Q2 Week 1 (October 6-10)

 

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder – students will watercolor on top of their previously drawn crayon fall leaves and observe the wax resist.
• 1st – students will practice oil pastel blending techniques and learn how to shade from light to dark.
• 2nd –  students will learn about Victorian architecture and recreate a building using lines and shapes.
• 3rd -  students will complete their van Gogh sketches, replicating the Street in Saint Maries.

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd – Students will complete their replica of Woman in Front of the Sun by Joan Miro.
• 4th – Students will complete their Blue Horse I replicas and study other art pieces by Franz Marc.
• 5th – Students will apply their knowledge of texture for a detailed drawing of a chameleon.
• 6th - Students will complete their line/pattern hand project.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6^th

• 6th - Finish blocking As You Like It

 

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder –Students will identify singular and plural school supplies and provide information about how they are used by visualizing and interpreting pages 100 and 101 in the textbook through participation during question time.
• 1st - Students will learn and identify different school yard games in Chile and in their own school by using the textbook and workbook to visualize and visually identify the context in which they are said.
• 2nd - The students will continue learning about the days of the week and the activities they do, and they will also learn to make sentences by writing on their desks and visualizing and interpreting pages 102-103 in the textbook through participation during question time.

Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

• 3rd - Begin Chapter 3 of Minimus and continue learning the Latin Gender song!
• 4th - Begin Chapter 3 of Minimus and continue learning the Latin Gender song!
• 5th – Begin Chapter 2 of Lingua Latina   
• 6th -  Continue reading Chapter 3 of Lingua Latina

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

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

 

• Kinder -
• The students will learn to internalize high/low voice through kinesthetic activities and continue practicing steady beat and music reading.
• The students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of George Fredric Handel. 
• The students will audition for speaking parts for the Winter concert.
• 1st –

o   The students will learn to label two pitches with the solfege syllables so-mi.

o   The students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of George Fredric Handel.

o   The students will audition for speaking parts for the Winter concert.

•  2nd -

o   The students will internalize the pitch, re, between mi and do through kinesthetic activities and practice reading rhythm patterns that contain a half note.

o   The students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of Muzio Clementi.

o   The students will audition for speaking parts for the Winter concert.

 

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

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3
 Kinder-Third Grade:

 

*Scholars will begin to prepare for Field Day! Field Day is coming soon! Please save the following dates to your calendars:

-October 29^th- 1^st & 2^nd Field Day

-October 30th- 3^rd & 4^th in the morning and Kinder Field Day in the afternoon

-October 31^st- 5^th & 6^th Field Day

 

Boland: PE 3-6

• 3rd – Students will be finishing their Fitnessgram testing.
• 4^th - Students will be finishing their Fitnessgram testing.
• 5th – Students will continue the volleyball unit.
• 6th – Students will continue the volleyball unit.

 

 

Q1 Week 8 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

 

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder – Students will continue practicing cutting skills with organic shapes and learn to identify the difference between organic and geometric shapes.
• 1st – Students will complete their coloring of their house in a garden and practice using distinct values.
• 2nd – Students will complete coloring their landscapes, identifying textures and values.
• 3rd -  Students will complete their van gogh inspired sketches, using the element of art line.

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd – Students will create a replica of Joan Miro’s Woman in Front of the Sun.
• 4th –  Students will continue to explore Franz Marc’s animal pieces.
• 5th – Students will apply their knowledge of value to drawing texture.
• 6th - Students will create a hand project focusing on lines and patterns.

 Drama

Lucero: Drama 6^th

• 6th - Continue blocking As You Like It

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder - Students will identify singular and plural school supplies and provide information about how they are used by visualizing and interpreting pages 100 and 101 in the textbook through participation during question time.
• 1st - The students will identify classes and subjects in Chile and in their own school by visualizing and interpreting pages 104 and 105 in the textbook through participation during question time.
• 2nd - The students will continue learning about the days of the week and they will also discuss what they do on certain days of the week by practicing the verb form VOY and visualizing and interpreting pages 100-101 in the textbook through participation during question time.

 Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

• 3rd - Completing Chapter 2 of Minimus, Vocab and gender review, Greek Myth
• 4th - Completing Chapter 2 of Minimus, Vocab and gender review, Greek Myth
• 5th -  Chapter 1 Test & test review          
• 6th - Study Guide Review and Chapter 1-2 Review Test

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

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

 

• Kinder -  The students will label the beat, introduce the beat icon, and present the word “beat.” Students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of George Fredric Handel. 
• 1st - The students will prepare to analyze repertoire that contains so-mi. The students will practice writing musical patterns that contain quarter and eighth notes.  Students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of George Fredric Handel. 
• 2nd - The students will learn to label one sound that lasts two beats with the rhythm syllable ta-ah. The students will learn the history and music of composer Muzio Clementi.

 

 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 understand and demonstrate the function of the dotted quarter note and explore the music of Rossini and Beethoven.
• 4th – Students will name, identify, and draw the names of the treble and bass clef ledger lines and explore the life and music of Guillaume de Machaut.
• 5th – Students will name the notes of the Grand Staff and perform the major and minor scales by interval pattern. We will begin exploring the life and music of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky.
• 6th – Students will identify accidentals and enharmonic notes. We will begin exploring the life and music of Francesca Caccini.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3
 Kinder-Third Grade:

·      Scholars will continue to learn how to:

o      To demonstrate a proper throwing technique

o      To demonstrate the virtues of honesty and integrity 

 

Boland: PE 3-6

• 3rd – Students will be outside again with the football unit
• 4^th - Students will be outside again with the football unit
• 5th – Students will be outside again with the football unit
• 6th – Students will be outside again with the football unit

 

 

Quarter 1 Week 7 (Sept. 22-26)

 

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder – students will continue to learn about organic shapes and practice cutting skills.
• 1st – students will complete their drawings of a house in a garden and add color.
• 2nd – students will begin drawing a road using linear perspective (space), and add texture.
• 3rd - students will study the work of Vincent van Gogh and recreate a sketch using lines they identify.

Bissey: Art 3-6

• 3rd – Students will explore the work of Joan Miro and create a piece inspired by his work.
• 4th – Students will add watercolor to their Blue Horse I drawings.
• 5th – Students will practice drawing with value.
• 6th - Students will practice drawing with value and form.

 

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6^th

• 6th - Finish auditions and begin reviewing for As You Like It part 1 quiz.

 

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder - Students will identify school supplies and provide information about are used by visualizing and interpreting pages 96-98 in the textbook through participation during question time
• 1st - The students will learn about the places in a school and the rules they must follow by visualizing and interpreting pages 80 and 81 in the textbook through participation during question time.
• 2nd - The students will learn about the days of the week by visualizing and interpreting pages 98-99 in the textbook through participation during question time.

 

Fasenmyer: Latin 3-6

• 3rd - Completing Chapter 2 of Minimus & review!
• 4th - Completing Chapter 2 of Minimus & review!
• 5th - Review and Study Guide for Chapter 1 of Lingua Latina.
• 6th - Review and Study Guide for Chapter 1-2 of Lingua Latina and beginning Chapter 3 review.

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

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

 

• Kinder -  The students will prepare to internalize beat through kinesthetic motions. The students will practice singing in a loud or soft voice. The students will continue concert preparations.
• 1st - The students will learn the presentation of notation of one and two sounds on a beat. The students will continue concert preparations.
•  2nd - The students will prepare to internalize a sound that lasts for two beats through kinesthetic activities. The students will practice singing and reading melodies with the solfege syllables la, so, mi, and do. The 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 read and perform rhythm patterns including dotted half note and continue exploring the life and music of George Frederic Handel.
• 4th – Students will name and label notes of the Grand Staff and continue exploring the life and music of Franz Schubert.
• 5th – Students will name and write half steps and whole steps on the piano keyboard and define sharp, flat and natural while continuing to explore the life and music of Muzio Clementi.
• 6th – Students will read and perform rhythm patterns including syncopation and pick up notes while exploring the life and music of Giaochino Rossini.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3
 

Kinder-Third Grade:

·      Scholars will learn how to:

o   To demonstrate a proper throwing technique

o   To demonstrate the virtues of honesty and integrity 

 

Boland: PE 3-6

• 3rd – Students will continue with Fitnessgram tests which include the Curl Up test and the Trunk Lift.
• 4^th - Students will continue with Fitnessgram tests which include the Curl Up test and the Trunk Lift.
• 5th – . Students will continue with Fitnessgram tests which include the Curl Up test and the Trunk Lift.
• 6th – Students will continue with Fitnessgram tests which include the Curl Up test and the Trunk Lift.

 

 

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.