5/6 Week 28

by Ivary & Paola | Apr 12, 2019 | In The Loop

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Unit 5 Discoveries- The Big Idea: How can discoveries open new possibilities?

Weekly concept/Genre: Myths | Myths

Essential question: Why do we tell myths again and again? | Why do people tell and retell myths?

Objectives:

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
• Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (eg, audience, auditory, audible).
• Consult reference materials (eg, dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.  
• Use the relationship between particular words (eg, cause / effect, part / whole, item / category) to better understand each of the words.   
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.  
• Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (eg, stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.  
• Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
• Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (eg, visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.  
• Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.  
• Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone.
• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.  

Ciencias

Students put eight letter tiles in cups to simulate the four-gene genotype of larkeys. After preparing a female larkey genotype and a male larkey genotype, they breed the pair by drawing one allele for each gene from each parent. The combination of eight random alleles is the genotype of the F 1 offspring. After breeding two F 1 offspring, one male and one female, students will decode the genotype to see what traits both offspring have. The key words for science this week were: homocigotico y heterocigotico. Ask your child to tell you about this. 

Mathematics

This week we learned about the Coordinate Plane. We learned

• How to find the lengths of line segments
• Real world problems with line segments
• Using graphing to solve real world problems

(Written by: Juliette)

History & Geography

This week we learned about the Industrial Revolution

• We learned about the cotton gin, the Spinning Jenny and the flying shuttle.
• We learned about the constant variations in population.
  • The population went down when there were wars, plagues, and poor sanitation.
  • The population went up when factories produced more food for a lower price.
• The company owners were greedy, so they kept the machinery secret.

(Written by: Evan)

English Writing & Spelling

In writing this week we

• Shared argumentative writing
• Brainstormed ideas for Informative writing
• Did research and took notes for our writing.

In Greek and Latin Roots this week we

• Did our packets and posters about -Deci, -Cent, -Non

(Written by:Tamra)

3/4 Week 28

by Sarah Segall | Apr 12, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Describe the conditions at Valley Forge.
• Describe the character of George Washington and how it affected the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
• Identify Frederick von Steuben and discuss his contribution to the Revolutionary War.
• Describe battles in the southern colonies.
• Identify George Rogers Clark and describe his role in the war in the West.
• Identify John Paul Jones and describe his role in the American Revolution.
• Identify Benedict Arnold and explain how and why he betrayed his country.
• Describe the final major battle at Yorktown.
• Explain how the Americans defeated the British.

We had fun doing a scavenger hunt answering questions about the events leading up to the Revolutionary War!  Congrats to Marisol and Kate for coming in 1st place and to all the students for their hard work!

Save the date: May 13th we will have a field trip to the Capitol building!  More info to come soon.

Mathematics w/Laura

Chapter 13 Area and Perimeter

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We finally were able to finish our cliffhanger story from before spring break!  It was amazing how much everyone remembered and were able to summarize in great detail.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• summarize a story
• answer comprehension questions in complete sentences
• write about spring break
• edit writing, looking for spelling and grammar errors
• identify words in a sentence that tell WHEN it is taking place and correctly conjugate the verb
• identify words in a sentence that tell WHO is the subject and correctly conjugate the verb

Ciencias

1/2 Week 28

by Jill & Sarah | Apr 12, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

Social Studies:
This week in our unit,  Americans Move West, we continued to work on our lap books, learned a song about the Erie Canal, and read about the Gold Rush and the Pony Express. The class got a chance to try out an old telegraph machine. We will be making a covered wagon as a class project in the next couple of weeks. Please send in a small shoe box for this project. Look for more information to come home soon.

Our  weekly objectives were to:

• recognize the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush

• identify Jedediah Smith and Levi Strauss

• understand how the Pony Express worked

• understand how telegraphs and railroads replaced the Pony Express

Science

This week in our Simple Machine domain we learned about the inclined plane and wedges. We did some demonstrations using both of these. We continued to work on our Simple Machines journals.

Our weekly objectives were to:

•  develop an understanding of quantities associated with energy movement and change

• understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world

• examine how certain tools work and are made to perform specific jobs

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week ” She laughed her head off ” .  The class got their new spelling sort and took their practice test on Friday.  Our Word Wall words were: than, then, them, thing.

Green Group sort

              Blue Group sort

La lectura

This week we began our new unit Los Fósiles. We read Los fósiles nos hablan del pasado.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• review how to spell color words
• review our reading strategies; summarize, making connections, visualizing, and asking questions, during our first read
• review the comprehension skill sequencing during our second read
• play a game to review adjectives

Las matemáticas

This week we began learning about picture graphs. Our weekly objectives were to:

• understand how to read information on a picture graph
• identify the four parts of a picture graph (title, categories, pictures, and key)
• draw our own picture graphs
• answer questions about picture graphs

Specialists:

K/1 Week 28

by Sarah Segall | Apr 12, 2019 | In The Loop

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What a busy week! We started our new unit En equipo / On a team. This unit is all about working together in groups or teams to make things easier.  Our first story in this unit was Torta de cumpleaños by Ivar Da Coll. This story was written as a skit and told how everyone combined their birthday gifts to bake an amazing cake for everyone to share.

Next week we will work on a large mural together to show how teamwork really helps get things accomplished.  Many thanks for your help cutting shapes in preparation for this project!

Many hands makes for light work.

Writing: Students wrote in their journals  several times using their words of the day.

Las matemáticas

We continued having a great time with our estimation jar. Everyone is starting to get the idea of what a reasonable estimation is.

We have begun our shape study.  We will combine this study with our language arts theme to create the class mural.

We have also begun working with subtraction on the number line.

History & Geography

This week we wrapped up Colonial trades people by making a class book with trades people paper dolls. We began our next unit on Kings and Queens, each student is working on a vocabulary book to go with the lessons.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  describe what a king or queen does
• identify and describe Royal objects associated with a king or queen
• indicate that kings and queens still exist today, but there were many more kings and queens long ago

Science

5/6 Week 27

by Ivary & Paola | Mar 29, 2019 | In The Loop

La Lectura  

• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
•  Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
• Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
• Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
• Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.

Ciencias

Specialists

Art With Ms. Kelly

Watershed Art Design for StreamTeam Earth Day competition: Students reviewed information about watersheds and their importance to our environment. All the students did a great job creating their own landscape drawings and/or paintings of a watershed. I submitted their artwork to Clark Public Utilities StreamTeam art competition which sponsors Earth Day on April 20. I’ll let you know if any of our students win a prize, and I’ll pick up the artwork after Earth Day and return it to the students. 

Art with Miss Karen: The students used oil pastel and colorful ink to make a beautiful design with their hand print and patterns.

Japanese Cherry Blossoms: The students made some lovely paintings of cherry tree blossoms in Japan, using cardboard scraps, q-tips and paint brushes. They learned about the gift of 3000 cherry trees from Japan to our nation’s capitol in 1912. These are on the bulletin board at school.

Have a wonderful spring break! 

3/4 Week 27

by Sarah Segall | Mar 29, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Understand the main events of the Second Continental Congress.
• Understand the course and outcome of the Battle of
• Hill.
• Understand the main arguments and effects of Common Sense.
• Understand and summarize the Declaration of Independence.
• Compare and contrast the British and Continental armies.
• Understand the challenges facing George Washington as commander in chief.
• Understand the roles that women and African Americans played in the war effort.
• Understand Washington´s plan for winning the war.
• Understand the battles of Trenton and Princeton and their significance.

Mathematics w/Laura

Chapter 11 Squares and Rectangles

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This week the student presented their cereal box book reports.  It looked like everyone had fun and they all did a great job!

We did a fun little writing activity on Monday where students each started to write about their weekend and then passed their paper to someone else to continue their story.  I asked them to focus on their handwriting and their noun-verb agreement.  (There’s something about knowing  their classmates will be reading your work that makes them put in the extra effort.) They all really enjoyed this round-writing activity and learned a lot!

This week we also read a realistic fiction piece about a cautious and obedient young girl who overcomes a fear to get help for her ailing sister.  Our objectives this week were to:

• identify author’s point of view
• practice subject-verb agreement
• begin writing a literature response journal

Ciencias

We held off starting our 3rd investigation as we will need to be present for daily observations.

The students continued recording their daily observations from Investigations 1 and 2.

Specialists

Art With Ms. Kelly

Watershed Art Design for StreamTeam Earth Day competition: Students in grades 3 through 6 learned about watersheds and their importance to our environment. All the students did a great job creating their own landscape drawings and/or paintings of a watershed. I submitted their artwork to Clark Public Utilities StreamTeam art competition which sponsors Earth Day on April 20. I’ll let you know if any of our students win a prize, and I’ll pick up the artwork after Earth Day and return it to the students. 

Art with Miss Karen: The students used oil pastel and colorful ink to make a beautiful design with their hand print and patterns.

Japanese Cherry Blossoms: The students made some lovely paintings of cherry tree blossoms in Japan, using cardboard scraps, q-tips and paint brushes. They learned about the gift of 3000 cherry trees from Japan to our nation’s capitol in 1912. These are on the bulletin board at school.

Have a wonderful spring break!

1/2 Week 27

by Jill & Sarah | Mar 29, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

This week we began our next unit,  Americans Move West.  We began a lap book for this unit and watched a video of the making of the Erie Canal. We have a field trip coming up on April 18 to go to the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.  Please return permission slips ASAP.  Students will need to ride with parent or an arranged driver.  There is a sign up sheet outside the classroom door for students who need a ride and for parents who have room in their car for additional students.  We will be learning more about Lewis and Clark’s journey west on this field trip. It should be lots of fun and very interesting.

Our  weekly objectives were to:

• Identify some early methods of transportation that people use to settle the West

• recognize the importance of water transportation in the settling of the West

• identify Robert Fulton’s steamboat and idea for the Erie Canal

Science

Science
This week in our Simple Machine domain we learned about inertia, force, power, energy, and what a simple machine is. We had fun exploring different kinds of machines and participating in some demonstrations. The class played Force Charades on Tuesday.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• develop an understanding of quantities associated with energy, movement, and change. • identify the force that causes the machine to work.

• explain that force is the push and pull on an object.

• explain that when work is done, if the effort increases, the distance decreases, and vice versa

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week ” Get off your high horse ” .  The class had two spelling assignments and took their final test on Friday.  Our Word Wall words were: they, they’re, their, there. Look for the Spring Break Bingo reading challenge in your child’s take home folder.  Their goal is to get a bingo on both the English and Spanish side.  Two Bingos will equal a special reward when they return from Spring Break.  This is kicking off our April reading challenge for the whole month.

La lectura

This week we finished up our animal reports.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Write speech is based on the reports we made last week.
• Decorate our reports with colors
• Complete our first ever Spanish presentations

This is also a reminder that there is a Spanish bingo side that lines up with the English side that kiddos can also complete over spring break for some extra prizes when we get back.

Las matemáticas

This week we finished up our measurement with feet and inches unit.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Compare feet and inches
• Complete real world problems using feet and inches
• So what we know on the unit test
• During breaks a lot of our kiddos tend to forget stuff that we just studied, so keeping up on Prodigy is a great way to keep kids refreshed on all those measurement skills to work so hard on the last couple weeks.

Specialists:

Art With Ms.Kelly

Dr. Seuss Week: We looked at McElligotts Pool (my favorite) and the students designed and painted their own fun imaginary fish! 

Art with Miss Karen: The students used oil pastel and colorful ink to make a design with their hand print and patterns.

First Day of Spring: The focus was using shapes of letters to draw a bird. The students started with a capital D letter and added shapes to make a bird. They also learned about using chalk pastels to add color to their pretty spring birds.

Japanese Cherry Blossoms: We reviewed some information from their study of Japan earlier this year, and learned about the gift of 3000 cherry trees from Japan to Washington D.C. in 1912. The students used cardboard scraps dipped in paint to create tree branches, and then paint for the blossoms. These beautiful pictures are on the bulletin board at school.

Have a wonderful spring break!

K/1 Week 27

by Sarah Segall | Mar 29, 2019 | In The Loop

La lectura

Reading with a partner!

This week we read a very fun book: Dragones y Tacos!  The kids LOVED it!

We practiced a lot of sentence formation, orally and in written form.  Students have progressed to writing two sentences in their writing journals.

PLEASE try to remember to have your child read to you each and every day.  Reading really is the most important thing you can do for your child’s education.  I saw some disappointed kiddos this week when they repeatedly did not pass to a new book.  Daily practice will certainly help them achieve this goal!

Las matemáticas

We completed our measurement unit this week with comparisons of height, length, and weight.  This was a really fun unit for the kiddos!  They are doing such a great job using their math skills and sentence skills!

After break we will spend some time working with addition and subtraction stories.  Please be sure to continue reading during break because this will help them be ready for math story-problems when they return!

History & Geography

This week in Colonial trades people, we learned about education for boys and girls and schools . We read a story, called “Three Merry Wives” and “Stone Soup”. Both stories reviewed trades, their material and tools . In Daily Geography we worked on location and places relative to land and water.  We have a field trip on April 16 to Fort Vancouver.  This trip will support our Colonial trades people unit.  Please return the permission slips ASAP.  Students will need to get a ride with their parent or an arranged driver.  Their is a sign up sheet outside the classroom for students who need a ride and drivers who have room for additional classmates in their car.

Our weekly objectives were to:

•  describe characteristics of colonial common schools

• describe a teacher as a townsperson responsible for educating young people

• identify, and associate with trade, the tools and material used

• act out the story using information based on literary language (plot, setting, etc.) and temporal vocabulary (first, next, finally)

• use and recognize location vocabulary, answer questions about locations

Science

Science

This week in our Taking Care of the Earth domain we finished up our lessons and did some review activities and an air pollution experiment. We took our unit assessment on Friday. We also wrote about what we can do to take care of the earth in our journals.

Our weekly objectives were to:

•  identify possible solutions for the problems of garbage, litter, pollution, and conserving natural resources discussed throughout the domain

• understand why people have a special responsibility to take care of the earth.

Specialists

Art with Ms. Kelly

Dr. Seuss Week: We read McElligotts Pool (my favorite) and the students designed and painted their own fun imaginary fish! 

Art with Miss Karen: The students used oil pastel and colorful ink to make a design with their hand print and patterns.

First Day of Spring: The focus was using shapes of letters to draw a bird. All the spring birds on the bulletin board started with a capital D!

Japanese Cherry Blossoms: The students learned how to use cardboard scraps dipped in paint to create a capital Y tree shape, and then q-tips dipped in paint for the blossoms. We learned that Japan gave 3000 cherry trees to our nation’s capitol in 1912, to honor the friendship between our country and Japan.

Have a wonderful Spring Break!