Week of january 30 -February 3 Letter Gg

January 30,2017

Dear Parents, 

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.



This week we are going to be working with the letter Gg. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: glitter, garden, gum, garage, glasses, garbage, grandparents, goose, gorilla, globe, gift, guitar, goggles, gate, and guard.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, please send them in with your child,. we 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:

Will Gorilla learn to be a good houseguest? As kids giggle at Gorilla’s goofy antics, they’ll learn about the letter G.

The three Billy Goats Gruff want to go to a lush green meadow.  In order to get there, they have to cross a bridge inhabited by a horrible Troll.  When the tinniest Billy Goat Gruff crosses the bridge he convinces the Troll that he, the tinniest Billy Goat, is much too small to eat.  The middle Billy Goat Gruff also convinces the Troll not to eat him because he is also too small.  When the Troll tries to eat the biggest Billy Goat Gruff, the oldest brother decides to rid his family of the Troll forever.  Once all three Billy Goats Gruff arrive in the meadow, they eat and eat until they become too fat to go home.

It is about a rabbit's routine before he goes to bed. Before his bedtime, the rabbit goes around the room and notices items within eye sight and says goodnight to all of them. Everything from the pictures on the wall to the mice to the clock is mentioned and said goodnight too. As the story continues, the rabbit gets more and more tired before finally saying "Goodnight noises everywhere," just as he falls asleep.

This story is about a mischievous monkey who got out of his cage and follows around the zookeeper. As the zookeeper is saying goodnight to all of the animals, his first stop is the gorilla. As he is saying goodnight to the Gorilla, he steals his keys. The monkey then follows him silently and starts letting out all of the animals the zookeeper is saying goodnight to. As the monkey is letting out all of the animals, they are all following the zookeeper to each one of the cages.

This week we will continue working with the sight words that were introduced last week. These words are: up, look, an,play,said 

PLEASE TAKE 15 MINUTES EVERY DAY TO PRACTICE THEM AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF THEM TO RECOGNIZE SIGHT WORDS WE HAVE COVERED IN CLASS SO FAR. ONCE THEY CAN RECOGNIZE SIGHT WORDS IT IS GOING TO BE A LOT EASIER FOR THEM TO READ BOOKS. THE FOLLOWING LINK IS A NICE AND FUN GAME TO PRACTICE THESE WORDS.

http://www.sightwordsgame.com/concentration/

We will continue to work with the concept of addition, before, between and after. The students are all very excited to be solving  addition.

The children are having an extremely great time learning about all different kinds of animals. This week our main focus will be learning about MAMMALS!! We will be discussing their characteristics.the water. 

HOMEWORK

Students Need to Read Everyday for 10 minutes

Raz-Kids

MONDAY

D.8

https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/tally-marks-up-to-20

 TUESDAY

D.10

https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/before-after-and-between-up-to-20

 WEDNESDAY

Spanish Homework

 THURSDAY

D.11

https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/count-forward-up-to-20

Scholastic News: Scholastic Book Club leaflets were given out last week. This is an optional activity offered by the school, because we know you want to motivate your child to read at home.  With your purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem more books for the benefit of your children in our school.  The due date to purchase the books online is January 31. The books will arrive to the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date.

MOVIE – The DPTO will be showing the movie LEGO BATMAN (in English) at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 11. Please support the DPTO by buying the tickets, which are available in the school’s reception.