Week of November 19th - November 23rd 2012

This is a very short and busy week in our Kindergarten Class. We are going to be doing a lot of activities related to Thanksgiving. We are going to be talking about the meaning of this important celebration. The children are going to be rehearsing a song and at the same time they are going to be the authors and illustrators of a book about things they feel thankful for.

We want to remind you that you are all invited to our Thanksgiving lunch. It is going to take place on Wednesday, November 21^st at 11:45 a.m. We understand that your time is valuable and that some of you need to return to your jobs. For this reason, we would like to emphasize that the celebration will start at the time stated above. It would be sad for you to miss your child performing, so please plan accordingly taking into consideration the traffic so that you can be in school right on time to start with the program.

We would like to extend a HUGE Thank you to Mrs. Carla Reyes and Deborah Sheenan for all their time and effort of organizing this celebration.

 It is hard to believe we are at the middle of the second quarter! Mid Term Progress Reports for the second quarter will be sent home this Wednesday. Please go over them carefully, and if you would like a conference and one is not being asked for, please contact the teacher as soon as you can. These reports need to be signed and sent back to school on Monday.

IXL – We have acquiered a trial membership for IXL for all our kindergarteners. We will be using this to practice counting sets to 20, and addition skills. We will be visiting the computer lab twice a week to do this.

WHAT A GREAT WAY TO TEACH OUR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS TO BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT THEY HAVE: The NPH Giving Tree-  Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphaned children, providing a home and education.  Discovery School teachers have played an important role in visiting a group of children from the orphanage for more than 7 years, and this year will hope to provide shoes and socks for each of these children.  A giving tree has been set up on the second floor of the secondary building.   Tree tags have the children's size information. Items need to be returned to school by Tuesday, December 4^th. For more information, see Mrs. Christina Agurcia. For more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/.