice and complain about the things which cause us discontent, we re-wire our brains to notice more of those things. And to feel worse about them.
Does that seem oversimplified? Gratitude helps wire our brains to notice more things to feel thankful about and feel better – complaining helps wire our brains to notice more things to complain about – and feel worse.
How much of this is conveyed nonverbally? How much of this is ‘caught’ rather than ‘taught’? How impactful will it be if we are intentional about gratitude? How will affect our kids if they regularly (not just one day per year) hear/witness us intentionally noticing our many blessings and expressing sincere thankfulness for them?
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OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR NEW STUDENTS
New students not currently enrolled in ANP takes place November 13
th – December 13
th.
Please note all current 6
th grade students who plan to enroll at North Phoenix Prep for 7
th grade must submit an application during the Open Enrollment period. Please submit your application today in the Parent Portal:
https://enrollment.canopyhosting.com/
Re-enrollment for
returning Archway students will kick-off on March 2
nd.
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TEACHER NEWSLETTERS
K-A Ms. Distler & Ms. Sloane
K-B Ms. Michael & Ms. Cremeen
K-C Ms. Baines & Ms. Garcia
K-D Ms. Leahy & Ms. Huntley
1-A Ms. Bebow & Ms. Dunn
1-B Ms. Wittmann & Ms. Ray
1-C Ms. Gianforte
1-D Ms. Page & Ms. Wingo
SECOND GRADE
THIRD GRADE
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FOURTH GRADE
5-A Ms. Kwan & Ms. Moore
5-B Mr. Cain & Mr. Buckley
5-C Ms. Mueller & Mr. Mashal
5-D Mr. Milton & Mr. Jefferson
6-A Mr. Martin & Mr. Barton
6-B Ms. Brennan & Mr. Sokolis
6-C Mr. Hamilton & Mr. Messana
6-D Ms. Marrufo & Ms. Siebneck
Please note all current 6
th grade students who plan to enroll at North Phoenix Prep for 7
th grade must submit an application during the Open Enrollment period. Please submit your application today in the Parent Portal:
https://enrollment.canopyhosting.com/
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Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix|
archwaynorthphoenix.org
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14100 North 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85032
602 996 4355
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