Special Guests Last Week

Last Thursday, one of the seniors, Brigitte,came to speak to our class about Frogs.  She gave a great PowerPoint presentation and then took our class to the nature trail for a frog egg hunt.  One egg had a note inside and the student who found that egg won a special prize – a stuffed frog.  Brigitte also gave us frog shaped gummies and baked frog shaped cookies.  What a fun day!

Thanks Brigitte!

Learning about frogs

Heading to the Nature Trail

Looking for eggs

Getting goodies for finding eggs

Thanks Brigitte!

On Friday, Ms. Pereira from the office came and spoke to our class about her experiences growing up during apartheid.  Ms. Pereira is from South Africa, and she was able to answer the students’ questions about apartheid and how it made her feel.  In Social Studies we are learning about history, time lines, family trees, etc.  One of the ways your child can learn about the past is by talking to elders like Ms. Pereira, Ms. D’Este, myself and family members.  This is why their recent homework has involved family help.  Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed being a part of these lessons as well.

Learning about Apartheid from Ms. Pereira

Lastly, CONGRATULATIONS to the JV Girls Basketball team for winning the VANAS tournament.  They were undefeated!  Great work girls and Coach Hall!

Champions!

See you tomorrow!

~Ms. Gordon and Ms. D’Este

Time lines due Monday. Iowa testing this week.

Your time lines are due on Monday.  Here are some examples:

Example time line

Lego time line

Benjamin Franklin time line

Good luck!  See you Monday

Ms. Gordon & Ms. D’Este

1st Annual Wearable Art Fashion Show, High School Musical, and Assembly Presentation

Wow!  Last week was packed.  There were many events happening at CIC.  Take a look…

1st Annual Wearable Art Fashion Show

Our wonderful models

CIC Cheerleaders

On the catwalk

The MC's for the event

Recycled fashion from head to toe

Another model

All of the models and designers

High School Musical

The rising 6th graders also participated in the play

The cast and crew

Assembly time

Singing at the assembly

What a great week it was.  Thank you families for coming out and supporting our class at the assembly on Friday!

Ms. Gordon & Ms. D’Este

Weekend Homework! :)

Students, your homework for the weekend is to interview an older member of your family using the interview questions you wrote in your Social Studies center.  You must also make a family tree.  Please go back to at least your grandparents.  You may put pictures on your family tree, if you like, but it is not a requirement.  Here is an example of a family tree, and another one.    Good luck!

Ms. Gordon & Ms. D’Este

777 Program at Friday’s Assembly – Music and Lyrics below

Families,

We remind you that your child will be presenting at this Friday’s assembly.   Our theme is “Honesty”.  You are invited to attend.  We hope to see you at 7:50.  The song and lyrics are here.  Students, remember that we are not singing the last verse of the song.

Math Links:  Money, BrainPop Jr. – Dollars & Cents, Equivalent Coins, Counting Coins

Ms. Gordon & Ms. D’Este

A recap of last week

Even though we just spent 9 days away from school, we got right back into the swing of things on Monday.  We began the final theme from our reading anthology, Talent Show, with a story by author and illustrator Tommie dePaola.  The Art Lesson is a story about a young boy named Tommy.  Tommy loves to draw and wants to become an artist when he grows up.  Our learning centers covered spelling, vocabulary from the story, grammar (past tense), phonics, guided reading, writing, and online activities.  We also learned about an author’s viewpoint.  We took our spelling and vocabulary tests; afterwards, the class made a list of five things they might like to do when they grow up and then drew a picture of that profession.

Aunque solo pasamos nueve días fuera del colegio, el lunes comenzamos nuestra semana con muchas ganas. Empezamos el ultimo tema de nuestro libro de lectura, que se llama El Show de Talento, el nuevo tema empezó con un cuento de un autor llamado Tommie dePaola.  Su cuento se llama La Clase de Arte. Este cuento trata de un niño llamado Tommy a quien le encanta dibujar  y quiere ser un artista cuando crezca. Nuestros centros de aprendizaje cubrieron temas de gramática, vocabulario, fonética, lectura guiada, escritura y actividades en el internet. También aprendimos lo que es el punto de vista de alguien, sobre todo el autor del cuento. Tuvimos nuestra prueba de deletreo y vocabulario, luego los niños hicieron una lista de cosas que les gusta hacer y luego de ahí escogieron algo que les gustaría que fuera su profesión cuando crezcan y hicieron dibujos.

In math, we continued learning about measurement, but moved on from using centimeters, decimeters, meters,  inches, feet, and yards to miles and kilometers.  We also learned more about perimeter and how to find the perimeter of different shapes.

En matemáticas aún continuamos aprendiendo sobre medidas, fuimos de centímetros a decímetros, luego empezamos metros, pulgadas, pies, yardas y llegamos hasta metros y kilómetros. También aprendimos sobre perímetro y como conseguir el perímetro de diferentes formas.

In science, we finished up our unit on water, by applying previously learned knowledge about evaporation, condensation and precipitation as well as learning how water is filtered.  Ms. D’Este led the small groups in a water filtering activity which clearly showed how we are able to reuse water that was once dirty.

En ciencias,  terminamos nuestra unidad sobre el agua, donde trabajamos con evaporación, precipitación, condensación y la filtración de agua. Ms. D’Este guío a los niños en grupos pequeños en una actividad de filtración, donde filtraron agua sucia utilizando diferentes filtros, para que aprendieran como se recicla el agua.

We are also preparing for our upcoming assembly presentation on “Honesty”.  We will present on Friday April 27 at 7:55.  Families, you are invited to support your child.  We hope to see you there!

Este mes le toco a segundo grado presentar sobre valores en una asamblea de niños de primaria. Nos estamos preparando para nuestra presentación sobre la honestidad, la cual será presentada a los niños de primaria el día viernes 27 de abril a las 7.55 am. Están invitados a apoyar a sus hijos. Esperamos verlos ahí!

Ms. Gordon and Ms. D’Este

Art connection to the story The Art Lesson

Demonstrating capacity to the class

Student-made science board about Water

Pictionary center: a student defines different words related to water

A student reads about the water cycle

Students in the computer center watch a video about water

Science centers: Students read about water

Students filter water and learn how we are able to reuse water

Students learn how water wheels create water power

Shopping at our class "store"

A student "pays" for her items.

Student Links for this Week & Spanish Book Fair Tomorrow!

Reading:

Adjectives & Adverbs

Subject & Verb Agreement

Mathematics:

Cups Pints Quarts & Gallons

Perimeter

Area

Ounces, Pounds and Tons

Capacity: Pour to Score

Capacity:  Can you Fill It?

Perimeter:  Airline Builder

Science:

Physical & Chemical Changes

Solids, Liquids & Gases

Water Filtration Process

YouTube Water Filtration Video

Recent Events at CIC

This has been a busy past two weeks at CIC.  Here is a post of pictures that show Vocabulary Hat Day, some science experiments, and the Art Show.

Vocabulary Hats

Mixed up snack with Ms. B's class

"Communication"

Students watch as their hot water disperses and then floats

A student's journal description illustrates how hot and cold things float and sink

A group works on their Evaporation experiment

A proud artist and mom

Another proud artist and her family

All of this art is by this student

Monkey!

We also celebrated "Yoda's" birthday

What a great and busy two weeks!

Student Links for This Week

Reading:

Online Reading Book

Pick the Correct Contraction

Contraction Memory Match

Fill it In Contraction Game

BrainPOP Jr. Sequencing

BrainPOP Jr. Tenses

BrainPOP Jr. Contractions

Mathematics:  Measurement

BrainPOP Jr. Inches & Feet

BrainPOP Jr. cm, m, km

How Tall- Curious George

Send in the Trolls

Science:

BrainPOP Jr. Changing States of Matter

Magic School Bus

BrainPOP Jr. Sink or Float

Water Cycle

Vocabulary Hat Day – This Friday!

Families,

Familias,

Vocabulary Hat Day & Mixed Up Snack is tomorrow, March 23rd.  We will be with Ms. Bodeman’s class.  Here is the list of words that the students should make a hat for:

El Día del Sombrero de Vocabulario es manana 23 de Marzo.  Estaremos tomando nuestro desayuno con los niños de la clase de Ms. Bodeman. Aquí esta la lista de las palabras que sus hijos escogieron para su sombrero.

1. Cloud
2. Sand
3. Rain Gauge
4. Technology
5. Sculpture
6. Globe
7. Communication
8. Symbol
9. Transportation
10. Clay
11. Magma
12. Island
13. Recycle
14. Map
15. Aggregated
16. Natural Resource

Remember, the vocabulary words should NOT be printed on the hat.  Rather, make picture clues so others can guess the correct vocabulary word.  Have fun!

Recuérdense que la palabra no debe estar escrita en el sombrero. En vez de escribirlo en el sombrero, deberían hacer dibujos o ponerle cosas al sombrero que lleven a los demás niños a adivinar la palabra correspondiente. Diviértanse!

Ms. Gordon & Ms. D’Este