Weekly Update - Week 26 - Maryel School

Welcome to week 26

Koalas Class

Koalas had another week filled with learning and fun activities. During this week the students were reviewing spring and Easter vocabulary while they were creating their projects. Koalas started the week by completing patterns of colors and matching them respectively using eggs. Students created their own spring bunnies guided by the teachers. The children also practiced their fine motor skills and coordination by cutting pieces of paper to decorate a butterfly and using dot markets to complete a spring worksheet.

Vocabulary of the week:

primavera (spring)
mariposa (butterfly)
huevo (egg)
pájaros (birds)
conejo (bunny)
estación (season)
flores (flower)
lluvia (rain)
arcoiris (rainbow)
verde (green)
grande (big)
pequeño (small)

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Ardillas Class

In Mathematics, they traced, identified and quantified numbers in multiple ways with: sun, moon, stars, rainbow and kite images. In addition, the children traced and identified the shapes we have learned about in class, focusing on: paralelogramo (parallelogram), octágono (octagon), rombo (rhombus), pentágono (pentagon) and trapecio (trapezoid) shapes . They also colored the item that no forma parte (did not belong) in each set, queso (cheese) and botella (bottle). Lastly, the children colored rojo (red) the cangrejos (crabs) cerca (close) to the sombrilla (umbrella) and amarillo (yellow) the cangrejos lejos (far) from the sombrilla.

In Reading and Writing, the children practiced levantado (vertical), dormido (horizontal), inclinado (inclined), tipi (combined inclined lines), ondulad (wave strokes) with stars, the sun and the moon. They also completed teacher directed drawings of a avión (plane). In addition they traced ondulado (wave) strokes under the sea, helping the caracol (snail) eat lechuga (letuce) and in the girls crazy hair. Lastly, they drew Uu image. Most drew uvas (grapes), universo (universe), uno (one) or unicornio (unicorn). Lastly, they identified and circled the letter u in words like: luna (moon), gusano (worm), burro (donkey), puerta (door), cuchara (spoon) and uno (one).

In Social Studies, our theme was Día/Noche (Day/Night). The children made a escena de noche con luna y estrellas (night scene with the moon and stars), noted the difference between day and night by placeing an arcoiris (rainbow)/ sol (sun) on the day side and luna (moon)/estrellas (stars) on the night side. They also played with linternas/focos (flashlights) in a dark room while pretending it was night time. Lastly, the children painted a yellow sun using a tenedor (fork).

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Pre – K Class

This week has been a good week for your children. I’m going to show you what we did during this week.

In Language Arts Writing/Reading: Students keep reviewing the alphabet every morning. We are focused on all the letters phonetically, we were doing activities with disordered letters. We were still focused on all the vowels, uppercase, lowercase, phonetically and grammatically. This week we learned letter L, uppercase, lowercase, phonetically and gramatically. We have been learning words that starts with letter L. We were doing activities in where they have to find the syllable with which each word begins (la, le, li, lo lu). We were reading and writing vowel groups.

This week we read some interactive tales: “El niño que comia todo”, “El mono gruñon”, “Heidi”, “Los calzoncillos de piedra”, “Mi amigo abuelito” and “El libro de Oscar”.

In Math: We practiced every day to put the numbers of the month in the correct order on the wall, we did it messily. We also count out loud until number 70. We were counting backwards from 10 to 0. They are still practicing how to write the numbers 0 to 9. We were doing simple additions counting objects, we also were differentiating amounts, which is higher than and less than. We learned 3D shapes geometric.

In Music: We were singing and dancing “Cleo y Cuquin”, “Pin Pon”, “Todos los patitos”, “Buggi buggi” and “Las momias”.

In Physical Education, we were playing “Dodgeball”, we were practicing basketball, playing different catch games, dancing different songs. We were also doing different team activities with balls, to motivate teamwork.

In Science, we were reviewing and learning the usefulness of plants.

In Geography/History, we reviewed about the different places and public buildings in a city.

In Visual Art: we were doing different crafts related with Easter: we painted eggs, we made a bunny headband, we painted with water colors.

In International Studies: we were learning about the meaning of Easter and the Holy Week in Spain. We were looking for Easter eggs in class.

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First Grade Class

Our first graders were super excited to come back to school after their Spring Break. They were content and proud to show their USA regions project as well as to share what they did on vacation. It was nice to have us back in the classroom and to experience more fun and learning this week. Let’s dive into Week 26.

This week students worked on recreating a cherry blossom tree in honor of the start of Spring and a beautiful week weather wise. Students also began proofreading their book report for “Make Way for Ducklings”. Students made grammar, spelling and punctuation corrections. This book report unit will prep them for when they have to independently write their own book report which they will begin in the next few weeks.

Students also proudly presented their USA region project which they evidently worked so hard on. It was nice to see how knowledgeable on their region and state of choice they all are.

Students also continued practicing how to measure centimeters. It was definitely a fun filled week with a lot of learning and growth mindset.

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Kindergarten Class

We hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Spring Break with your loved ones. Your child is ecstatic about Spirit Week. If your child does not want to participate, he or she must come to school wearing their uniform.

This week we had 3 English days and 2 Spanish days. Students practiced writing lowercase and uppercase ‘Kk’ in print and in cursive.

In Math, students learned about Bar graphs and Tally charts. Next week we will learn about Pictographs and review Bar graphs and Tally charts. In Spanish we will continue to work on figuring out what math symbol would be needed to correctly complete the number sentence.

In Science, we have started to learn about the body. They learned some parts of the body in Spanish and ways to help our bodies stay healthy. Next week we will learn about the Muscular System. In the coming weeks we will learn about the 10 body systems and their main functions.

In History and Geography, students learned about the South West region. Next week we will review the 5 regions of the United States of America.

In International Studies, students learned about Nicaragua’s geography and culture. Next week they will explore Nicaragua’s music and learn why it’s known as the country of lakes and volcanoes.

In Emotional Intelligence students learned about the Traffic Light Technique.
Red: STOP- When we cannot control an emotion we have to stop what we are doing like when a car meets the red light.
Yellow: THINK- After stopping, it is time to think and figure out the problem you are having or feeling.
Green: SOLVE IT- After giving your self-time to think, it is time to choose the best solution and act on it.