1/2 Week 1

by | Sep 7, 2018 | In The Loop

History & Geography

We had a great start to our new year this week. We began by celebrating our two September birthday’s. The class made birthday cards and our September birthday students got to have their pictures put up on the birthday bulletin board. This week we reviewed rules and routines for a classroom. We worked on a Dr. Seuss “All About Me” flip book and designed our unique Cat in the Hat hat for the bulletin board.

Our first unit of study is focusing on geography and maps. We learned about Canada and Mexico and Central America.

Our objectives:
• locate Canada, Mexico and Central America on a map
• recognize the Canadian and Mexican flag
• review how we use a compass rose

Science

This week in we started our first science domain: Cycles in Nature. The class learned about the cycle of daytime and nighttime and the reasons for seasons.

Our objectives were to:
• draw a picture that explains what a plant needs to survive
• describe how the tilt of the earth and it’s hemispheres are affected by the Sun

Spelling and Grammar

In our journals we used the idiom of the week, ” it’s raining cats and dogs”.  We reviewed the word wall words that we have learned so far and our expectation for spelling them correctly in our writing. The class began to work on their daily language work.  For spelling this week we did an assessment inventory.

September Birthday Girl

September Birthday Boy

La lectura

This week we began looking at our first unit: Sharing Stories.

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • learn the expectations and procedures for readers and high frequency word activities
  • review high frequency words from last year
  • practice listening comprehension by listening to a story with no pictures

Las matemáticas

Using our new textbook covers!

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • use base 10 blocks to recognize, read, and write numbers to 1,000
  • count on by 1s, 10s, 100s, to 1,000

 

Specialists:

Music

I’m excited to be back for a second year teaching music at SWS!
September will be an engaging month full of hands-on rhythm learning and skill development. We will review concepts and skills covered last year, and build on them with activities involving the theoretical knowledge of beat counts, notation, and time signatures brought to life with group instrument playing, rhythmic spoken word, singing, and movement.

Character Education

We are focusing on manners and kindness this month (and really all year long!) and so we incorporated this into our activity on classroom rules. Then we did What’s in the Bag Wednesday where the kids have to feel a mystery object in a bag, but not peek, and then use one adjective to describe it. This week it was a golden ring, which went along with the book The Golden Rule. Treat others how you want to be treated is our quote of the month, and the book of course talked all about this. We will also have a poem each month, and this month it’s called “Manners”. We’ll practice again and again what it means to have good manners and to be kind to others!

 

Art

It was great seeing everyone back at school this week in Art! It’s fun to see how much everyone has grown over the summer! This week in Art the students made self portraits, and we also had time for a few apple drawings. These fun drawings are on the bulletin board at school.

For the rest of September, the students will work on drawing and painting a fall landscape, and we’ll start an India Rangoli design.

If you would like to help out in your child’s art class, there is a SIGN UP SHEET on the bulletin board to the left of the office. Thank you so much!