Week of Nov. 3-7

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.

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 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 sight words we are going to be working on this week are: or, one, had, by, can.  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 are going to start studying Ending Consonants. By this, we mean the ending consonant they hear in words such as bat, dog, paper, and pencil. We are NOT focusing on ending sounds like house, mice, and candle.

In Math we are going to work with number 16 and with the concepts of top, middle, bottom. The children will make sets with this number and sequence numbers from 0 to 16.

 

Please practice the following skills:

Numbers and counting up to 10

C.13 Count forward – up to 10

Positions

K.3 Top, Middle, Bottom

In Science, we will continue working with FOOD. Last week we talked about food they eat during breakfast, lunch and dinner. This week we are going to focus on the Food Pyramid and what does each category mean. The students will get the chance to do a Food Pyramid with cutouts from magazines, newspaper, supermarket brochures, etc. If you have any food pictures that we can use, we would greatly appreciate you sending them to school. We will talk about the difference between healthy food and junk food.

The children in charge for donating the ingredients for Kindergarten Kafe this Friday are Emma Rápalo and Ethan Paredes. Thanks in advance.