History & Geography

This week we finished our unit on Japan by writing postcards from Japan.  Everyone had fun imagining what they might see while visiting the country. On Tuesday we began our next unit on Ancient Greece.  The class will be working on an interactive notebook throughout this unit.

Our objectives:
• recall key landmarks, customs, and facts about Japan
• locate Greece and other places on a map
• understand what city-states were
• understand that the ancient Greeks worshipped many gods and goddesses
• identify several major gods and goddesses

Science

• This week we are wrapping up our science domain: Cycles in Nature.  The class learned a song about the watercycle, made water cycle bracelets, set up a miniature water cycle for observation, and made different types of cloud pictures.  On Friday we had a domain review.
  

           What kinds of clouds do we see?

  Our objectives were to:
  • Define the term water cycle
  • describe evaporation and condensation
  • identify forms and importance of precipitation
  • describe the formation of clouds
  • identify three types of clouds cirrus, cumulus, and stratus
  • review what we have learned in this domain

English Spelling/Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week, “hold your horses.” The class got their new spelling lists this week and worked on sorting them in several ways. We had our practice spelling test on Thursday. Our new Word Wall words were: knew, know, kicked

La lectura

This week we read La historia de las tres ballenas.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Focus on the consonant blends fl and fr
• Read our story the 1st time focusing on the comprehension strategy summarizing
• Read our story a 2nd time focusing on the comprehension skill main idea and details by creating main idea Christmas trees

Next week we will be review all the PUF words we’ve learned so far!

Las matemáticas

This week we continued working with Measurement. Our weekly objectives were to:

• Compare items that are measured in meters to each other by using the vocabulary taller (alto), shorter (bajo), longer (largo), and shorter (corto)
• Measure items in centimeters
• Decide when to measure items in meters or centimeters