THIRD & FOURTH GRADES UPDATE: 1/14/2010

THIRD GRADE:
Since the holidays,the children have celebrated and discussed THREE KING'S DAY (1/6) and have learned a new verb (Estudio/I study). They've also started to ask and answer a question about what they do in their clases:

¿Qué haces en la clase de español? (What do you do in Spanish class?)
Estudio en la clase de español. (I study in Spanish class.)

Vocabulary:
la clase de español - Spanish Class
la clase de ciencia - Science Class
la clase de arte - Art Class
la clase de estudios sociales - Social Studies Class
la clase de educación física - Physical Education Class
la clase de inglés - English Class
la clase de matemáticas - Math Class
la clase de música - Music Class
la hora de recreo - Recess

FOURTH GRADE:

The fouth grade has also discussed "Three King's Day," and have pretended to be a child from Puerto Rico by symbolically filling a shoe box with grass for the King's camels, and waiting until the next moring to find three gifts from theM. Our class gifts have been three wonderful books which the students have explored and presented to the class.

The fourth graders are currently working on a translation activity where they look up four Spanish sentences which represent the Three King's gifts they themselves would ask for, for themselves, friends, classmates, parents and the world. After figuring out the sentence meanings, they've discussed what gifts they would choose, and are now writing their answers in Spanish.

IMPORTANT DEADLINE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19TH., SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION SHEETS ARE DUE. THESE TELL ME WHETHER OR NOT YOUR CHILD HAS READ THE INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STORY TO YOU. THANK YOU FOR GETTING THESE IN TO ME BY THE DUE DATE.