History & Geography
Practicing our reader’s theater.
This week we finished our unit on the War of 1812. We read about Old Ironside, the Treaty of Ghent, the Battle of New Orleans, and the outcomes of the war. On Thursday the class had fun doing a reader’s theater about the key people in this unit. We had our assessment on Friday.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• Understand the meaning of the “Star Spangled Banner” by analyzing the language used by Key, and why it is our national anthem.
• Identify significant individuals and groups in the War of 1812
• Explain why the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent
Science
We took our domain assessment this week and the class did terrific; we really know our bugs and insects! On Thursday, as a reward, we watched “Miniscule” and had some insect snacks. Friday we began our last science domain, Simple Machines. To kick off this new unit we learned a Simple Machines song and did a lesson on “work” comparing different ways to make butter and the amount of work involved.
Our weekly objectives were to:
• review and assess what we’ve learned in our insect domain
• develop an understanding of quantities associated with energy, movement, and change
• identify that machines help us work and name different types of machines and how they work
English Spelling and Writing
In our journals we used the idiom of the week ” She has ants in her pants ” . The class got their new spelling sort and took their practice test on Friday. Our Word Wall words were: slow, those, that’s, thank.
Blue spelling sort
Green spelling sort
La lectura
This week we created our Animal Reports.
Our weekly objectives were to:
- read and highlight important information from an article about our animal
- answer comprehension questions about the article
- write a report about your animal using the information you learned
- High Frequency Words for the week: niño niña mejor tu reír quién pero (quiz on Monday!)
Las matemáticas
This week we began learning about customary units of measurement. Our weekly objectives were to:
- compare lengths
- find the difference in lengths of objects
- use a ruler to estimate and measure length in feet and inches
- draw parts of lines given the length