9.15.23 Quarter 1, Week 5 & 6 Spotlight

Art

Grades K - 2, Ms. Brietske (breanna.brietske@greatheartstxschools.org)

Stay tuned!

Grades 3 - 5, Mrs. Looney (annie.looney@greatheartstxschools.org)

3rd Grade will continue discussions about the life of Van Gogh and complete their Starry Night replicas.

4th Grade will continue their work on Expressionism Art.

5th Grade will finish their Optical Illusion Art project and begin looking at how to draw a self portrait.

 Music

Grades K - 2, Mrs. Ybarra (kiana.ybarra@greatheartstxschools.org)

Coming up this week...

🎵 Kindergarten: Kindergarteners will be continuing to develop tuneful singing, beat skills, listening skills, and learn song repertoire. Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon will be sharing new voices with the Kinders to explore and use in their concert music and folk songs! We will also be learning more parts for first Winter concert song, Ally Bally Bee.

🎼 Composers: We will say goodbye to Bach, and hello to Handel!

🎵 First Grade: It will be our first week of practicing long vs. short sounds using our chants and folk songs! We will also be learning more parts for our first couple of Winter concert songs, The Moon and Un, Deux, Trois, nous irons au bois.

🎼 Composers: We will say goodbye to Couperin, and hello to Schubert!

 

🎵 2nd Grade: Second Graders will begin experiencing the Solfege syllable/sound do in the folk song, Bow Wow Wow. Up until this point, scholars have worked most with so, la, and mi. How will we learn a sound kinesthetically with our bodies? We'll find out soon! Scholars will also learn more sections of their Winter concert pieces, The Bells and El Desembre Congelat.

🎼 Composers: We will say goodbye to Scarlatti, and hello to Clementi!

Grades 3 - 5, Ms. Smith (stephanie.smith@greatheartstxschools.org)

Hello Spartans!

In Music, we are learning our Winter Concert pieces!
So far this year, we are learning songs in French, Spanish, Latin, and English. Maybe there will be more languages to come... we will see!
We are also continuing to learn about rhythm and we will introduce/review notes on the staff.

Go Spartans!

Spanish

Grades K - 2, Mrs. Huerta (elidia.huerta@greatheartstxschools.org)

Hello Spartans, 

This week in Spanish class, scholars learned all about the shapes and their Spanish names. Kinder focused on learning about the four main shapes: circle, rectangle, triangle, and square. First and Second Graders learned about nine different shapes. Scholars enjoyed learning about Spanish names for the shapes and looking for shapes all around them.

Grades 3 - 5, Ms. Castro (e.gonzalezcastro@greatheartstxschools.org)

Hello Families,

This week in Spanish class, we reviewed nouns in singular and plural by applying the correct article to nouns. The scholars worked on exercises related to the theme to reinforce their learning. Next week, we will start working with the seasons, starting with Autumn. Using Spanish, scholars will learn how to ask and describe what they like about the autumn season.

Looking forward to a wonderful week of learning!

P. E.

Grades 3 - 5, Coach Manta (mihai.manta@greatheartstxschools.org)

Hello Spartans,

In the past two weeks, we learned how to dribble a basketball, pass and catch, and jump shot. Next week, we will enjoy playing the game of basketball with modified rules. One of the modified rules is that instead of stealing the ball from the opposite player, we can block or intercept the ball. We focus on keeping our heads up to see our teammates and pass the ball.

We will do an experiment. What travels faster?
1. A player dribbling the basketball
2. A player running
3. A ball that is passed to another player

Conclusion? Your scholar will discover the right answer!

Together we are...
SPARTAN STRONG!