November 28,2016
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Thank you all so very much for your donations to Angelitos del Dia! With your help and thoughtfulness we have made a difference in the lives of others. Way to go Discovery Wolves!
Nuestros 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. In the main office, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up. If you wish to participate, choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes and socks. Purchase the new items and return them to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Wednesday, December 7th,unwrapped, 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/
Song Fest is around the corner. We need the students to dress up in Kahki pants, leggings. dress or shorts and a brown shirt for the presentation. We are making the monkey visors here in school as part of our Art Class.
Date, Time and Location – Our Songfest this year will take place in MACC - on Friday, December 9 at 6:00 p.m. A map will be sent to your email with specific directions on how to get there. This day we will be releasing our students at 11: 45 a.m. so our teachers and music department can transport all the necessary instruments and do the appropriate set up for the event.
Performances and Parent Collaboration – Parents are asked to cooperate with our Song Fest in making sure their students are dressed properly for their presentations, and making sure the students are at the venue no later that 5:30 p.m. Please note the descriptions below. If any parent has a question, please contact your homeroom teacher.
We will be doing an author study this week 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!
We will be doing different activities to review syllable counting, beginning and ending
sounds, and rhyming words.
We are going to be
evaluating the 30 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. 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 0-18. 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. We will also review the concepts Top, Middle Bottom, What number comes before? What number comes after? Which is more? Which is less?
On December 1st we will decorate our Christmas tree. If you have any decorations or lights that you would like to share with our class please send them in. We will return all the decorations in January. Also, if you have any
books that are related to the winter holiday's (Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Christmas) we would love to read them in class. Please send them with your child, we will be displaying them in our book corner.
MONDAY
- RAZ KIDS "Reading Room"
- IXL: D6
TUESDAY
- IXL: G4
- RAZ KIDS "Reading Room"
- Spanish
- RAZ KIDS "Reading Room"
