WEEK OF AUGUST 24-28, 2015

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

What are the parts of an apple?

If you answered that the parts of an apple are the skin, the flesh, the core, the seeds, the stem, and the leaves you are exactly right. These are the vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on during the week. We are going to be doing a lot of activities related to apples. If you have any books, or any other material that can be useful about apples we would really appreciate it if you can let us borrow them. We would really like for the kids to taste apple pies!!! Let us know if you can make a pie for the class!!

We are going to be working with the letter Aa. The vocabulary for this letter is: apple, astronaut, ax, alligator, alphabet, ant, armadillo, angry, ankle, and anteater.

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 books we are going to be reading this week are the following:

What will Abby Alligator be — an artist, an astronaut, an actor? We will find out when we read this fun story.

The author tells the tale of a little boy who is sure that there is an alligator under his bed. Getting no sympathy from his parents who ``never saw it,'' he forms a plan of attack. He leaves a trail of food from his bed through the house to the garage door. He then follows behind as the alligator gobbles up the goodies, fresh vegetables, fruit, and even ``the last piece of pie,'' making its way to the garage. The boy then locks the door.

Two young sisters watch in fascination as their apple tree changes, from bare in winter to bursting with pink blossoms in spring, and as robins build a nest. When autumn comes, the small green apples have grown big enough for picking and for pie! The words we are going to be discussing from this book are: branch, blossoms, chirp, brim, guarding and delicious.

Hi dee ho! It's off to a picnic we go! One hundred very hungry ants hurry to sample the delights of a picnic, but marching in single file seems too slow for 100 empty tummies. The smallest ant of all suggests they travel in 2 rows of 50, four rows of 25 . . . and the division begins.

This week we will be focusing on comparing number of words in a sentence.

In Math we will be discussing Shapes. We will be using the vocabulary same and different.

Beginning readers use a lot of different ways to become more fluent readers. One of the most important ways to do that is to be able to read and recognize sight words. Sight words refer to the words that are most frequently used and repeated in books, which is why sight words are also sometimes referred to as “high-frequency” words. The same words are also sometimes called “popcorn words.” The phrase popcorn words refer to the fact that students should be able to just pop those words out every time they see them. We will continue with the same sight words from last week: the, I, and, a, to. Please practice them at home with your child every day.

A big THANK YOU goes to Camilla Matamoros and Giulliana Florentino for donating the ingredients for our Kinder Kafe last week. The children enjoyed decorating a muffin with frosting and sprinkles. This week there will be NO kinder Kafe since Friday is a half day for the students!!