Monday, February 24, 2025

Quarter 3, Week 7 (2/24/25-2/28/25)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

  • Kinder: Students will continue their studies of Claude Monet's bridges with waterlilies. 
  • 1st grade: Students will paint their replicas by Vincent van Gogh.  
  • 2nd grade: Students will begin adding repeating lines to create texture on their flowering gardens replicas. 
  • 3rd grade: Students will finish painting their replicas of Matisses' Goldfish. 

Welch: Art 3-6

  • 3rd Grade: Students will be completing their oil pastel landscapes.
  • 4th Grade: Students will be practicing shading more pointed and straight-edged shapes.
  • 5th Grade: Students will be working on their optical illusion's art pieces.
  • 6th grade: Students will continue working on their colored pencil projects.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream auditions; Parts of the Stage and Vocab Quiz

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

  • Kinder
Students will be able to: Name types of homes where people live, and they will Identify some rooms in a house
  • First Grade
The students will continue learning about places in their community. They will also describe   where someone is located using the verb ESTAR by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 74 and 75
  • Second Grade
The students will continue learning about community workers. They will identify where these workers work by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 64-67

Lee : Latin 3-6

  • 3rd grade will learn stories about Prometheus.
  • 4th grade will learn Greco-Roman myths and practice conjugating verbs.
  • 5th and 6th grades will play Latin Pictionary in preparation for Academic Field Day.

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

  • Kindergarten: The students will practice keeping a steady beat and rhythm through kinesthetic activities.
  • First Grade: The students will practice reading and writing melodies containing la.
  • Second Grade: The students will learn to read and write the do pentatonic scale.

Balmer: Music 3-6

  • 3rd grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Robert Schumann and working on concert selections using solfege to perfect melodies.
  • 4th grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Antonín Dvořák and learning concert literature on solfege.
  • 5th grade: Students will discuss the life and music of Clara Schumann and work on concert literature utilizing solfege.
  • 6th grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Antonín Dvořák and begin working on their first concert selection. They will also review the note names of the treble and bass clef and connections to the keyboard.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

  • Kinder, First, and Second Grade- We will be starting our basketball unit. Scholars will be focusing on dribbling this week.
  • Third Grade- Scholars will continue working on their Fitness Gram tests.

Woods: PE 3-6

  • Sideline Soccer 
    • Team 1 (15 players) will line up on the sideline 
    • Team 2 (15players) will line up on the opposite sideline 
    • Put 3 soccer balls in the middle of the field. 
    • Designate the front and back line 
    • On the whistle the first 5 players from both sides will play. 
    • The remaining players from both sides will be goalies. 
    • If a team scores a goalie, they will receive a point. 
    • After 3-5 mins blow the whistle and the next players will go to the back of the line and the next five players in the front of the line will enter the playing field.

Monday, February 10, 2025

Quarter 3, Week 5 (2/10/25-2/14/25)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

  • Kinder: Students will be introduced to Paul Cezanne and practice creating forms that appear 3D. Use oil pastels to color fruits.
  • 1st grade: Students will complete sketching their houses by Vincent van Gogh.
  • 2nd grade: Students will review the concept of 3D forms and draw a cylinder containing fireflies to show space.
  • 3rd grade: Students will paint their replicas of Matisses' Goldfish.

Welch: Art 3-6

  • 3rd Grade: Students will draw, label, and color a landscape.
  • 4th Grade: Students will practice shading different shapes and forms.
  • 5th Grade: Students will begin unit on optical illusions.
  • 6th Grade: Students will continue working on their colored pencil projects.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

  • Continue table read of A Midsummer Nights Dream and begin preparing for auditions.

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

  • Kinder
    • The students will continue learning about clothing and colors. They will describe the colors and clothing items they like by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 50 -53.
  • First Grade
    • The students will learn about places in their community. They will also describe where someone is located using the verb IR by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 70, 71 and 73.
  • Second Grade
    • The students will learn about community workers. They will identify where these workers work by observing, visualizing, and interpreting pages 62 and 63.

Lee : Latin 3-6

  • 3rd grade will continue learning about the Nominative and Accusative cases and will hear the Greek myth of Prometheus.
  • 4th grade will play conjugation wars, continue learning about the Nominative and Accusative cases, hear the myth of Atalanta, and learn about the Greek poetess Sappho.
  • 5th grade will play conjugation wars and reinforce our understanding of the accusative case and relative pronouns through worksheets.
  • 6th grade will play conjugation wars and begin reading Lingua Latina chapter 4.

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

  • Kindergarten: The students will practice keeping a steady beat and rhythm through kinesthetic activities.
  • First Grade: The students will practice reading and writing melodies containing la.
  • Second Grade: The students will learn to read and write the do pentatonic scale.

Balmer: Music 3-6

  • 3rd grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Robert Schumann and working on concert selections using solfege to perfect melodies.
  • 4th grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Antonín Dvořák and learning concert literature on solfege. 
  • 5th grade: Students will discuss the life and music of Clara Schumann and work on concert literature utilizing solfege.
  • 6th grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Antonín Dvořák and begin working on their first concert selection. They will also review the note names of the treble and bass clef and connections to the keyboard.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

  • K-3 Scholars- will learn how to demonstrate the proper technique for individual sport skills by rotating to different stations.

Woods: PE 3-6

  • Sideline Soccer
Team 1 (15 players) will line up on the sideline
Team 2 (15players) will line up on the opposite sideline
Put 1 soccer ball in the middle of the field.
Designate the front and back line
On the whistle the first 5 players from both sides will play.
The remaining players from both sides will be goalies.
If a team scores a goalie, they will receive a point.
After 3-5 mins blow the whistle and the next players will go to the back of the line and the next five players in the front of the line will enter the playing field.

Objectives
Within small- sided games children are placed in more decision-making moments, as they are more involved in the game throughout.  This will enhance their level of game understanding and knowledge.  Consequently, the pace at which these children learn the game and develop is increased.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Quarter 3, Week 4 (2/3/25-2/7/25)

Art

Hibler: Art K-3

  • Kinder: Students will be introduced to Paul Cezanne and practice creating forms that appear 3D
  • 1st grade: Students will continue practicing different textures by repeating lines. 
  • 2nd grade: Students will review the concept of positive and negative space and create a Notan. 
  • 3rd grade: Students will sketch their replicas of Matisses' Goldfish. 

Welch: Art 3-6

  • 3rd Grade: Students will begin their unit on landscapes.
  • 4th Grade: Students will begin their unit on the element of value.
  • 5th Grade: Students will be painting of Georgia O'Keefe's Coral Flower.
  • 6th Grade: Students will be working on their colored pencil project.

Drama

Lucero: Drama 6

  • Initial table read of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Languages

Puopolo: Spanish K-2

  • KINDER - Students will name articles of clothing and colors, and they will describe the colors and clothing items they like.
  • FIRST GRADE - Students will identify and describe articles of clothing using adjectives for color.
  • SECOND GRADE - Students will name clothes and colors, and they will describe what they do when shopping for clothes.

Lee : Latin 3-6

  • 3rd & 4th grades will
    • read Cambridge Latin Course chapters 1 and 2 and 
    • learn about the nominative and accusative cases
  • 5th and 6th grades will
    • finish Lingua Latina chapter 3 and
    • complete worksheets to practice accusative case and relative pronouns or
    • play conjugation wars

Music

Abrego: Music K-2

  • Kindergarten: The students will learn to aurally analyze sounds on a beat.  
    • The students practice high/low melody and writing. 
  • First Grade: The students will learn to analyze repertoire written in duple meter. 
    • The students will practice writing melodies that include the solfege syllable la. 
  • Second Grade: The students will review the presentation and notation of the do pentatonic scale.

Balmer: Music 3-6

  • 3rd grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Robert Schumann and working on concert selections using solfege to perfect melodies.
  • 4th grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Antonín Dvořák and learning concert literature on solfege. 
  • 5th grade: Students will discuss the life and music of Clara Schumann and work on concert literature utilizing solfege.
  • 6th grade: Students will continue discussing the life and music of Antonín Dvořák and begin working on their first concert selection. They will also review the note names of the treble and bass clef and connections to the keyboard.

Physical Education

Walsh: PE K-3

  • Kinder, First, and Second GradeWe will be starting our basketball unit. Scholars will be focusing on dribbling this week. 
  • Third Grade- Scholars will continue working on their Fitness Gram tests.  

Woods: PE 3-6

Soccer Drills
  • Tapping with the inside foot in stationary place 
  • Next tapping w/ inside football moving forward and backward 
  • Roll the soccer ball in place. 
  • Roll the soccer ball moving in different directions. 
  • Forward, Backward, and Sideways 
The purpose of passing is to keep possession of the ball by maneuvering it on the ground between different players with the objective of advancing it up the field

Quarter 3, Week 7 (2/24/25-2/28/25)

Art Hibler: Art K-3 Kinder: Students will continue their studies of Claude Monet's bridges with waterlilies.  1st grade: Students will p...