Week 4 Q3

 


Dear families,

Mark your calendars! Our second field trip will be Tuesday February 25th. More information coming soon once the date is approaching.

The highlight this week, Mrs. Chen from KB talk to students about the Chinese New Year Celebration. She showed students a Lion costume that one of her friends use to perform during this time. She also passed out chocolate coins to wish good luck to our students. Another highlight, visiting the library for the first time!

Thank you for the trust and partnership,

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Notes: Spalding Cumulative Test with 55 phonograms at the end of third quarter.

Spalding: We introduced the phonograms AU, UI, GU. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words (of, be, but, this). Students will test at the end of the third quarter a total of 55 phonograms in preparation for first grade. Please review and practice all phonograms learned since the beginning of the year, single and double letter phonograms.

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 third quarter, master 68 sight words. (5 sight words a week), but the sky is the limit!

Literature: Our poem this week is “Humpy Dumpty”. The story this week was “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen. On Monday, students reviewed adjectives and beginning sounds. On Tuesday, we studied all the story elements for the story, and worked with CVC words. On Wednesday, we reviewed verbs. On Thursday, we are still reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins and working on our Lap Book. On Friday, we close our week by writing in our journals.

Math: For math, students identified objects in groups up to 20, and reviewed “teen” numbers. Also, we practiced how to take apart numbers to 20, count and arrange numbers to 20. Finally, students worked on how to make teen numbers in different ways.

Science: Students learned about people who explore space are called astronauts, and created a book called “Moon Mission” to discuss how astronauts had a mission to the moon. We studied the biography of these three astronauts: John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, and Sally Ride.

History/Geography: We are studying Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving. Students discussed how the trip inside the Mayflower would be. We learned that the Pilgrims worked hard to survive, and how some kind Native Americans help them with food, fishing, and teaching them new things.


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