La lectura

This week we read such a fun story: Swimmy. This is a story of cooperation and the students all did such a great job, focusing in on the story and really understanding how the fish were going to work together to solve a problem.  We had a great time with the story and enjoyed our art project.

This week we also added to our pronoun word bank: él (he), ella (she).  We’ve already covered: yo (I) and tú (you).  We did some activities to practice replacing names with pronouns.

  

Las matemáticas

We have really been working on our number bonds. Number bonds help students see that numbers can be “broken” into pieces to make computation easier (decomposing/composing). With number bonds, students recognize the relationships between numbers through a written model that shows how the numbers are related. A number bond helps student clearly visualize the Part/Whole relationship.

History & Geography

This week in our Kings and Queens unit we learned the poem “Sing a Song of Sixpence”. The class added some new poems to their Robot binder. We had fun being Kings and Queens for a day on Thursday and making some royal items. The class continued to work on their K and Q vocabulary books.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  understand that kings and queens possess gold and other treasures
• describe the behaviors that reinforce that kings and queens are royal
• recite poems from this unit

Science

On Monday we honored Earth Day by having Ellen Ives from Waste Connections come in and do a presentation for the class.  They learned a lot about garbage and recycling.  Afterschool she set up a recycling relay on the grass.  This week in our Plants domain we learned about the life cycle of plants. We continue to watch our See Through Planters, anticipating our seeds to germinate. We also did a science experiment to watch how stems carry nutrients to the rest of the plant.

 

 

Our weekly objectives were to:

• understand that plants are living things
• explain that seeds are the beginning of new plants
• understand the basic life cycle of plants

 

Specialists:

Art with Ms. Kelly

This month all the students have been working on artwork for Mother’s Day. Our inspiration has come from these books:

Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert and

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

Both of these author/illustrators use painted paper and collage to create their amazing books.

We also looked at some famous artwork by Picasso. The students had fun creating their own painted papers using temper