Literatura
This week we completed our de un lugar a otro language arts unit. The kiddos had fun with their trucks/camiones on Friday to go along with our last story of the unit: Camiones. We had fun talking about how these different trucks have different jobs. We also used these trucks for size comparison, an art project, and finally for our weekly journal writing!
Our learning objectives this week were to:
- use the letter G in our dictation (we usually do this on individual white boards but decided to do them on paper this week so the students could take them home for you to see).
- make lists of items connected to one specific theme
- make a list of items by size
- identify the singular and plural of nouns
Using our math boxes, dice, and little ‘crocodiles’ to compare groups and say our full sentences.
Matemáticas
This week we had such a great time with all our place value activities and our greater than/ mayor que and less than / menos que comparisons. We used our greedy crocodile to eat all the greater numbers and played several games. The students were VERY good at using these mathematical comparisons in complete sentences while playing partner games.
Introducing our ‘cocodrilo’ who likes to eat all those big numbers.
Our objectives were to:
- compare numbers using mayor que and menos que.
- reinforce our place value knowledge
- add multi-digit numbers using our place-value knowledge
- practice our formation of 10 and apply this to our place value practice
History & Geography
This week in our Early American Civilization unit we continued to read about the Mayan people. The class is enjoying the narrative that goes along with this section. Maria brought in a Mayan artifact replica that she shared with the class on Thursday. This week we worked on our civilization chart to better understand what characteristics make up a civilization.
Our objectives this week were to:
• locate the areas that the Mayan lived in
• understand but the Maya developed large cities or population centers in the rainforest of Mexico and Central America many, many years ago
• understand the importance of extended family to the Maya
• understand that the Maya had leaders
Science
This this week in our science unit on matter we talked continued to talk about liquid and began to take a look at gas. The students did an investigation on measuring liquid by volume and mass. Friday.
Our objectives this week were to:
• understand there are three forms of matter; solid, liquid, or gas
• identify characteristics of matter
• identified that liquid matter can be measured by mass and by volume
• estimate and measure liquids
• identify different examples of gases
• identify that gas occupies space
• observe various gases
English Word Work
This week we got our new sorts for spelling. Green group is working on words with initial diagraphs and a,e,i short vowel sounds , blue group has blends gr, gl, bl, br, and the red group is working on h, f, t, c beginning consonants. Our word wall words this week: began, back, ever, every. Our vocabulary words for the week were: temple, plain, liquid, volume. In our journals we wrote about the properties of liquid using descriptive words.