Spanish Language Arts
Hmm what’s the author’s purpose for this week’s story? Entertain and inform!
So many stripes on shirts, on snacks!
Cat in the Hat snacks!
The Cat in the Hat’s hat is so yummy!
Drawing ourselves yawning after reading Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book!
Nice drawing!
BIg yawn!
This week we finished reading Comó esconder un pulpo y otras criaturas marinas. Our objectives were:
- use the comprehension strategies Asking Questions, Making Connections, and
Making Molillos for our bolsillos!
Summarizing during our 2nd read
- use the comprehension strategies Author’s Purpose and Fact and Opinion as we read the 3rd time
- demonstrate comprehension and understanding on the lesson test
- write a review for Hay un molillo en mi bolsillo
- we took our spelling test on Thursday
New Spelling test on March 21st :
- saxofón (saxophone)
- examen (test)
- exhibir (to exhibit)
- tórax (thorax)
- axila (axil)
- exacto (exact)
- examinar (to examine)
- relax (relax)
- exaltar (to get excited)
- axial (axial)
English Social Studies and Science
Look at those awesome hats and snacks!
What a fun week with Dr. Seuss! We did lots of seussical activities as well as regular routines.
Social studies with Ms. Marci
This week in our unit on Early American Civilizations we finished our read-alouds on the Inca civilization. We watched a video about the Inca empire and worked on making our quipu. Next week we will have our assessment and culminating activities.
Our objectives were to:
• understand that the Inca established a far-ranging Empire in the Andes Mountains of Peru and Chile many, many years ago
• recall that Machu Picchu is an Incan city
• understand that much of what we know about the Inca is because of the work of archaeologists
• identify the area in which the Incas lived
• understand that the Inca had a religion, leaders, town, and farming
Ms. Laura’s H&G group:
We started our study of The War of 1812 by examining the causes and the actual events leading up to 1812. We added to the timeline we started in our unit about The Constitution. The students worked together to prepare skits illustrating some of the problems America was having in dealing with the British and the Native Americans and what a party hosted by Dolley Madison must have been like! We then debated whether or not to declare war on Great Britain. President James Madison DID declare war at the end of class.
Science
This week we in we learned what human beings are doing to harm insects and why this matters.
Our objectives this week were to:
• explain that insects are the largest group of animals on Earth
• explain that there are many different types of insects
• identify what makes an insect a bug
• list ways in which insects can be helpful to people
• list ways in which insects can be harmful to people
Spelling:
We took our spelling test on Friday, another good one. Our spelling activity was to use our sorts to make the stripes in the Cat in the Hat hat. For handwriting we worked one the letters g, h, and reviewed a, b, and 
d. Our phonics this week was reviewing the subject and predicate in a sentence as well as using proper punctuation. In our journals we wrote about our favorite way to read a book and which Dr. Seuss book we like the most and why.
Our idiom this week: The Dr. Seuss quote “You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
Math
Mental math with cards and dice!
Adding 2 digit numbers to single digit numbers mentally!
So much green for Green Eggs and Ham Day!
This week in the red group, with Maestra Ivary, we worked with meaning of sum and mental addition. Our objectives were:
- add numbers with up to 3 digits mentally with and without regrouping
- relate sumar (sum) to the addition operation
We have also been focusing on underlining or highlighting important information within each question to help us find the answer.