Week of Dec. 14-16

We want to congratulate our fantastic Nursery class for their fabulous performance in the Song Fest. YMCA was a great hit for them and they all did great. This couldn’t be done without your support. Thank you. 

This is a short (3-day) week, and we will be using our time to wrap up the second quarter of the school year. We will continue to make Christmas Crafts and reading a lot of stories related to this holiday.

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

WE WISH EVERYONE A GREAT AND SAFE WINTER HOLIDAY! SEE YOU ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6th, 2016

Week of Dec. 7-11

Dear Parents,

This week we will be reviewing the vocabulary of the colors learned in this second quarter. Those colors are: purple, black, brown, gray and white. 

This week we will be focusing on an author study which will be about Lois Ehlert. Lois Ehlert is an amazing author of the books like the ones we will be studying this week. Her books are great to encourage reading skills, and learn about colors , ABC and so many more great lessons. The best of it is that she writes in a very fun and friendly way to get children engaged to her stories.

Some of the stories for this week are: 

This week we will be discussing Christmas. We will be making Christmas Crafts and reading a lot of stories related to this holiday. If you have any Christmas stories that we could borrow from you, we would appreciate if you send them over with your child to school. We will be returning them before the holiday.

Our annual Songfest will take place on Friday, December 11th at 6:30 p.m. Please mark this date and time on your calendar. Take into consideration that this is the time where traffic gets a little bit hectic in this city. We would really like to see all the children in school at 6:00 p.m. so we can go over last details with them. They are all very excited practicing their song every day with a lot of enthusiasm. Your child needs to come in dressed as village people. If you need help with the costume ideas please let us know as soon as possible! Thank you for your support. 

Santa Claus will be visiting the children for this Christmas Party!!! We are requesting for you to send a gift so Santa can give it to your child. If you have not sent the gift please do so as soon as possible. We are still missing a lot of presents. It would be very sad to see a child without a gift. The gift should not be more than 200 lps. Thanks in advance for your support!

Challenge at Home is a small activity assigned to do at home during the weekend with children. It could be a short story, a game, a song. Every Monday Morning we will discuss about this little challenge. The objective is to enjoy and to reinforce their learning and comprehension. We always appreciate your involvement with your children’s learning.

For this week, our first Challenge at Home will be practice the circle shape building. On the note book you will find a worksheet that they have to bring back to school on Monday to discuss how was their experience. Hope you have lots of fun with this activity.

SONG FEST – Please do not forget that this Friday, December 11 we will hold our Songfest. This year, the theme is the AWESOME 80’s, and our students have been working very hard in preparing their presentations for our school community. The show will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. Since traffic tends to be very hectic at this time of the year, and especially on Fridays, we recommend you try to be here early. We are inviting you to come at 5:00 p.m. and enjoy the delicious food that will be sold by the DPTO, the drinks sold by the Seniors, and the tasty pastry sold by the Community Service, and do a little bit of Christmas shopping with selected vendors from the Xmas Bazaar.

NPH GIVING TREE- Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphaned children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severely handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have aunts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   If you wish to participate, choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 8th, with the tree tag taped to it.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!

If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/  and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYC2A5njQTk

Week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 4

Dear Parents,

This week we will be continue our first study learning about Shapes. We will be working and learning about the circle. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: plate, orange, cookie, bubbles, ball, CD, and clock.

If you have any items at home that are with the shape of a circle, 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. Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Hey Diddle, Diddle”

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=nrd2A5ohn3w&spfreload=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJiw-edttDY

Challenge at Home is a small activity assigned to do at home during the weekend or the week with children. It could be a short story, a game, a song. Every Monday Morning we will discuss about this little challenge. The objective is to enjoy and to reinforce their learning and comprehension. We always appreciate your involvement with your children’s learning.

For this week, our Challenge at Home will be a little different. It consists about preparing a show and tell about “My Favorite Toy” for Friday. Children will be bringing their favorite toy and talk to us about it. The presentation should be short, like asking who gave that toy to him/her. Hope you have lots of fun preparing this activity. 

Our annual Songfest will take place on Friday, December 11th  at 6:30 p.m. Please mark this date and time on your calendar. Take into consideration that this is the time where traffic gets a little bit hectic in this city. They are all very excited practicing their song every day with a lot of enthusiasm. We also want to remind you that your child needs to come in dressed as village people, any doubts or questions about the costume. Please contact us as soon as possible. We are more than available in helping you.

We would love to have a Christmas Party with the children on the last day of school (Wednesday, December 16th). If you have any idea on what or how we can do it we would greatly appreciate if you can contact us via email, whatsapp or at school. Thanks in advance.

Santa Claus will be visiting the children for this Christmas Party!!! We are requesting for you to send a gift so santa can give it to your child. Please send this gift no later than Friday, December 4. The Gift should not be more than 200 lps. Thanks in advance for your collaboration!

Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphaned children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severely handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have aunts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   A paper tree will be sent home that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 8th, with the tree tag taped to it.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYC2A5njQTk

Week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 4

Dear Parents,

This week we will be continue our first study learning about Shapes. We will be working and learning about the circle. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: plate, orange, cookie, bubbles, ball, CD, and clock.

If you have any items at home that are with the shape of a circle, 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. Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Hey Diddle, Diddle”

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=nrd2A5ohn3w&spfreload=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJiw-edttDY

Our annual Songfest will take place on Friday, December 11th  at 6:30 p.m. Please mark this date and time on your calendar. Take into consideration that this is the time where traffic gets a little bit hectic in this city. They are all very excited practicing their song every day with a lot of enthusiasm. We also want to remind you that your child needs to come in dressed as village people, any doubts or questions about the costume. Please contact us as soon as possible. We are more than available in helping you.

We would love to have a Christmas Party with the children on the last day of school (Wednesday, December 16th). If you have any idea on what or how we can do it we would greatly appreciate if you can contact us via email, whatsapp or at school. Thanks in advance.

Week of Nov. 23-27

Dear Parents,

This week we will be begin our first study learning about Shapes. We will be working and learning about the circle. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: plate, orange, cookie, bubbles, ball, CD, and clock.

If you have any items at home that are with the shape of a circle, 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. Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Five Little Turkeys”

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=f2agBNJ9hec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMnOfupFV1c

This is going to be a very short week. We are going to be mainly talking about Thanksgiving Celebration and the meaning of this holiday. We will list things that we should be thankful for. If you have any books that are related to this holiday, We will really appreciate if you let us borrow them from you.

For our Thanksgiving Celebration, we are requesting Lps. 80.00. We will be using this money to buy chicken fingers, juice, plastic cups, forks, napkins and a goodie bag. Please send this money no later than Tuesday, November 24^th. Remember the children will be dismissed from school at 11:45 a.m. on this day.

Our annual Songfest will take place on Friday, December 11^th  at 6:30 p.m. Please mark this date and time on your calendar. Take into consideration that this is the time where traffic gets a little bit hectic in this city. They are all very excited practicing their song every day with a lot of enthusiasm. We also want to remind you that your child needs to come in dressed as village people, some ideas were posted in last week’s post.

Remember that there will be NO SCHOOL on Thursday, November 26^th and Friday, November 27^th. Happy Thanksgiving and stay safe!

AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES – We remind parents that ALL after school activities will begin at 3:15 p.m. and will end at 4: 15 p.m. We ask parents to be prompt in picking the students up from after school activities.

MIDTERM PROGRESS REPORTS– Progress reports went home last Friday, November 20. They must be signed by parents and returned to school before the Thanksgiving Holiday. If you wish to conference with a teacher, please do not hesitate to contact the school to set up an appointment.

BAKE SALE – The Juniors will be having a bake sale in order to raise funds for their upcoming community service. The bake sale will be on Friday, December 4 during snack and lunch.

JUGUETON 2015 – Our school has been invited to participate in the First Lady’s Christmas drive to give toys to the children less fortunate of Honduras. The school will be making a donation as an institution, but would like to invite our students and parents to go through their closets and find toys in good shape to donate for this activity. There will be a box in the reception area (with Ms. Carolina) where the toys can be dropped off. We will be delivering what we contribute as a school on Wednesday, December 9.

Week of Nov, 16-20

Dear Parents,

This week we will begin learning about the last unit of colors white. We will be working on color white activities. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: salt, rice, rabbit, sugar, egg, cloud, marshmallow and astronaut.

If you have any items at home that are color white, 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.

On Friday the students will have ¨White dress day¨ Please have your child wear a white piece of clothing. Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Humpty Dumpy”

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=9fExzr4oa7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bifcEsG8j0g

In Science we will continue the unit about Food. We are going to be discussing healthy and unhealthy snacks. Children will get the chance to name food that is eaten during the breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: pancakes, juice, apple, banana, carrot, bread, sandwich, meat, milk, cereal and cheese. If you have any books or posters, or any other material that you would like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated.

Challenge at Home is a small activity assigned to do at home during the weekend with children. It could be a short story, a game, a song. Every Monday Morning we will discuss about this little challenge. The objective is to enjoy and to reinforce their learning and comprehension. We always appreciate your involvement with your children’s learning.

For this week, our Challenge at Home will be singing and dancing the nursery rhyme called “I’m a Little Teapot”. Hope you have lots of fun dancing and singing this beautiful rhyme. We are attaching the video for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YcHmg5ZzA

Our Songfest is around the corner. Mark on your calendars this amazing show that will be on December 11^th.

Nursery and Prek will be performing the song YMCA. The children are all very excited. Children are asked to dress as village people. It is your choice on what to use for this costume. We know that some of you would like to buy it online or look for a stylist to do it, again your choice. We understand this has to be done with time. We are sharing some ideas on how you could dress them up.

Week of Nov. 9-13

Dear Parents,
This week wewill begin learning about color gray. We will be working on color black activities. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: rock, mouse, elephant, koala, wolf, hippo, shark and moon.

If you have any items at home that are color gray, 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.

On Friday the students will have ¨Gray dress day¨ Please have your child wear a brown piece of clothing. Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “One elephant went out to play”

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=4BjU5DJ5RM4

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

In Science we will begin a unit about Food. We are going to be discussing healthy and unhealthy snacks. Children will get the chance to name food that is eaten during the breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: pancakes, juice, apple, banana, carrot, bread, sandwich, meat, milk, cereal and cheese. If you have any books or posters, or any other material that you would like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated.

Challenge at Home is a small activity assigned to do at home during the weekend with children. It could be a short story, a game, a song. Every Monday Morning we will discuss about this little challenge. The objective is to enjoy and to reinforce their learning and comprehension. We always appreciate your involvement with your children’s learning.

For this week, our first Challenge at Home will be watching a story called “But No Elephants” by Jerry Smath. Watch and discuss this story. I am attaching the link to watch and listen to the story. Make sure your child understands what the story is about. Have Fun!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZll-z2vH28

For Thanksgiving we would like to make many activities with pumpkins, such as carving a pumpkin, playing man games with pumpkin seed, have the opportunity to taste pumpkin pie, and much more. I would really appreciate, if you can find a pumpkin and donate it to our class and have some more fun with this particular food. Thank you for your involvement.

HEALTH FAIR: Next Friday, November 13, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we will have the Optica Matamoros and Dra. Sandra Noguera doing visual and dental screening for our Early Childhood students. Permission slips allowing this screening to be done will be sent home this week.

CHRISTIMAS BAZAAR- LOOKING FOR VENDORS- Discovery’s Helping Hands Club, a community service club that benefits children of the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos orphanage will have a Christmas Bazaar.  Interested vendors send email, discovery_bazaar@gmail.com

WOLVES’ SPORT

Kenpo Karate

We are ready to begin with Kenpo Karate classes. The schedule is as following:

Elementary: Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:30 p.m.

Middle School and High School: Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:30 p.m.

If you need the form of registration please contact  Mrs. Yeri Villeda (9480-7862) email: yvilleda@discoveryschool.edu.hn

Basketball

We are getting ready for the ABSH Basketball tournament; this tournament will be held in the American school, Tegucigalpa. From November 11 to 14^th.

Important Points: If parents or relatives would like to accompany us for support, they are welcome.