La lectura y Las matemáticas
We are having a blast with our hands-on measurement activities. The students also continue to work on their number identification and counting skills. They are starting to see the patterns to count by 2’s!
They also are working on their estimation skills! Avi will bring in the estimation jar for next week.
They are becoming more and more confident in their Spanish sentences with the word of the day. They are doing a great job dictating to themselves and are becoming more confident in their journal writing.
Students should be reading their books every day to help with their fluency!
History & Geography
This week in Colonial trades people, we learned about the blacksmiths. We read a story, called “The Little Gray Pony”, that illustrated how trades were sometimes dependent on one another. In Daily Geography we worked on relative and absolute location.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• describe the blacksmith’s trade
• identify, and associate with the blacksmith trade, the tools and material used.
• retell the story using literary language (plot, setting, etc.) and temporal vocabulary (first, next, finally).
• use and recognize location vocabulary, answer questions about locations.
Science
This week in our Taking Care of the Earth domain we continued to learn about pollution. We read about air and water pollution. We finished our polluted water experiment on Thursday.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• understand that air pollution from one location can make even the air that it’s far away in other places around the world dirty
• explain that a water treatment plant can remove unhealthy chemicals and pollutants from water to make it usable again