La Lectura
Volteretas – Cartwheels
Friends helping friends.
We jumped right into the new school year with our friendship unit / la amistad. Our learning objectives this week were to:
- make connections, summarize, and predict while reading Gloria, quien podría ser mi mejor amiga.
- create vocabulary notebooks and strategies
- spelling words with s (Spelling tests will be on Fridays.)
- cursive letters: i and t
- writing: planning stage- listing ideas
Place value!
Las matemáticas
- building problem-solving skills and strategies
- using models to solve real-world problems involving the four operations
- making and interpreting data from bar graphs
- identifying fractions of a set
- finding angles and identifying lines
- understanding area and perimeter of figures
Our first unit of study is Numbers to 10,000. Some of the skills your child will practice are:
- counting, reading, and writing numbers to 10,000
- reading and writing numbers in different ways
- comparing and ordering numbers
Friday is “Movie Popcorn” snack day! Palomitas!
Science
What a great first week we had! We celebrated two birthdays: Andres and Evelyn D. We spent a lot of time doing back to school activities and discussing classroom and student routines, procedures and expectations to help make this school year be as successful as possible.
In addition to all of our back to school activities, we also started our unit on astronomy. Our 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
- Demonstrate how day and night on Earth are caused by Earth´s rotation
- Explain the reasons for the seasons
- Describe the characteristics of a planet
- Describe stars as hot, distant, and made of gas
I have really enjoyed getting to know this awesome class! I am looking forward to a fabulous school year!
History & Geography
Stay tuned………