Día de los Muertos

Sixth grade friends learned about a traditional holiday celebrated in México and other Spanish-speaking countries. Students learned Día de los Muertos is celebrated on November 1 and 2. It is a time to remember and celebrate the lives of loved ones (including pets) who have passed away. Students learned it's not seen as a sad time, but rather a time to have fun and celebrate the individual's life with friends and family. Students also learned about ofrendas and which traditional items are displayed to honor the loved one.

Sixth graders also had the opportunity to work with one of the third grade Spanish classes in creating máscaras, papel picado y flores de papel. They even tried pan de muertos, a traditional and symbolic bread eaten on Día de los Muertos.

flores de papel

máscaras

papel picado

pan de muertos

Parent Ed: Connected Parenting

Connected

Parenting

Consequences that Work

&

Enhancing Your Child’s Self Control

Presented by:

Rebecca Lindsay & Kelly Parisa

TCS Social Curriculum Committee Members

&

Connected Parenting associates

Come together with other parents to hear about the importance of connections, empathic listening, and boundaries for your child.

Learn strategies to enhance the parent-child bond, to foster communication, nurture resilience and respectful behaviors that afford them confidence and rewarding relationships.

November 16^th

 6:30-8:30

At the home of

Mark and Martha Sottosanti

5936 Beaumont Ave

La Jolla, CA 92037

Please RSVP to Kelly at 858.454.0184 ext. 142

by November 9^th.

This is an adults-only event

Fall Festival Pumpkin by KK

This is our pumpkin. It has come a long way way from the very beginning. First, we formed  a Pumpkin Committee to decide what it would look like. The people KK, MR, KS, KG, LC, CL came together and decided that we would have a spider on a web as our theme. Then, it was brought to the class to get their approval. Next, we formed groups that were pulled randomly out of a cube: the light spider group and the heavy spider group and the web group. Everyone else made awesome bugs out of pipe cleaners and beads. The light spider group was MR and KK, the heavy spider group was SO and KS. KS, LC, KG made the web, then in Open Studio SW helped and glued the bugs on. We all admired it, it’s really awesome and we put a lot of work into it. A very lucky person will get it on Sunday at Fall Festival!

Written and reported by KK.

SNAPSHOT: Math on 16 Oct 2012

In math class, the students spent time identifying the words associated with the basic operations. They combed all their previous experiences in school to find all the different ways they had been asked to add, subtract, multiply and divide. All of this was in preparation for translating written words into algebraic expressions and equations.

Can you think of any more?

Parent Ed: Technology at TCS

Ever wonder what technology really looks like at TCS?

Have you heard about our new computer lab?

Curious about what your little tech wizards are doing?

please join us for a look at TECHNOLOGY AT TCS, a parent education presentation, to be held on Friday, October 19th at 9:00 in the NMY Common Room.  Jesse Brand and Jon Russo will be on hand to answer your questions and to show you what is happening in your child's classroom, and around campus, with various types of technology.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sixth Grade Humanities Update

The sixth graders have been working on their Explorer research projects this week.  There are three components of research to the project; A two to four page written paper, a map that highlights the explorer's routes and a personal choice component.  Some are creating i-movie, others are doing key note presentations, we have time lines, and one that is considering dressing up as the explorer and making a presentation.  They also have been writing in their journals and have a creative story that they are writing.  Sixth graders are reading their second independent reading book which is due November 5th.  Here are some pictures from class today.

NMY Constitution 2012-2013

Update from Carwai

Can you believe that we have already completed one month of school?! 

CPR activity: Self-Portraits

We are finally getting into our routines and finding our rhythm with the schedule. In math, we have settled into a comfortable pace. It is a mix of review and new material. We have covered topics such as exponents, order of operations, absolute value, and introduction to algebraic expressions and functions. For the next few weeks we will be immersed in operations with integers.

In science, the students are researching a different type of energy. They have sorted themselves into smaller groups and will be teaching/presenting to each other so we are all more knowledgeable about these types of energy. You should ask your child about their research!

Here is some news from Janie in the Library:

"This week we have been learning about Destiny, the library software. This program has a lot of great capabilities and can be accessed from any web browser. Students this week learned to log on and check the library for books, see what books they have checked out, and "friend" people within our school community. We also briefly discussed on-line etiquette, safety and cyber-bullying. It would be great if you could discuss this with your kids and let them practice accessing our library website. We will be using it for research projects as well as library information, so practice is great. This is a safe site, among our community only, and 1st grade and up will be learning about it.  The website is library.tcslj.org and they click on The Children's School link and then log-in. "

The class made their first trip to visit the Preschool today. We will partner with the preschoolers this year.  We hope to spend time with them, create some activities and be a resource for them. Our hope is to build community bonds with different classes this year.

¿Masculino o Femenino?

Sixth graders are reviewing when a word in Spanish is either masculine (masculino) or feminine (femenino). They were reminded of the basic rules and then brought in objects representing one of the genders as well as searched articles written in Spanish to find words they believed were either masculine or feminine.