K/1 Week 21 News

by | Feb 9, 2018 | In The Loop

 Literatura

This week we completed our Nuestro vecendario en acción theme with a poem. Canción del trabajo provides a look into the people in our communities. This was a nice way for the students to see the unique qualities of poetry.

Our learning objectives this week were to:

  • Clarify words or ideas they don’t understand from our oral stories.
  • Identify words that rhyme.
  • Identify words that are repeated.
  • Distinguish consonant blends.
  • Identify diphthongs and their spelling. (ai)
  • Usea sequential writing map to plan a friendly letter.
  • Write a friendly letter. Revise the letter. Send the letter.

Matemáticas

We continued working on our fact fluency.  Have a strong grasp of our sums to 10 is very important.

We have begun taking daily timed addition tests to encourage students to become speedier and more automatic in the fact fluency.  The class is very excited about this. Each kiddo receives a star on a chart each time they pass along to the next test. They have 4 minutes to complete 50 addition problems.
Here are a couple Websites that are fun, engaging, and great practice:

Here is a video of our Math & Movement for fluency.

History & Geography

This week in our Early American Civilization unit we finished reading about the Aztec civilization.  The class had fun finishing their Aztec headdress, learning about Aztec pictographs, singing a new song about the Maya, Aztec, and Inca. We also worked on our civilization chart.

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Bella's Aztec Sun Stone

Bella’s Aztec Sun Stone

Our objectives this week were:
• understand the Aztec had leaders
• understand that the Aztec established a vast empire in central Mexico many, many years ago
• identify the Aztec capital as Tenochtitlan
• recognize by name the emperor of the Aztec, Moctezuma.
• identify the area in which the Aztec lived
• recognize the significance of Hermán  Cortéz to the Aztec

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This this week in our science unit our focus has continued to be on how matter changes and mixing matter. We finished reading our class matter book and wrote up observations on our pineapple experiment.  On Friday we began a new investigation mixing water and salt and water and oil.  Students predicted what will happen to our mixtures when we return to school on Monday.
Our objectives this week were to:

• understand there are three forms of matter; solid, liquid, or gas
• understand that matter can change or be a mixture.
• explain that matter can change in different ways, some changes are  reversible and other changes are  irreversible
• measure matter and observe changes over time.

English Word Work

This week we got our new sorts for spelling on Friday.  Green group I worked on short vowels words with ending blends. Blue group reviewed “it”, “ot” and “at” word family words, Red group had “at” word family words.
Word wall words were: only, end, help, lot,
Vocabulary words were: headdress, noble, enormous, royalty, courteous, irreversible, reversible
In our journal we wrote about our matter that changes.

Specialists

Character Education: 

This week in Character Ed class, your child learned about the possibility of participating in a book drive for the children of Humacao, Puerto Rico.  Recently ravaged by Hurricane Maria, Humacao is a city on the eastern side of the island with a (formerly)  booming tourist and fishing industry and a university, among other charms. Today, many children there have still not resumed school, and library collections have been left in ruins. A contact of mine who runs the library at the university of Humacao  recently put out a request for donations of children’s books that could be distributed to the children of Humacao and outlying areas.
 We thought the children of Spanish with Sarah could help! We propose that each classroom “adopt” a USPS box (12 x 12 x 51/2)  to fill with books— both in English and Spanish for ages 6 to 14.  Each class would also need to raise the $18.90 for shipping.  Today in class we talked about ways to earn a couple of dollars, perhaps by doing some extra chores. We hope this book drive not only helps children in a place far from here, but also reinforces to our kids value of empathy and service. If your child would like to participate, s/he  can start today! We will be collecting books in each classroom tomorrow, along with postage donations. We will cease collecting on Thursday, February 15 and send the boxes to Puerto Rico.  ~ Jodie Marion