Week of Mar. 27-31

Dear Prek Parents,

We hope everyone had an awesome weekend.

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 coming Friday, March 31^st is Parent- Teacher Conference. The conferences will be on a need-basis only. You will be receiving a note in which it will specify if there is a conference needed or not. In case is needed, you will receive the hour of the appointment. Conferences will be held from 8:00am to 12:00m.

No School for students on Friday, March 31^st.

Easter Celebration is just around the corner. We will celebrate Easter on Friday, April 7^th at Valentina’s House. Her house is located at El Hatillo. We need your support for this day with 12 plastic eggs and Lps. 100.00 which will include the transportation to and from Valentina’s house to school, the candies for the plastic eggs, the Easter basket and a piñata. You can join us on this day. We will be leaving school at 8:15am and coming back to school at 11:15am.

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 Uu. The vocabulary words for this letter are: under, umbrella, up, upset, upside down, underwear, udder, uncle, umpire

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 Piper (Prek”A”) and Mia (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-xCekmFlXZG9yVjdtRUlkVWs

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWiRgOuaS84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCcn9lnhQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCwiFQh3BZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOzFfOPOtpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJRhEV-kF8

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 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:
Ten Apples Up on Top, by Dr. Seuss, This delightful book forms part of the second stage in HarperCollins’ major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of 10 more titles in August 2003, such all-time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Ten Apples Up On Top belongs to the Green Back Book range.

In math, will continue working with numbers. We will work with numbers 0-14 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 Measurement. Children will be able to measure objects using measurement references.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive”

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=Gyg_gj4XHK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGRvRT0ysFQ

In Social Studies we will continue the unit about Ocean Animals. We are going to learning and discussing Ocean life and animals that live in the Ocean. The different between Ocean animals and no Ocean Animals. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: octopus, fish, seahorse, whale, seaturtle, shark, starfish, jellyfish, crab, dolphin, shrimp, shell. 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-xCekmFlXTnVzM2hlcTVJUHM