La Lectura

This week we read El cangrejo ermitáno. Our objectives were:

• review types of sentences
• continue working on our pumpkin writing piece
• practice the comprehension skill summarizing during our first read
• use the comprehension skill making conclusions during our second read

Las matemáticas

This we week continued working with Shapes and Patterns. Our objectives were:

• review solid shapes names such as cube, sphere, cylinder, and rectangular prism
• combine plane shapes to make new shapes
• combine solid shapes to make models

Science

This week in our science domain: Animals and Habitats, we learned about the Arctic tundra.  The class wrote about different animals that live there in their journals and we played the “What Am I” game to review the animals we have learned about.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• describe what a habitat is
• understand that living things live in habitats to which they are particularly suited

Working on an Arctic book

• identify the characteristics of the Arctic tundra habitat
• explain how arctic animals have adapted to the Arctic tundra habitat

History & Geography

This week in our Three World Religions section of Early World Civilizations unit we learned alot about Judaism.  On Friday we tried some Matzoh and talked about its significance to Passover and Exodus.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• identify Judaism as a monotheistic religion
• identify the Hebrews as the ancient people who were descendants of Abraham
• understand the followers of Judaism are called Jews and that the term Jewish is used to describe practices or objects associated with Judaism
• demonstrate familiarity with important Jewish holidays such as Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Hanukkah
• recognize the Star of David as a symbol of Judaism in the Torah as an important part of the Hebrew scriptures
• identify that a Jewish house of worship is called a synagogue or temple

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English Sight Words of the Week

on, or, of, off, old, over, other, out