La Lectura

This week we read Masticar, comer: Lo que comen los animales. Our objectives were:

• identify letters within the story
• discuss connections between the story and the world
• practice identifying the number of syllables within a word
• using the comprehension skill main idea and details

Las matemáticas

This week we began working with Subtraction within 10. Our objectives were:

• take away to subtract
• count on to subtract
• count back to subtract
• use number bonds to subtract

Science

This week in our Astronomy domain we continued to work on the solar system flip books and read about our solar system.

Our weekly objectives were to:
•  identify Earth as a planet and our home
• classify the sun as a star
• understand that Earth orbits the Sun
• explain that our solar system includes the sun and the planets that orbit around it
• indicate that there are eight planets  (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune)
• understand that Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet

History & Geography

This week in our Ancient Egyptian studies the class we learned about King Tutankhamun and the discovery of his tomb. The class had fun being archaeologist, excavating chocolate chip artifacts from cookies.

Our weekly objectives were to

• locate Egypt on a world map or globe, and identify it as part of Africa
• describe key components of a civilization
• identify Tutankhamun as a pharaoh of ancient Egypt
• explain the significance of Tutankhamun
• understand that much of what we know about ancient Egypt is because of the work of archaeologists

English Sight Words of the Week

I, if, in, into, is, it, like, long