First/Second Grade Week 26

Language Arts

This week we read and took the test for De dónde sacó sus manchas la gallina de Guinea. We also began preparing for our next reading El camuflaje de los animales. Our objectives were:

• use the comprehension strategies Making Predictions, Asking Questions, and Making Connections as we read the story the first time
• use the comprehension skills Drawing Conclusions and Classifying and Categorizing as we read the story the second time
• use past knowledge about writing instructions to begin writing instructions for how to build your leprechaun trap.
• demonstrate comprehension and understanding of the lesson on the Lesson Test
• review what an expository text is
• review fact vs. opinion
• review this unit’s spelling patterns using our new spelling list

New Spelling List. The test will be Friday, March 31st. 

1. muy (very)         6. mientras (while)
2. del (from the)     7. piel (skin)
3. hay (there is)     8. tlapalería (hardware store)
4. rey (king)           9. verdad (truth)
5. voy (I go)          10. hexágono (hexagon)

Mathematics

This week the orange group flew through our place value unit.  Students all demonstrated their understanding of place value through 100.  We jumped right into our hundreds addition and subtraction with and without regrouping. All the students clearly remembered our regrouping within the tens place.

 

This week the red group, with Maestra Ivary, finished our unit on mental math. We worked on rounding numbers to estimate. We also took our chapter test this Friday. Our objectives were:

• use a number line to round numbers to the nearest ten
• use rounding to estimate sums and differences
• estimate to check the reasonableness of answers
• reinforce and consolidate chapter skills and concepts
• demonstrate understanding of the concepts on the chapter test

History and Geography

Social studies with Ms. Marci
This week we we began a new unit on the birth of our nation, the United States of America. During this unit students will learn how the thirteen colonies evolved slowly over time from dependence on England to an independent nation. They will be introduced to many important historical figures and events.

Our objectives were to:

• recall what you have already learned about Native Americans, Columbus, and the pilgrims
• create a class timeline that shows events about so far
• identify the early English settlements on Roanoke Island and at Jamestown as colonies that were established before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
• understand that the first Africans in the English colonies came to Jamestown as indentured servants, not slaves
• locate and label on a map the thirteen original colonies
• describe how the thirteen English colonies in America evolved from dependence on Great Britain to Independence as a nation
• describe the Boston Tea Party

 

 

Social Studies with Ms. Laura:

We reviewed our unit, The War of 1812, took a short assessment and again sang about ‘The Battle of New Orleans’.  We started our next unit, Americans Move West, by creating a time line, covering 120 years and decorated with fringe.  We discussed early ways to travel west, with waterways helping travelers and mountains causing difficulties.  We discussed the building of, and sang about, the Erie Canal.  We talked about traveling The Oregon Trail to the Pacific Ocean.

Science

This week we in we reviewed what we have learned so far in our insect domain. We read several trade books on insects and worked in our insect journals.

Our objectives this week were to:
• identify new meanings for the word bug and apply them accurately
• write one sentence using rich and complex language that includes this science domaine’s related vocabulary about beetles
• describe an insect’s exoskeleton
• write one sentence using rich and complex language that includes this science domain’s related vocabulary insects that glow and sing
• use adverbs to describe verbs that are related to the actions of grasshoppers

Spelling:

We took our spelling test on Friday. Our spelling activity this week was to write our words three times and divide them into sort header groups.

For handwriting we worked on the letters k, l, and reviewed e and i

In phonics this week we looked at regular and irregular plurals and adverbs

Idiom for the week “Don’t bury your head in the sand”