La lectura
This week we really enjoyed reading our new story in our Perseverance theme: El nabo grande, enorme. This is a retelling of a Russian folktale. The story illustrates the value of “sticking to it” as it tells of an old man’s attempts to pull a giant turnip from the ground.
Our weekly objectives were to:
- participate in the oral repetition of the story.
- recall the sequence of events from the story.
- recognize a character’s problem and its resolution.
- write about their own 100th day wishes (Me gustaría tener 100…..)
- use the word of the day in oral sentences (They are doing a great job with these!!).
Las matemáticas
We continue to study our number identification and formation through 19. We also focused on our place value this week and counting up to 100!!!
Forming 10 in 10 different ways on 10’s frames to make special 100th day crowns.
Make 100’s necklaces using 10 beads from 10 different colors.
Working together to make …something from 100 cups.
History & Geography
This week the class had fun pretending to be colonial farmers trading at a general store. We also read about the trades of milling and baking during this time period and compared them to the same trades today. On Thursday we had a blast stepping away from our regular routine and embracing the 100th day of school. We did lots of activities, many of which carried over from the morning ones.
Our weekly objectives were to:
100th day snack
• Identify corn and wheat as the original plant products needed to make flour
• Describe the miller and baker in colonial towns
• Identify, and associate with the appropriate trade, the tools used by millers and bakers
• Explain how the trades people in colonial towns saved farming families time and effort
• Explain how the book, The Ox Cart Man, demonstrates trade in Colonial time
Science
Our focus on taking care of the Earth this week was to read and talk about conservation . The class brainstormed ways they could help conserve our natural resources and wrote about these ideas in 
their journals. On Tuesday we had some free science exploration.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that natural resources are things found in nature that are valuable and of great importance to people
• identify key natural resources and describe how people use them
• recognize the phrase “Reduce, reuse, recycle” and explain how doing these three things can help to conserve natural resources
• identify the recycling symbol and understand that recycled materials are made from items that have already been used and otherwise would have been garbage