History & Geography

This week we finished our study of Geography of the Americas. We focused on the Southern cone and the four countries within it. We listened to music from some of these countries while we did our morning work.  The class learned about Evita Perón and the Great War of Paraguay.  Tuesday was Chile’s independence day and Maestra Paola spoke to the class about some of the traditions surrounding this day. We also took our unit assessment on Tuesday.  Thursday we began our next unit on India.

Our objectives
• locate and describe the four countries of the Southern cone
• describe and identify José de San Martin, Evita Perón, and                                                             Francisco López
• locate India on a map
• understand the Indus civilization
• understand the Aryan invasion of ancient India
• identify Hinduism as important world religion

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          Playing Jeopardy to practice for our                assessment

  Our field trip will be October 9th. Please remember to sign up for transportation and return those permission slips asap. This will be a fun field trip. The garden is beautiful and the students will enjoy eating lunch at the Golden Horse Restaurant that day.

Science

This week we continued our science domain: Cycles in Nature. The class learned about the four seasons in a year. We read the poem “Bee I’m Expecting You” by Emily Dickinson and explained how it describes spring.

Our objectives were to:
• explain that a cycle is a sequence of events that repeats itself again and again
• describe the seasonal cycles of spring, summer, autumn, and winter
• define the term life cycle
• identify the stages of the life cycle of a flowering plant (seed to seed)
• explain effects of seasonal changes on plants and animals

Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week, ” he’s all tied up”.  We are also working on creating a glossary of word wall words in the back of our journals. We did two spelling activities this week and had our spelling test on Friday. The class has been doing a great job of being responsible and getting all of their morning work done on time.

La lectura

This week we read ¡Regresa Jack!

Our weekly objectives were to:

• understand the meaning of our high frequency words for the week and practice spelling them: jugar, lejos, dijo, dibujar, escogí, escoge
• understand and use pronouns
• use the comprehension strategies Making Predictions and Making Connections during our first read
• use the comprehension skill Compare and Contrast as we read the second time

Las matemáticas

This week we continued learning about Numbers to 1,000. Our weekly objectives were to:

• compare numbers using the terms greater than and less than
• order three-digit numbers
• identify the greatest number, the least number, and number patterns