Week of May 25-29

Dear Parents,

This is going to be a bitter sweet week. It is time to say good- bye to our lovely students but at the same time we know that they are ready to move on in their lives. They are all excited to go to FIRST GRADE… hooray!!! We will devote this week to have fun. If you have any board games that we can play at school, have your child bring them to share the fun. They can also bring toys that they are willing to share with their friends.

The children had a lot of fun learning about Chile, Spain and Costa Rica last week. We would like to thank those parents for everything you taught us about these beautiful countries. This week is the turn of MALAYSIA. Children will write about things they learned of the countries mentioned above.

It was a great pleasure to have your little ones in our classroom this year. We learned so many things. Your children are proud because they finally know how to read and write.

This year is over, so now we return your children to you, the same children that you entrusted to our care last fall. We return them with a few more pounds, a few inches taller, and months wiser, more responsible, and more mature than back then.

Even though they would have grown without our help, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to see their personalities grow day by day and see how they have developed their learning.

We have laughed, played, studied, learned and enriched our lives during the year. Take care of your children, for they are so precious.

Remember that we will always have great interest in your children and their destinies, wherever they must go, whatever they do and whoever they become.

Sincerely,

Ms. Valencia Durón and Ms. María Fernanda Padilla

Week of May 18-22

Dear Parents,

Wow, it is amazing to realize that this school year is almost over and that First Grade is around the corner for our lovely students.

We will be looking at different fables. The students will get the chance to discuss each one of them.

We will devote the remaining days of school to review all the sight words we have worked with in Kindergarten. Using these words we are going to be dictating sentences for the children to write them down. This will be challenging for them but we are also sure that it will be encouraging and exciting at the same time.

In Math we are going to work on Word Problems. The children will determine if they need to add or subtract in a problem given. We will emphasize the fact that they need to answer in a complete sentence.

This week we will begin our unit about Children Around the World. This week our mainly focus will be three beautiful countries: Spain, Chile and Costa Rica. How exciting!!!! We will also be looking at various videos about this beautiful country and learn about their culture. We will get the chance to try some yummy food of these countries.

For the remaining 10 days of school, we are allowing the children to bring TWO toys from home so they can share and play with their friends. The students already know the rules to bring the toys. Thank you!

We are requesting 2 carnet size picture of your child for their Kindergarten Diploma. The due date for the pictures was last Friday. Unfortunately, not all of you have brought them. If I do not get the pictures by this Wednesday, your child will not get the official diploma. Thank you for your understanding.

Our End of the Year Party will take place on Tuesday, May 26^th at Rancho 1 of BCIE club. The committee is requesting Lps. 450.00 to cover all the expenses which would include the following: rental of place, transportation, snack, drinks, lunch, a cap (instead of a t-shirt like it was mentioned before), decoration, etc. Please send this money as soon as possible 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.

MANY THANKS - Thank you to all the parents who sent in pineapple crowns. Our fifth graders have enjoyed planting them behind our class. They have also planted the seeds for the papayas! Special thanks to Mr. Arnaldo Antunez for guiding us in this project, for his time and donations.

EARLY DISMISSAL WEDNESDAY – Please remember that our students will be dismissed at 11:45 this Wednesday, May 20. Our teachers will be working on the AdvancedEd Accreditation process that afternoon. We will be following P.M. Schedule that day.

MINUTA SALE - Discovery's Helping Hands, the community service club led by Mrs. Agurcia, will be selling minutas (snow cones) Friday, May 22, during lunch and after school to raise funds for Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a children's home. Each minuta will cost L. 15 and there will be a variety of flavors to choose from. Please help us support this wonderful organization

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!!!

Week of May 4-8

Dear Parents,

This week we are going to be working with the letter Kk. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: kangaroo, key, kite, kiss, karate, kick, koala, kiwi, kaleidoscope, kimono, kettle, ketchup, kayak, kitten, and kitchen.

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:

These kangaroo have all kinds of kazoos! This rhyming tale invites readers to join their kooky band and learn about the letter K.

On a windy spring day, what do Bear and Mole decide to do? Why, fly a kite, of course! But first they have to build one. They design, measure, and finally construct their kite. With a zoom, zoom, zoom the kite soars up, up, up in the air. But when a storm rumbles in --SNAP!--the kite string breaks! The chase is on as the two friends tear after their kite and find it in a tree, protecting a nest of baby birds from the rain.

Little Bear gives an animal friend a picture to deliver to his grandmother.  His grandmother sends a kiss back to give to Little Bear.  The first animal tires of the journey, so he passes the kiss along to another animal, who passes it to another… until it reaches a skunk, who shares it with a female skunk – and she shares it back.  In the end the skunks get married.

The five new sight words for this week are: down, them, some, blue, and three. Please practice these words at home with your child every day.

In Phonemic Awareness we will be introducing some digraphs. The digraphs that we will be studying this week are SH and CH.

In language, a digraph is two letters or characters that make a single sound when pronounced, also known as a phoneme. The sound made by the digraph is usually noticeably different than the pronunciations of the individual letters would be. SHark, SHeep, SHell, SHip, SHoe.   CHicken, CHeese, CHair, CHin. 

In Math we are going to be doing a lot of exercises or ordering numbers from least to greatest. The children will be given a group of three or more numbers and they will have to arrange them from the smallest number to the biggest one.

This week we are going to be wrapping our unit on Space. Last week we talked about Earth and Mars. This week we are going to be talking about Jupiter, 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!!!!

Progress Reports went home last Thursday. Please sign them and send them back with your child to school as soon as possible. It is hard to believe that we are approaching the end of the school year!!!

Here is our schedule for MAP Testing. Parents please help us assure that everyone does their best by making sure your child gets plenty of sleep and has a big breakfast on these days.

Monday May 4^th 8:30 a.m. -9:45 a.m.

Thursday May 7^th 11:40 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.

Tuesday May 12^th 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Friday May 15^th 10:05 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

As you all know, Mother´s Day is celebrated the second Sunday of May.  We would like to invite all of our MOMMIES to have Muffins with your child on this Friday, May 8th at 8:00 a.m. We are planning on having something nice prepared for you. We hope you can come and spend some time with your child at school.

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!!!

The children in charge of donating the materials for Kinder Kafe are Emilio and Emma Camila. Thanks in advance!

SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

DISCOVERY IDOL AUDITIONS– Our annual talent show is around the corner! Students can audition their songs, dances or other talents this Thursday, May 7, and Friday 8. The talent show will take place on Wednesday, May 20 at 10:15 p.m. 

The Cowboy Carnival this Friday, May 8. Please join our school community for a fun-filled, Cowboy themed evening. There will be attractive cowboy games and delicious food for sale, and the opportunity to watch an amazing movie will having a picnic dinner under the stars!  The DPTO is offering a Pizza Party to the Grade that has the most parents attending the General Assembly!

The school’s Spring General Assembly will take place next Saturday, may 16 at 9:00 a.m. It is VERY IMPORTANT for our parents to attend to vote on the 1025-2016 school calendar and budget.

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!

SUMMER CAMP – Discovery Zone 6 is back! Get an early registration! The Summer Camp will run from June 8-26, from 8:00 to 11: 50 a.m.  Please ask Ms. Valencia Duron for more information vduron@discoveryschool.edu.hn