In first grade, we’ve been working hard to build a strong foundation for our classroom and community expectations. We’ve established routines for our curriculum, learned how to effectively use classroom resources, and mastered independent workstations. We’ve also begun exploring our first unit, focusing on how things grow and change. Guided by the essential question, “Why do living things grow and change?”, we are engaging with a variety of decodable texts, listening to mentor read-aloud, writing, and participating in turn-and-talk discussions to deepen our understanding of our unit topic.
We are having a great time in PE! We are getting to know each other and the students have learned several fitness games. They are also learning how to play volleyball and are doing an incredible job. Thank you for sending your children to school in tennis shoes on the day they have PE. I appreciate it!
Kindergarten is learning greetings, days of the week, and the letter M with the vowel (A) for mamá/ mom. First and second grades are verbally practicing greetings and the seasons.
Third, fourth and fifth graders learned about the cultural Tomatina Festival en Buñol España, where tomatoes are not only eaten but they also have a lot of fun throwing them. Third graders are learning the spelling and pronunciation of the months of the year and the seasons: enero, febrero, octubre, otoño. Fourth and fifth grades are going to start the topic, “Classroom Materials”... classroom vocabulary words: lapiz, cuaderno, dicionario, maestra, tablero.
