1/2 Week 33

by | May 17, 2019 | In The Loop

Found information on the Civil War

History & Geography

This week in our unit on the Civil War we finished reading about the war and took a look at women’s roles during this time. We took our assessment on Thursday.  The class also broke up into groups and wrote a short skit about key events and people during the war.  They each made a puppet for their character and worked on acting out their skit.  On Friday Maria´s Father read us a story about two soldiers in the Civil War, and one had shaken the hand of Abraham Lincoln.  He then shared with the class a box of his Great Great Grandfather that was made from a table that Lincoln had once eaten at.

Our  weekly objectives were to:

• describe the end of the Civil War
• understand what women did during the Civil War
• identify Clara Barton
• recognize Barton’s role as the “angel of the battlefield” in the Civil War

Group work can be challenging and fun

Writing a script

 

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week “Its a piece of cake” .  The class did two spelling assignments and took their final spelling test on Friday .  Our Word Wall words were: were, was, write, wrong

 

La lectura

This week we read Dragones y gigantes. Our objectives were:

  • look over frequently misspelled words and discuss why they might be misspelled
  • focus on the reading comprehension skill making connections during our first read
  • focus on the reading comprehension strategy sequencing during our second read
  • we also listened to our second read on CD this week and compared/contrasted with Ms.Ivary’s read alouds

PUF words for next week:  poco,  muchos, jueves, domingo, o, buena, todos, llama

 

Las matemáticas

This week we reviewed adding and subtracting with 3-digit numbers and we began rounding numbers. Our objectives were:

  • use a number line to round numbers to the nearest ten
  • use rounding to estimate sums and differences
  • estimate to check reasonableness of answers