History & Geography

This week we finished our unit on Ancient China. We learned all about the Chinese New Year. Students did some work with the Chinese zodiac calendar and worked on a Chinese counting book. On Friday, after we took our unit assessment, we celebrated with “New Year” activities and food. We even had our own Chinese New Year parade and sang our newly learned Chinese New Year song.

Science

This week in our science domain Cycles in Nature we continued to learn about butterflies. The classed learned the cycle of a butterflies life and important vocabulary associated with each stage.  The students worked on reading a butterfly book, making a life cycle flip book, and began making a butterfly life cycle diorama.

Our objectives were to:
• explain that is cycle is a sequence of events that repeats itself again and again
• explain effects of seasonal changes on plants and animals
• define the term life cycle
• identify the stages of the light cycle of a butterfly (egg to egg)
• explain metamorphosis.

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week, “Don’t let the cat out of the bag “.  We had our sort spelling tests on Friday. Several students also took a Word Wall spelling test this week. Our new Word Wall words were: girl, gym, have

 

 

La lectura

This week we wrote thank you letters. Our weekly objectives were to:

• Review PUF words so far

 

• Review when to use capitals versus lower case letters

• Review when to use a colon and a comma in writing a letter

• Write a friendly letter letting someone know that you are thankful for them

 

 

Las matemáticas

This week we began working with Multiplication. Our weekly objectives were to:

• Understand that multiplication is repeated addition

 

• Understand how to use equal groups to show multiplication

 

 

Specialists:

Character Education We have focused on the theme of gratitude, thankfulness and being content this month of November. We made a Thankfulness Book where each kid illustrated little pictures of things they are thankful for. We read a great book called “Those Shoes” about a boy really wanting a new pair of trendy shoes, but his family not having enough money to buy them. Our quote is “The best things in life are not things” and we talk about what this means. We are also reading the funny poem “The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven” by Jack Prelutsky. In December, we will set up our Giving Tree for Share so please look for it in the hallway and consider purchasing a gift for someone in need in our community!