La Lectura

This week we continued working on our unit Vamos a leer! Our objectives were:

• Las hormiguitas: identifying letters and asking questions while reading
• La abejita chiquitita: onomatopeias and identifying letters
• La hormiguita y el ratón Pérez: identifying letters and writing autobiographies
• Canción del bichito de luz: capital letters and poems

Las matemáticas

This week we began our first unit Numbers to 10. Our objectives were:

• review prior knowledge that will help us this chapter
• use tens frames to count to 10 and identify numbers
• use connecting cubes to count to 10 and identify numbers
• use tens frames to compare numbers

Science

This week in our Astronomy domain we focused on the relationship of the earth to the sun and stars and constellations.  The class got to do demonstrations on how the Earth rotates on its axis and orbits the Sun.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  identify the Earth’s rotation, or spin, as the reason for day and night
• explain sunrise and sunset
• understand that the Earth orbits the Sun
• classify the Sun as a star
• understand that stars appear small in the sky even though they are very large
• describe stars as hot, distant, and made of gas
• identify the Big Dipper and the North Star
• understand that people sometimes tell stories about the moon and the stars
• explain what a constellation is
• understand that astronomers use telescopes to study the moon and stars

History & Geography

This week we finished off our landform unit by creating an edible landform map of Washington State.  We Began our next unit on Early World Civilizations, our first focus being Mesopotamia.  On Thursday the class had fun creating cuneiform in clay tablets.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  identify major landforms of Washington State.
• locate the area known as Mesopotamia on a map and identify it as part of Asia
• explain the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the use of canals, to support farming
• describe the city of Babylon
• describe cuneiform as the way of writing in Mesopotamia
• explain the importance of writing to civilizations

• identify the Code of Hammurabi

English Sight Words of the Week

 about, after, be, been, big, boy, but, by

 

Character Education

This month in Character Education we are focusing on Kindness. We have done a few hands-on lessons with cotton balls, sandpaper, a tub of water with rocks/leaves/feathers/pinecones. Our objectives for the lessons were:

• What makes a good friend?
• Words, tone, and facial expressions can affect our message to our friends.
• Cotton ball words/tone/facial expressions are received as kind. (Please, Thank you, May I help you? Good job!)
• Sand paper words/tone/facial expression are not kind.
• Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson – to show how each small act of kindness has a ripple effect.
• Compliment circles- practice giving and receiving compliments (say thank you!)