1/2 Week 16

by | Jan 11, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

This week we jumped right back into our studies of Ancient Greece.  We learned about Athenian government and the daily life of its people. We compared and contrasted this to life in Sparta.  On Friday we began to learn about the Olympic games.

Our objectives:
• locate Athens and Sparta on a map.
• Define democracy and identify Athens as the birthplace of democracy
• understand some aspects of Athenian democracy
• understand how Athenian boys and girls were educated
• recognize that men and women were not equal in Athenian Society
• understand the military lifestyle and education in Sparta
• identify ancient Greece as the site of the original Olympic Games

Science

This week we really began to delve into our insect domain.  We read about insect habitats, learned a new insect song, and started an insect journal.

Our objectives were to:
• explain that insects are the largest group of animals on Earth
• explain that there are many different types of insects
•explain that insects live in virtually every habitat on Earth, with the exception of the oceans
• classify and identify particular insects as small, six-legged animals with three main body parts
• identify and describe the three main body parts of insects: head, thorax, and abdomen
• identify the placement and/or purpose of an insect’s body parts
• describe an insect’s exoskeleton
• explain why spiders are not insects

 

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week, “she has a heart of gold”. We wrote about insect’s habitats and questions we have about insects in our science insect journals this week. The class got their new spelling sorts and took a practice test on Friday. Our Word Wall words were: name, line, made, many.

La lectura

This week we read La Cenicienta.

Our weekly objectives were to:

  • practice asking questions before, during, and after reading our story
  • identify causes of different effects within our story
  • create a picture chart of vocabulary for our story
  • begin writing about our New Years Resolutions

Our PUF words for next week are: adentro, nosotros, trabaja, tres, traigo, nuestro

Las matemáticas

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

  • use a measuring scale to measure mass in kilograms and grams
  • compare and order masses
  • practice math as well as computer skills by adding Prodigy into our math station rotations

Specialists:

Character Education
This month in character ed we are focusing on the theme of Self-Control. We are talking about how to have self-control over our bodies, our words, and our emotions – pretty important all through life! This week we read Personal Space Camp which discusses how we all have a personal space bubble and need to respect other people’s personal space. We will also be reading My Mouth is a Volcano and When Sophie Gets Really, Really Angry. Our quote is: Self Control: Stop. Think. What could happen if you act that way? Is that what you want? –Anonymous. And for our poem we are reading The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams – a sweet, short poem everyone can memorize.
Music with Ms. Erin

In December we learned to sing and play Hanukkah and Christmas holiday songs, and identified whether the songs were in major or minor keys.

In January we will be learning about fast and slow tempos, as well as speeding up and slowing down within a musical piece or phrase. We will listen to music by the composers Grieg, Beethoven, and revisit Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by listening to the Winter movements.