Dear Parents,
Last week the
children had a blast with our Valentines Day Celebration. Thank you for making
this day possible for the kids. They all enjoyed having a book from their
secret friend.
This week we are going to be working with the letter Ee. The vocabulary
that we are going to be focusing on is the following: elevator, egg, envelope, elephant, elbow, escalator, exit, eggplant,
and empty.
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 that we will be
reading this week are:
Let Elvin the Elephant entertain you.
You'll be amazed at everything Elvin can do! This engaging rhyming tale teaches the letter E.
Elmer is an elephant who has a
colorful body, with yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, black and
white arranged as a patchwork. He has a cheerful and optimistic personality,
and he loves practical jokes.
It's an extraordinary day on Pebble Island for three frogs when one of
them discovers a beautiful white egg. They've never seen a chicken egg before,
but they're sure that's what this must be. So when the egg hatches and out
crawls a long green, scaly creature, they naturally call it . . . a chicken!
Our new sight words for this week
are: me, love, no, from, and boy. Please practice these words at home
with your child.
It is important for students to learn
sight words in order to help them become fluent readers. Remember that sight
words are words students are able to read upon “sight” without having to sound
them out. They help facilitate reading comprehension giving students a better
opportunity to understand other words in context as they read.
In Math we will be introducing Solid Figures. We will be looking around
the classroom for these types of shapes and we will be discussing objects in
our environment that can represent each shape. PLEASE, if you have any item at
home that can be useful to teach this unit, we would greatly appreciate it if
you can send them over. You might want to look around your house for a ball, a
dice, paper towel tube, etc.
Geometry
The children are having an extremely
great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main
focus will be learning about AMPHIBIANS!!! We will be discussing their
characteristics, and how they are born. We will be learning about the life
cycle of a frog!
We would like to thank you for
entrusting your child to participate at the Health Fair last Thursday. They
were all very excited to bring their results home. We hope that they were
helpful for you.
To wrap up our unit on
Animals, we are hosting our marvelous KINDER ZOO on February 27th.
The children were assigned to
an animal. Your child should create a 3D model about this animal and have it
ready to display it in our room. They should also present facts about this
animal and explain what they have learned about it. We will have a big event on
this day in which children from other grades, teachers, and administrators will
be invited. Your child can come dressed as a scientist, zoo keeper, or even the
animal represented!!! Please be creative, help your child come up with the
ideas. This is a fun family project!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS so you can join the
fun!!!
MIDTERM– Please sign and return the Midterm for the third
quarter that were sent home last Friday, February 13th.
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