La Lectura

This week we continued to work with Vamos a leer! Our objectives were:

• La H: poems and identifying letters
• Los tres perritos: practice dictation and identifying letters
• El sapito glo, glo, glo: order words
• La gata Maroma: capital letters

We also received our first readers of the year. Remember to practice with your kiddo every night. I will read with them Mondays and Fridays to check their fluency and see who is ready to move up to the next book.

Las matemáticas

This week we finished our chapter on Numbers to 10. Our objectives were:

• compare numbers using tens frames and connecting cubes
• make patterns using connecting cubes
• demonstrate knowledge and understanding on the chapter test
• review prior knowledge needed for our next chapter Number Bonds

Science

This week in our Astronomy domain we listened to the poem Wynken, Blynken,  and Nod and learned about the moon, its phases and craters.  The students created their own moon phases picture and did an experiment to show how craters were created.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  understand that astronomers study the moon and stars using telescopes
• understand that people sometimes tell stories about the moon and stars
• Identify the four phases of the moon – new, Crescent, half, full
• state that the moon orbits the earth

History & Geography

This week we continued our study of ancient Mesopotamia.  The class made their own interpretation of a ziggurat which are on display in our classroom windows. We continue to add information to our chart about what makes a civilization.

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
• describe the significance of gods / goddesses, ziggurats, temples, and priests in Mesopotamia
• describe the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• describe the significance of leaders to the development of civilization
• identify Mesopotamia as the “cradle of civilization”
• understand that a civilization evolves and changes over time

English Sight Words of the Week

can, call, car, come, could, day, did, do

Thanks to all of you who were able to attend Curriculum Night.  It was so nice to be able to share with you the things that your kiddos will be doing in school this year!