Week 4 August 27th -31st Letter Tt

This Friday August 31st, is a half 

day.We are celebrating Discovery 

School's 25th Anniversary.

Water bottles, beach balls, pens, bags and mugs are still available for purchase. Please stop by Ms. Elisa’s desk in the accounting office and she will gladly assist you! They will also be available on the day of the event.

ALL INCLUSIVE BRACELETS - We are selling the celebration’s bracelets that will allow each student to have unlimited snacks and drinks, as well as access to all activities during the event. These can be purchased for the following fees:
 

• If you purchased a commemorative school shirt, the bracelets are $6 or L.150.
• If you did NOT purchase a commemorative school shirt, they are $10 or L. 250.
• We will have a few shirts available the day of the Celebration, you will be able to order shirts buy they will arrive a week after the Celebration. The shirt-bracelet combo will still be available for L. 450.

We will begin receiving this fee on Monday, August 27, and distribute the bracelets on the day of the event.

Dear  Parents,

Last week we had a great time trying during our STEM Activity.The students tried to stack ten apples on top of each other. The students are learning lots of new vocabulary, listening and reading many stories. Our learning journey continues this week  with the letter “Tt”. 

The vocabulary for this letter is 
table, teeth, turtle, toaster, tongue, tears, tomato, telescope, t-shirt, ticket, toothbrush, toothpaste, tiger, toilet, telephone and tire.

Please send in at least 1 item from home that begins with this letter. Be creative it can be another Tt word that is not on our list Send it to school on Monday. 

We will be discussing and sharing them in class. We will also display them  so the children can observe and play with them. This helps reinforce the vocabulary. The items will be returned on Friday.

Our main focus will be learning about turtles. If you have any book, poster, video, or any other material that can be useful for us, we would really appreciate it if we can borrow it from you.

Pet turtles are also more than welcome to join our class 

for the week.

Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

Tilly Turtle, Tiger, and Toad are having a terrific time at the tea party until a tiny accident occurs.

A little girl named Sophie is having tea with her mother in their kitchen. Soon they are joined for tea by a tiger who drinks all the tea, eats all the food in the house and drinks everything, even draining the water from the taps, so that Sophie cannot have her bath. Then he leaves. Sophie's father comes home and suggests that they all go out and have a lovely meal in a cafe. The following day Sophie and her mother go out to buy some more food, including a big tin of tiger food. But the tiger never returns.

             

The book begins with a one page explanation of what this species of sea turtles are and how they are different from tortoises and where they can be found. Then the real story begins. Where is she born? How does she survive in the vast ocean waters? Where does she travel?

           

As you all know we have been working with the words and, the, I, to, a. This week we are going to be adding the words in, is, you, that, it. 

Please practice these words daily with your child. Your child must be able to read and recognize these words without hesitation. 
Sight words are words that do not always follow grammatical rules and cannot be sounded out. They are extremely important to learn because the are words that appear in every text we read. This is why they need to be practiced daily.

 

This week we will continue to focus on identifying a letter, a word,  and a sentence.

***This is important because it is critical to reading and spelling success. 
A child’s phonemic awareness is a powerful predictor of the likelihood of reading and spelling success.
Children who cannot distinguish and manipulate the sounds within spoken words have difficulty recognizing and learning the necessary print=sound relationship that is critical to proficient reading and spelling success. 
If a child has poor phonemic awareness it is difficult for them to discover the necessary link between print and sound.

This week we are going to introduce the concept of syllables. One of the easiest ways to help children realize that words are made up of several sounds and syllables is to allow them to “break up” words by clapping out their syllables.

In Math, we will continue to explore various  Some of these concepts are more, less, sequencing, making sets, same, different, and patterns.

                                                                        

• Please remember to check your child's folder on a daily basis. 
• Tuesday and Thursday homework will be sent home. 
• Friday your child's weekly evaluations will be sent home.

• Please look them over and sign the sheet. Return it on Monday.