La Lectura

This week we continued to work with Vamos a leer! Our objectives were:

• De colores: capitals at the beginning of sentences, visualizing while we read, rhyming words
• Don Crispín: practice writing sentences, reality vs. fantasy, rhyming words

 

Las Matemáticas

This week we wrapped up our work with number bonds. Our objectives were:

• write numbers in words up to 10
• write different number bonds for numbers up to 10
• begin our math word wall

 

Science

This week in our Astronomy domain we read about the history of space exploration and astronauts.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  understand that astronauts travel to outer space
• state that the moon orbits the earth
• describe the landing on the moon by American astronauts
• explain the importance of the first trip to the moon

History & Geography

This week we began our study of ancient Egypt.  The class had fun creating their names in hieroglyphics. To go along with our curriculum we are also reading Miss Frizzle’s Adventures, Ancient Egypt. The class is loving this book!

Our weekly objectives were to:

•  locate Egypt on a world map or globe, and identify it as part of Africa
• explain the importance of the Nile River and how its floods were important for farming
• identify hieroglyphs as the way of writing in ancient Egypt
• explain why writing is important to the development of a civilization

English Sight Words of the Week

find, from, each, fun, for, go

We are working on proper hand washing as a whole school!  Ask your child about their glitter-hand washing lesson with Ms. Bre.  We are also working on keeping our hands and other items out of our mouths and noses.  We would really appreciate your reinforcement of this at home please!

 

Music with Ms. Nadia

Music is a great way to get the wiggles out and learn something new! This month we learned about rhythm through tapping sticks, hitting drums, and shaking jingle bells. We were introduced to quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests, which we played in patterns on the percussion instruments. We also read a book called Max Found Two Sticks about a boy who saw music in the world around him. The kids followed along by repeating the rhythms in the story.

Some of my favorite parts of class are the songs we make up, such as the Watermelon Song and I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly. We also went on a repeat-after-me Bear Hunt song adventure, in which the class gave suggestions as to what should happen next. We waded through a field of porcupines on stilts, crawled through a herd of jellyfish, and wore snowshoes through quicksand. The whole hunt turned into a tea party with the bear, who saved us from a megalodon! This group’s imagination and energy makes it fun to sing with them every week!

Art with Ms. Kelly

I’m really enjoying working with this class and getting to know the new students in this group and it’s wonderful to have Ms. Laura helping out each week during art!

The first week we reviewed our Art Class procedures and rules, and then each student made an Abstract Name Design using markers and crayons. We looked at the artwork of the American artist Stuart Davis who used lots of letters and numbers in his abstract paintings during the 1940’s and 1950’s. 

Our next project included learning about Prehistoric Cave Art. We looked at pictures of cave paintings from Spain, France, and South Africa. The students learned about how people from thousands of years ago created beautiful pictures of animals, using charcoal and natural colors from soil and rocks.

The students made their own textured surface by crumpling up grocery bags, and they learned to use basic shapes to draw a deer, horse or rhino. Their wonderful Cave Paintings are on the bulletin board at school!

We welcomed the season of Fall by learning how to draw and paint a “birds-eye view” of a plate of apples. We talked about our state of Washington being the largest producer of apples in the country! The students observed the shapes and colors of real apples, and they started on a painting that they’ll finish next week.