Dear Prek Parents,
We want to give a HUGE Thank you to all of you who helped give Ms. Janine and Ms. Maria Fernanda such a great bday celebration. Thank you also to Ms Pamela and Ms. Johana who helped in organizing everything. We really appreciate it.
Reminders:
- Every Tuesday Homework is send home. Homework should be back to school on Thursday. Please don’t forget to send the folder and notebook back
-Please make sure your child is ONLY bringing toys of topics required by the teacher.
-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday's children have Motricity class. We are requesting that please send your child with tennis shoes and with shorts or pants. No skirts and no sandals. This is so that your child can be able to participate in every activity done during the class.
This week we will continue learning about our abc. We will be working on recognizing the letters with their sound, letter formation, vocabulary of the letter, remember always emphasizing on the short vowel sounds. This week we will be studying about the letter Yy. The vocabulary words for this letter are: yogurt, yell, yellow, yak, yard, yes, yawn, yo-yo, yolk, year.
Children assigned should take at least five (5) items that they have at home that begin with this letter. Items should be at school on Tuesday and we will send them back on Friday. For this week we have Daniel (Prek”A”) and Bella (Prek”B”).
Thank you for your support!!
The following link you will find a PowerPoint presentation with the vocabulary, in case you would like to review at home with your child.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXQ1JseFVYbUxXZWM
We are attaching links of some of Letter Xx videos if you would like to listen and sing at home with your kid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJSE_p0akY
There an Alligator Under my Bed by Mercy Mayer, The There's a Nightmare In My Closet, bringing back that story's imaginative young hero for an even funnier nighttime adventure. Full-color illustrations.
If you have any magazines at home that you do not need at all. Please send them over to your kid’s classroom. They are very welcome. Thank you.
In math, will continue working with numbers. We will continue working with numbers 0-15 on how to represent and identify using tally marks, ten frames, number formation, and name of the number, one-to-one correspondence, and sequencing.
Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Hockey Pockey”
We are attaching you the link of the videos of this song we will be learning throughout the week. We will learn two versions of this nursery rhyme. Just a little tip to have fun at home listening and acting out our song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rq--QeiPuA
In Science we will begin learning the unit about Zoo Animals. We are going to learning and discussing about some different types of zoo and Wild Animals. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: lion, gorilla, macaw, monkey, zebra, ostrich, hippo, giraffe, elephant, alligator, snake, peacock. If you have any books or posters, ideas or any other material that you would like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated.
The following link you will find a PowerPoint presentation with the vocabulary, in case you would like to review at home with your child.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXN0loZ0V3cmltN2c
We have talked to the students that we have started the hot season in Honduras. Please provide your child with a water bottle every day. Have them wear light clothes; they can bring a hat to protect from the sun, put sunscreen on their face and arms.
In Honduras, Mother´s Day is celebrated the second Sunday of May. We would like to invite all of our MOMMIES on Friday, May 12th at 8:00 a.m. Daddies we will be needing your support by sending Lps. 200.00 by Wednesday, May 10th. This will be covering for mommies gift and snacks for her and your child. Thank you for your support.
We are also requesting to please send your kid dressed with tropical clothes/colors. Here are some ideas.
**Note: Please use whatever you have at home, We are not requesting to go buy or make and expensive costume.
-May General Assembly. The Annual Assembly for May will be held on May 20 at 9:00 a.m. The “convocatoria” and other materials will be sent out electronically and in hard copy in a timely manner in accordance with the statutes.
-Midterm Progress Reports were sent home on Friday, May 5th. Please sign and return.
Discovery School Summer Camps.
