La lectura

We completed our Teamwork unit with a final poem, the completion of our class mural, and several activities where students needed to come to an agreement.

Las matemáticas

This week we jumped into word problems with our addition problems.  Our kindergarten objectives are to:

• Count on
• Add using number trains
• Count on using fingers
• Composing numbers to 20 with five frames and ten-frames
• Decomposing number to 20 with five frames and ten-frames
• Count on using a number line
• Count on to find the difference
• Combine two sets to find how many more for sums through 15

History & Geography

This week in our Kings and Queens unit we read a two part story of Cinderella and the book King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub.  The class worked on their vocabulary books and wrote in their journals about the stories.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  describe the characters, settings, and plots in the stories
• discuss the lesson in Cinderella that goodness prevails and is rewarded

Science

This week we read the story of the gigantic turnip. The students had fun acting out the story and sequencing important parts of the story.  We examined our see through planters and took them home.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that turnip seeds are the beginning of nutrient plants
• explain that turnips grow when they have water and light, and can grow to be different sizes
• identify the root of a turnip, and understand the turnip’s roots and leaves are eaten by people