Prepositions
How do you remember all those prepositions? Well, sixth grade students learned that many can be shown visually. Therefore, students drew a favorite object or animal and strategically wrote prepositions on and around the drawing to show the relationship between the preposition and its object.
Mrs. Foster
Seasons
For science our class is traveling through space and learning about our Solar System. Why do we have seasons? Well we know how the Earth is on a tilt and that it revolves around the Sun and this creates weather pattern we call the seasons.
Green Meadows Farm
We had a great trip to Green Meadows Farm. We got to milk a cow, chase chickens, pet rabbits, go into the pigpen, go on a hayride and ride on a pony. We ended our trip having a picnic lunch at the farm. Before our trip to the farm we sketched our own maps of a farm after our Social Studies Unit on Map skills!
Gingerbread Man
It happened again! Another Gingerbread Man Escaped from our oven. Someone saw him running out of our school singing You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man. He left yummy gingerbread man cookies and frosting for us to enjoy. We are tracking his journey on our map! Next time we should bake a Gingerbread Girl instead.
Green Meadows Farm
During our classroom reading time we have been reading a few books about farm life and farm animals. Kindergarten was so excited to see what they had read come to life, when we took a class trip to Green Meadows Farm. They were able to pet and feed many farm animals, and even milk a cow! At the end of the day each student was able to bring home their very own pumpkin from the farm and share a little of what they had experienced with their families.
Miss Velez
Great Start
KV has been exploring and learning many things, these past months. They have learned and experienced how to work independently, work with each other, and how to follow class routines. For some students, this was the first time they had ever been in a classroom. I am so excited to see how well our new kindergartners have adjusted, and how they have become such great learners!
Miss Velez
Medieval Literature
El Cantar de Mío Cid was probably written in 1140, approximately forty years after the death of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar – el Cid—of the Spanish Reconquista. It is the oldest piece of medieval Spanish literature and was originally written in verse.
Often compared to the Biblical king David, El Cid is seen not only as a great hero and warrior, but as an affectionate and caring husband and father, a loyal subject to his king, and as a man who never loses his personal dignity.
As we continue to journey into the world of El Cid, lessons on loyalty, compassion, dignity, and honor are noted worthy of adopting as our own.
Mrs. Jean-Pierre
Charlie’s Checklist
Our second graders are having an awesome time in our library this year. We have read the book, Charlie’s Checklist which is a great book that teaches about true friendship. We also learned how organized Charlie was and talked about how important it is to be organized especially now that they are getting older and more is expected of them. We really enjoyed this book.
Mrs. Ruiz
Theme Books
First grade is enjoying story time even more this year with our new seating arrangement in the library due to the remodeling. This is an exciting time for first grade since it is the first year they get to borrow books. We have been reading a series of bear themed books. We have read Big Smelly Bear and The Very Cranky Bear. They especially enjoyed the cranky bear’s loud roars. They also enjoyed listening to Big Smelly Bear’s itching problem that was caused by him not taking a shower, and this gave us a great opportunity to talk about hygiene and how to stay clean.
Mrs. Ruiz
This Land Is Your Land
In our Sidewalks Intensive Reading Intervention class we are completing our first unit this week, titled: This Land Is Your Land. Our first concept was on Diversity. The students were immediately able to understand this concept when they realized how our school is made up of different students from different countries. This concept was reinforced this week during our International week activities. The week we learned about exploration we were able to read about new discoveries to help us see things near and far. It was especially neat reading about the camera pill now available to see inside our throat & stomach. In the last three weeks we discovered that we could learn about the United States as we travel and we also learned what special landmarks are in the Southwest and the West coast. These stories created a desire to want to visit these sites someday. It’s wonderful how reading allows us to travel without actually leaving our school.
Mrs. Jimenez