Life cycle of a turnip from ‘The                    Gigantic Turnip’

Science

This next week we will be learning more about plants, specifically about flowers and their purpose.  Students will have a chance to watch a short video on bees. In Brainpop Jr. we will continue to learn about conservation.

Our objectives will be to:

  • Identify the petals on a flower
  • Describe how bees collect nectar and pollen
  • Understand how bees make and use honey

        Seed experiment

  • Describe the important role bees play in plant pollination
  • Understand what the terms extinct and endangered mean

History & Geography

Next week we will be learning about teachers and schools during colonial times.  Students will also get to hear the story ‘Stone Soup’.  They will be invited to

     Tradespeople charades

create their own “stone” soup as an enriching project.

         Carpenters can build                      hummingbird houses 

Our objectives will be to:

  • Describe a teacher as a townsperson responsible for educating young children
  • Identify some characteristics of colonial common schools
  • Compare and contrast common schools with today’s schools
  • Recall the different kinds of tradespeople found in a colonial town

English Sight Words

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We will be reviewing sight words K and L by using Spell City or Robot Flashcards.  For spelling we will be working on s, t, and st sounds.

La lectura y las matemáticas

Here is a link to our weekly plan for Spanish lessons:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VTyA2QoKQLpJPgE0VmyKufQ2w_v6Pb7aFLCxlAFs_q4/edit?usp=sharing

Our learning objectives this week are to:

  • Use our sight words in oral and written sentences: Estaba (I was) Fueron (They were)
  • Read books about our El Mar / The Sea unit: En el mar and Humphrey: La ballena perdida
  • Separating syllables
  • Combining syllables
  • Building number sense through place value and subitizing

It was so wonderful to see all of you!  We miss our Kindergartners so much!

 

We loved seeing you!!