Dear Parents,
We decided to have an
Author Study about Kevin Henkes. If you have any books about this
wonderful author please send them with your child to school. We will be reading
some of his books and watching interesting videos about the way he creates his
books.
Some of the books that we
chose to read in class are the following:
Lilly loves everything about
school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her
purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing
time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions. Lilly's fury leads to
revenge and then to remorse and she sets out to make amends.
Owen is a young mouse about to
start school. Owen treats Fuzzy, his blanket, like it is his best friend. When
Owen’s neighbor, Mrs. Tweezers, sees Owen playing with the blanket, she
suggests ways for Owen’s parents to try to get Owen to get rid of Fuzzy before
it’s time for him to start school. Owen is very upset. Everyone seems to be
unhappy until Owen’s mother comes up with a solution that pleases everyone.
“There is no Jessica,” said Ruthie’s parents.
But of course there was. She ate with Ruthie, played with Ruthie, and was sorry
when Ruthie was bad. Nobody could see Jessica—except Ruthie. When it came time
for Ruthie to go to school, Jessica went with her. Her parents hoped Ruthie
would find a friend at school who would replace Jessica. They were in for a
happy surprise!
This will
also be a Review Week!!! We will be reviewing all the letters of the alphabet
we have studied so far with the corresponding vocabulary words introduced for
each letter.
We will be doing a sort of
different activities to review syllable counting, beginning and ending sounds,
and rhyming words.
We are
going to be evaluating the 35 sight words we have worked with in the class.
Please make sure your child recognize these words by sight. Practicing at home
daily will be very beneficial for your kid and helpful for us. The sight words
they should know by now are: the, I,
and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they,
of, at, be, this, have, see, or, one, had, by, can, but, not, like, my, we.
It is very important for them to recognize all the words, since we are starting
to do a lot of writing and reading activities. They are all very excited to
know that they are starting to write and read on their own.
In Math, we will be reviewing
numbers 0-20. The children should be able to recognize these numbers out of
sequence, making sets to match each number and sequence the numbers in the
correct order.
On December 1st we
will decorate a Christmas tree. For this, we are asking the children to bring
at least two ornaments from their house so we can decorate our tree. If you
have any other decoration that we could use in our classroom please let us
borrow it from you. If you have any books that are related to this holiday we
would love to read them in class. Send them with your child and we will be
displaying them in our book corner.
We would
love to have a Christmas Party with the children on the last day of school
(Wednesday, December 16th). If you have any idea on what or how we can do it,
we would greatly appreciate if you can contact us via email or at school.
Thanks in advance.
Santa Claus will be visiting the children for this Christmas Party!!! We are requesting for you to send a gift so santa can give it to your child. Please send this gift no later than Friday, December 4. The Gift should not be more than 200 lps. Thanks in advance for your collaboration!
Our annual Songfest will take
place on Friday, December 11th at 6:30 p.m. Please mark this date and time on
your calendar. Take into consideration that this is the time where traffic gets
a little bit hectic in this city. We would really like to see all the children
in school at 6:00 p.m. so we can go over last details with them. They are all
very excited practicing their song every day with a lot of enthusiasm. Your
child needs to come in dressed with black
pants or leggings, white long sleeve shirt, and white gloves with silver
sequins.
Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international
organization that takes in abandoned and orphaned children, providing a home
and education. Here in Honduras, the NPH
organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and
home in Tegucigalpa for severely handicapped children. While many children at the ranch have aunts,
uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas
gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit. It is these children, whom we would like to
provide for this Christmas. A paper
tree will be sent home that has a child’s information about his/her size for
shoes or socks. Purchase the new item
and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 8th, with the
tree tag taped to it. Thank you for
giving this Christmas!
If
more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/
and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYC2A5njQTk
.
BAKE SALE – The
Juniors will be having a bake sale in order to raise funds for their upcoming
community service. The bake sale will be on Friday, December 4 during snack and lunch.
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