February 22, 2015

Week of Feb. 23-27

Dear Parents,


This week we are going to be working with the letter Vv. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: valentine, vulture, vest, volcano, violet, violin, van, veterinarian, vacuum,




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:

We are going to find out what happens when Victor Viper gives his pal Vera a valentine in this very funny tale that teaches the letter V.



    



    
We will continue working with the sight words: boy, from, love, me, no. We are now up to 55 sight words!!! Please practice them with your child at home!!!





We are going to work with Word Families. These are words that have the same kind of word ending and a changeable first letter. For instance, the "at" word family would include words like cat, pat, rat, that, hat, etc. Words in a family will always rhyme; however, not all rhyming words belong to the same word family. "Hair" and "care" both rhyme, but come from different families. You may want to try the following link for an online game to play with your child.


In Math, we are going to start doing a mini unit about Honduran Money. We will be discussing each one of them and its value. We will be sorting them out by its value. This is also a great opportunity to practice our addition and subtraction skills. We would like to request your help in sending one of each of the different coins with your child to school (in case you have them). If you would like to send in more, they will surely be welcome in our class!


This week we will be reviewing all the different groups of animals. We will be classifying animals into their corresponding group. We will talk a little bit about the group of Insects.

To wrap up our unit on Animals, we are hosting our marvelous KINDER ZOO on February 27th. Parents are invited to join the presentations from 8:00 a.m. -9:00 a.m. Each child will have around 3 minutes to talk about his/her animal. After snack we are going to invite students and teachers from other grades.

 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 vet, 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!!!
The children in charge of donating the materials for Kindergarten Kafe are: Felipe Funez and Lucia Torres. Thank you in advance!!!


EARLY DISMISSAL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 – Please remember that our teachers will have a Professional Development afternoon this Wednesday. Our students will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m.




MIDTERM AND MAP REPORTS – Please sign and return the Midterm for the third quarter that was sent home on Friday, February 13th.


This Thursday, February 26, 2015, we will be having an Early Childhood Art Festival, the kids of Nursery, Prek, Kindergarten and First Grade will be presenting some projects they have done in their Art class. The exhibit will start at 5:00 pm at the turf area in Early Childhood.  We hope to see you there!! 

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