Week 1 Q2

 

Dear families,

Welcome back! It was wonderful to meet with you at the parent-teacher conferences. Thank you for attending! I hope you had a well-deserved and restful break. Students are fresh and energized to start a new quarter! They are ready for the next chapter and all the academic challenges we will encounter! We are always persevering and trying our best effort.

With appreciation,

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Spalding: Coming back from fall break, students reviewed all 26 phonograms learned in the first quarter. We reviewed the proper strokes for their best Spalding handwriting. For the first time, students used their Spalding Pink Notebook! Students were so excited about the new challenge! The purpose of this notebook is to write their spelling words learned for the week (me, do, and). The Spalding process is very rigorous on learning how to spell, read, and write the words using the learned phonograms and Spalding rules. At all times, students need to write with neat and clean Spalding handwriting.

Reading: For the first time this week, students took home their daily reading homework inside their reading bags. As we explained before, students will read their book, and practice their sight words daily. We will check sight words weekly. Please make reading homework a habit along with their math and Spalding homework. Make sure your child is bringing the reading bag back to school daily. 

Literature: Our poem this week was Twinkle, Twinkle! On Monday we read the story “Make Way for Ducklings”! I transported myself to when my daughters were little! They both loved this story! Students worked on the sequences of events for the story by placing them in order. Also, we worked with capitalization for days of the week, and we fixed the capitalization of sentences and holidays. Lastly, we learned the meaning of the saying “Great Oaks from little acorns grow”.

Math: Shapes all over the place! We started our shapes unit! We talked about flat shapes (2D) and solid shapes (3D). On Thursday our study was on the cylinder and cone. By Friday, we were able to compare solid shapes. We are still reviewing how to count and write numbers all the way to 30.

Science: Pumpkins, pumpkins! Students started their study for pumpkins! We conducted an experiment, by counting the seeds of a pumpkin, and then filling the pumpkin with soil. We discussed a possible hypothesis, and after some days we will see the results. We learned the life cycle of a pumpkin and we study the parts of a pumpkin. 

History/Geography: We reviewed the African continent, learned which languages are spoken in Africa, the African habitats, and some of the animals that live in Africa.