Week of January 28th - February 1st

This week we will be working extensively with rhyming and word families.

Word families are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern - they have some of the same combinations of letters in them and a similar sound. For example, at, cat, hat, and fat are a family of words with the "at" sound and letter combination in common.

We have been talking about Question Marks. The children are aware that we use them at the end of a question. We will be writing lots of questions this week. It would be great if you can practice with your child at home giving them a statement and asking if they need a period, an exclamation point or a question mark at the end!!!

On Wednesday, January 30^th, we will celebrate the 100^th day of school. The children will be involved in fun activities, and will visit the first and second grade classrooms. Do not forget your children can come to school wearing 100 items on their clothes.

This is also an early dismissal day. Students will go home at 11:45 a.m.

Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and we will be talking about Friendship and making a lot of fun activities with the children. 

This week the child in charge of donating the ingredients for Kindergarten Kafe is Alessandra Perez

The following are some of the vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on this week: rain, rat, robot, rake, rainbow, rose, raccoon, rabbit, rice, rooster, ring, rock, reindeer, rectangle, radio

This week we are going to be reading the following story books:

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

The Little Red Hen by Diane Muldrow

These are words that good readers may instantly recognize without having to "figure them out."

Why is it important to learn sight words?

There are two reasons why sight words are an essential component of good reading. First of all, many of these words do not sound like their spellings might suggest, so "sounding them out" would be unproductive. Also, a good reader really can't afford the time to dwell on too many words, or he may lose the speed and fluency necessary for determining the author's message.

The words we are going to be focusing on this week are the following:

Or, one, had, by, words

This is a fun game that you can play with your child at home... Create cards with sight words on them. Make some cards that say BANG. Put all cards in a can. Students take turns drawing a card and reading the word. If they get it right they may keep it. The can moves to the next person even if they get it right. If someone draws a BANG card, they must return all of their cards to the can. At the end of the game the person with the most cards wins.

You may also want to check out the following websites:

www.starfall.com

www.pbskids.org/games/index.html

We are willing to help you as parents encourage a love of reading with your children by providing good literature to be read at home. If you are interested, just let us know and we can loan some of our books to you!

WEEK OF JANUARY 21-25, 2013

We hope you all had a restful and wonderful weekend!This week we are going to be introducing the letter Qq .We are going to decorate some quilts.This week we will continue with simple one-digit subtraction problems and we will continue talking about plants and will be recording our observations of the bean plants we planted last week.The children are really excited to see how much their plant is growing. They are using the vocabulary roots, stem, leaves, and flower.

MAP testing will be starting Tuesday, January 22nd. The students will be do the Math MAP first and the Reading Map assessment will take place the following week. Please make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep the night before, eat a health breakfast that morning and come to school with water.

Adriana Jimenez will be in charge of bringing the ingredients for our Kindergarten Kafe on Friday.

“Children carry more between home and school than a lunch and a backpack. Working together we can lighten their load.” Anonymous quote.

              Ms.Sophia Lagos K-A   Ms.Valencia Duron K-B

WEEK OF JANUARY 14TH-18TH,2013

Dear Parents,

This will surely be a very busy week. This week we will be working on letter Pp. This week we will continue with simple one-digit subtraction problems. We will start a unit on plants where we will discuss the different plant parts, how plants grow, and why we need them.

To celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Discovery School will be having a special assembly this Friday, January 18th, at 8:00 a.m. in the gym. All parents are welcome to join the celebration which will last about an hour. Please note that Monday, January 21st., is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and there is no school on that day.

On Wednesday, January 30th, we will celebrate the 100^th day of school. The children will be involved in fun activities, and will visit the first and second grade classrooms. Do not forget your children can come to school wearing 100 items on their clothes. 

This week we will have Kindergarten Kafe and the child in charge of bringing the ingredients this week is Adriana Estrada. Thank you in advance!

We are going to have a birthday celebration on thursday, please do not  pack lunch for this day!!!!

“Children carry more between home and school than a lunch and a backpack. Working together we can lighten their load.” Anonymous quote.

Ms.Sophia Lagos  and Ms.Valencia Duron

Week of January 7th - January 11th

It is wonderful to be back and with lots of expectations for the New Year 2013. We hope you had a restful and joyful Christmas break. During the break the children tend to forget or need to review some of the concepts we have been previously studying. This week we will review letters, sounds, vocabulary, we will also review mathematical concepts.

We are going to introduce the letter Oo and we are also going to be talking about Opposites.

During this week we are going to be talking about our New Year’s Resolution. We are going to post the children’s resolutions for you to read them as soon as we have them.

We would like to give a BIG AND WARM WELCOME to our Kindergarten Class to Benicio Lopez. He is joining us today from USA.

HERE ARE A FEW REMINDERS TO START OFF THE YEAR RIGHT!

Sweaters/Jackets and Other Objects: we ask parents to label all their child’s belongings with a permanent marker. This makes it easier for us to help you look for things if they are misplaced or lost. We also ask for your cooperation by sending back with your child any item he/she brings home that does not belong to him, and to notify the homeroom teacher about it.

Report Cards and Conferences: Report Cards will be issued on Friday, January 11^th. This is an early dismissal day for students. Conferences are on a need basis.

We wish you all the best this year! Welcome back!

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce