Quarter 2, Week 9 (12/16/24 - 12/20/24)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder: All students will receive work back from the first semester (in take home folders) on Monday/ Tuesday. Add background to the landscape. 
• 1st: All students will receive work back from the first semester (in take home folders) on Monday/ Tuesday. Students will complete their self portraits. 
• 2nd: All students will receive work back from the first semester (in take home folders) on Monday/ Tuesday. Complete Matisse flower vases 
• 3rd: All students will receive work back from the first semester (in take home folders) on Monday/ Tuesday. Complete the leaves on the Audubon birds.

Welch: Art 3-6

• 3rd Grade: Students will begin their unit on Van Gogh's, Starry Night.
• 4th Grade: Students will continue their colored pencil project (coloring a vintage apple illustration).
• 5th Grade: Students will practice using oil pastels with different color combinations.
• 6th Grade: Students will work on their color assessment project (drawing and coloring a hobbit house).

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

As You Like It dress rehearsals and production

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

• Kinder, First and Second Grade
• Students will learn the names of winter clothes by listening to the story “Froggy se viste,” and they will also learn how frogs survive winter by observing, visualizing and making connections while they are looking at pictures in the story. 

Lee : Latin 3-6

• All grades will:
• play "Euge" (Latin Bingo)
• learn about Saturnalia (the Roman winter festival)

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kindergarten
• The students will learn to create a representation of high and low in a melody. The students will practice fast and slow and improvisation.  
• First Grade
• The students will practice writing musical patterns that contain a rest.   
• The students will learn to improvise a four-beat rhythm including quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests.   
• Second Grade
• The students will learn to label four sounds on a beat with the rhythm syllables takadimi. 

Balmer: Music 3-6

• All grades will learn about George Gershwin.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

• Kinder thru Third Grade Scholars will learn:
• how to work together as a team and how to demonstrate good sportsmanship during some exciting cardio winter games!

Woods: PE 3-6 

Mari’s Wedding 

• Set-up
1. Ladies/follows on the outside circle 
2. Gentlemen/leads on the inside circle 
3. Hold hand of partner 
• Learn the steps 
1. 8 steps clockwise 
2. 4 skips forward 
3. Rotate 180 degrees 
4. 4 skips backward 
5. 8 steps counterclockwise 
6. 4 skips forward 
7. Rotate 180 degrees 
8. 4 skips backward 
9. Jump into the middle 
10. Jump to the outside 
11. Switch places 
12. Jump in  
13. Jump out 
14. Hand off (switch places) 
15. Lady/follow should end up back on the outside with a new partner and gentleman should be back on the inside.

Quarter 2, Week 8 (12/9/24 - 12/13/14)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder: Students will be introduced to oil pastels and practice blending colors.   
• 1st: Students will add color to their self-portraits.
• 2nd: Students will continue adding color to Matisse's Still Life of Peonies in a Vase with oil pastels. 
• 3rd: Students will continue to color their Audubon birds.   

Welch: Art 3-6

• 3rd: Students will complete their Matisse, "Goldfish", painting
• 4th: Students will begin colored theory unit and colored pencil project.
• 5th: Students will begin color theory unit.
• 6th: Students will begin color theory unit.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

• As You Like It rehearsals and final preparation 

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

Kinder, First Grade and Second Grade

• Students will continue learning about family members through participating during question time.

Lee : Latin 3-6 

• 3rd and 4th grades
• Greco-Roman myths
• 5th and 6th grades
• Euge (Latin Bingo) and Q2 test

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

• Kindergarten:
• The students will learn to internalize high and low pitches through kinesthetic activities. 
• The students will practice fast and slow and reading. 
• Students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of Mozart. 
• First Grade:
• The students will learn the notation of the quarter rest.  
• The students will read rhythmic patterns that contain rests.   
• Students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of Felix Mendelssohn.  
• Second Grade:
• The students will learn how to analyze repertoire that contains four sounds on a beat
• The students will learn how to create a visual representation of four sounds on a beat.  
• Students will identify the musical era, musical themes, and biography of Fanny Mendelssohn.

Balmer: Music 3-6

• All grades will learn about George Gershwin.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

• Kinder through Third Grade Scholars will learn:
• how to properly execute football catches and throws.  
• to identify the roles and responsibilities of the quarterback and the wide receiver 

Woods: PE 3-6

Tic-Tac-Toe Relay-

• Set up three tic-tac-toes on the other end of the basketball court.
• Split students up into six squads and assign them to a tall cone at the starting line.
• Squads next to each other will compete head-to-head on the same game board.
• On “Go” one student in each line races to the cones and places a marker (bag) on top, then returns to their line. Only one marker can be placed on each cone, so use rock, paper, scissors if there’s a tie.
• The next person may go once the person in front of them returns to the line and tag their hand
• Each team is attempting to place the marker on three consecutive cones to three in a row (tic-tac-toe).
• If all three markers have been used, the next student(s) to go are allowed to run down and move ONE of THEIR bags to an open cone.
• When a student (squad) wins, they must raise their hands overhead and declare “Tic-Tac-Toe, Three-In-A-Row!”
• Rotate the lines every so often so that squads can compete against different teams

Quarter 2, Week 7 (12/2/24 - 12/6/24)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

• Kinder: Students will study landscapes and draw with charcoal.   
• 1st: Students will complete their self-portraits.
• 2nd: Students will continue adding color to Matisse's Still Life of Peonies in a Vase with tempera paints. 
• 3rd: Students will continue to color their Audubon birds.   

Welch: Art 3-6

• 3rd Grade: Students will continue to work on Matisse's Goldfish painting.
• 4th Grade: Students will continue to work on color theory and colored pencil techniques.
• 5th Grade: Students will be completing Durer's Rhino and beginning color theory.
• 6th Grade: Students will continue to work on shading art project.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

As You Like It rehearsals.

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

Kinder

• Students will learn the names of the family members and introduce them by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 20-21 in the textbook.  

First Grade

• The students will learn the name of the family members (miembros de la FAMILIA) by visualizing and interpreting pages 28 and 29 in textbook through participation during question time. 

Second Grade

• Students will learn the names of the family members and introduce them by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 20-23 in the textbook.   

Lee : Latin 3-6

Practice logs for 5th and 6th grades are due 12/4 (A and C sections) and 12/5 (B and D sections). I am extending the deadline for 3rd and 4th grades to 12/9 (B and D) and 12/10 (A and C).

3rd and 4th grade students will:

• learn the Tim's Parents song about the functions of the noun cases;
• learn how to conjugate verbs in the present tense;
• practice conjugating verbs.

5th and 6th grade students will:

• write a paragraph in Latin about their families.

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

All grades will review the concert.

Balmer: Music 3-6

All grades will review the 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

Fitness Gram: Testing

The pacer test helps determine if a student is within the healthy fitness zone of if they require further support to reach their fitness goal 

• Monday- Height/Weight and Trunk Lift- Blue Day
• Tuesday - Height/Weight and Trunk Lift - Red Day
• Wednesday - Pacer Test - Blue Day - Blue Day
• Thursday - Pacer Test Red Day
• Friday - Fun Friday