La Lectura

We had a week full of fun with our Spirit Week, Pumpkin Fun Run and “Día del niño” (Children’s Day). The children were very happy and enthusiastic and took this opportunity to encourage them to talk about their clothes throughout spirit week.  They told their experiences on how they chose their hats and socks and why they liked them.  They also commented about their favorite Disney movie. The little ones had fun times and they also had the chance to use part of their growing Spanish vocabulary to share with the class.

The students learned new letters: g, ch, n, v, practicing the stroke and sounds of those letters. The words of the week were: es (is) son (are). The children contributed ideas to make sentences using those words and then wrote them in their notebooks.

We had an activity where two teams were formed. I called out one of the words of the week and they got the chance to find the word on the big paper lying down on the floor. Once they found the word they made a circle around it. The first children to find the written word correctly received a sticker or stamp. This exercise makes the link from a spoken word and its written representation, a great exercise to learn the words of the week.

 

We continued reading Annabell Swift Parvula book and using some words and concepts related to the book. We introduced students to words that rhyme and learned more vocabulary in Spanish. It’s great to introduce the use of rhyming words as a way to build vocabulary. Rhyming words are an enjoyable way for kindergartners to learn words, as well as pay more attention on how they sound, this exercise gives them a rest on spelling or reading. Example:

 

Pizarrón (Whiteboard) – Canción (song)

Limón (lemon)- Crayón (crayon)

Casa (house)- Masa(Mass)

 

The craft of the week was to make an autumn wreath formed with leaves for capital and lower letters, where the children had to match the letter that corresponds.

Las matemáticas

We continued working with the numbers of  25 to 28, quantities, strokes, odd and even, and we  practiced counting one by one until one hundred. This week we started to practice counting in multiples 5, and 10. We practiced numbers and sums with dominoes, using their hands, tallies and lego blocks in order to continue practicing to introduce them to the sums.

Science

History & Geography

This week in our unit: The First Inhabitants of North America, we read about the plains Native American tribe, the Sioux.  The class worked on a chart identifying shelter, food, clothing, and regional characteristics of the Sioux, and then compared these to that of their own equivalent.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that Native Americans were the first inhabitants of North America
• explain that there are many tribes of Native American
• Identify some unique characteristics of the Sioux.
• understand that the buffalo was a sacred animal to the Sioux

 

English Sight Words of the Week

white, that, this