Prek Blog: enero 2018

domingo, 28 de enero de 2018

Week of Jan. 29 - Feb. 2

Dear Prek Parents,

This week we will not be studying any letter just reviewing ABC’s. We will be reviewing the letters M, N and O.

We will have a focus with our Social Studies unit. We will continue our amazing the unit about Community Helpers. We are going to be discussing the different types of professions. Children will get the chance to name the tools, transportations and what does each of the professions do. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: hair stylist, firefighter, policeman, doctor, vet, nurse, builder, chef, farmer, teacher, mailman, dentist. If you have any books or posters, or any other material that you would like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated. Children can bring any of these transportation and community helper’s objects they have at home to share and play we will send them two weeks.

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-xCekmFlXOUYzamNsOXNTMHc

We will be having expositions from a doctor, a dentist, firefighter, police and doctor with their corresponding transportation.

For TUESDAY, Jan. 30, please send 1 OLD TOOTH BRUSH

To close our Community Helpers unit we will do a Show and Tell Presentation that will be on Friday, February 2nd. Each child will be assigned with an occupation, they will have to answer the following questions. "What do I do?" "How do I transport?" "What tools do I use?" "Where do I work?" Children should come dressed as the community helper that they will be assigned. We are NOT demanding an expensive or fancy suit, it is up to you how and what you are going to use. Children should also bring a poster illustrating the questions, this will be a help while they present. Enjoy doing this project with your child. Involve them in everything you plan. Any doubts or questions please contact us as soon as possible.

For Friday, Feb. 3^rd we will have a Community Helpers transporting day. We would like to borrow ONE toy car you have at HOME. We are NOT REQUESTING YOU TO BUY. Only if you have any at home please send it to school it could be a bicycle, a car, tricycle, etc.

A GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP FOR NPH

Celebrate the Gift of Friendship- Discovery School has developed a lasting friendship with many of the children at the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos orphanage. We would like to extend an invitation for more members of the Discovery community to develop these friendships. There are two ways to help:

Join the Community Service Club. Contact Mrs. Agurcia (cagurcia@discoveryschool.edu.hn) for more about this club.
Donate a pair of tennis shoes or socks for to be given to the children at this year's Valentine's friendship party.

Hearts with the child's name and size are found on the bulletin board on the second floor of the secondary building. Purchase the shoes or socks and return the item, unwrapped, with the heart tag attached, to Mrs. Agurcia's classroom (Secondary building, Room 7) by Thursday, February 1.

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ― Mother Teresa

Celebrar el don de la amistad: Discovery School ha desarrollado una amistad duradera con muchos de los niños del orfanato Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos. Nos gustaría extender una invitación para que más miembros de la comunidad Discovery desarrollen estas amistades. Hay dos formas de ayudar:

1) Unirse al Club de Servicio Comunitario. Contactar a Ms. Christina Agurcia (cagurcia@discoveryschool.edu.hn) para más información sobre este club.
2) Donar un par de tenis o calcetines para ser entregados a los niños en la fiesta del Amor y la Amistad San Valentín de este año.

Los corazones con el nombre y el tamaño de tenis del niño se encuentran en el boletín de anuncios en el segundo piso del edificio de secundaria. Compre los zapatos o calcetines y entregarlos sin envolver, con la etiqueta del corazón adjunta, a la clase de la Mrs. Agurcia (edificio secundario, salón # 7) antes del jueves 1 de febrero.

"No se trata de cuánto damos, sino de cuánto amor damos para dar". - Madre Teresa

FROM THE COUNSELOR

domingo, 21 de enero de 2018

Week of Jan. 22 - 25

Reminders:

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

-On Tuesday we send a Ziploc Bag home in the folder, so that you can send things that begin with the letter of the week.

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

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 Oo. The vocabulary for this letter is: ox, oatmeal, octagon, octopus, overalls, olives, ostrich, old, orange, otter, oven, omelette

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 Ivanna(Prek”B”).

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share eatable things for 22 friends such as oatmeal cookies, onion rings, orange juice, orange, omelette, oreo cookies. for children to taste. We do this to close our letter unit. 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-xCekmFlXZTFSTE8xNXVOb0U

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbY5EKys60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOILLPg-8ak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOeH16IaH8

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

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

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=BELlZKpi1Zs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btvnID6Z_A&t=72s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkR4E2KXhRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJPNEH5kNH8

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

Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell This is the story of three baby owls who wake up one night in their hole in the tree to find that their mother has gone, so they sit on the branch and wait, wondering when she will return. At last she does, and they all bounce up and down with joy, welcoming her home

In math, will be working with numbers. We will begin with number 11 on how to represent and recognize numbers using tally marks, ten frames, number formation, name of the number, one-to-one correspondence, and sequencing.

We would like your support on occasionally review counting and numbers. Here are some songs we use in class every day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNw1SSz18Gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYPsRs7HVz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR-cfDsHCGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8GFgxlITs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_EQSfFx0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85M1yxIcHpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4K9oi7oBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5-SIe5l7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkkYaj0m6cg

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Old McDonald”

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=5oYKonYBujg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oqM9v_0MU

In Social Studies we will begin our amazing the unit about Community Helpers. We are going to be discussing the different types of professions. Children will get the chance to name the tools, transportations and what does each of the professions do. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: hair stylist, firefighter, policeman, doctor, vet, nurse, builder, chef, farmer, teacher, mailman, dentist. If you have any books or posters, or any other material that you would like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated. Children can bring any of these transportation and community helper’s objects they have at home to share and play we will send them two weeks.

Note: We will keep working with the transportation toys that you send last week. We will give them back when we finish your Community Helpers 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-xCekmFlXOUYzamNsOXNTMHc

To close our Community Helpers unit we are planning on a Show and Tell Presentation that will be on Friday, February 2^nd. Each child will be assigned with an occupation, they will have to answer the following questions. "What do I do?" "How do I transport?" "What tools do I use?" "Where do I work?" Children should come dressed as the community helper that they will be assigned. We are NOT demanding an expensive or fancy suit, it is up to you how and what you are going to use. Children should also bring a poster illustrating the questions, this will be a help while they present.

The assigned occupations for each child will be send by the WA group on Monday.

Enjoy doing this project with your child. Involve them in everything you plan. Any doubts or questions please contact us as soon as possible.

domingo, 14 de enero de 2018

Week of Jan. 15-19

Thank you for attending the conferences on Friday! This 3rd quarter comes full of busy time in Prekinder! If you were not called for conference and you received your child's grades in the folder. PLEASE SIGN & RETURN THE ENVELOPE BACK TO SHOOL IN THE FOLDER by TUESDAY, JAN. 16th

Reminders:

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

-On Tuesday we send a Ziploc Bag home in the folder, so that you can send things that begin with the letter of the week.

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

There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, JANUARY 15th. We will be commemorating Martin King Luther Jr.'s Birthday.

Classes resume on Tuesday, January 16th.

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 Nn. The vocabulary for this letter is: nurse, necklace, notebook, net, noodles, nut, nose, night, nail, nap, nest, nine.

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share eatable things for 22 friends such as nuts, noodles, nachos, nuggets, nerds, nesquik, nutella, etc. for children to taste. We do this to close our letter unit. 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-xCekmFlXaTRXa1E5Nnlwa1U

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxv2ZPU3vg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5HEeoVGb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJf3NgEJ6Ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZG0GQTskhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVDZ2iI80w

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=BELlZKpi1Zs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btvnID6Z_A&t=72s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkR4E2KXhRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJPNEH5kNH8

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

The Napping House by Audrey Woods Included in the napping house menagerie is a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse, and a wakeful flea who ends up toppling the whole sleep heap with one chomp! Don Wood’s delightfully detailed comical illustrations are bathed in moonlight blues until the sun comes up, then all is color and rainbows and a very awake household.

Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells It's tough being the middle mouse. No one's paying any attention to Nora, so she decides to do something her family can't ignore: make noise. Nora slams windows, bangs doors, and upsets furniture, to no avail. It's not until she crashes out the door--and the house goes strangely silent--that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all. "A wonderful story."

In math, will be working with numbers. We will review numbers 0-10 on how to represent and recognize numbers using tally marks, ten frames, number formation, name of the number, one-to-one correspondence, and sequencing. This week we will be evaluating all these concepts.

We would like your support on occasionally review counting and numbers. Here are some songs we use in class every day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNw1SSz18Gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYPsRs7HVz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR-cfDsHCGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8GFgxlITs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_EQSfFx0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85M1yxIcHpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4K9oi7oBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5-SIe5l7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkkYaj0m6cg

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “1, 2, buckle my shoe”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otf4_UEvnQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazlXyAce18

In Social Studies we will begin the unit about Transportation. We are going to be discussing the different types of vehicles. Children will get the chance to name vehicles that travel by air, by land and by water. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: airplane, boat, air balloon, car, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, submarine, ambulance, helicopter, train, fire truck and rocket. If you have any books or posters, or any other material that you would like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated. Children can bring any of these transportation toys they have at home to share and play for 2 weeks.

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-xCekmFlXYXRKOVNvWms1a00

INFORMATIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY – We remind our school community that the Informational General Assembly will take place on Saturday, January 20, at 9:00 a.m. Child care will be provided for the parents who need it in order to attend. We hope you can take two hours of your time to come and stay informed of our school´s present and future.

viernes, 5 de enero de 2018

Week of Jan. 8-12

We want to wish you a very happy and blessed New Year 2018. Welcome back! Hope you had a great winter holiday!

Reminders:

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

-On Tuesday we send a Ziploc Bag home in the folder, so that you can send things that begin with the letter of the week.

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

- This Friday, January 12th is a half day. 2nd Quarter conferences, in a need basis, will be held in the afternoon. If I do not request a conference and you would like to meet, please let me know so we can set up an appointment.

There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, JANUARY 15th. We will be commemorating Martin King Luther Jr.'s Birthday.

Classes resume on Tuesday, January 16th.

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 Mm. The vocabulary for this letter is: mop, mouse, money, mud, monkey, mushroom, mask, moon, microphone, map, markers, magnet.

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share eatable things for 22 friends such as marshmallows, mandarins, mango, macaroni and cheese, milk, mint candies, mozzarella sticks, M&M, muffins, etc. for children to taste. We do this to close our letter unit. 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-xCekmFlXeEU0RjNnMm04Q2s

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QUSDu2JIY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvn9QvV7Aqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygG0X734n_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxrS93gOdck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBaAQpgNiEE

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=BELlZKpi1Zs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btvnID6Z_A&t=72s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkR4E2KXhRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJPNEH5kNH8

For Wednesday, Jan. 10^th, please send 1 bag of M&M’s (milk chocolate, with NO PEANUTBUTTER). Thank you!

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

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.

The Mitten by Jan Brett One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax.