Week of Sept. 15-19

Dear Parents, 

A long weekend is always a good time to recharge our batteries! We hope our Kindergarteners are ready for the new and exciting challenges that we have for the second half of the first quarter of the school year.

We would like to thank each one of you for everything you sent last Friday for our “Desayuno Catracho”. The students enjoyed tasting Tamales de Cambray, Baleadas, Catrachitas, Platanitos, Espumillas, and lemonade! 

Midterm Reports were issued last Thursday, September 11th. Please go over them, sign them and send them back to school. If you would like a conference, and one was not requested, please call the school to set up an appointment.

This week we will continue working with the letter Ss. The vocabulary we are focusing on is: sandwich, sand, seal, stop, sink, skates, stapler, suitcase, socks, skirt, sofa, skeleton, sandals, soup, and smile. Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

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".

Dance a jig with a silly pig. Play leapfrog with a silly dog. And that’s just the beginning of all the fun! Come along and join Silly Sally and her outrageous friends as they parade into town in a most unusual way.

It's a dark day for Itching Down. Four million wasps have just descended on the town, and the pests are relentless! What can be done? Bap the Baker has a crazy idea that just might work . . .

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.

We will continue reinforcing beginning sounds these three days. Help us out at home naming objects around your house and asking your child what letter does it begin with!!

This week we will continue with the same sight words as last week. These words are: he, was, for, on, are. Practice, practice, practice!!!

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

Please practice the following skills:
Numbers and counting up to 10
C.1 Count to 10
C.2 Count dots - 0 to 10

MAP MATH TESTING SESSION: This week our students will take the MAP Math test on Wednesday September 17th at 8:30 a.m. On Monday, September 22nd they will take the second part of Math test at 11:40 a.m. Please try not to miss school these days!
MAP = Measures of Academic Progress
We invite you to visit www.nwea.org so you can have more information about what MAP is all about!

This week the children in charge of bringing the ingredients for Kinder Kafe are Rodrigo Aguilar and Rodrigo Gallego. Thank you in advance.