Dear Parents,
This week we are going to study the
letter Rr. The vocabulary that we will be focusing on with this letter is the
following: radio, rooster, rocket,
robot, rose, rake, ribbon, rope, rug, ruler, rhinoceros, rice, raisins, restaurant, rainbow.
Some of the stories we will be reading
during this week are:
The most beautiful
fish in the ocean is asked to share one of his shining scales with a little
blue fish, and to which he refuses. All the other fish in the sea leave him
alone, and he wondered why. He goes to the wise octopus for advice, and she
tells him to give away his scales. Rainbow Fish reluctantly does so, except for
one. In the end, he is less beautiful then he was before, but he has new
friends and is now the happiest fish in the sea.
The
Runaway Bunny tells the story about a little bunny that wanted to run away but
his mom told him that she's going to run after him. So whenever the bunny wants
to go his mom is going to follow him. Then the little bunny decided to stay
home and be with his mom.
A mother
rabbit takes her five babies out of the nest for the first time. They all go
out to nibble clover and meet the other creatures. When it rains, they hop back
under the bushes and wait out the storm.
The
author describes the process of a child and mother's annual garden planting.
She begins with the bulbs planted in winter and goes all the way through the
summer blooming of the various plants and flowers.
The sight
words we are going to be working on this week are: or, one, had, by, words. Please take some time to practice daily these
words with your child. It is very important for them to recognize all the sight
words.
In our
phonemic awareness we will continue to work with ending consonants. You may
want to practice with your child at home asking them questions such as: what is
the sound that you hear at the end on the word cat, bag, pencil, eraser,
glass,? etc.
In Math
we are going to be working with number 17. We will also continue to work with
the concepts of top, middle, bottom.
Please practice the following skills:
Numbers and counting up to 20
D.13 Complete
a sequence – up to 20
Positions
K.3 Top,
Middle, Bottom
We would
like to remind you that this Wednesday, the children are going to the
presentation of LA TORTUGA Y LA MAGICA CANCION UWUNGELEMA, the first Children’s
Opera to be presented in Honduras. We will leave the school at 8:00 a.m. and
return at around 11:00 a.m. The fee for the entrance and transportation is
L180.00. If you have not sent this fee, please make sure you do so by Monday. For this field trip, each grade must have one parent chaperon for every 4 students. If you are interested in helping, please contact your child’s teacher. Since this is a field trip to the National Theater, we are asking students to dress formally for this occasion (i.e. dress/skirt and blouse and dressy shoes for girls, slacks, shirt and shoes for boys).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THIS WEEK - Missi Love is returning for a follow-up training at the end of this week. She will work with all of our teachers on the Four Blocks Literacy Program, Literature Circles, and 6+1 Traits of Writing, and guide teachers’ discussions of how they grade written work, and why. This will take place on Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9. These two days will be full working days for teachers. There will be no school for students on Friday, November 8 as stated in the school calendar.
DONATIONS NEEDED: Please remember to send in cereal boxes for “Ya Tengo Donde Escribir” between now and November 20. The grade that brought the most boxes will be awarded a pizza party or ice cream party! Please help us help those in need!
GAME OF THE WEEK: Indoor
Foot Volleyball
What
you'll need
·
Yarn or string
·
10-inch inflated balloon
How to
play
To play,
first tie a piece of yarn or string across a 10-foot playing area, about 1 foot
above the floor. Divide the players into 2 teams and have them set up crab
style (faceup, leaning on their hands and feet) in their stocking feet on each
side of the string.
Use a
coin toss to determine which team will serve first, then have 1 player on that
team launch the balloon into the air for a teammate to kick over the string to
their opponents.
The teams
kick the balloon back and forth, taking all the hits they need to send the
balloon to the other side. If one team lets the balloon touch the floor, the
other team earns 1 point and restarts the game by serving the balloon from
their side. The first team to reach 15 points wins.
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