Dear Kindergarten Parents,
What are
the parts of an apple?
If you answered
that the parts of an apple are the skin,
the flesh, the core, the seeds, the stem, and the leaves you are exactly
right. These are the vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on during the
week. We are going to be doing a lot of activities related to apples. If you
have any books, or any other material that can be useful about apples we would
really appreciate it if you can let us borrow them. We would really like for
the kids to taste apple pies!!! Let us know if you can make a pie for the
class!!
We are going to be working with the letter Aa. The vocabulary for this letter is: apple, astronaut, ax, alligator, alphabet,
ant, armadillo, angry, ankle, and anteater.
If you have any
items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and
we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we
will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.
Some of the books
we are going to be reading this week are the following:
What
will Abby Alligator be — an artist, an astronaut, an actor? We will find out
when we read this fun story.
The author tells
the tale of a little boy who is sure that there is an alligator under his bed.
Getting no sympathy from his parents who ``never saw it,'' he forms a plan of
attack. He leaves a trail of food from his bed through the house to the garage
door. He then follows behind as the alligator gobbles up the goodies, fresh
vegetables, fruit, and even ``the last piece of pie,'' making its way to the
garage. The boy then locks the door.
Two young sisters
watch in fascination as their apple tree changes, from bare in winter to
bursting with pink blossoms in spring, and as robins build a nest. When autumn
comes, the small green apples have grown big enough for picking and for pie!
The words we are going to be discussing from this book are: branch, blossoms,
chirp, brim, guarding and delicious.
Hi dee ho! It's off
to a picnic we go! One hundred very hungry ants hurry to sample the delights of
a picnic, but marching in single file seems too slow for 100 empty tummies. The
smallest ant of all suggests they travel in 2 rows of 50, four rows of 25 . . .
and the division begins.
This week we will
be focusing on comparing number of words in a sentence.
In Math we will be
discussing Shapes. We will be using
the vocabulary same and different.
The school bought the subscription for IXL. It is
where the students can log in with their username and password at home and
practice all the skills that are being taught in school. We will be sending
their username and password in their folders.
Our IXL skills for this week are:
Numbers and counting up to 3
Beginning readers use a lot of different ways to
become more fluent readers. One of the most important ways to do that is to be
able to read and recognize sight words. Sight words refer to the words that are
most frequently used and repeated in books, which is why sight words are also
sometimes referred to as “high-frequency” words. The same words are also
sometimes called “popcorn words.” The phrase popcorn words refer to the fact
that students should be able to just pop those words out every time they see
them. We will continue with the same sight words from last week: the, I, and, a, to. Please practice them at home with your child every day.
A big THANK YOU goes to Alejandro Rivas and Sebastian
Agurcia for donating the ingredients for our Kinder Kafe last week. The
children enjoyed decorating a muffin with marshmallows and M&M’s. This week
Emma Camila Rapalo and Emilio Gutierrez will be in charge for donating the
ingredients.
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