Week 5 September 5th - September 9th

September 5, 2016
Dear Parents,
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Last week we had a lot of fun learning about  turtles. The students enjoyed the 2 turtles visiting our classroom for the day.  Continuing with our theme 'Getting to know Honduras"the students   watched videos  learned interesting facts, created posters and a mural of all the beautiful "T" places in Honduras( La Tigra,Tegucigalpa, Tela, and Trujillo).


Great news! 

   Kindergarten has acquired subscriptions for IXL and Raz-Kids. Your child's username and passwords are taped to their homework folders. On Friday Parent letters were sent home. These letters tell you exactly what to do and how to access your child's account.
IXL is math program which helps our students practice and review math skills.
Raz-Kids is  reading site that has fiction/ non fiction books for each child to read according to his/ her level. It measures reading fluency and comprehension.

• Seesaw is an electronic portfolio that Kindergarten will be using this year. You will receive an invitation, then proceed to download it to your phone. You will be the only person who can view your child's portfolio. I will be uploading pictures of the things we do here in class. It is a wonderful tool to have and the children love seeing pictures of themselves in action!

Thank you Sofia for the delicious Tiramisu, Hedy for the yummy Teddy Grahams, Gabriel for the toffees and Teddy Grahams, and Alejandro C. for the toffee and Ms. Lucia for the toaster and toast!
The kids really did enjoy it!

This week we will focus our study on the letter Pp. We will learn about Penguins, Polar Bears and Parrots. If you have any books, posters, or videos that talk about these two animals, we would appreciate it if you would let us borrow them. The vocabulary we will be learning for this letter is puzzle, parachute, pumpkin, perfume, pail, paintbrush, pasta, paperclip, pyramid, pan, peach, pot, pineapple, pants, and puppets.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them  with your child  on Tuesday.We will host our weekly Show and Tell on this day.The items will be displayed in class and we will return them on Friday. 

It would be fun for kids to try foods that begin with the letter "Pp",here is a list of some different foods. If you would like to send something from this list or any other "Pp" food in please feel free to do so. 

Letter P Foods

Pancakes, Peas, Peaches, Pears, Peanut Butter, Peppers, Pickles
Pie, Pineapple, Pizza, Plums, Pop Corn, Potatoes, Potato Chips,  
Pudding, Pumpkin, Pretzels, Pumpkin Seeds 

Some of the stories that we will be reading are the following:

Penny, Polly, and Peter Pig are planning the perfect picnic! What will they pack? Make sure you ask your child about it!

This is a colorfully decorated book that takes children from animal to animal learning about different animal and people sounds. Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book.

If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it. You'll give her some of your favorite maple syrup, and she'll probably get all sticky, so she'll want to take a bath. She'll ask you for some bubbles. When you give her the bubbles... what would she ask for? The vocabulary we will be discussing for this book is the following: pig, pancake, syrup, bubbles, duck, suitcase, tap, piano, camera, envelope, glue, mailbox.

 Tacky's perfect friends find him annoying until his odd behavior saves the day. "Droll facial expressions, which still retain their animal quality, add more humor to a perceptive text about being different."

We will continue reviewing all the sight words introduced so far: the, I, and, a, to, in, is, it, that, you, . Please take 5 minutes a day to practice these words at home. You can have them posted on a magnetic board, on the refrigerator, or any other creative area you can think of.

In our Phonemic Awareness area we will continue clapping syllables. This is a hard concept for some children especially the words that have only one syllable. You may want to play games around your 

house that involves clapping the number of syllables they hear in words. tomato, to-ma-to, doctor, doc-tor,  map map

In Math we will be doing all sort of activities with numbers 1-10. These activities include sequencing numbers in their right order, making sets, comparing numbers, concepts of  1more and  1 less than a number.We will also be discussing and introducing the concept of Pictographs. We will learn that a Pictograph is a way of showing data using images. At this point we will just be learning how to read a pictograph.

In Social Studies we will continue our unit "Getting To Know Honduras" We will learn about two very cool places: Puhlapanzac and  El Pichacho.

HOMEWORK
IXL SKILLS C.5 AND C.9 NEED TO BE FINISHED BY FRIDAY
RAZ -KIDS: Login in and listen to 1 story (if possible read and record the story)

MONDAY
(Bring in onTuesday)

Letter "Pp" items

TUESDAY
(Bring in on Wednesday)
Math Matching number to set

WEDNESDAY
(Bring in on Thursday)

Pattern Worksheet