1/2 Week 35

by | May 31, 2019 | In The Loop

History & Geography

Thank you everyone who was able to make it to our Civil War puppet shows. The groups did a great job and learned so much. On Thursday I also handed out the immigration interviews information packets. We listened to an interview in class on Friday, and each child should complete their own interview at home. These are due on Monday. We learned about contributions made by immigrants this week. We enjoyed music by Irving Berlin and watched old movie clips of people arriving on Ellis Island and listened to a very emotional interview of a Polish immigrant remembering what it was like when he arrived in the United States, and his impression of seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.

Our  weekly objectives were to:

• understand where immigrants settled
• recognize resistance to immigrants and discrimination
• recognize contributions of immigrants in building the Transcontinental Railroad
• identify Andrew Carnegie, Albert Sabin, and Irving Berlin
• describe the contributions made by these three men

Science

This week in our Simple Machines we continued to learn about axles and gears and began to learn about pulleys. We worked in our Simple Machine journals and watched a short video about pulleys.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• explain that a pulley is a simple machine that is used for lifting heavy objects or moving objects up and down or side to side

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week “It cost an arm and a leg” .  The class worked on their two spelling assignments and took their final spelling test on Friday .  Our Word Wall words were: sports, snap

La lectura

This week we finished reading La maceta vacia. Our objectives were:

  • Reread the story, write a summary about a section of the story. Work together to put our sections in order based off the summary
  • Review combing sentences using and
  • Discuss when to use a colon in writing (a list, time, after for example))
  • Wrote I am brave stories to finish our unit

Las matemáticas

This week we continued learning about time. Our objectives were:

  • Review saying the time using words (half past, fifteen until, ect
  • Discuss when to use a.m. vs p.m.
  • Find elapsed time in hour and half an hour increments

Specialists

Art With Ms. Kelly

I want to say a special THANK YOU to Stasia Cook (Alora’s mom) who helped out in ALL the classes on May 8th so that the students could complete their special Mother’s Day flower/hand collages.

Eric Carle Animals

We reviewed this wonderful author/illustrator and the students used leftover painted paper from Mothers Day art to make their own very creative Painted Paper Animals, along with the background or setting.

3-D fish

The students learned how to fold and cut card stock to make a 3-D fish. They decorated these colorful fish with dot stickers.

Butterflies and Beetles

We looked at the shapes and patterns in butterfly photos, and the students learned how to use basic shapes to draw butterflies using oil pastels. Then they added watercolor to create a resist. We also looked at photos of Scarab Beetles, and the students used the same technique to create their own beautiful beetle.

Color Wheel Flowers: We reviewed the Color Wheel and made beautiful multi-colored sunflowers from a variety of papers.

In June we’ll make summer-themed art as we look forward to summer vacation!

 

Character Education with Ms. Jennie

Character Ed with Ms. Jennie
The 4th Annual Bake Sale was a huge success! We raised $470!! Thank you so much to all of you who donated baked goods and to everyone who showed up and bought something. And a very special thank you to Jorge for baking and donating the delicious bread – always a huge hit! All the kids did a great job in planning, setting up, making signs, and running the event. The 3rd/4th grade class had their first chance to be behind the cash registers this year and so a special thank you to Eli, Kate, Ramon, Pierce, Marisol, and Miria, as well as Rafa and Jack from 5/6, for handling people’s money. And thank you for the girls who stayed afterwards to clean up and count the cash (Mariela, Naomi, Emilie, Marisol, Kate). The money will be donated to Ryan’s Well Foundation and go towards water projects in Africa!
Poetry Party in Character Ed next week. Remember to bring in a copy of a favorite poem, an inspirational quote, or a poem you have written to class. Please try and have it on an 8.5×11 sheet of paper so we can compile all of them into a school book. This is going to be fun day of celebration and sharing.