La Lectura

This week we began the reading book “Annabelle Swift, Párvula”, the story is about Annabelle’s first day at school and how her sister Lucy tried to help her with her natural fears of going to school or the first time.

In order to develop reading comprehension, students were asked to reflect on their own experience and what their feelings were on the first day of kindergarten. The children were invited to talk about their experiences, when someone may have tried to tell them what to do at school and if the advice was helpful.

We also did an activity where the children used some words and concepts related to the book, to introduce them to the use of rhyming words in order to build vocabulary and the use of various strategies to discover word meaning.

We practiced strokes and sounds of new letters, realted to the Estrellita program: n, f, b and j, also they identified those letters in Annabelle’s book.

We learned new words of the day: Me (I), Gusta (like), Los (the). They felt very motivated to think and say their ideas in Spanish to form the sentences and then wrote the ideas in their notebooks and drew a picture about it. They will start to connect the way we get ideas and how we plan a piece of writing as they are introduced to the writing process. Although students may not be able to write yet, they can begin to understand the process. They are encouraged to practice by writing words chosen on the whiteboard.

The craft of the week was a nice paper pumpkin, where the children practiced their fine motor skills.

Las matemáticas

We continued working on our knowledge of the numbers of 22-24, stroke, quantity, even or odd. We are counting one by one with the goal to reach one hundred.

We practiced with the hands, cut paper, dominoes and tallies, doing fun activities and games where children can better understand the concept of quantity and the process of starting to make sums.

Science

This week we learned about the process that crops go through from farm to market.  The class had fun looking at different foods and identifying the steps they went through to get to the store.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• describe the farmers job
• explain by Farmers grow crops
• identify crops as plants grown on farms for uses food
• describe how some food comes from farms as crops
• sequence of events of crops from farm to store ( planted, harvested, transported, packaged)

History & Geography

We began our first history and geography unit this week: The First Inhabitants of North America.  We read a Native American ABC book that shared lots of facts about different tribes, their culture, and habitats. Each student wrote in their journal about something interesting they have learned so far.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that Native Americans were the first inhabitants of North America
• explain that there are many tribes of Native Americans

English Sight Words of the Week

black, like, has, was, we, she