Friday, September 20th: Dress as (or with) something from your favorite movie. 

La Lectura

This week the students received their first reader of the year.  We will be using the readers to continue our fluency goals. We will also use the readers to point out spelling and grammar points of interest.  Our learning objectives this week were:

• Dipthongs ue and eu
• Distinguish between proper and common nouns
• Identify purposes of writing
• Understand the difference between a biography and an autobiography
• Write a  list of important facts for their own autobiography
• Understand the use of pronouns

This week we also began our first Genius Hour. We will spend one hour each week where the students research a specific topic of their own interest.  They will complete a lap book, walking through the research process, and end with a class presentation to share their new knowledge. A big Thank YOU to Ms. Laura for helping with Genius Hour! (And helping with math stations!!)

Las matemáticas

This week we continued our study of numbers up to 10,000.  Our learning objectives this week were to:

• Use base-ten blocks to compare and order numbers.
• Use place value to compare and order numbers.  (Greater than > and less than <)
• Read, write, and represent numbers to 10,000 in standard form, expanded form, and word form.

Science

Our learning objectives this week were to:

• Identify the sun as a constant source of heat and light energy
• Classify the sun as a star
• Identify our planet Earth as the third planet from the sun and ideally suited for life
• Describe the eight planets of our solar system and their sequence from the sun
• Identify our solar system as the sun and all of the smaller bodies that orbit it
• Describe the characteristics of a planet
• Explain that Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet
• Describe the asteroid belt

 

History & Geography

We learned to:

• Measure straight-line distances on a map scale
• Use the maps in the atlas of the Student Reader to find geographic information
• Describe two ways that rivers bring life to farms and cities
• Compare the Nile and Yellow River
• Understand the meaning of the following domain-specific vocabulary: river, riverbank, source, irrigation, silt, and flow.

 

Character Education

This month in Character Education we are focusing on Kindness. We have done a few hands-on lessons with cotton balls, sandpaper, a tub of water with rocks/leaves/feathers/pinecones. Our objectives for the lessons were:

• What makes a good friend?
• Words, tone, and facial expressions can affect our message to our friends.
• Cotton ball words/tone/facial expressions are received as kind. (Please, Thank you, May I help you? Good job!)
• Sand paper words/tone/facial expression are not kind.
• Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson – to show how each small act of kindness has a ripple effect.
• Compliment circles- practice giving and receiving compliments (say thank you!)