Happy last week of school in 2018! This week we have a lot of special things to look
forward to: the 5th grade chorus concert, a visit from our 3rd grade buddies and a
special bonus “game day” on Friday. Please help your child pick out a game that can
be played indoors (no sports balls please), and review how to play it so that they can
be ready to share it with their classmates on Friday. There is also a very high chance
that students are going to earn “bring a stuffed animal to school day” since we are
just one “pom pom” away - stay tuned!
La contraseña secreta (secret password) to come into the classroom this week will
be “no me gusta” (I don’t like).
A peek at our In Spanish Language Arts, we will continue work with
week syllables and words with vowel “a.” The plan for this weeks is
to go back and review a lot of what we have learned in the
first 65+ days of school to make sure we have built a solid
foundation for all the learning to come in the new year!
In Math, students are diving deeper into how to compare
objects using their attributes of height, length and weight. A
fun way to practice this at home is for students to put their
toys/stuffed animals in order of tallest “más alto” to shortest
“más bajo.”
In Science, we will be taking a short recess from our FOSS
curriculum and do some investigation and exploration
around color! This will be a lot of fun for the kids to do lots of
hands-on activities and learning.
In gratitude Thank you to parents Alissa Kissel and Emily Weinshel who
came in the classroom this week to read and create with our
students! Thank you also to our library volunteers - your work
is so appreciated!
Thank you to the Rent and Weinshel family for the glue
sticks!
Thank you to Betsy and Chris Cullen who are opening their
home for a parent social on 1/10!
Incorporating 1. Play our version of “I spy” - “Veo veo” In class we have one
more Spanish at student come up and say the bolded text and the class
home chants the responses below.
“Veo veo” - I see
“¿Que ves?” - what do you see?
“Una cosa” - something
“¿De que color?” - what color is it?
“De color…. rojo/amarillo/morado/azul/blanco/negro/etc” -
the color of the object
Next, students begin to guess what the child has “spied” - if
they guess correctly, they get to be in charge the next round!
2. Practice winter clothing vocabulary at home: guantes,
mitones, abrigo/chaqueta, botas, bufanda, gorro, etc.
3. Take advantage of any opportunity to count in Spanish!
Many students are now naturally defaulting to Spanish
numbers when counting - awesome to see! Practicing
counting “up” 1-30 as well as “down” 30-1. Counting by tens is
also an “end of year goal” for kindergarten: diez (10), veinte
(30), treinta (30), cuarenta (40), cincuenta (50), sesenta (60),
setenta (70), ochenta (80), noventa (90), cien (100).
4. Encourage students to use the past “contraseñas secretas”
with you at home! Previous contraseñas: Gracias, por favor,
buenos días, puedo ir al baño, puedo tomar agua, permiso,
buenas tardes, me gusta