Week 22 January 28th - February 1st Letter Gg

January 28,2018

Dear Parents, 

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

Kindergarten has a new student! Valentina Velandia Pardo is 

in Kindergarten B. Welcome Velandia Family to Discovery 

School!

                                    

One Hundred Days of School is right around the corner! We will be celebrating this milestone on January 30th. The students will wear a t-shirt with 100 objects on it. (Use the front side of the t-shirt only). 

This project will be done at home. You can be as creative as you like.

This week we are going to be working with the letter Gg. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: 
glitter, garden, gum, garage, glasses, 

garbage, grandparents, goose, gorilla, 

globe, gift, guitar, goggles, gate, and 

guard.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, please send them in with your child, we 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:

Gorilla, Be Good!

Will Gorilla learn to be a good houseguest? As kids giggle at Gorilla’s goofy antics, they’ll learn about the letter G.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The three Billy Goats Gruff want to go to a lush green meadow.  In order to get there, they have to cross a bridge inhabited by a horrible Troll.  When the tinniest Billy Goat Gruff crosses the bridge he convinces the Troll that he, the tinniest Billy Goat, is much too small to eat.  The middle Billy Goat Gruff also convinces the Troll not to eat him because he is also too small.  When the Troll tries to eat the biggest Billy Goat Gruff, the oldest brother decides to rid his family of the Troll forever.  Once all three Billy Goats Gruff arrive in the meadow, they eat and eat until they become too fat to go home.

Goodnight Moon
It is about a rabbit's routine before he goes to bed. Before his bedtime, the rabbit goes around the room and notices items within eye sight and says goodnight to all of them. Everything from the pictures on the wall to the mice to the clock is mentioned and said goodnight too. As the story continues, the rabbit gets more and more tired before finally saying "Goodnight noises everywhere," just as he falls asleep.

Good Night, Gorilla
This story is about a mischievous monkey who got out of his cage and follows around the zookeeper. As the zookeeper is saying goodnight to all of the animals, his first stop is the gorilla. As he is saying goodnight to the Gorilla, he steals his keys. The monkey then follows him silently and starts letting out all of the animals the zookeeper is saying goodnight to. As the monkey is letting out all of the animals, they are all following the zookeeper to each one of the cages.

This week we will continue working with the sight words that were introduced last week. These words are: up, look, an, play, said.

PLEASE TAKE 15 MINUTES EVERY DAY TO PRACTICE THEM AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF THEM TO RECOGNIZE SIGHT WORDS WE HAVE COVERED IN CLASS SO FAR. ONCE THEY CAN RECOGNIZE SIGHT WORDS IT IS GOING TO BE A LOT EASIER FOR THEM TO READ BOOKS.

THE FOLLOWING LINK IS A NICE AND FUN GAME TO PRACTICE THESE WORDS.
http://www.sightwordsgame.com/concentration/

We will continue to work with the concept of addition, before, between and after. The students are all very excited to be solving addition.
**IXL Links are added to the homework list. 

These are added to provide extra practice for the students. 

This week in Science our main focus will be learning about what plants and animals need to survive. We will be describing the ways in which plants and animals are different and state that different organisms have different needs.

Raz-Kids

Students Need to Read Every day for 10 minutes

TUESDAY

Bring in letter Gg Objects

**************Extra Practice**********

IXL D.8 https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/tally-marks-up-to-20

WEDNESDAY
French Homework
**************Extra Practice**********

IXL D.10 https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/before-after-and-between-up-to-20

THURSDAY
**************Extra Practice**********

IXL D.11 https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/count-forward-up-to-20

This month your child 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 you purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of you children in our school. The books will arrive to 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.