KG News
Newsletter #2: Where We Are In Place and Time
UOI Where We Are In Place and Time
Central idea: Weather and nature change depending on the season and location.
Key concepts: Function, Causation, Change
Lines of inquiry:
- How seasons affect nature (Function)
- Patterns in nature (Causation)
- How weather changes from one location to another (Change)
What Have We Been Doing?
Irvine Nature Center
Students had an amazing time exploring weather and nature using their senses to smell sassafras trees, touch and feel leaves, feathers, fungi, and observe seasonal changes in the woods where grass was beginning to grow and some branches and bushes were budding leaves. Students experienced warm and cold temperatures both indoors and out and most curiously, students quietly listened to the various bird species in the woods and the meadow, including a woodpecker. Ending our hike on a sweet note, we were able to taste natural bee hive honey! Yummy! Students learned about snakes, chipmunks and squirrels, as well as how, when and why birds move south when the seasons change and how they return when the climate changes again. We met Aviary the owl and learned he is a nocturnal animal that stays a awake at night and can see in the dark. It was an Awesome trip!
Observational learning
Over the river and through the woods
Who hides in the woods!
Story writing
Writing and illustrating antonyms
Practicing Handwriting
English Language Arts
- Building on listening and comprehension skills students have used writing and illustrations to show their understanding of story details and identify the main idea of a story.
- Students used their creativity and imagination to express their ideas and thoughts by writing and illustrating their own stories as author's and illustrator's during Author's Corner.
- Learning to compare texts and illustrations, students have been working in small groups to identify similarities and differences between stories, text and illustrations. Activities have been enriched and differentiated as needed to meet individual and group goals.
- Students have been learning how to use their informational texts (non-fiction) to research questions and/or compare information. ( TIME books to compare seasons, trees and weather)
- Students continue to reinforce handwriting with various writing tools in both reading and writing centers.
Students have been working with partners to read and practice asking and answering questions about their stories to share thoughts and ideas with peers.
Students continue to practice reading and writing short sentences emphasizing capitals at beginning, finger spacing and punctuation at the end. These skills are differentiated as needed and enriched to show clarity of understanding and use of nouns and adjectives to show greater detail and use of capitals.
During Daily Five reading and writing activities students continue to practice reading, writing and matching consonant blends, digraphs, rhyming words, antonyms and reinforcing their sight and frequency words recognition and use.
Writing sentences
Where is my punctuation?
Found the missing word!
Author's Corner Celebration
Kg Authors and Illustrator's
Enjoying a marshmallow treat with daddy
More yummy goodness!
A family Affair!
Yummy in my tummy!
I filled my belly with all that jelly, and ate and ate all the yummy snacks and then I got my goody packs! It was all so yummy as it filled my tummy!
Friends
MATH
Module 3: Comparing measurable attributes of weight, volume and capacity
- Students compared volume and capacity using rice, water and beans. In small groups and with partners students used balance scales, measuring cups, funnels, containers and spoons to figure out how much something will hold.
- Students continue to work on Module 3 assessments. Will post comments once completed on managebac
- Designed and created cube towers to challenge and answer "How many more to make 10?" Used towers to create a Math City and compare heights to highlight math vocabulary of more, less, taller, shorter, one more.
Module 4: Number Pairs, Addition and Subtraction to 10
- Students began exploring Topic A by revisiting how a whole can be broken into two parts and how two parts can be joined to make a whole. Decomposition and composition are taught simultaneously using the number bond model so students begin to understand the relationship between parts and wholes before adding and subtracting.
- Students worked to make ten with train cubes by adding and composing numbers. EX: "I had 4 train cubes and added 6 more to make ten." Showing this sentence as 4+6=10. For differentiation students used less cubes to make 5, 3+2=5 cubes
- Students learned to use number bonds to compose and decompose numbers.
- Compared greater than and less than with letter train cubes.
One Hundred Day Celebrations
A train of one hundred cubes
One block at a time makes 100!
Froot loops one at a time
100 percent juice and snack
Who will make it to 100?
Making t-shirts in groups of ten
Arabic, Qur'an, & Islamic
Students have learned about two seasons, Summer اصيف and Winterالشتاء. Students used deep thinking to come up with things that personally reflect that season.
Students are now on the letter ك Kaaf
Quran/ Islamic Studies
Students are learning Surah Asr. This Surah speaks on time. Because of the subject of the Surah, students are learning about using their time wisely, as well as using their time for things that are pleasing to Allah.
Such as:
- Reading Quran
- Helping your parents
- Spending time in the Masjid
Science & Social Studies
Social Studies: Geography
- Students have learned about cardinal directions, (North, South, East, West). Through music and movement they have practiced using and identifying these directions to show location on our classroom map and the map of USA.
- Identified and expolored various kids of maps as well as created a classroom map of their own.
Science: Trees and Weather
- As scientists students are recording their observations of the changes occuring in weather and nature in their science journals.
- Created mini-seasonal books
- Classified trees and leaves as seasonal and evergreens.
- Learned about seasonal fruits, seeds and where, when and how they grow.
- Asked and answered questions about how seasonal changes impact animals, people and other living things.
Art
Tree landscape collage
The students further developed their fine motor skills and efficient way to use the art materials while grasping the meaning of the elements of line and shape and the principles of balance and variety in a practical context.
Islamic geometric star - oil pastels
Tree four seasons painting
Students used four squares of mixed media paper (or small canvases) and they traced their left hands. Then they painted the inside of the hand using brown to create a tree and used four different colors to paint the sky in each part.Students used dot painting using Q-tips to represent either the colored fall leaves ,the green summer leaves, the flowers and blossoms in the spring and the snow in the winter.Students interpreted and analysed how the colors and visuals of a natural landscape change over the seasons, and used that analys to choose the color and the technique to use in the tree four seasons painting.
KG Artists at work
Learner Profile Passports
KG Team
- Ms.K- akarachiwalla@tarbiyahacademy.org (Hmrm)
- Ms. Ms. Taame - otaame@tarbiyahacademy.org (Art)
- Ms Sanchez - jsanchez@tarbiyahacademy.org (Arabic, Q,IS)
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