La Lectura

This week we began our new unit Jobs Around my Neighborhood. We started reading ¿Adivina quién?. Our objectives were:

• practice reading and using the sight words este (this) and cuando (when)
• learn about picture essays
• review the letters ll, y, and k
• introduce the new unit by discussing different jobs (fireman, policeman, mailman, nurse)

Las matemáticas

This week we worked with numbers to 20. Our objectives were:

• compare numbers to 20 using mas que (more than) and menos que (less than)
• build and identify numbers using base 10 blocks
• practice writing numbers to 20 in word form

Science

This week in our science domain: Animals and Habitats, we learned about the East African Savanna.

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

History & Geography

This week we in our Early Americas Civilization unit we read about the Maya.  The class determined that they were not nomadic people and identified some of the foods that they ate.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• compare and contrast hunter-gatherer societies in Mayan society
• understand the importance of extended family to the Maya
• identify the area in which the Maya lived
• understand the Maya farmed
• understand that a shift occurred from hunting and gathering to farming among early peoples

English Sight Words of the Week

to, too, we, up, way, was