History & Geography

This week we wrapped up our unit on the Maya Aztec and Inca. Our objectives were:

review whole unit vocabulary with a word search
complete a team test by collaborating with classmates to discuss each question
complete a short essay performance task as a team

Mathematics

This week we continued working on multiplying and dividing. Our objectives were:

divide numbers by 10, 100, and 1000 using patterns
use rounding and related multiplication facts to estimate quotients
divide a 2-, 3-, or 4- digit number by a 2-digit number

Lectura y Ciencias

This week in Lectura, we continued to work on the objectives from last week. We finished our writing project, Describir un objeto. Make sure you stop by our bulletin board to see the final pieces. Students did such a great job using descriptive, sensory language and creative ways to put their paragraph together. They used figuratives language such as similes and metaforas. And yes, my object was a chestnut! Castana! Although our time was limited, we were able to read through chapter 11 of our book Con carino Amaila. Students were assigned to read chapter 12 this weekend.

In Science, we completed our studies Phases of the Moon. During the rest of the month, we will continue to look at our Moon calendar and record the sequence of changes we observe.

On Wednesday night , we had our stars viewing party. We were so fortunate to have Mr. Stan, who volunteered his time to come teach us about the mysteries of space and telescopes. We got to see Saturn, Jupiter, and of course to Moon! It was a real gift! On Thursday, we read(and listen to) our FOSS science resources, made some progress on our mini-research projects and got to recreate the phases of the Moon in a very “sweet” way!