Quarter 1 Week 6 (Sept 15-19)

 Art

        Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder - Students will complete their fishbowl project, practicing coloring, cutting, and gluing skills.
• 1st – students will practice drawing lines in different directions and learn terms: horizontal, vertical, diagonal.
• 2nd - Students will complete drawings of beetles using symmetry and add values.
• 3rd - students will be learning how to draw things to make them appear 3D then add shading.

 

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd – The students will continue their replica of Starry Night.
• 4th – Students will continue their replica of Blue Horse I.
• 5th – The students will continue to explore Op Art.
• 6th - The students will be practicing drawing texture focusing on line, and value.

 

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6^th

• 6th - Students will work on their As You Like It plot study guide and begin auditioning.

 

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder - The students will learn the history of El Grito, understand that el Dieciseis is Mexican Independence Day by listening on the teacher’s presentation and lecture.
• 1st - The students will learn the history of El Grito, understand that el Dieciseis is Mexican Independence Day by listening on the teacher’s presentation and lecture.
• 2nd - The students will learn the history of El Grito, understand that el Dieciseis is Mexican Independence Day by listening on the teacher’s presentation and lecture.

 

Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

• 3rd -
• 4th -
• 5th -
• 6th -

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kinder - The students will analyze repertoire sung with a loud or soft voice. The students will practice tuneful singing. Students will continue concert preparations.
• 1st - The students will learn to analyze repertoire that contains one and two sounds on a beat. Students will practice high and low melodic contour. Students will continue concert preparations.
• 2nd - The students will learn the visual representation of a musical phrase that contains do. The students will prepare to internalize a note that lasts two beats through kinesthetic activities. Students will continue concert preparations.

 

Balmer: Music 3-6

All students are continuing preparations for the concert on November 14^th. Please note this change:

            5:30 concert – Kinder, 1^st, and 2^nd grades

            7:15 concert – 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th grades

• 3rd – Students will identify and draw notes on the treble clef staff. The September composer of the month is George Frederic Handel.
• 4th – Students will identify and draw notes on the bass clef staff. The September composer of the month is Franz Schubert.
• 5th – Students are reviewing dynamics and tempo terms. The September composer of the month is Muzio Clementi.
• 6th – Students are reviewing rhythm counting and beginning sight-singing. Our September composer of the month is Gioachino Rossini.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3
 

Kinder: Scholars will learn:

·       - To demonstrate a proper throwing technique

·       -To demonstrate the virtues of honesty and integrity 

1^st: Scholars will learn:

·       -To demonstrate a proper throwing technique

·       -To demonstrate the virtues of honesty and integrity

 

2nd - Scholars will continue to work on volleyball skills. They will learn:

·       -how to apply the proper technique and form for the forearm pass, underhand serve, and set.

·       3rd - Scholars will continue to work on volleyball skills. They will learn:

·       -how to apply the proper technique and form for the forearm pass, underhand serve, and set.

 Boland: PE 3-6

• 3rd – Students will be able to practice football skills suxh as roll out pass and catching over the shoulder.
• 4^th - Students will be able to practice football skills suxh as roll out pass and catching over the shoulder.
• 5th – Students practiced the PACER and Push Up tests this week and will continue the football unit outside next week.
• 6th – Students practiced the PACER and Push Up tests this week and will continue the football unit outside next week.

 

 

Q1 W5 (September 8-12, 2025)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder - Students will use basic shapes to create animals and explore lines by adding texture and patterns.
• 1st – Students will explore the elements of art line, creating a collage of different types of lines. Cutting skills practice with cutting different types of lines.
• 2nd - Students will complete their symmetrical butterflies by cutting out the boarder and making the whole shape symmetrical
• 3rd - Students will continue to explore line by recreating Starry Night using wax resist with watercolors.

 

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd - Students will continue to explore line by recreating Starry Night using oil pastels. 
• 4th - Students will recreate Blue Horse I with watercolors.
• 5th - Continuing our lesson on Optical Art. 
• 6th - Students will incorporate their knowledge of the Elements of art to create texture drawings.

 

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6^th

• 6th - Complete reading of As You Like It and begin preparing for auditions.

 

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder - Students will identify school supplies and provide information about how they are used by visualizing and interpreting pages 96-99 in the textbook through participation during question time.
• 1st - Students will learn how to ask for someone's name, and how to say what their name is.
• 2nd - The students will continue learning about the places in a school and the rules they must follow by visualizing and interpreting pages 90-93 in the textbook through participation during question time.

 

Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

• 3rd -
• 4th -
• 5th -
• 6th -

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kinder - The students will analyze repertoire sung with a loud or soft voice. The students will practice tuneful singing.
• 1st - The students will learn to analyze repertoire that contains one and two sounds on a beat. Students will practice high and low melodic contour.  
• 2nd - The students will learn the visual representation of a musical phrase that contains do. 

 

Balmer: Music 3-6

All students are continuing preparations for the concert on November 14^th. Please note this change:

            5:30 concert – Kinder, 1^st, and 2^nd grades

            7:15 concert – 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th grades

• 3rd – Students will identify and draw notes on the treble clef staff. The September composer of the month is George Frederic Handel.
• 4th – Students will identify and draw notes on the bass clef staff. The September composer of the month is Franz Schubert.
• 5th – Students are reviewing dynamics and tempo terms. The September composer of the month is Muzio Clementi.
• 6th – Students are reviewing rhythm counting and beginning sight-singing. Our September composer of the month is Gioachino Rossini.
  
  

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

• Kinder: Scholars will learn:

- To demonstrate a proper throwing technique

-To demonstrate the virtues of honesty and integrity 

• 1^st: Scholars will learn:

-To demonstrate a proper throwing technique

-To demonstrate the virtues of honesty and integrity 

 

• 2nd - Scholars will begin to work on volleyball skills. They will learn:

-how to apply the proper technique and form for the forearm pass, underhand serve, and set.

• 3rd - Scholars will begin to work on volleyball skills. They will learn:

-how to apply the proper technique and form for the forearm pass, underhand serve, and set.

 

 

Boland: PE 3-6

• 3rd – . This week students worked on dribbling and stopping a ball with their feet and the difference between jumping and hopping. Next week we will begin Fitnessgram tests.
• 4th – This week students worked on dribbling and stopping a ball with their feet and the difference between jumping and hopping. Next week we will begin Fitnessgram tests.
• 5th – This week students practiced rules and strategies for house capture the flag. Next week students try beging first round of Fitnessgram tests.
• 6th – This week students practiced rules and strategies for house capture the flag. Next week students try beging first round of Fitnessgram tests.

 

Quarter 1 Week 4 (Sept. 2-5)

 

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder - Students will complete their drawings of a background from our story, The Shape of Things, and add two cut out shapes to it.
• 1st – Students will create a mosaic with a two color pattern out of foam paper.
• 2nd - Students will use a monotype printing method to create a symmetrical butterfly.
• 3rd - Students will use lines to create a sketch of their portion of the Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.

 

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd - Students will explore line by recreating Starry Night using oil pastels.
• 4th - Students will learn how to simplify Blue Horse I by using shape.
• 5th - Continuing our lesson on Optical Art.
• 6th - Students will discover the Principles of Design and how to apply them.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6^th

• 6th - Continuing our initial table read of As You Like It

 

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder - Students will learn the difference between SENOR and SENORA by looking at the pictures from page 18 of the textbook. They will notice that senora is used for woman and senor for men
• 1st - Students engage in conversation by using phrases and commands associated with bedtime and waking up.
• 2nd - The students will learn about the places in a school and the rules they must follow by visualizing and interpreting pages 90-93 in the textbook through participation during question time.  

 

 

Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kinder - The students will learn to internalize loud or soft singing or chanting voice through kinesthetic activities. The students will practice tuneful singing and reading.
• 1st - The students will review aural presentation and notation of rhythm. The students will learn to analyze repertoire that contains one and two sounds on a beat.  
• 2nd - The students will review the pitch do and practice reading melodies in duple meter. The students will prepare aural awareness for the pitch below mi (re).  

 

Balmer: Music 3-6

        All classes and grade levels are reviewing and performing basic rhythm patterns and            working on our 1st concert selections. The Fall Concert is set for Friday, November            14th.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

• Kinder - Scholars will learn to work with a parachute to work on listening skills, coordination, moving at various levels, and teamwork.
• 1st – Scholars will learn to work with a parachute to work on listening skills, coordination, moving at various levels, and teamwork.
• 2nd - Scholars will learn how to properly execute the rules of an organized activity to work strategically with others on a team. Scholars will also learn to demonstrate a proper throwing technique.
• 3rd - Scholars will learn how to properly execute the rules of an organized activity to work strategically with others on a team. Scholars will also learn to demonstrate a proper throwing technique.

 

 

Boland: PE 3-6

• 3rd – Students continue to practice classroom rules and procedures while learning new skills such as Athletic Position, Mirroring, and Deceleration.
• 4th – Students continue to practice classroom rules and procedures while learning new skills such as Athletic Position, Mirroring, and Deceleration.
• 5th – Students created their PE teams this week along with new Movement Prep spots. Great leadership opportunities come with this and new captain roles. We will be outside next week to continue our Flag Football unit lessons 3-4
• 6th – Students created their PE teams this week along with new Movement Prep spots. Great leadership opportunities come with this and new captain roles. We will be outside next week to continue our Flag Football unit lessons 3-4

Quarter 1 Week 3 (8/25/25 - 8/29/25)

 

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder - students will draw shapes together and combine shapes to make new things.
• 1st - students will learn about mosaics and create a draft of a mosaic with a pattern using two colors.
• 2nd - students will read Seeing Symmetry and create symmetrical cut outs.
• 3rd - students will be introduced to the artist Vincent van Gogh and observe the Starry Night. Begin working with the element of art line.

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd - The students will draw and describe different types of lines, and its relation to patterns.
• 4th - The students will break down drawing intricate objects using simplified shapes.
• 5th - The students will learn about and create Optical Art.
• 6th - The students will learn the Principles of Design.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder - The students will practice saying goodbye through gestures. They will waive their hand and say adios.
• 1st - The students will learn different ways to introduce themselves by using the textbook to visualize and visually identify the context in which they are said.
• 2nd - The students will learn different ways to introduce themselves by using the textbook to visualize and visually identify the context in which they are said.

Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

• 3rd & 4th - Continuing Chapter 1 of Minimus, learning to make Latin flashcards and Latin Bingo!
• 5th - We have begun our first chapter of Lingua Latina for the school year! Students are beginning with reading basic sentences focused around a map of the Roman Empire.
• 6th - We are reviewing Chapter 1 of Lingua Latina currently and will work through Chapter 4 by end of Quarter 1.

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kinder - The students will learn to develop tuneful singing, beat skills, listening skills, and learn song repertoire. The students will learn the history and music of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
• 1st - The students will learn the visual and aural presentation of rhythm. The students will learn the history and music of composer Francois Couperin.
• 2nd - The students will learn the visual awareness and aural presentation of 2/4 meter. The students will learn the history and music of composer Dominico Scarlatti.

Balmer: Music 3-6

• 3rd – Students are reviewing concepts from 2nd grade music including meter, measures, bar lines, and time signatures. They are also learning proper singing posture and techniques. We are finishing our study of Johann Sebastian Bach.
• 4th – Students are reviewing concepts from 3rd grade music including lines and spaces of the treble clef, pentatonic scale, and rhythm counting. We are reviewing proper singing posture and vocal techniques. We are completing our study of François Couperin.
• 5th – Students are reviewing concepts from 4th grade music including note names of the treble and bass clefs, rhythm counting, and major scales. We are reviewing singing techniques and wrapping up our study of Domenico Scarlatti.
• 6th – Students are reviewing concepts from 5th grade music including note names of the Grand Staff, ledger lines, major and minor scales. Students are perfecting singing techniques and finishing up our study of Antonin Vivaldi.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

• Kindergarten and 1st - demonstrate space awareness, effort, and locomotor movements through movements with their hula hoops.
• 2nd and 3rd Grade
• will demonstrate locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in personal and general space
• will participate in team building activities to strategize and communicate with classmates.

Boland: PE 3-6

Quarter 4, Week 2 (3/24/25-3/28/25)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• kinder: students will mix primary colored air dry clay to create secondary colors.
• 1st: students will glue still life items cut out previously and draw their original still life's into their sketchbooks. Practicing space and perspective
• 2nd: review how to create 3D forms and how colors/ values can help make objects appear 3D.
• 3rd: students will continue coloring their Starry Night replicas with oil pastels, practicing blending and layering techniques.

Welch: Art 3-6

• 3rd: finishing complementary colors project.
• 4th: working on Monet waterlilies
• 5th: working on one-point perspective buildings
• 6th: finishing radial designs

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

• Finish costumes and begin blocking A Midsummer Night's Dream

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder

By the end of the lesson, students will understand the difference between singular (amigo) and plural (amigos).

• First grade

Students will be able to recognize vowels and vowels sounds in Spanish.

• Second grade

By the end of the lesson, students will describe the location of a person or place using the verb ESTAR (to be).

Lee : Latin 3-6

• 3rd and 4th grades are reading chapter 3 of Cambridge Latin Course
• 5th grade is finishing chapter 4 of Lingua Latina and beginning chapter 5
• 6th grade is reviewing chapter 4 of Lingua Latina in preparation for a test next week

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• bullet points

Balmer: Music 3-6

• 3rd grade is finishing up our study of Claude Debussy and working on concert songs.
• 4th grade is finishing up our study of Igor Stravinsky and working on concert songs and chimes playing technique.
• 5th grade is finishing up our study of Scott Joplin and working on concert songs. We are also learning how to build major scales on the keyboard and staff.
• 6th grade is finishing up our study of Igor Stravinsky and working on our concert songs.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

*K-2 scholars will continue working on baseball skills. They will learn: 

-how to correctly run through the bases. 

-to demonstrate proper technique for throwing, catching, and batting. 

-how to demonstrate teamwork in a modified baseball game.

*Third Grade will learn how to apply the proper dribbling and shooting techniques during lead up basketball games. 

Woods: PE 3-6

Shooting, Around the World

Set up five poly-spots about 5-10 feet from the baskets.

Beginning in athletic position, students should hold the ball properly: the shooting hand goes under the ball, the support hand is on the side of the ball holding it steady. Their feet should be square to the basket. They should gain power through their legs by extending their hips and knees fully, then make their arms extend up towards the basket. At full arm extension, they should follow through, by snapping their wrist to shoot the ball forward.

Students will practice shooting one at a time, taking 3 shots from each of the poly-spots. Other squad members will retrieve the rebound and bounce-pass it back to the shooter.

Defense, Triple Threat

Set up squad stations with four half-cones about 10-15 yards apart, creating a square boundary with a basket on one side of the square.

Explain simple strategies for playing defense effectively. Students should put themselves between the opponent and the basket. They should slide their feet and keep their hands in a defensive position to prevent easy ball movement.

Additionally, explain the triple threat on offense. Students should look to the basket for an easy shot, look to pass to an open player, or dribble to avoid defense and create an opportunity for teammates.

Students will begin playing 4-on-1 to allow the offense to create chances for themselves to score. The offense should complete a number of passes before attempting to score. The offense will play for 3 minutes and then switch with the defense. 

Progress into 3-on-2 with the defense staying in a zone to protect the basket.