Week of Feb. 9-13

Dear Parents,

This week we are going to be working with the letter Ff. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: fan, fish, forest, flower, frog, french toast, fruit, french fries, fox, flag, flashlight, fire, farm, football, and family.

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:

Fifi's flute has fallen in the river. Will it float away forever?

One day, a fox saw a crow with a piece of meat in his beak. The fox was very hungry and thought, “How can I get the piece of cheese?”

He thought for a while. Soon, an idea struck him. Ask your child what happened!!!

While the other field mice work to gather grain and nuts for winter, Frederick sits on a sunny rock by himself. “I gather sun rays for the cold dark winter days,” he tells them. Another day he gathers “colors,” and then “words.” And when the food runs out, it is Frederick, the dreamer and poet, whose endless store of supplies warms the hearts of his fellow mice, and feeds their spirits during the darkest winter days.

Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps, but quickly finds that land is not what he expected.

We will continue working with the sight words that were introduced last week: if, what, her, has, all.

In Math, we are going to be reviewing both addition and subtraction problems to and from 10. We are going to be discussing several word problems. The children will get the chance to create their own. They are all making a really good job with numbers. Please practice the following IXL skills with your child at home. They might need some help reading the word problems. However, this is a great opportunity to have your child read to you.

Addition

I.5     Addition Word Problems - sums up to 5

Subtraction

J.4     Subtraction word problems - numbers up to 5

The children are having an extremely great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main focus will be learning about BIRDS!!! We will be discussing their characteristics, and how they are born.

As you all know, this Friday, we celebrate Valentine´s Day. We will be having lunch altogether to celebrate this special day. We will be talking about ways to be nice to each other and we will be discussing Friendship. Please send Lps. 150.00 by Wednesday to order the lunch, drinks, dessert, and a small treat for every child. A mother of one of our students gently volunteered to send some cupcakes or cookies for the children to have for snack.

We are going to do a gift exchange this day also. For this, please send a BOOK wrapped with your child by Thursday, February 12^th. Try to avoid books about princesses or super heroes since you do not know if your child will be given the book to a boy or a girl. It would be great if these books can be Leveled 1 Readers for the children to read on their own. On Friday the children will take out a paper from a basket to find out who his/her secret friend is!!!

There will be NO Kinder Kafe this week!

As Valentine´s Day is around the corner, we are requesting you to help your child decorate a shoe box to be used as their mailbox. Be creative, and let your child brainstorm the ideas that he/she would like their box to look like. We are going to display all these lovely mailboxes on Friday for your child to deliver their valentine cards for their friends. This is a voluntary activity. However, if you decide to participate, the only request that we have is that the students should bring one card or treat to each one of the Kindergarten students. This mailbox should be in school this Thursday, February 12^th.

We have a total of 14 students! Here is the list….

ALEJANDRO RIVAS                         

SEBASTIAN AGURCIA

EMILIO GUTIERREZ

EMMA RAPALO

ETHAN PAREDES

FELIPE FUNEZ

LUCIA TORRES

MATEO JACOME

NICOLAS MARTIN

RODRIGO AGUILAR

RODRIGO GALLEGO

SEBASTIAN ORTEZ

TAMMY RODRIGUEZ

VILMA BERTRAND

Our marvelous KINDER ZOO on February 27th.

The children were assigned to an animal last week. 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 and we would love to wrap up our unit on animals with this fun activity!!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS so you can join the fun!!! Here is the list of students and their assigned animal:

ALEJANDRO RIVAS          GORILLA

SEBASTIAN AGURCIA        KOALA    

EMILIO GUTIERREZ          BLUE WHALE

EMMA RAPALO                OCTOPUS

ETHAN PAREDES              KANGAROO

FELIPE FUNEZ                PANDA BEAR

LUCIA TORRES                ALLIGATOR

MATEO JACOME              JELLYFISH

NICOLAS MARTIN            WHALE SHARK

RODRIGO AGUILAR           ELEPHANT

RODRIGO GALLEGO           STINGRAY

SEBASTIAN ORTEZ           DOLPHIN

TAMMY RODRIGUEZ          SEAHORSE

VILMA BERTRAND            ARMADILLO