La lectura 

We reached 2000 tallies this week! This means your children have said over 2000 sentences in Spanish!(And that I remembered to give them tallies…) We celebrated with a piñata!

We continued with our new unit: En el mar by having a class brainstorming session.  The students thought of all the sea/beach vocabulary they already know and th

sorting and counting coins

en wrote about what they would find at the beach. Then we read a great class story. We will have the opportunity to learn many things about the sea, it’s animals, and uses during this unit.

We will plan to go through the writing process with each child writing about one of their own beach experiences.  Please send in a photo(printed) for your child to use with this writing piece. We will need these by next Monday, May 20.

Las matemáticas

We began our unit on money.  In kindergarten we are looking for students to identify coins and the dollar bill by name and value. We sorted the coins, noting how similar the nickel and quarter are.  We stacked the pennies up in groups of five to equal nickels and then counted by fives.  We stacked the nickels up in groups of two to equal dimes.  Playing and learning with money is always a favorite!  This might be a good time to have your child sort the money from their piggy bank.  The should be able to count it all within the next month!

History & Geography

This week we finished our Kings and Queens unit.  We took our assessment and then celebrated with a Royal Tea and bubbles on the lawn. The class had lots of fun.  We Began our next unit fun Stories.  We read Chicken Little and The Three Little Pigs. Everyone enjoyed acting out the stories in class. We continue to work on geography daily.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  demonstrate familiarity with the story Chicken Little and the Three Little Pigs
• understand that stories can be a kind of fiction, or a narrative that comes from a writer’s imagination
• identify the beginning middle and end of the stories
• identify the characters in the stories

Little bee keepers

Science

This week we continued to learn about bees and their important roles in the life cycle of plants.  The class compared several fruits and notes what they had in common.

Checking out some honeycomb

Pollinating flowers

Our weekly objectives were to:
• explain that seeds are the beginning of new plants
• understand that some plants produce fruit to hold seeds
• compare and contrast fruits and seeds of different plants
• recognize that people eat some fruits