Week of Mar. 13-17

Dear Prek Parents,

I hope everyone had an awesome weekend. This week is going to be a busy one for our class.

Mark your calendars, next Thursday March 16th, we will be celebrating Father's Day and our annual Art Exhibition. Everyone will enjoy the Musical Review the Early Childhood students are preparing for you. After the show Dad's and Mom’s will share breakfast with their child in the classroom.

The outfit for Father’s Day Show is 70’s outfit. Hippie style.

Please do not buy anything use what you have at   home, and try to recreate a 80's look inspired on the    pictures below.

Save the Dates:

Thursday, March 16^th
Fathers' Day breakfast and Art Exhibit at school

Friday March 17^th
No School Spring Break

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. We have been receiving children with toys that do not belong to any of the studies we are having.

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 Ss. The vocabulary words for this letter are: scissors, snail, six, spider, snacke, socks, sun, submarine, seahorse, sandals, sandwich, seal

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 Mizuki (Prek”A”) and Joshua (Prek”B”).

Thank you for your support!!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSVzk2pqWB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1orYZAoGgoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnpgmXZuIfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nClAJlIFxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiW6uxAwtWo

We would like your support on once in a while review the ABC’s letter names and sound. Here are some songs we use in class everyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkR4E2KXhRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug

Next week we will be studying about the letter T, we would like to ask if you have tents. Please send them over, we are planning to make an amazing experience!!

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

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White's stepmother, the queen, is jealous of the girl's beauty and sends her way to the forest, where she is found by the seven dwarfs. Finally, the wicked queen puts the girl into an everlasting sleep. But Snow White is awakened by a kiss from a handsome prince and lives happily ever after.

In math, will continue working with numbers. We will work with numbers 0-13 on how to represent and idenify using tally marks, ten frames, number formation, and name of the number, one-to-one correspondence, and sequencing. We will also be working with Graphing. Children will be able to represent an amount of objects on a graph.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “B-I-N-G-O”

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=dC7tUcRCS58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mmF8zOlh_g

In Social Studies we will continue the unit about Farm Animals. We are going to learning and discussing Farm life and animals that live in the farm. The different between farm animals and no Farm Animals. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: cow, horse, pig, duck, sheep, rooster, dog, cat, goat, rabbit, donkey, tractor, turkey. 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-xCekmFlXdzlhWFMydUpkMzA

FUN RUN & WALK - The DPTO will be hosting its annual Fun Run & Walk at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at Discovery School. Pledge forms will be sent home this week. Parents and students should fill them out, collect the money, and turn it in during the inscription on the day of the event. This is a fun and exciting activity for the whole family! Join us for a delicious pancake & fruit breakfast after the run/walk!