This week we will have a Dr. Seuss story time
every day of the week which will include cake on Wednesday to celebrate Dr.
Seuss’s birthday!!! In order to honor Dr. Seuss’ birthday, we will be doing many
different activities throughout the following week. We would like the children
to come in dressed with any Dr. Seuss item they might have (hat, or thing 1, 2,
3, shirt) on Wednesday.
We will be reviewing all the concepts covered in class so far.
We are going
to be exposing the students to a variety of his books. If you happen to have
books of Dr. Seuss, we are kindly requesting you to send them with your child
to school. We will be sending them back on Friday March 11th. Dr.
Seuss has a collection of more than 50 books and we would really like the
children to be exposed to the majority of them. We are going to be watching and
reading his biography. We will also be watching and reading some of the stories
that the children are not familiar with.
The
story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and
vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story
he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk. However, when he
arrives home he decides instead to tell his father what he actually saw—a
simple horse and wagon.
This
is the first picture book biography of Dr. Seuss, written especially for his
young fans who want to know what made him tick. The animals in the zoo that his
father ran and his fondness for drawing them, the injustices he suffered as the
child of German immigrants and his inherent sense of humor all fed into the
imagination of this boy. He was a square peg in a round hole until he found
that he could make a living doing exactly what he pleased—doodling and writing
funny things about the world as he saw it.
In
the book, Gerald McGrew is a kid who, when visiting a zoo, finds that the
exotic animals are "not good enough". He says that if he ran the zoo,
he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and
exotic ones. Throughout the book he lists these creatures, starting with a lion
with ten feet and escalating to more imaginative creatures, such as the
Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, "the world's biggest bird from the island of
Gwark, who eats only pine trees, and spits out the bark."
We
invite to you visit the following links with your child. These sites include
books, games, activities, and more about Dr. Seuss that you can do with your
child at home.
In Math, we are
going to start working with Fractions. In Kindergarten we mainly focus on whole
and half. We are going to be doing a variety of activities to help the students
understand these concepts. We are also going to practice counting by fives up
to 100.
The new five sight words for this week are: girl, get, day, did and may.
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.
In Honduras we celebrate Father´s Day on March
19th. We would like to invite all of our DADDIES to have Donuts and Fruit with
your child on Friday, March 18th 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.
Also Easter is around the corner and we are planning to have our
Easter Egg Hunt at Giulliana’s small farm located in Tatumbla on Thursday,
March 17th. We are planning to leave school at 8:00 a.m. and come
back at 12:00 m. For these two important events to take place we are kindly
requesting Lps. 200.00 which will be used for the following:
·
Father’s Day Craft
·
Transportation to and from the farm
·
Snack at the Farm
·
Easter basket
Please send this money by Thursday March 3rd
To wrap up our unit on Animals, we are hosting
our marvelous KINDER ZOO this coming 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 to come.
PRESENTATION FOR PARENTS - We cordially invite all DS school
parents to attend a presentation that will be given by the Lic. Manuel Morales
on the topic “The Four Types of
Parents”. This presentation will take place on Thursday, March 10, at 12:00 p.m., in the Conference Room. The
school will be providing some refreshments. We will also be rewarding the
students per area (Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary) of the parents
attending. Secondary area is offering 5 bonus points on a test counting towards
the subject they are struggling the most
in, and Early Childhood/Elementary is offering a pizza party for the kids. We
hope you will be able to attend!
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