1/2 Week 34

by | May 24, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

This week we began our next unit on Immigration and Citizenship.  Read about why people immigrated to the United States during the 1800’s and early 1900’s, what the process was like and what they experienced when they arrived. Next week please join us on Thursday at 3:00 for  4  short puppet shows written and performed by our class.  Looking forward to seeing you there.

Our  weekly objectives were to:

•  understand why Europeans immigrated to the United States
•  identify four events in Europe that spurred immigration
• recognize ads and letters that encouraged immigration
• understand how hard it was to get to the United States
• recognize the Statue of Liberty and its importance as a symbol
• identify Ellis Island as a historic site and symbol of the immigrant experience
• understand where immigrants settled
• recognize resistance to immigrants and discrimination
•  recognize contribution of immigrants in building the trans Continental railroad

Science

This week in our Simple Machine domain we finished levers and began to learn about wheel and axles and gears. We worked in our Simple Machine journals and watched a short video about wheel and axles. We did a demonstration with wheels as well.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• the student will identify what a wheel and axle is and that it helps us apply more force or lift a heavy load with less effortt
• observe and record what happens when a wheel and axle is used to move an object
• examine different gears and the movements of the gears against each other

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week “She is afraid of her own shadow” .  The class got their new spelling sorts and took their practice test on Friday .  Our Word Wall words were: writing, won’t, tell

La lectura

This week we read La maceta vacía. Our objectives were:

  • review last week’s story and how it connects to our theme of Courage
  • word knowledge review: words with k, diphthongs, and verbs with inflexions
  • listen to the story being read the first time through stopping to focus on making predictions

PUF words will be the same next week! poco,  muchos, jueves, domingo, o, buena, todos, llama

Las matemáticas

This week we began reviewing telling time. Our objectives were:

  • review spanish time vocabulary: minutero, horario, después, en punto, y medio
  • review telling time to the nearest 5 minutes
  • practice telling time from an analog clock and showing the time on an analog clock

We had such a fun Family Day this Thursday! Thank you so much for coming and celebrating with us.