Quarter 1, Week 7 (9/23/24-9/27/24)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder will practice cutting out different types of lines. Cut out organic shapes, and trace them. 
• 1st grade will begin drawing their house in a garden after studying how artists used gardens as a subject throughout the centuries. 
• 2nd grade will practice shading skills and apply them to their symmetrical beetles.
• 3rd grade will be drawing birds by using basic shapes to sketch. Read about the artist John James Audubon. 

Welch: Art 3-6

• 3rd grade: Students will begin drawing The Troupial Bird by John James Audubon.
• 4th grade: Students will be learning how to use watercolor pencils by drawing and painting a mini-mushroom house.
• 5th grade: Students will be learning about textures and patterning.
• 6th Grade:  Students will be working on their watercolor pencil techniques by coloring and painting John James Audubon's Great American Eagle.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

• Interested scholars will take part in auditions for As You Like It and all students will begin work on their study guide for the unit test.

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

Kinder

• Students will identify places in their school and provide information about how they are used by visualizing and interpreting pages 88-89 in the textbook through participation during question time. 

First Grade

• The students will learn about the places in a school and the rules they must follow by visualizing and interpreting pages 80-81 in the textbook through participation during question time. Lesson bullet points here

Second Grade

• 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. 

Lee: Latin 3-6

Practice logs are due 9/25 (for B & D classes) and 9/26 (for A & C classes). Make sure parents sign at the top!

Third Grade will:

• understand and respond correctly to simple imperative verbs
• articulate the difference between huc and hic
• make flashcards for new words

Fourth Grade will:

• understand and respond correctly to simple imperative verbs
• master Latin letter names, writing words on the board from called out spellings
• demonstrate the difference between lente and celeriter (slow and fast)
• demonstrate the difference between laevus and dexter

Fifth and Sixth Grades will:

• form grammatically correct Latin sentences
• accurately translate English into Latin
• understand the form and content of next week's Latin test

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kindergarten Students will 
• prepare aural awareness of beat. The students will practice writing loud and soft.
• learn the history of composer George Fredric Handel.     
• begin learning concert song 2.
• First grade students will
• learn the presentation of notation of one and two sounds on a beat.  
• learn the history of composer Franz Schubert.
• begin learning concert song 2.
• Second grade will
• notate do using rhythmic and staff notation. 
• practice singing and reading melodies with the solfege syllables la, so, mi, and do. 
• learn the history of composer Muzio Clementi.
• learn concert song 2.

Balmer: Music 3-6

• Third grade students will
• understand and demonstrate the function of a dotted half note.
• understand and demonstrate the function of and name notes of the Treble Clef.
• explore opera history and production.
• continue preparations for the Fall Concert.
• Fourth grade students will
• name, identify, and draw notes on the Grand Staff.
• explore the history of music from the Classical Era.
• continue preparations for the Fall Concert.
• Fifth grade students will
• identify, define, write, and perform whole steps and half steps.
• perform rhythm patterns including dotted notes and syncopation.
• explore how operas incorporate the Elements of a Story.
• continue preparations for the Fall Concert.
• Sixth grade students will
• identity and notate whole steps and half steps as diatonic or chromatic.
• practice melodic dictation.
• explore the life and music of Francesca Caccini.
• continue preparations for the Fall Concert.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

Kinder through Third Grade Scholars will learn:

• To properly execute the rules of an organized activity
• To work strategically with others on a team
• To demonstrate how to apply the proper underhand, overhand, and catching techniques for some exciting throwing games

Woods: PE 3-6

• Students will be performing an underhand serve and a set pass. 
• Set pass- a redefined overhand pass.  With elbows out, the hands should be raised to a position above the head.  Palms should be out with finger spread and thumbs down.  The arms should extend to meet the balls with
• Underhand serve- a type of serve in which the player holds the ball in one hand, swings the other hand in an arc motion below the waist and strikes the ball from the bottom with a fist to put in play.