History & Geography

This week we continued our unit on Modern Day Japan.  We learned about some important celebrations, customs, and ceremonies. We learned about how important harmony with nature is to the culture and ways it is represented in everyday life. The students designed a kimono, practiced some origami, and began writing a “postcard from Japan”. On Friday Yoko cam in to talk about her knowledge of Japan and it’s culture.

 

Our objectives:
• locate Japan on a map
• identify Japan as a country made up of four main islands
• identify the kimono as traditional Japanese clothing
• understand the importance of nature in Japanese traditional crafts
• understand the significance of bonsai, origami, and flower arrangements
•identify the bullet train of Japan

Science

This week in our science domain Cycles in Nature we finished our work on the butterfly life cycle and began learning about the water cycle. The students worked on their butterfly life cycle diorama, made tissue butterflies and butterfly book marks.

Our objectives were to:
• explain that is cycle is a sequence of events that repeats itself again and again

• illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and use proper vocabulary

• define the water cycle

• explain that there is a limited amount of water on Earth

• describe evaportation and condensation

 

 

English Spelling and Writing

Our idiom of the week was ” he’s pulling my leg.” The class wrote about the idiom and self edited their work in their journals. Our spelling assignment was to write each word 3 times and use them in a sentence. We had our sorts spelling test on Friday. Our new Word Wall words were: it’s, joke, just,

La lectura

This week we read Corduroy.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Review words that begin with the letter h

 

• Read our story the 1st time focusing on the comprehension strategy making predictions

• Read our story a 2nd time focusing on the comprehension skill Making Inferences

• Understand when to use quotes in our writing and practice using them

 

Our PUF words for next week are: frío, flor, fruta

Las matemáticas

This week we completed our multiplication and division chapter and began working with measuring in meters. Our weekly objectives were to:

 

• Complete word problems using multiplication and division
• Demonstrate knowledge on the chapter test
• Compare items to a meter

Specialists:

Character Education

This month our theme is GENEROSITY. This past week we discussed different ways we can be generous out in the real world, such as buying a coffee for the person behind you in line, inviting a neighbor over for dinner, giving out snack bags to the homeless, or participating in a giving tree like we are doing at SWS. Our quote of the month is by Thomas Jefferson: “I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” To celebrate the holiday season we are reading the famous poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” and we are reading various books that focus on giving and generosity such as Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant and Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo.