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
-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 Zz. The vocabulary words for this letter are: zig-zag, zoo,
zebra, zero, zipper, zucchini
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 Edgar
(Prek”A”) and Diego S. (Prek”B”).
***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will
have to share eatable things for 23
friends such as letter z cookies, or
anyother cookie or cake with letter z vocabulary, 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.
We are
attaching links of some of Letter
Zz videos if you would like to
listen and sing at home with your kid:
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.
Some of the
stories we will be reading this week are:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.,The 26 characters in this rhythmic, rhyming baby book are a lowercase
alphabet with attitude. "A told b, and b told c, 'I'll meet you at the top
of the coconut tree'"--which probably seemed like a good idea until the
other 23 members of the gang decided to follow suit. The palm tree standing
straight and tall on the first page begins to groan and bend under its
alphabetical burden. First the coconuts fall off, then ("Chicka chicka...
BOOM! BOOM!") all the letters also end up in a big heap underneath.
Beginning readers use a lot of different ways to
become more fluent readers. One of the most important ways to do that is to be
able to read and recognize sight words.
Sight words refer to the words that
are most frequently used and repeated in books, which is why sight words are
also sometimes referred to as “high-frequency” words. The same words are also
sometimes called “popcorn words.” The phrase popcorn words refer to the fact
that students should be able to just pop those words out every time they see
them.
We will be working with 2 sight words
per week. This week will be: the/and
Phonemic Awareness: is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual
sounds-phonemes- in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they
need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand
that words are made up of speech sounds, or phonemes (the smallest parts of
sound in a spoken word that make a difference in a word’s meaning).
Daily
we are working on clapping syllables,
differentiating a letter a word a sentence and a number. We are also
working on beginning to write and read CVC
WORDS (consonant, vowel consonant) such as: cat, bat, rat, pan, map, mop,
can, bed, etc.
In
math, will continue working with numbers. We will work 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. We will begin working on Measurement. Children will be measuring different objects using concrete thing to
measure such as blocks, unifix cubes, small items etc.
We would like
your support on occasionally review counting and numbers. NEW SONGS 0-20. Here are some songs we use in class every day:
Counting by 10’s to 100 videos:
Our Nursery
Rhyme this week is: “The Counting Zoo”
In Science we
will continue learning the unit about Pets.
We are going to learning and discussing about the different animals that you
could have as a pet Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: dog, cat, turtle, fish, hamster, parrot,
rabbit. 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.
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.
During the study of Pets we will be working on Living and Non Living Things. Children will be able to diffrentiate traits about living things!
In Honduras, Mother´s Day is celebrated the second
Sunday of May. We would like to invite all our MOMMIES on Thursday, May 10th at 8:30 a.m. PLEASE BE ON
TIME, WE WILL BE PUNCTUAL!
Daddies we will be needing your support by sending L. 200.00, IF YOU HAVEN’T
SENT THE MONEY, PLEASE DO SO BY MONDAY, May 7th.
This will be
covering for mommy’s 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.
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