La lectura

This week we began our new unit: persevera / Perseverance. During this unit we will be reading and learning about how to stick with something and how to see something through to accomplish a goal. This is called perseverance. Some of the characters in this theme will accomplish their goals by trying something over and over again in the same way. Other characters will try several different ways to reach their goals.

It was so nice to see the kiddos demonstrate their own perseverance by trying to count to 100 in different ways, and when they weren’t successful they listened carefully to their classmates and tried again.

We had many chats about them displaying perseverance in their learning.

 

Las matemáticas

We practiced our mathematics skills throughout the week but wanted to share our Valentine math fun!

 

History & Geography

This week we took our President’s unit assessment and started our next unit on Colonial towns and townspeople. In this unit we’ll be learning more about the early history of our country. Students will be comparing their daily lives to that of the daily lives of people who lived in this country over a hundred fifty years ago. Our first lesson was on the country family.
On Thursday we had fun doing Valentine activities, learning some Valentine songs, and putting  our Valentines in each others’ wonderful robot boxes.  Thanks Candace for volunteering to help out during these activities!

Our weekly objectives were to:

• identify the key characteristics and differences between “towns” and “the country” or “countryside” during the colonial period of American history
• identify reasons why people who lived in the country travel to town
• understand that long ago, during the colonial period, families who lived on farms in the country were largely self-sufficient, and that all family members had many daily responsibilities and chores
• list similarities and differences between modern family life and colonial family life

Science

Lots of Assessments this week and the kiddos were real troopers about it! On Tuesday we took our assessment on Seasons and The Weather. Everyone did very well. On Wednesday we began our next unit on taking care of the Earth. We talked about how amazing our Earth is and why it’s important that we take care of it. On Friday we made Earth hats in order to remind us that we have a special job of caring for our planet.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• Understand that Earth is composed of land, water, and air
• Identify examples of land, water, and air from our environments
• Understand that humans, plants, and animals depend on Earth’s land, water, and air to live
• Understand why people have a special responsibility to take care of the Earth