La Lectura

This week we began our unit Los animales. Our objectives were:

• discuss the differences between our new unit and our old unit (nonfiction vs. fiction)
• practice blending with m (ma, me, mi, mo, mu)
• use the reading skill asking questions during our first read of Los mapaches
• use the comprehension skill compare and contrast during our second read of Los mapaches

Las matemáticas

This week worked with adding numbers up to 10. Our objectives were:

• use the skill counting-on to add
• understand the commutative property of addition with number bonds
• practice saying addition sentences in Spanish

Science

This week in our Astronomy domain we continued to read about the history of space exploration and astronauts and began learning about the planets.  Our trip to OMSI was a great way to learn interactively about our solar system and all kinds of other science topics.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  understand that astronauts travel to outer space
• state that the moon orbits the earth
• explain that our solar system includes the sun and the planets that orbit around it
• indicate that there are eight planets  (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune)

History & Geography

This week in our Ancient Egyptian studies we learned about gods and goddesses and pyramids.  On Friday the class had fun building pyramids with tooth picks and marshmallows.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  locate Egypt on a world map or globe, and identify it as part of Africa
• explain the significance of gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt
• locate Egypt on a world map or globe and identify it as a part of Africa
• identify pyramids
• explain the significance of pyramids in ancient Egypt
• describe how the pyramids were built

English Sight Words of the Week

girl, give, good, him, how, here 

Character Education

Our focus during the month of October is Teamwork and Cooperation.  We brainstormed teamwork and what that means to us.  We then talked about how cooperation (talking about and agreeing on methods) helps us to work better as a team.  We will be highlighting how important communication is when we are working with others.  Agreeing on rules and methods helps everyone!  We did a few team building activities that involved cooperation!  (The kiddos had already modeled great cooperation by working together to put away the heavy block bin at the beginning of class.)

Right now we are still working together to point out acts of kindness we see others doing.  Kiddos tie a ribbon on our school Kindness Wreath each time they see someone doing something kind.