WEEK OF FEBRUARY 24-27

 

This week we are going to be working with the letter Zz. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: zebra, zig-zag, zipper, zoo, zookeeper,

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

 

Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

 

What will it take for Zack to wake up? We will find out in this zippy tale that teaches the letter Z.

 

 

 

 

 

Spot, a polka-dot leopard who can change colors and even juggle his own spots, tries to convince two children that he is special enough to be exhibited in the zoo.

 

 

This absolutely stunning picture book is all about Za-za and the effect that the new baby has on a household. When Za-za, the little zebra gets a baby brother, the usual routines in her life change radically. Mom returns from hospital, and she's tired, and Za-za is looked after by Granny. The baby receives all the attention from both her parents as well as visitors and Za-za is feeling neglected. Everyone is so busy that there is no time for toys or stories. So how does it all turn out for Za-za?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will continue working with the sight words: me, get, day, did, and love. We are now up to 60 sight words!!! Please practice them with your child at home!!!

 

 

We are going to work with Word Families. These are words that have the same kind of word ending and a changeable first letter. For instance, the "at" word family would include words like cat, pat, rat, tat, hat, etc. Words in a family will always rhyme; however, not all rhyming words belong to the same word family. "Hair" and "care" both rhyme, but come from different families. You may want to try the following link for an online game to play with your child.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/wordfamily/

In Math, we are going to review addition and subtraction to and from 10. It would be a great help for your children to practice the following IXL skills:

 

Addition

I.7     Add two numbers - sums up to 10

I.8     Addition sentences - sums up to 10

I.9     Ways to make a number - sums up to 10

 

Subtraction

J.6     Subtraction - numbers up to 9

 

This week we will be reviewing all the different groups of animals. We will be classifying animals into their corresponding group.

To wrap up our unit on Animals, we are hosting our marvelous KINDER ZOO on February 28th. Parents are invited to join the presentations from 8:20 a.m. -9:40 a.m. After snack we are going to invite students and teachers from other grades.

 The children were assigned to an animal. Your child should create a 3D model about this animal and have it ready to display it in our room. They should also present facts about this animal and explain what they have learned about it. We will have a big event on this day in which children from other grades, teachers, and administrators will be invited. Your child can come dressed as a scientist, zoo keeper, or even the animal represented!!! Please be creative, help your child come up with the ideas. This is a fun family project!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS so you can join the fun!!!

 

EARLY DISMISSAL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – Please remember that our teachers will have a Professional Development afternoon this Wednesday. Our students will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m.

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 17- 21

This week we are going to be working with the letter Hh. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: hamburger, hammer, hanger, hospital, honey, hippopotamus, hose, hopscotch, helmet, helicopter, hive, hair, hay, hotdog, and hula hoops.

 

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

 

Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

 

Where is Baby Hippo hiding? We will help his mother find him in this hilarious hide-and-seek story that teaches the letter H.

 

 

 

 

 

Harry is a white dog with black spots who loves everything . . . except baths. So one day before bath time, Harry runs away. He plays outside all day long, digging and sliding in everything from garden soil to pavement tar. By the time he returns home, Harry is so dirty he looks like a black dog with white spots. His family doesn't even recognize him!

 

 

 

 

 

Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible friends march off to tell the king, only to meet their end at the hands of a wily fox.

 

 

Horace Hippo has everything a hippo could want or need - well almost everything... Horace's dad is a very busy hippo, and Horace never gets to see him. So when Horace's dad promises to play with him one day, Horace waits all day and night. Finally having become fed up waiting, Horace digs a hole, covers it with grass, and traps his father as he walks out in the morning. Horace's dad takes it all with good humor and the two then spend the entire day together!

 

The five new sight words for this week are: me, get, day, did, and love. We are now up to 60 sight words!!! Please practice them with your child at home!!!

 

We are starting a mini unit about Honduran Coins this week. We will be discussing each one of them and its value. We will be sorting them out by its value. This is also a great opportunity to practice our addition and subtraction skills. We would like to request your help in sending one of each of the different coins with your child to school (in case you have them). If you would like to send in more, they will surely be welcome in our class!

 

 

 

 

 

The children are having an extremely great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main focus will be learning about AMPHIBIANS!!! We will be discussing their characteristics, and how they are born. We will be learning about the life cycle of a frog!

 

 

 

 

 

 To wrap up our unit on Animals, we are hosting our marvelous KINDER ZOO on February 28th.

 The children were assigned to an animal. Your child should create a 3D model about this animal and have it ready to display it in our room. They should also present facts about this animal and explain what they have learned about it. We will have a big event on this day in which children from other grades, teachers, and administrators will be invited. Your child can come dressed as a scientist, zoo keeper, or even the animal represented!!! Please be creative, help your child come up with the ideas. This is a fun family project!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS so you can join the fun!!!

 

 

 

 

MIDTERM AND MAP REPORTS – Please sign and return the Midterm for the third quarter that were sent home last Friday, February 14.

 

 

 CHANGE IN MOVIE DATE AND TIME FROM THE DPTO –In order to offer "The Lego Movie" to our school community in English, the DPTO has moved the date for the movie to Sunday, February 23rd, at the same time, 11:00 a.m. The current Tickets will work for this day. Once again, the DPTO apologizes for this inconvenience a

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10-14

This week we are going to be working with the letter Vv. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: valentine, vulture, vest, volcano violet, violin, van, veterinarian, vacuum,

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

We are going to find out what happens when Victor Viper gives his pal Vera a valentine in this very funny tale that teaches the letter V.

When his best friend Peter moves away, Robert has no one to play with, no one to fight with, and no fun at all. Then he meets Will -- and finds he's not the only one who needs a new best friend.

It's April, and Frog is looking forward to a whole year of happy times with his best friend, Toad. If only Toad would agree to wake up from his long winter nap! In the first of five short stories, clever Frog finds a way to rouse his sleepy friend.

In Math we will be introducing Solid Figures. We will be looking around the classroom for these types of shapes and we will be discussing objects in our environment that can represent each shape. PLEASE, if you have any item at home that can be useful to teach this unit, we would greatly appreciate it if you can send them over. You might want to look around your house for a ball, a dice, paper towel tube, etc.

 We are also going to start doing a mini unit about Honduran Coins. We will be discussing each one of them and its value. We will be sorting them out by its value. This is also a great opportunity to practice our addition and subtraction skills. We would like to request your help in sending one of each of the different coins with your child to school (in case you have them). If you would like to send in more, they will surely be welcome in our class!

Our Yearbook pictures will be taken on Wednesday, February 12^th. K-A will take it at 8:30 a.m. and K-B will take it 11:00 a.m., so we encourage our students to come dressed nicely!

The children are having an extremely great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main focus will be learning about BIRDS!!! We will be discussing their characteristics, and how they are born.

As you all know, this Friday, we celebrate Valentine´s Day. The Valentines Committee has decided to provide lunch for the children. You only need to pack a snack for your child on this day. There will be NO Kinder Kafe this week!

 

We would like to thank each one of you by sending a mailbox for your child last week. If you have not done so, please do it before this Friday!! We are going to display all these lovely mailboxes on Friday for your child to deliver their valentine cards for their friends. This is a voluntary activity. However, if you decide to participate, the only request that we have is that the students should bring one card or treat to each one of the Kindergarten students. We have a total of 21 students! Here is the list….

Kindergarten A                        Kindergarten B

1. Ian Rodriguez                                 1. Alegria Aguirre

2. Jay Ben-Nassar                              2. Daniela Aguirre

3. Katina Alvarado                              3. Ellyn Jenks

4. Lia Ochoa                                       4. Valentin Mejía

5. Maria Fernanda Almeyda                 5. Felipe Bertrand

6. Maya Miller                                    6. Isabella McCaul

7. Milla Alvarez                                  7. Jordan Reyes

8. Nora Paige                                      8. Luciana Nuñez

9. Sthepen Posivak                             9. Mia Ortíz

10. Lorenzo Aguilera 
11. Ninel Ceballos                          10. Carmen Castañeda

Clip It! Behavior Chart

Our classroom will use a clip chart to monitor behavior. A clip chart is a great tool that allows students to be rewarded for positive behavior, while discouraging negative behavior.

Each student has a clothespin, or clip, with his or her name on it. Everyone will start on green at the beginning of each day, and clips can be moved up and down throughout the day based on behavior.

The Super Student level is reserved for outstanding behavior. A student who reaches this level will earn a special note home, and a jewel on his/her clip. After five jewels, clips will be retired to the Hall of Fame and a new clip will be given!

Students can move to the Great Job level for continuing to display good behavior. You should be very proud of your child for reaching this level!

Students will move to the Good Choices level for showing that they are making the right behavior decisions! Ending the day on this level is great!

Every student will start the day on the Ready to Learn level. As the day goes on, clips can be moved up and down, based on behavior. This level is a good one to be on!

A student will be moved to the Think About It level as a warning about his/her behavior, and a reminder to follow the rules.

Students who continue to display poor behavior can move down to the Teacher’s Choice level. Here, the teacher can decide what action to take. Loss of recess or center time might be an appropriate choice.

When a student moves to the Parent Contact level, the teacher will notify parents via note or phone call. A visit to the Principal’s office might also be in order. Students on this level may also lose recess time, etc.

CANDIDATE FOR HEAD OF SCHOOL VISIT – We would like to remind our parents that Mr. Robert Gronniger will be visiting our school as a candidate for the Head of School Position. Mr. Gronniger will be on site this Monday, February 10 and Tuesday, February 11. There will be a Q&A Session for Parents on Tuesday, February 11, from 8:00 to 10:00 am in the school library. We encourage our parents to attend this session and seize the opportunity to ask questions to this candidate.

MIDTERM AND MAP REPORTS – The Midterm for the third quarter was last Friday, February 7. Midterm Reports and MAP reports will be sent out this Friday, Febrary 14. Please review them and return them signed by Tuesday, February 18.

PICTURES FOR THE YEARBOOK – The individual and class pictures for the 2013-2014  yearbook will be taken from Tuesday, February 11 to Wednesday, February 19. Please send your child looking his/her best on the day that his/her grade is scheduled. Merlin Pictures will be taking the photos and will be offering different packets of our students’ pictures at a very convenient price for parents to buy.

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS! – TODAY (Monday, February 10) is final date to purchase books online. The books will arrive at the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date. Please email Ms. Marilis (mzambrana@discoveryschool.edu.hn ) if you have any questions.

CHANGE IN MOVIE DATE AND TIME FROM THE DPTO –In order to offer "The Lego Movie" to our school community in English, the DPTO has moved the date for the movie to Sunday, February 23rd, at the same time, 11:00am. The current Tickets will work for this day. Once again, the DPTO apologizes for this inconvenience and hopes to see you at the theatre then!

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 3-7

 Dear Parents,

This week we are going to be working with the letter Ee. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: elevator, egg, envelope, elephant, elbow, escalator, exit, eggplant, and empty.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

 

Let Elvin the Elephant entertain you. You'll be amazed at everything Elvin can do! This engaging rhyming tale teaches the letter E.

 

 

 

Elmer is an elephant who has a colorful body, with yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, black and white arranged as a patchwork. He has a cheerful and optimistic personality, and he loves practical jokes.

 

It's an extraordinary day on Pebble Island for three frogs when one of them discovers a beautiful white egg. They've never seen a chicken egg before, but they're sure that's what this must be. So when the egg hatches and out crawls a long green, scaly creature, they naturally call it . . . a chicken!

 

Our new sight words for this week are: boy, two, no, girl, and has. Please practice these words at home with your child.

 

It is important for students to learn sight words in order to help them become fluent readers. Remember that sight words are words students are able to read upon “sight” without having to sound them out. They help facilitate reading comprehension giving students a better opportunity to understand other words in context as they read.

We will continue measuring things around the room using the items your child brought last week in a paper bag. We will be returning these items on Friday. We will also continue adding to 10 and subtracting from 10. The children are becoming bolder each day and are very excited about it.

 

The children are having an extremely great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main focus will be learning about MAMMALS!!! We will be discussing their characteristics, the way they breathe, and how they are born. We are also going to talk about animals that live under the ocean that belong to this group.

The children in charge of donating the materials for Kindergarten Kafe are: Maya Miller and Mia Ortiz. Thank you in advance!!!

On Monday, February 3^rd one of our Kindergarten students will be celebrating its birthday. You do not need to pack lunch for your children on this day. Pizza and cake will be provided!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We would like to give a very warmth welcome to our Kindergarten World to our new friend Lorenzo Aguilera!!! He is coming all the way from Colombia and is joining our Kinder A.

 

In the month of February, we celebrate friendship. We will be discussing ways to be a good friend. The lower elementary children will all be wearing a bracelet this whole month to school to indicate that we are all good friends and the importance of it. To make this possible, we are requesting Lps. 20.00 to buy our friendship bracelets. Please send this money no later than Thursday, February 6^th. Make sure your child wears this bracelet daily.

As Valentine´s Day is around the corner, we are requesting you to help your child decorate a shoe box to be used as their mailbox. Be creative, and let your child brainstorm the ideas that he/she would like their box to look like. This mailbox should be in school this Friday, February 7^th.

 

 

 

to our marvelous KINDER ZOO on February 28th.

The children were assigned to an animal last week. Your child should create a 3D model about this animal and have it ready to display it in our room. They should also present facts about this animal and explain what they have learned about it. We will have a big event on this day in which children from other grades, teachers, and administrators will be invited. Your child can come dressed as a scientist, zoo keeper, or even the animal represented!!! Please be creative, help your child come up with the ideas. This is a fun family project and we would love to wrap up our unit on animals with this fun activity!!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS so you can join the fun!!! Here is the list of students and their assigned animal:

Lorenzo Aguilera   =   GECKO                        Alegria Aguirre = GORILLA

Stevie Posivak       =   TURTLE                      Daniela Aguirre =   LADYBUG

Jay Ben-Nassar     =   FROG                         Ellyn Jenks        =  ZEBRA

Nora Paige             =   STING RAY                Valentin Mejia   =   DOLPHIN

Katina Alvarado     =   SCORPION                 Felipe Bertrand  = WALKING STICK

Lia Ochoa              =   LOBSTER                   Isabella McCaul  =  GIRAFFE

Ninel Cevallos        =   GRASSHOPPER           Jordan Reyes     =  TIGER

Maya Miller           =   CAMEL                       Luciana Nuñez    =  SEA HORSE

Milla Alvarez         =  KILLER WHALE          Mia Ortiz          =  FLAMINGO

Ian Rodriguez        =   KANGAROO               Carmen Castañeda  =   COBRA

Maria Fernanda Almeyda =  BUMBLE BEE

 

PICTURES FOR THE YEARBOOK – The individual and class pictures for the 2013-2014 yearbook will be taken from Tuesday, February 11 to Wednesday, February 19. The specific day and time for our grade will be posted next week.

CHOIR PARENTS – On Monday, February 3, at 3:15 p.m., there will be a mandatory meeting in the school Library for parents of all Choir students who are planning to travel to New York City in June 2014 to perform at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. Information will be given concerning the trip and payments needed, and Important decisions about the trip will be taken. We need at least one parent for each Choir student to attend this meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS! - This month your child(ren) will have the opportunity to purchase books through the International Scholastic Book Clubs.  This is an optional activity offered by the school, in case you want to motivate your child to read at home and to increase their own library.  With your purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of your children in our school. Order forms and catalogues were sent home on Friday. The final date to purchase the books online is February 10. The books will arrive at the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date. Please email Ms. Marilis (mzambrana@discoveryschool.edu.hn ) if you have any questions.

 

FROM THE DPTO – PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS – The DPTO has been working very hard to organize the traditional Movie Event for Discovery School families. This year, it will take place at NOVACENTRO on Sunday, February 9 at 11:00 a.m. for the presentation of THE LEGO MOVIE