Week 3 Q2

 


Dear families,

The weather feels like fall now! The students are progressing accordingly with their academics and reading. Make sure your child eats and sleeps well to avoid illnesses. This is the season they can catch colds. Exciting learning will happen in the classroom, and we do not want them to miss it. Students need to read daily at home for 20 minutes. Practice makes better!

The highlight of the week was our Classical Character Day! Students enjoyed all the fun activities and talking about why they choose their character.

Thank you to our home room parents for a cute and delicious treat, bookmark craft, and reading "The Day the Crayons Quit" on Classical Character Day! The students enjoyed all the activities.

Thank you,

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Spalding: Two letter phonograms OW, CH, AR were introduced. Remember to underline the two letter phonograms. This marking states that these are two letter phonograms making one sound. We reviewed D and F from the previous first 26 phonograms. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words (a, it, is, she).

Reading: Your child should read to an adult as daily homework, along with practicing the sight words. Remember students should read the whole word unless they are not sure about the word, ask your child to use their phonograms to sound out each letter to figure out the word. Sight words assessment is on Wednesdays. When students master the first 100 words, we will continue with the next set of one hundred words. The sky is the limit! Remember the minimal goal for second quarter is mastering 36 sight words.

Literature: We introduced fables genre this week! Students learned that fables are stories that use animals as characters, and they teach us a lesson (moral of the fable). Our first fable was “The Lion and The Mouse”. We discussed the moral of this fable, and students learned not to sub estimate a small size individual, because they can still achieve great things. By the end of the week, we read the fairy tale “Twelve Dancing Princesses”, practice the pronouns he, she, they, beginning and ending sounds.

Math: We continued our study on shapes, both 2D and 3D shapes. Students sort solid shapes and put shapes together to build different models. We can identify how many sides and corners, or how many faces and corners. Students can compare shapes and find items around them that are the same shape as the ones they are studying. Let your child find items at home and tell you what shape that is.

Science: For Science, we finished our empty lot by placing the animals in our new ecosystem. Ask your child about it. Since we talked about the plants and animals needs, and how to meet those needs in an ecosystem, now, we switched to humans needs. Also, we talked about where things come from, the natural resources we have or the plants and animals that provide out needs.

History/Geography: We traveled to Australia! Students created a book with some interesting facts about Australia. We learned about Kangaroos and the Great Coral Barrier. Then, we traveled to Antarctica! Ask your child about this place and the environment. How is the weather? Where it is located? North Pole or South Pole? What animals live there? 


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