Week of Oct. 6 - 10

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, I, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they, of.

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. IXL SKILLS FOR THIS WEEK: Review all skills done up till now.

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, kidney, skeleton, and brain. We would like to thank Mrs. Aleyda de Gutierrez (Emilio´s mom) for volunteering to visit us and talk to us about our body parts. She is a doctor and we are sure the children will love to have her as our special guest.

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

This week the students in charge of donating the ingredients for Kinder Kafe are: Vilma Bertrand and Alejandro Rivas. Thank you in advance!!

You may want to play this game with your child at home:

How to Play:

1. Write sight 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.

IMPORTANT SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

HOLIDAY – We want to remind parents that our October Holidays will be on Thursday and Friday, October 30 and 31.

SCIENCE FAIR - Our Early Childhood and Elementary students will begin working on their Science Fair projects. Grades K-2 will work on whole group projects with their teacher, grades 3-5 will complete a packet according to established deadlines, and will work on this project at home.  Packets will be sent home on this week. 

DPTO MEETING – Parents and teachers interested in a DPTO meeting must come to a meeting on Thursday, October 9 at 7:30 a.m. in the school cafeteria. The topics to be discussed are UN Day Celebration (October 29) and other school events.