Language Arts
This week, to conclude our Teamwork theme, we read La gallinita roja/ The Little Red Hen. The kiddos did a great job joining in for the repetitive parts of the story. They sequenced and wrote about what happened in the different parts of the story.
We have been working more on editing sentences. We do this as a whole group and then the students are asked to edit their own writing. We wrote about our household chores in our journals this week. Most students wrote three sentences and did a great job!
Math
We continued our geometry unit by learning all about triangles, ovals and the rhombus. We had great conversations about these shapes and identified the sides and angles.
We also worked on subtraction using the number line. Counting backwards from a given number can sometimes be tricky but these kiddos are doing a great job!
Science
This week we worked in our garden planting Teepee posts that bean plants will grow up and create a fun outdoor place space.
We are continuing to learn ways that we can take care of the earth. We learned about the 3Rs. Reduce, reuse, and recycle. See if your kiddo can explain the 3Rs to you. Also see if you can identify ways around your house that you may be using the 3Rs. We learned to identify common recyclable materials including glass, Plastic, aluminum, cardboard, and paper. We also learned about the process of recycling materials from home to the recycling factory.
Lastly, we learned about composting and that it is a type of recycling in which discarded food scraps are put in an outdoor pile or bin and eventually become garden soil. We will soon be working on getting our very own compost been up and started here at Spanish with Sarah. We learned the sequence of what happens to a piece of discarded food from the table to the compost pile to the garden. We also identified foods that can be composted.
Art
This week in art we worked on some watercolor paintings for Mothers Day. The students learned about warm and cool colors, and how to let the watercolor paint blend together. We also had time to work on the Eric Carle caterpillar pictures. The students are doing a great job cutting out shapes from their painted paper. We’ll hopefully finish these next week!