Week of March 28 - April 1

Dear Parents,

We hope you all have had a wonderful Semana Santa / Easter break! We hope this break has helped us all re-charged our batteries and enthusiastically begin the last portion of this school year.

This week we are going to continue working with the alphabet. We will be working on recognizing the letters with their sound. The letter for this week we will be the letter Bb. The vocabulary for this letter is: bear, boy, bat, ball, bee.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

Some of the books we are going to be reading this week are the following:

This simple book is an early reader for beginning readers, but it works great as a cozy read aloud too.  Kids will enjoy learning how the bug, bear, and a boy – friends of such different sizes – are able to do things together. When they eat, the bear eats from a bucket, the boy from a bowl, and the bug from a bottle cap.  The bear sleeps on a rug on the floor, the boy in a bed, and the bug in a peanut shell.  Sweet book!

This is a rather lengthy book, but it captured the imagination of my Four, who requested it many times.  Three bear siblings – Charlie, Dash, and Theo – have broken their mother’s special seashell.  Without telling her, they set sail to find a replacement.  Breathtaking illustrations capture the bears’ journey.  You’ll appreciate the subtle references that only adults will get.  There’s also a nice little lesson about accepting responsibility.

In math, will continue 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. This week we will be working with number 2.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive”

 I am attaching you the link of the video 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=f0I-940eqGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7uO4WyE-8

In our Science unit we will be learning about Ocean Animals. We are going to be discussing the different types of ocean animals. Children will get the chance to name them and identify creatures that live under the sea. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: shark, whale, jellyfish, crab, clown fish, dolphin, octopus, sea horse, turtle, stingray. 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.

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.

This week’s Challenge at Home will be listening to songs that focus on the sound and vocabulary for letter b.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5D3ySh7s2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFz9V_BEG4

NUESTROS PEQUEÑOS HERMANOS BAKE SALE –NPH (the school’s community service club) will be having a bake sale on Friday, April 1. Delicious baked goods will be sold during snack and lunch. Do not forget to bring money.

LOCAL SPELING BEE – We will be participating in the Local Spelling Bee on Saturday, April 2 at the International School in Tegucigalpa! Ms. Amy Suhr will be representing the school as a caller.

Week of March 14-18

Dear Nursery Parents,

This week we are going to start working with the alphabet. We will be working on recognizing the letters with their sound. The first one we will be working with is the letter Aa. The vocabulary for this letter is: apple, ant, alligator, astronaut, ambulance.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

Some of the books we are going to be reading this week are the following:

The author tells the tale of a little boy who is sure that there is an alligator under his bed. Getting no sympathy from his parents who ``never saw it,'' he forms a plan of attack. He leaves a trail of food from his bed through the house to the garage door. He then follows behind as the alligator gobbles up the goodies, fresh vegetables, fruit, and even ``the last piece of pie,'' making its way to the garage. The boy then locks the door.

Two young sisters watch in fascination as their apple tree changes, from bare in winter to bursting with pink blossoms in spring, and as robins build a nest. When autumn comes, the small green apples have grown big enough for picking and for pie! The words we are going to be discussing from this book are: branch, blossoms, chirp, brim, guarding and delicious.

In math, will begin 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 number 1.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “The Ants Go Marching”

I am attaching you the link of the video 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=axPmoijvWKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7F3cH4Rukg

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.

In Honduras we celebrate Father´s Day on March 19th. We would like to invite all of our DADDIES to have Donuts with your child on Friday March 18th at 8:00 a.m. We are planning on having something nice prepared for you. We hope you can come and spend some time with your child at school.

Easter is around the corner and we are planning to have our Easter Egg Hunt at Valentiona’s House located in El Hatillo Km8.2, Thursday, March 17^th. We are planning to leave school at 8:00 a.m. and come back at 12:00 m.  You are more than welcome to go with us. If you are planning on going, please inform us by Wednesday, March 16^th.

Also we are requesting for each child to bring 5 eggshells. The children will decorate them at school to take to the party. To do this, you simply make a hole with a needle at each end of the egg. Blow through one of the holes until all the egg white and yolk has come out. Please make sure that you clean them and have them sent to school completely dry. These eggshells should be in school by Tuesday, March 15^th. If you can send more than 5 they are more than welcome.

This week’s Challenge at Home will be listening to songs that focus on the sound of letter a and throughout the week bring things from home that begin with the letter a.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsb999VSvh8

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

Week of March 7-11

Dear Parents,

We also had an outstanding time last week learning a lot about Dr. Seuss. This week we are going to continue talking about him and watching some of his stories. If you would like to come in and do a special activity/craft or simply read to the students, do not hesitate to contact us so we can make it possible.

Report cards are around the corner and we are going to be reviewing all the concepts that we have covered in class. This includes all shapes studied this quarter, which are: square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, heart, oval and star. 

Knowing all our shapes and colors, children are going to be working on practicing their skills for identifying and making AB patterns 

Alejandro's birthday will be on Thursday, March 10th. He will be bringing some cake and some pizza to celebrate with us on Friday, so please we are requesting you not to send snack for this day. Thank you 

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.

 In Honduras we celebrate Father´s Day on March 19th. We would like to invite all of our DADDIES to have Donuts with your child on Friday March 18^th at 8:00 a.m. We are planning on having something nice prepared for you. We hope you can come and spend some time with your child at school.

Easter is around the corner and we are planning to have our Easter Egg Hunt at Valentiona’s House located in El Hatillo Km8.2, Thursday, March 17th. We are planning to leave school at 8:00 a.m. and come back at 12:00 m. If you have not sent the money for these two celebrations, please do so as soon as possible.

We are kindly requesting, if by any case, you can donate some plastic eggs for the Easter party. You can find them at stock. It is not a demand, but we would really appreciate your help.

Also we are requesting for each child to bring 5 eggshells. The children will decorate them at school to take to the party. To do this, you simply make a hole with a needle at each end of the egg. Blow through one of the holes until all the egg white and yolk has come out. Please make sure that you clean them and have them sent to school completely dry. These eggshells should be in school by Monday, March 14^th. If you can send more than 5 they are more than welcome. 

We are kindly requesting, if by any case you can donate some plastic eggs for the easter party

We invite to you visit the following links with your child. These sites include books, games, activities, and more about Dr. Seuss that you can do with your child at home.

http://www.seussville.com/

http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/games/

LICE – We once again have several cases of lice at school. Lice are common in all schools this time of year and there is no reason for shame. Parental cooperation is crucial in effectively eradicating this small epidemic. The school nurse will check students for lice, and a student will be able to come back to school once there are no more lice/nits on the student and has been cleared by our school nurse. Please help us by sending your child back to school once you have gotten treated the problem, and please understand that the measures we take are to ensure the well-being of our students. 

PRESENTATION FOR PARENTS - We cordially invite all DS school parents to attend a presentation that will be given by the Lic. Manuel Morales on the topic “The Four Types of Parents”. This presentation will take place on Thursday, March 10, at 12:00 p.m., in the Conference Room. The school will be providing some refreshments. We hope you will be able to attend!

III QUARTER REPORT CARDS AND CONFERENCES - Report cards will be sent home with your child on Friday, March 18, if there is no need for a conference. An email will be sent home if you need to come to school and meet with your child’s teacher(s). Parent teacher conferences will be held that same Friday, March 18 from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. We strongly advise you to come to school and meet with your child's teachers.

SENIORS BAKE SALE – The Seniors will be having a Bake Sale this coming Friday, March 11. Goodies will be sold during snack and lunch. Do not forget to bring money!

NUESTROS PEQUEÑOS HERMANOS BAKE SALE – NPH (the school’s community service club) will be having a bake sale on Friday, April 1. Delicious baked goods will be sold during snack and lunch. Do not forget to bring money.