Music - K-2 - Ms. Caranto

This week in Music with Miss Caranto -

·      Kinder will be:

o   Practicing new musical terms (forte, piano) with known songs

o   Practicing reading other known musical terms with known chants and songs

·      1^st Grade will be:

o   Practicing the new rhythmic element (quarter rest)

o   Practicing reading rhythms and identifying and correcting errors in rhythms of known songs

o   Reviewing known solfege/hand signs and music theory concepts

·      2^nd Grade will be:

o   Learning and practicing a new melodic element (re)

o   Reviewing known solfege + music theory concepts

Spanish - K-2 Ms. Fernandez

Students in Kinder will learn about the four seasons (estaciones): winter (invierno), spring (primavera), summer (verano) and fall (otono).

 

Students in 1^st grade will provide information about his/her house (casa): door (puerta), window (ventana) and roof (techo). Students will continue to review previously learned concepts.

 

Students in 2^nd grade will use the impersonal se with the verb poder and the adverb como to provide information about what parts of plants can be eaten (plantas que alimentan) as well as review what plants need to grow: sun (sol), water (agua), and dirt (tierra).

 

Spanish - Ms. Fernandez - K-2nd

Students in K, 1^st, and 2^nd will  understand the relationship between the practices and perspectives of Spanish speaking cultures as we learn about  Three King’s Day (El Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos).  

 

Students in Kinder will begin a unit on the four seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall.  (Las estaciones: invierno, primavera, verano y otono.)

 

Students in 1^st  grade  will continuing describing items as being up above or down below. (Arriba o abajo”.)

 

Students in 2^nd grade will use interrogative words and the verbs necesitar and ser to provide information about the essential parts of plants and what they need to grow. (Que necesitan las plantas?)

Music - Mrs. Trujillo - 3rd - 4th

3^rd Grade Music

Week of  January 8

This week we will explore:

         *Practice identifying Pentatonic Scale

         *Sing Pentatonic Scale

         *Write Solfege for Pentatonic Scale

        

Where words fail, music speaks.

                                              Hans Christian Andersen

4^th Grade Music

Week of  January 8

This week we will explore:

         *The Keyboard

         *Whole Steps

         *Half Steps

         *Diatonic Movement on Staff/Keyboard

Where words fail, music speaks.

                                              Hans Christian Andersen

Art - Mr. Donoho - 4th - 6th

I hope everyone had a great winter break!  We're ready to kick off the last week official of the semester by getting the kids ready for the next units.

4th Grade:
It's finally time to break out the brushes.  The students are beginning to use watercolor to apply what they learned from shading by painting spheres and other objects with watercolor.  The main principles we are covering this week are our procedures for setting up and cleaning up.  The faster we get this down, the quicker we'll be able to start painting!

5th Grade:
This week we are doing texture sample pages.  It's when we take a section from a drawing and try to copy the strokes used to make that portion of the drawing.  This is our first step to understanding the kind of strokes that Durer used design the intricate fur, scales and wrinkles of his drawings.  

6th Grade:
The 6th graders are nearly finished with their Escher drawings, so now is the time to apply it making images of their own.  This week we are going to make simple landscapes and shade them using the techniques from Escher.  It is important to apply what we learn not just in copying, but in creating works of our own.