Prek Blog: septiembre 2017

domingo, 24 de septiembre de 2017

Week of Sept. 25-29

Dear Prek Parents,

Reminders:

- Every Tuesday Homework is sent home. Homework should be back to school on Thursday. Please don't forget to send the folder back

- On Tuesdays with the homework we will send a bag in which you will have to bring something to school that begins with the letter of the week. This is to help us with our letter of the week manipulative center.

- Please make sure your child is only bringing toys of the letter of the week or the theme we are studying. We have been receiving daily, children with toys that do not belong to the letter or theme.

We will wrap-up September (Honduras’ Month) with an Early Childhood assembly. Prek is representing traditional dresses and traditional dances. This will take place at Discovery School campus on September 29^th at 8:15am. Children have been practicing these dances and you are invited to this beautiful closure.

Prek-“A” will be dancing Punta (they will have to wear garifuna clothing) and Prek “B” will be dancing “Candu Candu” (they will have to wear the Honduran traditional dress.)

Prek A Outfit:

Prek B Outfit:

This week we are going to continue working with the alphabet. We will be working on recognizing the letters with their sound, we will also focus on the letter formation, vocabulary of the letter, remember always emphasizing on the short vowel sounds. We will begin studying about the letter Ff. The vocabulary for this letter is: fire, fan, fox, fish, fork, five, feather, frog, flower, finger, four

Two children will be assigned each week with each letter. In this case, the 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 Monday and we will send them back on Friday. For this week we have Jimena (Prek”A”) and Juan Camilo. (Prek”B”).

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share for 22 friends eatable things such as French fries, French toasts, fruits, fruit salad, letter Ff cookies, etc. for children to taste. We do this to close our letter unit.

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-xCekmFlXRURjU3JjS1VHVXc

We are attaching links of some of Letter Ff videos if you would like to listen and sing at home with your kid:

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

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss is a 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). A simple rhyming book for learner readers, it is a book with a freewheeling plot about a boy and a girl, and the many amazing creatures they have for friends and pets. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish was part of the Beginner Book Video series which included Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! and The Foot Book.

The Rainbow Fish is an international bestseller and a modern classic. Eye-catching foilstamping, glittering on every page, offers instant child-appeal, but it is the universal message at the heart of this simple story about a beautiful fish, who learns to make friends by sharing his most prized possessions, that gives the book its lasting value.

In math, will be working with numbers. We will work on how to represent and recognize numbers using tally marks, ten frames, name of the number, one-to-one correspondence. We will begin working this week with numbers 0-7. We will be also be working with AB Patterns.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Five Green Spreckled Frogs”

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=WSC-gHBU_d0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wM0AIb3BTE

In Science we will begin our unit about Five Senses. If you have any books that are related to this topic, we will really appreciate if you let us borrow them from you.

sábado, 16 de septiembre de 2017

Week of Sept. 18-22

Dear Prek Parents,

Reminders:

· -Every Tuesday Homework is sent home. Homework should be back to school on Thursday. Please don't forget to send the folder back

· -On Tuesdays with the homework we will send a bag in which you will have to bring something to school that begins with the letter of the week. This is to help us with our letter of the week manipulative center.

-Please make sure your child is only bringing toys of the letter of the week or the theme we are studying. We have been receiving daily, children with toys that do not belong to the letter or theme.

On Wednesday, Sept. 13^th you received the Progress Reports. Please sign and return. Any questions, comments or doubts we are at your

orders.

We will wrap-up September (Honduras’ Month) with an Early Childhood Honduran assembly. Prek is representing traditional dresses and traditional dances. This will take place at Discovery School campus on September 29^th at 8:30am. Children have been practicing this dances and you are invited to this beautiful closure.

Prek-“A” will be dancing will be dancing Punta (they will have to wear garifuna clothing) and Prek “B” will be dancing “Candu Candu” (they will have to wear the Honduran traditional dress.)

Prek A Outfit:

Prek B Outfit:

Resultado de imagen para traje tipico honduras niños

This week we are going to continue working with the alphabet. We will be working on recognizing the letters with their sound, we will also focus on the letter formation, vocabulary of the letter, remember always emphasizing on the short vowel sounds. We will begin studying about the letter Ee. The vocabulary for this letter is: elephant, envelope, elbow, elf, excavator, egg, excited, empty, eight, exit.

Two children will be assigned each week with each letter. In this case, the 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 Monday and we will send them back on Friday. For this week we have Isabella (Prek”A”) and Ivanna. (Prek”B”).

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share for 22 friends eatable things such as enchiladas, elephant shaped cookies, letter Ee cookies, etc. for children to taste. We do this to close our letter unit.

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-xCekmFlXRWlSa0lTSmhjLVU

We are attaching links of some of Letter Ee videos if you would like to listen and sing at home with your kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beaUUPPUT2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4mLXnqm26w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxyzoMkz24I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcV7-jl6744&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqKUALL4sA

We would like your support on occasionally review the ABC’s letter names and sound. Here are some songs we use in class every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkR4E2KXhRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug

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

Elmer by David McKee is a super colorful book about an elephant named Elmer who is very different from the rest of his herd. Because he’s different, he decides to run away and “paint” himself gray to look like the others. He returns to find that his herd loves him just the way he is. If your kids like Elmer, they will be pleased to see that McKee has written quite a collection of Elmer books.

Elephants Cannot Dance by Mo Willems just ONE of his many Elephant and Piggie books. My preschoolers are addicted to these books. This one features elephant, as he is trying to learn to dance. I love how Mo Willem’s books always have a fun twist at the end!

In math, will be working with numbers. We will work on how to represent and recognize numbers using tally marks, ten frames, name of the number, one-to-one correspondence. We will begin and continue working this week with numbers 0-6.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “One Elephant went out to Play”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjU5DJ5RM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLGHyGxY2E

In our Social Studies unit, we will continue studying about HONDURAS. The vocabulary words for this unit is the following: flag, escudo de Honduras, orquidia, el pino, map, Venado Cola Blanca, money, Lempira, Guacamaya, mountains, rivers, lakes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9h-xCekmFlXYUoyb0JuM0F2TFk/view?usp=sharing

We wish you a very happy long weekend. Some of you may enjoy your holiday by going on a trip or staying at home. We would like to try an activity. If you have a google account you may have heard or know about google drive. Google drive is where we upload the powerpoint presentations with the vocabulary words. We have opened two new folders. These folders are for you to upload a short video of no more than 5 min. This video will tell us a little bit on how you enjoyed your long weekend, children will come back next week and they will have like a show and tell of their short video. The video can be recorded on your phone and you can upload directly from your phone to the google drive folder. Or you may use any other video camera and upload it from your computer. We are attaching some video tutorials if you need any help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_tG9pjwaGI How to upload files to Google drive from an Android phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwq7ovJwz8Y How to upload videos to Google Drive from your iOS.

Prek”A” link to upload videos:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9h-xCekmFlXOFNJcnY1dko1ZDA?usp=sharing

Prek”B” link to upload videos:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9h-xCekmFlXbTBrN3VZQ25ZNnM?usp=sharing

viernes, 8 de septiembre de 2017

Week of Sept. 11-15

Dear Prek Parents,

Thank you so much for celebrating Children’s Day to our kids. They had an amazing time. McDonalds happy meal, toys, cupcakes, juice, jello, candies, Letter D cookies, donuts, Doritos. AWESOME!!! Special thanks to the moms who made this day possible and for each of you for helping them with the money. Thank you for being such supportive and collaborative parents. We really appreciate your commitment.

Our school is preparing to celebrate Honduras Independence Day that will take place on Wednesday, September 13th.

We will begin the celebrations with a Desayuno Catracho, followed by cultural presentations in each grade. Prekinder is in charge of presenting about the Atlántida. If you happen to have anything related about these gorgeous place, we will focus on Garifunas and the Carnival of La Ceiba (corals, map, souvenirs, carnival masks, etc) please let me know so we can use them for our presentation. Your child does not need to bring in a snack for break or lunch that day. All kids will be dismissed at 11:45am. There will be no school Thursday, September 14th, and Friday, September 15th. Classes resume on Monday, September 18th. Kids should wear clothes as if they were at a carnival or like Garifunas. Here are some ideas:

This two days we will be reviewing letters A-D. We will be focusing on the letter formation and letter sounds. We will be evaluating the letter Dd, Parts of the Body vocabulary and numbers 0-5.

In our Social Studies unit, we will begin talking about HONDURAS. The vocabulary words for this unit is the following: flag, escudo de Honduras, orquidia, el pino, map, Venado Cola Blanca, money, Lempira, Guacamaya, mountains, rivers, lakes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9h-xCekmFlXYUoyb0JuM0F2TFk/view?usp=sharing

We wish you a very happy long weekend. Some of you may enjoy your holiday by going on a trip or staying at home. We would like to try an activity. If you have a google account you may have heard or know about google drive. Google drive is where we upload the powerpoint presentations with the vocabulary words. We have opened two new folders. These folders are for you to upload a short video of no more than 5 min. This video will tell us a little bit on how you enjoyed your long weekend, children will come back next week and they will have like a show and tell of their short video. The video can be recorded on your phone and you can upload directly from your phone to the google drive folder. Or you may use any other video camera and upload it from your computer. We are attaching some video tutorials if you need any help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_tG9pjwaGI How to upload files to Google drive from an Android phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwq7ovJwz8Y How to upload videos to Google Drive from your iOS.

Prek”A” link to upload videos:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXOFNJcnY1dko1ZDA

Prek”B” link to upload videos:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXbTBrN3VZQ25ZNnM

domingo, 3 de septiembre de 2017

Week of Sept. 4-8

Dear Prek Parents,

Reminders:

- Every Tuesday Homework is send home. Homework should be back to school on Thursday. Please don’t forget to send the folder back

- Please make sure your child is only bringing toys of the letter of the week or the theme we are studying. We have been receiving daily, children with toys that do not belong to the letter or theme.

This week we are going to continue working with the alphabet. We will be working on recognizing the letters with their sound, we will also focus on the letter formation, vocabulary of the letter, remember always emphasizing on the short vowel sounds. We will begin studying about the letter Dd. The vocabulary for this letter is: dog, doughnut, dolphin, dinosaur, door, doll, duck, drum, dress, dice, donkey.

Two children will be assigned each week with each letter. In this case, the 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 Monday and we will send them back on Friday. For this week we have Emma (Prek”A”) and Diego Sebastian. (Prek”B”).

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share for 22 friends eatable things such as donuts, dumplings, doritos chips, dinosaur cookies (or any cookie or eatable thing with the shape of a letter D word), etc. for children to taste. We do this to close our letter unit.

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/file/d/0B9h-xCekmFlXTk1aSW9hcTlmTm8/view?usp=sharing

We are attaching links of some of Letter Dd videos if you would like to listen and sing at home with your kid:

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

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, by Mo Willems

This is another fun book from the creator of the Pigeon series and the Elephant and Piggy books. Not only do kids love this one, but you’ll appreciate all the little jokes thrown in. When the dinosaurs set a trap of three giant bowls of chocolate pudding, “a poorly supervised little girl named Goldilocks came along.” Goldilocks is clueless that she has just fallen into a trap until she hears the dinosaurs talking about their catch. “Goldilocks took a minute to stop and think, which was longer than she was used to stopping and thinking.”

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague is a fun rhyming story about dinosaurs and their silly bedtime routines. It is a great one to read at bedtime, too! While Jane Yolen has several dinosaur books in this collection, this the only one we have read {shame on me}. I guess I have my work cut out for me at the library this week!

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Five Little Ducks”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZp6RtKhhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ42H8xrsqk

In our Science unit, we will continue learning about PARTS OF THE BODY. We will begin with this unit this week. Some of the vocabulary words we will be learning this week are: head, mouth, eyes, ears, nose, toes, fingers, arm, elbow, and hands. If you have any poster or any other material that you are willing to share with the class, we would appreciate if you will let us borrow them from you.

Supply list: If you still haven't brought all the materials yet, I'll be very much thankful if could send them this week. We will be sending a note detailing the materials you’re missing. Thank you to the ones that send their materials already.

Thanks a lot for your help!

HONDURAS: September, our Independence month, is coming full of exciting and great events. On Sept. 13^th, Nursery and Prek are assigned to make a stand describing ATLANTIDA. We would like to focus on Garifunas, La Ceiba and Tela beaches. We need your support in this, we need garífuna music instruments, dressing, it is also helpful anything you have of Marine theme, such as fishing nets, beach shells, an anchor or any other thing that describes the beach, boats or Garifuna. We will be sending these things back to you on Monday, Sept. 18^th. Please label the things that we will borrow from you with your kid’s name or your family last name as you wish. Here are some ideas of how we would like to decorate our stand.