WEEK OF OCTOBER 7-11

Dear Parents,

This will be a Review Week!!! We will be reviewing all the letters of the alphabet we have studied so far with the corresponding vocabulary words introduced for each letter.

We will be doing a sort of different activities to review syllable counting, beginning sounds and rhyming words.

We are going to be evaluating the 20 sight words we have worked with in the class. Please make sure your child recognize these words by sight. Practicing at home daily will be very beneficial for your kid and helpful for us. The sight words they should know by now are: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they, I.

 

In Math, we will be reviewing numbers 0-13. The children should be able to recognize these numbers out of sequence, making sets to match each number and sequence the numbers in the correct order. We will be reviewing pictographs and counting backwards from 10.

 

 

 

In Science, we are going to continue to talk about My Body. This week we will focus on our internal organs. We will be talking about heart, lungs, liver, stomach, intestines, kidney, skeleton, veins and muscles.

 

 

We will study the life Cycle of a Butterfly. We will be doing a unit with the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The students will be retelling the story with cards, acting it out with stick puppets, and making arts and crafts that go along with the story. If you have any stories that talk about butterflies, please let us borrow them from you. The vocabulary we will be discussing is egg, caterpillar, cocoon, buttefly, and cycle.

 

We are going to be talking about Cristopher Colombus. If you have any story books that you are willing to share with the us please send them with you child and we will be reading them in the class.

 

 

 

A special thank you goes to Luciana Nuñez and Maya Miller for bringing the ingredients for Kinder Kafe last week. The children enjoyed doing a bear out of bread, peanut butter, bananas and raisins. This week Milla Natalya Alvarez and Mia Isabella Ortiz will be in charge of donating the materials.

 

 

 

GAME OF THE WEEK:

 

How to Play:

1. Write target words onto slips of paper or post-it notes and tape onto bowling pins with clear tape. (If you do not have bowling pins, plastic bottles work perfectly for this). Put 4 words on each pin so that there is always a word visible when the pin falls down.

2. Set up pins as you normally would for bowling.

3. Let child throw bowling ball to knock pins down.

4. Before picking bowling again (or setting up the pins for the next round), the child must read each word that is visible on the pins that were knocked down.

5. Repeat as long as child is interested and wants to play.

* You can spice this up by using different things as your bowling ball - sponges, toys.*

Other ways to play - you can easily adapt this to review letters, letter sounds, math facts and more.

 

 

MAP FALL TESTING SESSION – This is the third week of our Map testing session.  Kinder A will take it at 11:40 a.m. on Friday, October 11. Kinder B will take it Monday, October 7, at 11:40 a.m. Please try not to miss school this day!

 

NO ELECTRICITY ON TUESDAY – The ENEE has published that there will be no electricity in our school on Tuesday, October 8. We encourage parents to pack snack and lunch for students that does NOT require refrigeration or heating.

 

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, and we encourage our students and teachers to bring cereal boxes from their homes. At the end of the contest, the grade that brought the most boxes will be awarded a pizza party or ice cream party! Please help us help those in need!