Language Arts
This week in language arts we finished our book reports on Amelia Bedelia. The kiddos wrote two more drafts to help them revise their writing and were able to edit each other’s papers. We also read a story about predicting the weather. We learned different signs that can help us to see what the weather will be. The kiddos practiced their comprehension skills of summarizing what they’ve read and also making connections about what they’ve read to help them better understand the story.
Phonics:
The kiddos had fun having more diphthong smoothies this week. They learned the sound for the diphthong ou as in the word gourmet and the diphthong uo as in the word cuota. ask your kiddo to show you how we make diphthong smoothies!
We were discussing the word peinar to comb, so the girls messed up their hair.
Math
In math this week we finished our unit on telling time. The kiddos learned to tell time to the hour for example, 10:00 would be las 10 en punto and 10:30 would be las 10 y media. We also discussed what time of the day we eat breakfast or begin school and what time of the day the might eat dinner or go to bed.
We also practiced finding different days of the week and reviewing the seasons of the year and days in a month on different calendars. For example, one of the things I asked them was what the date of the 2nd Tuesday of the month was? I also asked them to figure out the day of the week that the last day of the previous month fell on and then they had to write out the entire date. It was a little tricky.
Thank you to all for making this such a great teacher appreciation week! It’s so great to be part of the lives of such wonderful children!
History & Geography
This week we read about important symbols that represent the United States (ie: the flag, the Liberty Bell, and the bald eagle.) On Thursday the class read a book about important symbols in United States and then went on a scavenger hunt seeing if they could find any of these symbols around the neighborhood. We also began our domain review this week. We did riddles of the core content to help understand what we’ve learned in this unit , we also reviewed our time line, and other image cards that we have looked at along the way. On Friday we made a class book called The Birth of a Nation. We included key events and people that we have learned about during this unit. Next week we will take our domain assessment.
Science
We had fun reading a trade book about volcanoes on Monday, lots of questions and comments about Volcanoes. On Tuesday we took a break from science and focused on our minds we had a wonderful Mother’s Day tea. Thank you to all the moms taking for taking the time out and letting us let you know how special you are. We hope you enjoyed the manicures and massages as well as spending this special time with your child. On Thursday the class had fun doing a volcano model with the volcanoes they made in class. On Friday we reviewed what we’ve learned so far in this unit and finished up with some activities. Next week we will start our lesson on minerals.
English Spelling
We continued to work on our sorts this week. The class did activities involving the vowel patterns , alphabetizing, drawing pictures, and writing sentences. They did wonderful on their spelling test on Friday. For grammar we did some editing worksheets on capitalization and punctuation, focusing on ordering events in a paragraph. Our Journal writing this week was all about Mom. Students wrote stories about Mom, they wrote what makes a good mom , and wrote words that describe their mom or a poem about mom.
Art
First of all, thank you everyone for all the Teacher Appreciation gifts and treats! All the goodies were delicious and the coffee wonderful. Thank you for the sweet notes and gifts from your students. It was a very special day!
In first grade art we read the book “Cuckoo” by Lois Ehlert, which is based on a Mexican folk story. The students used patterns to cut out shapes from poster board, and then used brass fasteners to attach the pieces to create a moveable cuckoo bird. They did such a nice job following directions that they finished in 45 minutes. The students can use this same technique to create their own moveable animal art using card stock, a hole puncher, and fasteners