La lectura

This week we began our new language arts unit, Las sombras / the shadows.  We read very detailed stories about how shadows are formed.  Please send a labeled flashlight in with your child on Monday, which is also PJ day, so we can create out own shadows and effects in the classroom.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• recognize the difference between words and sentences
• correctly form upper and lowercase letters: Ff, Gg, Hh, Jj
• identify different types of sentences
• identify and use high frequency words in sentences and during reading: niño, niñas,

 

Las matemáticas

This week we continued working on our number recognition, subtilizing (knowing the number of dice or objects immediately), counting, and forming groups of a given number.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Count to the number of the day (the week ended on the 24th day of school)
• show the number that came before and the number that came after the number of the day (this was a new addition for some of our students in our daily morning binders)
• introduction to the number line and how to find the number that comes before and after a given number
• identify which number is greater than (el nùmero 5 es mayor que 2).

 

  History & Geography

This week we we finished up nursery rhymes and are now focusing on fables. We read The Lion and the Mouse, The Dog and His Reflection, and The Hare and The Tortoise. The class watched a short video of The Hare and The Tortoise.

Our objectives this week were:
• listen to and understand the fables and rhymes we have heard.
• describe the main characters
• retell the events
• identify repeating lines and rhyming words
• recite the nursery rhymes that we have learned
• understand that fables often  have animal characters that act like people
• understand that fables teach a lesson that is stated as the moral
• identify the moral of the fable

Science

This week we in our science domain we learned about all kinds of crops on the farm. The students named their favorite foods that come from farms.  We talked about what parts of plants fruits,  vegetables, grain, and nuts can come from. We also read revisited the story The Little Red Hen and practiced acting it out.

Our objectives were to:
• describe the farmers job
• explain why farmers grow crops
• identify crops as plants grown on farms for use as food
• describe how some food comes from farms as crops
• identify wheat as a crop grown on farms for uses food
• identify bread as a product from wheat

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals the class used some of their Word Wall words to write a sentence about the farm. We learned the color song “Orange”.  Our word wall words this week were: he, and, one, on, orange.  This week we began our spelling program. The green group is working on picture sorting fruit and not fruit and the blue group is working on “at” family words.

Specialists:

The K-1 class has been busy learning about line and shape. After learning how to draw different types of line, the students used lines to draw and paint a Fall Landscape. The students also learned how to cut out basic shapes to create some fun Scarecrow Pictures. They are doing a great job learning how to follow directions in the art room!

For October, we are planning to make some Robot projects, with help from Aries’ and Acelin’s dad, Fernando. The students will also practice mixing primary colors to create secondary colors for a Pumpkin Picture, and we’ll hopefully have time for an Owl Drawing.