Week 8 Q2


Dear families,

We are celebrating all the knowledge students learned this first semester. This week and next week, we are finalizing our assessments. Perseverance is one virtue students are practicing to wrap up the semester.

I really appreciate all your help!

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Spalding: Two letter phonograms AW, OR, CK were introduced. Remember to underline the two letter phonograms. This marking states that these are two letter phonograms making one sound. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words (top, he, you, will). This week, we are conducting our cumulative test for the second quarter. This test will continue next week.

Reading reminders:

  • Your child should read to an adult as daily homework.
  •  Practice sight words as daily homework. Assessments on Wednesdays.
  • Minimal goal by the end of second quarter, master 36 sight words. (5 sight words a week), but the sky is the limit!

Literature: Our poem this week was “Three Blind Mice”! On Monday, we read “The Straw, The Coal, and The Bean”. Later we read “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel”. We reviewed the parts of a book, and the steam shovel parts. Students made puppets for the characters and then practiced how to retell the story. We worked with the story elements, on our journals, and introduced the saying “Look Before You Leap”.

Math: For math, we worked on adding one more to a group of objects. Also, we showed one less by removing one object from a group of objects. Students learned “more than, less than, and equal to” math concepts. At the end of the week, students were assessed on the unit and perform a cumulative test for the first math book.

Science: Continuing with our Push and Pulls units, this week we started lessons on Magnetism. Students had the opportunity to test some items and observe if they are magnetic or not. All week we tried different activities to learn more about this force.

History/Geography: For history, we continued our study of Native American Tribes. We discovered the Jingle Dance, and tried to dance just like the Native Americans! 


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