Kindergarten Week 8

by | Oct 24, 2015 | In The Loop

Language Arts 

We completed our Sombras unit this week with a fantasy story: Nada se pega como una sombra.  Here is a brief highlight of things we worked on this week:

  • word length
  • Punctuation marks
  • Capital letters
  • Comprehension: monitoring and clarifying meaning during reading, making connections
  • Vocabulary: classification or different kinds of words
  • Writing: telling how many laps were run in the Pumpkin Fun Run and comparing with classmates.
  • ABC order

We worked with the letters: Z (which makes an /s/ sound in Spanish), R, H, J (the letter H is silent in Spanish while the letter J makes the /h/ sound.)

Our high-frequency words this week were: Si, no, hay (there is / there are), veo (I see). The students have been working with these words on a daily basis, completing a worksheet for practice, using them in oral sentences, reading them on our word wall, and reading them in our word pathway.

Math

We had fun comparing numbers, working on number identification, counting on, and forming groups of 5 and groups of 10.20151020_111108 (1) We completed a few activities in our interactive math journals where students showed how many were missing to form 5 and 10. These activities are great for counting on but also for cutting, glueing (yes, this is a BIG skill), keeping track of small pieces, planning and organization of pieces in their layout.

IMG_7567Social Studies & Science

This week we continued our unit on Native Americans.  We are learning about the Sioux tribe.  We have learned where the Sioux lived, and the importance of buffalo to the tribe.  See if your child can tell you several things the Sioux made from buffalo (clothing, moccasins, meat, shelter etc.).  We learned about the training young boys would go through to become a Sioux warrior that would hunt the buffalo.  We learned that the Sioux were nomadic tribe moving from a summer camp to a winter camp each year.

Music

Our new percussion instruments from Cuba were the focus of this week’s lesson. We also listened to some Cuban music and saw how the sounds could be reproduced on these instruments. The class especially enjoyed figuring out what the instruments were made of and how hollow spaces relate to how much sound a given instrument makes.

Art

The kindergarteners learned how to draw an owl this week. We went through the lesson step by step, and they did an excellent job following directions! They used basic shapes (circles, triangles) and letter shapes (U for the body, W for the feet) to draw their owls using oil pastels. We put all the owls on the whiteboard and enjoyed seeing the individual creativity of each student.