Spanish Literacy
This week we dove into literary studies! Students are working on creating a lap book incorporating all elements of the fiction story La gallinita roja. Students are exploring elements such as title, setting, characters, problem, solution, sequence of the story, characters traits, determine cause and effect situations, etc…Students are felling very confident with their role on our play and will be ready to present on Tuesday, June 6th! We also continued to work on our Literacy routines. The following are the times for the plays:
10: 50 Maxx, Evelyn, Viviana, Bryce
11:10 Andres, Aleya, Henry, Maya
11:20 Evie, Ellie, Hudson, Owen
Spanish Math
This were math objectives for this week:
- Review addition concepts seen last week
- Understand simple subtraction
- Understand the minus “-” symbol
- Write symbols and numerals to write number sentences
- Represent subtraction stories with subtraction sentences (understand the vocabulary of the different scenarios presented)
- Apply the concept of “how many more”
- Compare two number sets and show the number sentence
- Work towards reaching fluency with subtraction fact to 5 (challenge: beyond 5)
English Social Studies
Inspired sharing for Taking Care of the Earth domain.
This week we finished our unit on Kings and Queens. We read the poem “If I Were King”, and also read two versions of Snow White.
Our objectives were to:
• describe the characters, settings, and plots in the stories
• recite ” If I Were King”
• discuss the lesson in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that shows that goodness prevails and is rewarded
• listen to and understand a variety of text, including fictional stories, fairy tales, historical narratives, informational text, nursery rhymes, and poems
• sequence 4 to 6 pictures illustrating events in a story
Our new sorts this week were “h”, “s”,”c” and the diagraph “sh” and “ch”. Our poem for the week was “If I Were King”.
We also worked on practicing our color songs.
practicing handwriting on the white boards
Searching for word wall words in our poem.
English Science
This week we continued our science domain on Taking Care of the Earth. We continued to discuss pollution, including water and air pollution. On Thursday we did an experiment in class to demonstrate how we contribute to air pollution.
Adding color to water for each daily pollutant we put into the air.
Even shampoo and liquid cleaners can add air pollution.
Our objectives were to:
• understand that air pollution from one location to make even the air that is far away and other places around the world dirty
• identify sources of air pollution, including cars and electricity produced by coal fired power plants
• understand the effect of air pollution on human health
• explain how to reduce air pollution by conserving natural resources
• compare and contrast freshwater, salt water, and wastewater.
• identify sources of water pollution, including factory waste and garbage
• explain that a water treatment plant can remove unhealthy chemicals and pollutants from water to make it usable again
Art
In early May the students finished their Mother’s Day art projects, and I hope you’re enjoying these wonderful Folk Art Flowers. The students worked very hard on this multi-step, mixed media project: painting the wood panel, making their own painted papers to use for the vase and flower circles, cutting out flower shapes, decorating popsicle sticks with markers for the “table,” and adding hole-punch dots. Thank you to Ms. Marci for providing the wood panels from one of her artist friends!
The kindergarteners also made some wonderful 3-dimensional butterflies. We finished reading Eric Carle’s “Very Hungry Caterpillar” and reviewed the life cycle of caterpillar to butterfly. The students learned how to use paper strips to make the body and wings of the butterfly, and then learned how to curl paper strips to make spiral designs for the butterfly wings. These colorful butterflies can be hung in a window.
Another project that all the students have been working on this month is drawing and painting their Portrait on a fence post. Since all the students enjoy looking at the fun fence portraits that were completed last year, Maestra Sarah wants to continue the portraits on the new part of the fence at SWS. This has provided a good opportunity for the students to learn about drawing facial features: shapes of eyes, the space between eyes, spaces between eyes, nose and mouth, hair texture, etc. The challenge has been fitting the figure into the 6” x 36” size of the fence post, and also painting on the rough wood surface. The students have done a great job with their unique portraits and fashion designs! A special thank you to Maddie Johnson, Ellie’s older sister, who helped out all the kindergarteners while they were painting their fence posts!
Seashells: We talked about the season of summer and looked at some paintings of children at the seashore by Mary Cassatt. We also looked at lots of seashells and noticed their beautiful shapes, colors, and patterns. The students used neon crayons to draw several seashells and then they added watercolor paint to suggest the sand and water.