WEEK OF NOVEMBER 18-22

Dear Parents,

This week we are going to be working with the letter Uu. The vocabulary words that we are going to be focusing on are the following: upstairs, underwear, umpire, umbrella, and under.

 

Some stories that we are going to be reading this week are:

 

 

Umbrella bird is very unhappy about his unusual feather until they save the day!

 

 

 

Bismark the Buffalo is grumpy and unlovable until his friends teach him how to laugh and show him that wearing colorful underwear can be great fun.

 

Carlos walks into the cloud forest with his green umbrella, where the only sound is the steady, drip, drip, drip of drops falling from the trees.  Carlos is sure that he will see lots of animals--perhaps a toucan, a tapir, maybe the monkey, and if he is lucky, the exotic quetzal bird.  He leaves his umbrella at the foot of a giant fig tree and climbs up for a better look.  Perhaps Carlos should have stayed below, where; first a mischievous tree frog hops into the umbrella, followed by one animal after another, each one larger than the last!

In Math, we are going to be working with numbers 19 and 20. We are going to be doing a lot of sequencing activities, writing missing numbers from 0-20, and making sets with these two numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Science we are going to continue working with PLANTS. Last week the children had the chance to plant some beans into cups. They are all very eager to see their plant grow and they are all recording the observations they see every day in their Plant Growth Journal. We also introduced the Scientific Method. They all became little scientists and know that there is a process to do experiments. Ask them about Purpose, Research, Hypothesis, Analysis and Conclusion.

Please take a moment every day to review with your child the sight words we are studying in class. We will continue working with but, not, what, all, we.

The sight words your child should know up to now are: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they, I, at, be, this, have, from, or, one, had, by, words.

·         This Friday, November 22^nd, the Thanksgiving Committee is providing LUNCH for the students. The children will get to see a well cooked turkey. Yummy!!! You only need to pack a snack for your child on this day. THANK YOU parents for organizing this event!

·         This Friday, Progress Reports are going home in your child´s folder. Please read it carefully and return it signed on Tuesday, November 26^th.

·         Some parents have not returned the Report Card envelope signed. If you still have this with you, we would really appreciate if you can send it in your child´s folder someday this week.

·         We are NOT going to be having Kinder Kafe this week since we are going to be having the Thanksgiving luncheon instead.

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FROM THE SCHOOL’S CAFETERIA -  Please visit the Cafeteria blog http://discoverycafeteria.blogspot.com/ for information on the delicious Pecan, Apple and Pumpkin pies that can be ordered for your Thanksgiving celebrations. The cafeteria is also offering a meal for the classroom festivities at a very attractive price!

 

LAST WEEK FOR DONATIONS  FOR “YA TENGO DONDE ESCRIBIR”:  Don’t forget to send in cereal boxes. Wednesday, November 20 is the last day! The grade that brought the most boxes will be awarded a pizza party or ice cream party! Please help us help those in need!

 

CHRISTMAS GIVING TREE:  Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphaned children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severely handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have aunts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 10th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphanage.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose tags were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!  For more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/. 

 

 

Our students really enjoy having show and tell on Fridays. We would like to remind you that they can bring something every Friday to show the class.  Please help them make a wise decision on what to bring to school.

 
 
 
 

 

Remember that there will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, November 25^th.