Welcome to Kindergarten: Week 11 October 16th

October 16,2017

Dear Parents,
We hope you had a fantastic weekend.

This week we will be working with the letter “Oo”. The vocabulary words for this letter are the following: octopus, ostrich, olive, onion, ox, office, orange, ornament, orchestra, omelet, octagon, oval, and ocean.

Please send in any items from home that begins with this letter. We will be discussing them in class. We will display them on a table and return them on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

This Friday October 20th, we are having Parent –Teacher Conferences. You will be getting a note in your child's folder stating the time that we have assigned for your conference. If you are unable to attend at the time that has been assigned to you please let us know and we will gladly reschedule.

Some of the stories that we will be reading are the following:

Olive the Octopus wants to be a juggler!

Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.

This week we are introducing five new sight words: as, with, his, they, and of. Please practice them with your child at home in a daily basis.

We will also continue identifying and making rhyming words.

InMath we are going to be working with number 13 and we are going to introduce the concept of Ordinal Positions. We will play games using the words first, second, third, fourth, and fifth.

In Science, we are going to be talking about My Body.This week we will focus on our internal organs. We will be talking about esophagus, stomach, intestine heart, lungs, and brain.

UN Day Celebration is on Friday October 27th. This is a half day for the students. Parents are more than welcome to join us. This is an awesome experience !

Dress Up / Costume Day is around the corner. We are going to be having a celebration on Tuesday, October 31st. Students come to school dressed up as their favorite book, or movie character. You may pack extra clothes in case your child wants to change into something more comfortable later on in the day.
Students will talk about their character to our class.

At 8:15 Early Childhood will be having a parade. You are more than welcome to join us and see all the fantastic costumes