This week we continued working with the unit “”Let’s go Camping”. The kids are having a
great time learning the new vocabulary and reviewing the vocabulary they learned earlier.
We also made projects such as lanterns, fireflies with a water color and printing their little
fingers simulating a firefly. We also made a compass where the kids decorated it and
worked their fine motor skills by waving a strip of yarn. We read the book “Vamonos a Acampar”,
the kids were very entertained while I was reading the book, learning words such as:
avergonzado-embarrased, encantado-enchanted, enorm-huge, feroz-fierce, susurrar-whisper. It is
amazing to see how kids are learning.
Review vocabulary:
Tienda-tent,
Saco-sleeping bag,
Lena-firewood,
Fogata-campfire,
Oso-bear,
Ardilla-squirrel,
Pino-pine tree.
New vocabulary:
Mochila-backpack,
Linterna-flashlight,
Brujula-compass.
Letra: Y
Numero:16
Color: blanco
Figura: pentagono
This week reviewed our unit on The United States Constitution. We had fun doing a mock legislative session for our end of the unit celebration. We may have some politicians on our hands! We prepared for the upcoming field trip by researching some of our stateś symbols and our state and local leaders. Below is some information on our upcoming field trip.
Dear Families,
I am so excited for our upcoming field, this coming Monday! I wanted to firm up our field trip schedule and details.
8:45-We will meet in our classroom to go over last minute questions and use the restrooms prior to our departure.
9:00-Depart with assigned drivers/chaperones/students.
11:00-Arrive at the Capitol, meet on the first floor of the Legislative (Capitol) building with our lunches in the deli. We will eat, use the restroom and be ready for our tour/scavenger hunt by noon.
Red Group 1
Tour 12-1 (meet by the front doors to the Capitol building), Scavenger Hunt 1-2
Jennie, Beth, Kate, Luke, Naomi, Marisol, Ben
Katie, Jill, Natalie, Ramon, (Eli)
Michael, Eli, Lucas
Green Group 2
Scavenger Hunt 12-1, Tour 1-2 (meet by the front doors to the Capitol building)
Stephani, Tiffany, Adi, (Lucas), Pierce
Betsy Laura, Emilie, Mariela, Miria
Robert, Alora, Dean
2:00- Depart the State Capitol (unless you decide to stay longer)
4:00- Return to the school
A few important notes:
*Please bring a lunch that is completely disposable, including water so we will not need to return to our cars to return our lunch bags or carry them around during our tour.
*Please wear your Spanish With Sarah garb.
*I wrote to Governor Insleeś office to see if we could meet him personally. While they were unable to set an appointment, they did say to go by his office to see if he might be available. Please do so during your scavenger hunt time. We might get lucky!
*Governor Inslee will be signing bills which is open to the public. This will take place between 3:30 and 5:30. This will be decided on a chaperone by chaperone basis if they will choose to stay for this. The bills being signed will be posted on Friday, May 10th.
See you Monday Morning!
Ms. Jill
Mathematics w/Laura
Chapter 14 Symmetry – It’s everywhere!
Rotational Symmetry
Exploration: Most crossword puzzles have rotational symmetry!!
Puzzles available for extra credit and Friday (Math) Bingo
Remember: MATH …. It’s everywhere
La lectura
We finished our LA story: La doctora nueva. Students did a great job summarizing the story and writing their summaries.
We’ve really been focusing on how to answer in complete sentence by picking apart questions and our answers. This will continue to be a daily practice.
Students also received a new spelling list on Friday. They will have a test next Friday, May 17th. (Dean´s birthday, sorry Dean!)
Ciencias
This week we read all about the different water environments. The students learned to take VERY good notes! They started by just drawing pictures of the different environments but then, when asked which notebook they would like to use during a test….., they quickly caught on and began including all the vital information in their notes too. This was such a great lesson and one that will serve them well in the future!
We also had Mr. Russ come in to help us transplant our pea seedlings and give us a lesson on our irrigation system and the drip method we use.
Essential question: How does technology lead to discoveries?
Buscador de planetas
This week we continued with our informational texts studies. We had such an insightful time discussing and analyzing the concepts presented in the texts: Detectives de luz and Buscador de planetas. Students had a chance to worked on their expository writing pieces, conference with peers and submit final drafts. We have schedules presentations for next Tuesday 14th (Jack, Tamra, Rafa, Evan) and Thursday 16th at 2:30 (Lily, Maddie, Sophia, Juliette, Sophie, Christian). Families are welcome to attend presentations!
Our class has been working on a very special project!
Objectives:
Cite evidence from the text
Determine the structure of the text: establish the sequence of the text to better comprehend the information presented.
Using evidence from the text, explain main ideas and supporting details to better comprehend the text (paraphrase)
Provide meaningful examples and explain how ideas are connected to the topic at hand.
Ciencias
This week students took home a rubric with the requirements for our independent science end of the year project. Please help your child narrow down the area of studies they would like to do their research on. A suggestion was to pick an area of interest seen at our Omsi camp.
Mathematics
This week we began our new chapter Surface Area and Volume. We learned about:
Identify the nets of a prism and a pyramid
Identify the solid formed by a given net
Find the surface area of a prism and a pyramid
History & Geography
This week we learned about the Industrial Revolution.
We read our last chapter of The Industrial Revolution called In our Time
We learned how the time we live in now is called the Information Age, and all the new things we have that they did not back then
On Tuesday and Thursday we did Jeopardy to study for our test, then we took the test.
On Friday we started Independence of Latin America: Revolutions in America.
(Written by: Maddie)
English Writing & Spelling
We finished CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling).
We worked on our informative writing and we checked it with multiple partners
We added some transition words, and a variety of sentences
This week in our unit on the Civil War the class read the book Just a Few Word, Mr. Lincoln, the story of the Gettysburg Address. On Tuesday the class performed the Harriet Tubman poem for the 3/4 class. We began work on a Civil War timeline and illustrated an event from Lincoln’s life.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand the importance of the Gettysburg Address and what led up to the president’s speech
• compare and contrast General Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
• explain the roles of Lee and Grant in the Civil War
• describe the end of the Civil War
• describe the assassination of President Lincoln
Science
This week in our Simple Machine domain we continued to learn about levers. We explored using different types of levers; which included how many dictionaries does it take to lift a student. We had fun creating catapults and flinging marshmallows. We also worked in our Simple Machine journals and watched a short video about levers.
Catapults and marshmallows!
Our weekly objectives were to:
• label the parts of a lever
• explain how a lever operates
• explain how moving the fulcrum of a lever can change the effort needed to lift a load
• record results of the movement on a lever and fulcrum
English Spelling and Writing
In our journals we used the idiom of the week ” He is green with envy” . The class got their new sorts and took their practice spelling test on Friday . Our Word Wall words were: what, who, where, why
Green sort words for next week
Blue sort words for next week
La lectura
This week we read Molly la valiente y yo. Our objectives were:
read the first half of the story focusing on the comprehension strategy making connections and predictions
read the second half of the story and review the comprehension skill point of view
practice reading words with the letter b
review synonyms
review capital in proper nouns with the French Fry Game!
Las matemáticas
This week we finished our chapter on Shapes and Patterns. Our objectives were:
identifying three types of patterns (color, type, and turns) with 2D and 3D shapes
This week we started our new language arts unit: En la mar / In the Sea. We have a new calendar pattern to help us learn some vocabulary.
Our first book was about a fish who on his first day of school and how he did´t feel like he fit in. He finally got to the right class and was very content! Each student in class then created their own fish, what they would look like as a fish. We´ve started a new mural and added these fish to it.
Our high-frequency words this week were:
como – I eat or like/such as
por – for/through
The students are doing a GREAT job forming complex sentences and went to the treasure box twice this week! They will easily get to their 2,000 tallies next week and earn their next pinata.
Las matemáticas
We continued working on our addition and subtraction stories. Students are using number lines, fingers, and counting on as strategies.
Students did a great estimation activity this week where they estimate the number of gears on a page and then cross them off while counting them They then compared their two answers.
We also play a fun addition game on Friday where students worked with a partner and added two dice to cross off numbers on their page. They are really getting quick with their number facts!
History & Geography
This week in our Kings and Queens unit we read a two part story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The class finished their work on their vocabulary books and wrote in their journals about what they thought was the most important part of Snow White.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• describe and identify the characters, settings, and plots in the stories
• discuss the lesson in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that shows that goodness prevails and is rewarded
• compare and contrast stories that we have read, including themes and characters
Science
This week we began to learn about bees and their important roles in the life cycle of plants. The class had fun seeing some of the tools that bee keepers use, touching a honey comb, and tasting some honey. We also did a planting experiment investigating what plants need.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• describe what plants need to live and grow: food, water, air, and sunlight
• identify the petals on a flower
• describe how bees collect nectar and pollen
• understand how bees make and use honey
• describe the important role bees play in plant pollination
This week we continued working with our unit “Let’s go Camping.” The children had a great week learning our new vocabulary and creating different crafts. The children have done a great job learning new vocabulary and different activities. This week the children learned that when people go camping they can find beautiful landscapes; pine trees, rivers and lakes. Also, people can find different types of animals such as squirrels, rabbits, and birds.
We read a very funny book where the kids used their imagination and discovered how it would be for different animals to camp, such as fish, crocodiles, bears, pigs, giraffes, and monkeys, etc. It was fun! After reading, the kids made crafts like, bears with watercolors, manipulating the paint with a fork, they also colored and decorated some cute squirrels and pines with silk paper.
This week we continued with our focused question: How do people benefit from innovations? We started reading an expository piece titled Antes de Colon: Las Americas en 1491 by Charles C.Mann. We will finish this piece next week. Students also had a chance to continue to work on their expository writing pieces. Most of them completed step 5 and had an opportunity to conference with peers to receive constructive feedback. We will be ready to continue to work on steps 5 and 6 next week. The grammar focus this week was adjectives.
Ciencias
OMSI Science Camp!
History
This week we learned about the Industrial Revolution.
We learned about the luddites that were against factories
We learned about Robert Owen and socialism
We read about a new economic order.
We read about a man named Karl Marx and communism
(Written by: Christian)
Math
This week we learned about:
We learned how to find the area of composite figures
We also are preparing for our chapter 10 unit test
(Written by: Juliette)
English Language Arts
We finished D.A.R.E. to revise.
We added “Rockin’ Beginnings” and “Jammin’ conclusions”.
We added transition words, variety of sentences, and titles too.
Define the terms federal system, and checks and balances.
Explain the Great Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the compromise on the slave trade.
Understand other important provisions of the Constitution: how it could be amended, how it was to be ratified, and whether it would supersede the states’ constitutions.
Describe the concluding sessions of the Constitutional Convention.
Recognise and appreciate the Preamble to the Constitution.
Explain the Anti-Federalist position.
Summarize the ratification process.
Explain the basic rights included in the Bill of Rights.
Understand that the Constitution has lasted because it set up a limited, flexible framework for government.
State the four guiding principles of the Constitution: government power comes from the consent of the governed; limited government; separation of powers; federalism.
Puzzles available for extra credit and Friday (Math) Bingo
Remember: MATH …. It’s everywhere!
La lectura
This week we read a realistic fiction piece from our Mystery of Medicine unit. We read ¨La doctora nueva¨. This story takes place in a small village in New Mexico, where the opening of a modern medial clinic threatens to replace the local curandera/healer. When a villager demands the curandera´s help during an emergency, a confrontation between the two medical women follows.
Students did a great job asking and answering questions throughout the story and then summarizing.
Ciencias
Hopscotch (cement!) completion!
Students monitored growth of their plants at five, nine, and 13 days after planting. They determined the salt tolerance of their four plants.
When not making plant growth observations students selected a topic from their study of environments to investigate in greater depth. The results of their project will be shared with the rest of the class in a formal presentation.
We had our Westward Expansion celebration on Monday. The class enjoyed a special treat of Johnny cakes and beans with pork. Each student shared what they were bringing on the Oregon Trail and we made a class Wagon Train to go on the journey. We began our next unit on the Civil War. The class is working on reading the book Journey North about Harriet Tubman’s experiences, they also learned a poem about Harriet Tubman.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that discriminates between Northern and Southern states over slavery.
• recognize two enemies of slavery: colo Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman
• identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Underground Railroad.
• understand what Southerners wanted
• recognize Abraham Lincoln, his background, and his feelings about slavery.
• identify the beginning of early battles of the Civil War
Science
This week in our Simple Machine domain we finished up our lessons on screws and began to learn about levers. We continued to explore using screws and screw drivers on wood and did a lever exercise on Friday. We worked in our Simple Machine journals and watched a short video about levers and screws.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• the student will identify that a screw is an inclined plane that curves around a shaft or pole
• label the parts of a lever
• explain how a lever operates
English Spelling and Writing
In our journals we used the idiom of the week “I’m feeling under the weather” . The class worked on one spelling assignments and took their final spelling test on Friday . Our Word Wall words were: wanted, when, with, won
La lectura
This week we read Huellas de Monstruos
Our weekly objectives were to:
Review comprehension skills especially making connections
Create a list of rhyming words
Begin a writing piece using at least 4 pairs of rhyming words
Next week we will begin our new unit!
Las matemáticas
This week we began works with shapes. Our weekly objectives were to:
review the 4 basic shapes (circles, rectangles, squares, triangles)
Introduce two new shapes, trapezoid and hexagon
Practice copying figures onto dot paper and grid paper
We completed our Teamwork unit with a final poem, the completion of our class mural, and several activities where students needed to come to an agreement.
Las matemáticas
This week we jumped into word problems with our addition problems. Our kindergarten objectives are to:
Count on
Add using number trains
Count on using fingers
Composing numbers to 20 with five frames and ten-frames
Decomposing number to 20 with five frames and ten-frames
Count on using a number line
Count on to find the difference
Combine two sets to find how many more for sums through 15
History & Geography
This week in our Kings and Queens unit we read a two part story of Cinderella and the book King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub. The class worked on their vocabulary books and wrote in their journals about the stories.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• describe the characters, settings, and plots in the stories
• discuss the lesson in Cinderella that goodness prevails and is rewarded
Science
This week we read the story of the gigantic turnip. The students had fun acting out the story and sequencing important parts of the story. We examined our see through planters and took them home.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that turnip seeds are the beginning of nutrient plants
• explain that turnips grow when they have water and light, and can grow to be different sizes
• identify the root of a turnip, and understand the turnip’s roots and leaves are eaten by people
Tienda-tent,
This week we started our new language arts unit: En la mar / In the Sea. We have a new calendar pattern to help us learn some vocabulary.
This week we began works with shapes. Our weekly objectives were to:
