February 22, 2016

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22-26, 2016




This week we are going to be working with the letter Vv. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: valentine, vulture, vest, volcano, violet, violin, van, veterinarian, vacuum.
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:
We are going to find out what happens when Victor Viper gives his pal Vera a valentine in this very funny tale that teaches the letter V.

 

    












We will continue working with the sight words: boy, from, love, me, no. We are now up to 55 sight words!!! Please practice them with your child at home!!!
It is important for students to learn sight words in order to help them become fluent readers. Remember that sight words are words students are able to read upon “sight” without having to sound them out. They help facilitate reading comprehension giving students a better opportunity to understand other words in context as they read.


We are going to work with Word Families. These are words that have the same kind of word ending and a changeable first letter. For instance, the "at" word family would include words like cat, pat, rat, that, hat, etc. Words in a family will always rhyme; however, not all rhyming words belong to the same word family. "Hair" and "care" both rhyme, but come from different families. You may want to try the following link for an online game to play with your child.
You may want to try the following link to play with some word families and challenge your child with them.



In Math, we are going to start doing a mini unit about Honduran Money. We will be discussing each one of them and its value. We will be sorting them out by its value. This is also a great opportunity to practice our addition and subtraction skills. We would like to request your help in sending one of each of the different coins with your child to school (in case you have them). If you would like to send in more, they will surely be welcome in our class!





The children are having an extremely great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main focus will be learning about AMPHIBIANS!!! We will be discussing their characteristics, and how they are born. We will be learning about the life cycle of a frog!






To wrap up our unit on Animals, we are hosting our marvelous KINDER ZOO on Thursday, March 3rd. Parents are invited to join the presentations from 8:00 a.m. -9:00 a.m. Each child will have around 3 minutes to talk about his/her animal. After snack we are going to invite students and teachers from other grades.
The children were assigned to an animal. Your child should create a 3D model about this animal and have it ready to display it in our room. They should also present facts about this animal and explain what they have learned about it. We will have a big event on this day in which children from other grades, teachers, and administrators will be invited. Your child can come dressed as a vet, scientist, zoo keeper, or even the animal represented!!! Please be creative, help your child come up with the ideas. This is a fun family project!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS so you can join the fun!!!


CAMILLA MATAMOROS      RATTLESNAKE
GIULLIANA FLORENTINO   FLAMINGO
HENRY CONSTANTINE      JELLYFISH
IVANNA LOPEZ                     RED FROG  
VALENTINA MEJIA          FOX 
LEXI RUTA                    DOLPHIN
MARA YOUNG                 SPIDER MONKEY
SAKURA KUDO                BARRACUDA
SOFIA ESTRADA                  HUMMINGBIRD
SOFIA TEJERINA            GECKO     
VALERIA GOUGH              MOOSE
VANESSA SOBALVARRO     ALLIGATOR


EARLY DISMISSAL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th – Please remember that our teachers will have a Professional Development afternoon this Friday. Our students will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m.


YEARBOOK PICTURES– Please take note that we will be taking this year’s pictures for the yearbook this week. Our grade’s picture will be taken on Wednesday,February 24. The all school picture will be taken on Thursday morning, so we are asking everyone to be in school on time. ‘
We ask parents to please take note of the following:
a.       STUDENTS SHOULD NOT WEAR WHITE
b.      Dress nicely and properly
c.       Try not to be absent these days.


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