WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 23- 27

This week we are going to be reviewing all the letters of the alphabet and vocabulary words that we have been working on since the beginning of the school year.

We are going to be rereading some of the books from last week to do an activity that goes along with them. We will be discussing about:

The story is about a lady who swallows a whole list of animals (fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, cow, and a horse). The lady keeps swallowing animals to catch the last animal she swallowed.

We are going to be ordering the animals she swallowed from smallest to biggest.

 

A clever young man tricks an old woman into believing that soup can be made from a stone. As the pot of water boils with the stone in it, he urges her to add more and more ingredients until the soup is a feast "fit for a king".

We are actually going to be making stone soup with the children at school!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One unit that we are going to be introducing for the next week is Landforms. We will be talking about oceans, rivers, islands, hills, lakes, volcanoes, desert, valleys, and mountains. If you have any poster, or book that talk about any of these landforms we would appreciate if you would let us borrow them from you.

 

In our Phonemic Awareness, the children are going to be identifying rhyming words.

Rhyming teaches children how language works.  It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words.

 

In Math we are going to be working with number 12. We are also going to be counting backwards from 10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the following couple of weeks we are introducing the following sight words: as, with, his, they, I. Please keep in mind that we are assessing these words in a cumulative manner. It means that children need to practice all the previous words as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The IXL skills that need to be practiced this week are

 

Numbers and counting up to 10

 

1.     C.8Count up and down - with pictures

2.    C.9Count up and down - with numbers

3.    C.13Count forward - up to 10

 

 

 

MAP MATH TESTING SESSION: This week our students will take the MAP Math test on Monday, September 23^rd. K-A will take it at 10:10 a.m. and K-B will take it at 8:30 a.m. Please try not to miss school this day!

MAP = Measures of Academic Progress

We invite you to visit http://www.nwea.org/node/4661 so you can have more information about what MAP is all about!

 

We want to remind our students and parents that there will be NO SCHOOL for students on Wednesday, September 25.  The teachers will be working on a professional training with a visiting consultant.

 

DONATIONS NEEDED: “Ya Tengo Donde Escribir” is an organization aiming to help children from public schools that cannot afford notebooks. In order to help, the organization makes notebooks out of cereal boxes and pages from used notebooks. They are now collecting cereal boxes until November 20^th. We need our students to bring cereal boxes from their homes. At the end of the contest, the grade that brought more boxes will be awarded a pizza party or ice cream party! Please help us help those in need!

 

 

BAKE SALE - The Community Service Club will be hosting a bake sale on Thursday, September 26 to raise funds for the annual Christmas party for the orphans from Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos.  Many delicious treats will be available at break and lunch time!  Thanks, in advance, for your support!

 

FLU SEASON: The flu season has arrived, and we feel it is important that parents be aware and on the lookout for flu symptoms. We want to give you some suggestions and guidelines for keeping your child and your family healthy.

 

 

 

1.      One of the first ways of controlling exposure to the flu is to avoid crowds and close contact with others.

2.      If your child is sick with flu symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing), please keep your child home until s/he is symptom free for 24 hours.

3.      We have placed antiseptic hand wash and Lysol disinfecting spray in each classroom and office. It is advisable for students to also have their own antiseptic hand wash and to use it frequently.

4.      Teachers are reminding their students to wash their hands frequently, cover coughs or sneezes, not share drinking bottles, food, straws, etc., and to use the antiseptic hand wash.

 

Flu Symptoms:  Fever, body aches including headache, fatigue, runny nose, cough and congestion.

 

What to do if your child has these symptoms:  Contact your doctor; keep your child home until s/he has been symptom free (including having no fever) for at least 24 hours.

 

          By following the above precautions, we are hopeful that we can contain and prevent widespread cases of the flu