Prek Blog: septiembre 2018

viernes, 28 de septiembre de 2018

October 8-12, 2018

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

Child assigned should take from three (3) to 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 Sofia Aguilar Yacaman

***Note: On Friday, the assigned students, will have to share for 17 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 ABB 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 continue exploring our 5 senses.

Important Dates

Semana Morazanica Holiday October 1-5

Classes will resume on Monday, Oct 8. We
want to wish everyone a great week off !!

We will be visiting Banco Central de Honduras to see a presentation about Honduras currency . Wed, Oct. 10

Parents - Teacher Conference Fri, Oct 19 No School

viernes, 21 de septiembre de 2018

September 24-28,2018

We hope everyone enjoyed the weekend!

This week we will be evaluating the concepts learned during this quarter. We will be doing a variety of counting , science and language activities .

The students will be evaluated on the following areas:

Letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee,

Your child should be able to:

· Name each letter

· Produce the letter sound

· Write the letter

· Name the vocabulary words that begin with the letter.
Match Capital letters to Lower case letters

Math:

· Name and make sets with the numbers 0-6

· Writing numbers 0-6

· Make an AB Pattern

· Shapes

· Sequencing Numbers 0-6

· Colors

Fine Motor Skills

· Tracing lines

· Cut & Glue

· Color Inside Lines

· Pencil Grip

· Identify, tracing and copying their name

If you would like to review the vocabulary for the letters and Science and Social Studies, click on the link below.

ABC Powepoints: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXSER3cFlPS1JtR1E

Science/Social Studies Powerpoints: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXaWNNRGpHMEFxLWc

This week we will be working on a author study which will be about Eric Carle. Eric Carle is an amazing author of the books we will be studying this week. His books are great to encourage creativity, art techniques, life cycles of butterflies and so many more great lessons. The best of it is that he writes in a very fun and friendly way to get children engaged to his stories.

Some of the stories for this week are:

Experimenting with the 5 senses is fun for everyone !! So we will continue with fun activities that require students to make observations with their eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin.

Important Dates

Friday , September 28

Professional Development Day
Early Dismissal

October 1-5 Semana Morazanica Holiday

jueves, 13 de septiembre de 2018

September 17-21, 2018

Dear Parents,

Hope you enjoy your long weekend!! Children will come back to regular classes on Tuesday September 18 th.

Thank you all for coming to the wrap-up of our Independence month. It was wonderful to work with such dedicated group of parents and students.

Midterms reports are in the folder, so please go over them, sign them and send them back to school. If you would like a conference , and one was not request , please contact me or call the school to set up an appointment .

This is going to be a short week for us. We will be reviewing some of the concepts learned during the previous weeks. We will be doing a variety of math and language activities with letters A to E. We will also work and review numbers 0 to 6.

If you would like to review the vocabulary for the letters click on the link below.ABC Powerpoints: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9h-xCekmFlXSER3cFlPS1JtR1E

Children will recognize the importance of the 5 senses ( sight, smell,hearing, taste and touch)with activities that will help them investigate and think about their senses.

Important dates:

Evaluation Week September 24-28

Show'n Tell Assignment due Friday September 21

Semana Morazanica Holiday October 1-5

viernes, 7 de septiembre de 2018

September 10-13, 2018

Hello parents,

We hope you had an amazing weekend!!

We are almost ready to celebrate the independence of HONDURAS. This celebration will take place on Thursday, September 13, at 8:00 am. This will be a half day, so students will leave at 11:45. This day we will be having our traditional "Desayuno Catracho " . Some students are responsible to bring in assigned food items. If you were not assigned for this celebration we would request your help in future celebrations. We are requesting that children come dress with white and blue clothing or the Honduras soccer team shirt, or any clothing representing Honduras.

Independence Day Holiday : September 14 and 17 . No school

Midterms will be sent home on Thursday, September 13^th. Please go over, sign and return them on Tuesday September 18^th. If you have any questions or would like a conference, if one was not requested, please contact me via email/phone or call the school to make an appointment.

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

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

Our student assigned to bring at least five (5) items from home that begin with the letter Ee, will be Xue. These items should be brought to school on Monday and we will send them back on Thursday.

We would like your support on occasionally reviewing the sounds and names of letters in the alphabet. 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”

We are attaching links of videos of a 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=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 are 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 challenge you with an activity that your children will surely enjoy.

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 a new folder. This folder is for you to upload a short video of no more than 5 min. This video will tell us a little bit about how you enjoyed your long weekend. Children will come back next week and share it during our show and tell. 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.

Pre- k link to upload videos:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JDvpT18iPXWjmJczDw3lWUIekDhJhAzO?usp=sharing