Week of April 20-24

Dear Parents,

This week we are going to be working with the letter Qq. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: quarter, quail, queen, quiet, quick, question mark, quilt, and quiche.

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:

Quincy Quail can’t stand Dotty Duck’s loud quacking. We will learn how a noisy friend can be quite wonderful in this touching tale that teaches the letter Q.

A celebration of a child's growing self awareness, and a prime example of how books can contribute to this. Whether brave or shy, strong or weak, in the end the young boy celebrates all different, apparently contradictory parts of himself.

A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.

We are going to continue working with magnetic letters to form words. We are going to dictate words for the students to look for each letter they hear. They will surely have lots of fun. This might be an excellent game for you to play at home also. Try it out and you will all be amazed of what an excellent job they are doing.

The five new sight words for this week are: then, little, two, red, and here. Please practice these words at home.

In Math we are going to work with the concepts of “greater than” and “less than.” We are going to do a lot of activities where the children will identify the correct sign.

This week we will be talking about Planet Earth. We are going to be brainstorming ways to help the Earth stay clean. The children are all very excited to be the Earth´s super friend and you may have already noticed it at home. To wrap it up, on Friday we would be watching a movie called “The Lorax” which is about the environment. We will have popcorn and juice. Children are allowed to bring a pillow to watch the movie this day.

Last week I started reading aloud a chapter book to the students. They are all very engage with the book and making predictions of what they think might happen. Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, expressive reading, and helps children recognize what reading for pleasure is all about. We are currently reading the book “Dinosaurs Before Dark” from the Magic Tree House series. Ask your little one what is this book about and you will be amazed of their responses and how much fun they are having with it.

The children in charge of donating the materials for Kinder Kafe are Vilma and Alejandro. Thanks in advance!

IMPORTANT SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

GO GREEN MONTH:  students are encouraged to wear green each Friday this month.

BRICKS4KIDZ – Session 3 is this Friday, April 17. The sessions run from 3:15 to 4:15 and will be open for students in from kindergarten to grade five. There are spaces still available! You can register on Friday!