Week 4 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 moms for a cute and delicious snack on Classical Character Day!

Thank you,

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Spalding: Two letter phonograms OO, AY, ER were introduced. Remember to underline the two letter phonograms. This marking states that these are two letter phonograms making one sound. We reviewed G and S from the previous first 26 phonograms. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words (her, can, see, run, the). At the end of the second quarter, students will perform a cumulative test for all the phonograms, 26 single letter phonograms, plus all the two letters’ phonograms taught during the quarter.

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: Our poem this week was “Diddle, Diddle Dumpling”! 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. Students sorted flat shapes based on their characteristics. Also, they matched flat shapes with real world pictures. Students created composite pictures using all the shapes. Finally, students practice how to identify and create a pattern.

Science: Since we are approaching Thanksgiving season, Kindergarten curriculum teaches the history and meaning of this holiday. Students will work intensively on their Thanksgiving unit in preparation for our Thanksgiving Feast and understanding the historical meaning of it. For a couple of weeks, science class will be part of this unit study. With that said, this week, students created their own Pilgrim hat, and worked all week in their Pilgrim Lab Book. Next semester, history will continue a deeper study on Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving.

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?