Week of May 11-15

Dear Parents,

This week we are going to be working with the letter Yy. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: yo-yo, yarn, yellow, yak, yogurt, yawn, yard, and yolk.

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:

A young yak thinks new foods are yucky until she learns a yummy lesson. Kids will shout "Yippee" when we share this engaging tale that teaches the letter Y.

Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and little yellow go? Are they lost?

One day, in her dark and dreary world, Annabelle finds a box of colorful yarn. She knits a sweater for herself and her dog.  At first the townspeople criticize her for her colorful appearance – but it turns out they want sweaters too.  Eventually Annabelle has created sweaters for everyone and everything in town.

We will continue working with the sight words introduced last week: down, them, some, blue, and three.

In Phonemic Awareness we will work with words that begin with TH and just T. For example: Turtle, Tiger, Tomato, Table, THirteen, THumb, THink, THree,

This week we are going to be wrapping our unit on Space. Last week we talked about Jupiter. This week we are going to be talking about Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This unit has been of a lot of interest to the children. They loved learning facts about each of the planets. Ask them questions and you will be surprised of all the things they know of each one of them. Do you know which one is the hottest planet? If you do not know, your child does!!!!

We will be closing our school year with a unit about Children Around the World. We will mainly be discussing traditions and culture of other countries. If you happen to have anything about your country that you would like to share with us, let us know so we can schedule something nice. It can be a traditional story, traditional foods, dances, clothes, etc.  It would be nice to bother some things of your countries.

We are requesting 2 carnet size picture of your child for their Kindergarten Diploma. Please send these pictures before Friday, May 15^th. Thank You!!!

Children in charge of donating Kinder Kafe materials are Ethan Paredes and Felipe Funez.

Our End of the Year Party will take place on Tuesday, May 26^th at Rancho 1 of BCIE club. The committee met last week and is requesting Lps. 450.00 to cover all the expenses which would include the following: rental of place, transportation, snack, drinks, lunch, t-shirt, decoration, etc. Please send this money no later than Friday, May 15^th so things can be bought and paid. This is ONLY for the children. All parents are welcome to come. If you decide to do so, you will need to send in Lps. 120 extra per adult coming to buy the lunch. We are planning on leaving the school at 9:00 a.m. and leaving BCIE at 2:00 p.m.

Next week we will be sending a form so you can write down how many people of your family are planning to attend.

SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY – We want to remind our parents that our Spring General Assembly will take place this Saturday, May 16 at 9:00 a.m. We need to reach a quorum for this General Assembly and be able to vote on budget, calendar and school improvements. The DPTO is offering a Pizza Party to the Grade that has the most parents attending the General Assembly!

PINEAPPLE INITIATIVE – If you purchase a pineapple for your home consumption, please send the crown on the pineapple in a bag to school as soon as possible. There is an innovative initiative to plant (and sell) Discovery harvested pineapples! We will begin on Monday, May 11, so send those crowns soon!!!