History & Geography
Practicing Chinese characters
We continued our unit on China this week. We learned more about Chinese writing and calligraphy as well as Chinese inventions. We did lots of activities centering on what we learned this week. We practiced Chinese characters, made carp kites, did some “woodblock” printing, 
had a Chinese “tea” party. We also read several Chinese trade books.
Our objectives:
• understand how the Chinese language is written and read
• recognize the historical and artistic value of writing to the Chinese
•recognize some of China’s important inventions
•understand that a tea party is considered a formal ceremony
Science
This week in our science domain Cycles in Nature, we continued to work on our frog paragraphs. We watched a short video on the stages of a frogs life cycle.
Our objectives were to:
• explain that is cycle is a sequence of events that repeats itself again and again
• identify the stages of the life cycle of a frog
•identify parts of a paragraph
•explain in writing facts about each stage of a frogs life cycle
• understand that with feedback, writers can revise their work
English Spelling/Writing
In our journals we used the idiom of the week, “He is catching some Z’s “. For spelling we did some Halloween related activities with our sorts. On Friday we took our spelling test, if students got a 100% on their practice test last week they were tested on Word Wall Words for a chance to visit the treasure box . Our word wall words this week were: every,
Next week’s Green Group sort list
Next week’s Blue Group sort list
La lectura
This week we read Los duendes y el zapatero. Our weekly objectives were to:
- Understand and practice the vowel blends ia, ie, ua, and ue
- Review homophones
- Understand the use of the colon in greeting and the comma in closings
- Use the comprehension strategies making predictions and asking questions during our first read
- Use the comprehension skill sequence and making inferences as we read the story a second time
Our high frequency words for next week are estoy, hay, voy, hoy, and soy.
Las matemáticas
This week we continued working with Bar Models. Our weekly objectives were to:
- Model addition as joining sets
- Model subtraction as taking away
- Apply the inverse operations of addition and subtraction
- Model addition and subtraction as comparing sets