Week of Sept. 28 - Oct. 2

Dear Parents,

This week we will begin learning about my girl’s favorite color pink. We will be working on color pink activities. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: pig, flamingo, cotton candy, rose, lips


If you have any items at home that are color pink, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on our circle time couch and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home. 

On Friday the students will have ¨The Three Little Pigs dress day¨ Please have your child wear a pink 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: “This Little Piggy”

 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. One will be using our hand and the other will be using our toes. 

Just perfect to also review our Science Theme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8EmD5kZn8k

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

This week we will continue talking about PARTS OF THE BODY. Some of the vocabulary words we will be learning this week are: head, mouth, eyes, ears, nose, feet, and hands. If you have any poster or any other material that you are willing to share with the class, we would appreciate if you will let us borrow them from you.

DPTO ANNOUNCEMENTS – The DPTO wishes to let our school community know about the following:

a)     Movie Morning Fun – The DPTO will be showing Hotel Transylvania 2 at Novacentro next Saturday, October 3 at 10:30 a.m. The movie will be shown in English! Tickets are very limited! They will be first sold during the General Assembly this Saturday, and the following week. The price of each ticket is L250 and it includes the entrance to the movie and your choice of combos of popcorn and drink, hot dog and drink, or nachos and drink. For information email us atdiscoverypto@gmail.com

b)      DPTO Blog – to know more about the wonderful activities the DPTO will be organizing please visit http://www.dptoblog.blogspot.com/

BRICKS4KIDZ – The first module for Bricks4kidz will began last Friday, September 18. Each module will have only 4 sessions, at a cost of L1,000 per module.  If you wish, you may still enroll your child for the remaining three sessions of this module.

CHANGES IN THE OCTOBER HOLIDAYS – We have received official word that a decree was issued in Congress changing the October holidays to October 7, 8, and 9. We will be complying and changing the holidays.

We understand that some families may have purchased tickets for trips at the end of October, and we will be as accommodating as possible in helping our students with missed work. If this is the case, please contact the teachers and/or area coordinator to make the arrangements for makeup work and content.

SCHOOL CAFETERIA – please check out the weekly menus and other delicious news by visiting the school cafeteria blog at http://wolvescafeteria.blogspot.com

Week of Sept. 21-25

Dear Parents,

This week we will begin learning about color orange. We will be working on color orange activities. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: pumpkin, carrot, tiger, gold fish, basketball, clown fish.
If you have any items at home that are color orange, 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 ¨Orange dress day¨ Please have your child wear a orange piece of clothing.
Also, on this day, please pack a orange snack in their lunch box. Your child needs to learn the name of the snack that he /she will bring.  Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

In our first Science unit we will be talking about PARTS OF THE BODY. We will begin with this unit this week. Some of the vocabulary words we will be learning this week are: head, mouth, eyes, ears, nose, feet, and hands. If you have any poster or any other material that you are willing to share with the class, we would appreciate if you will let us borrow them from you.

Week of Sept. 14-18

A long weekend is always a good time to recharge our batteries! We hope our Nursery kids are ready for the new and exciting challenges that we have for the second half of the first quarter of the school year.

We would like to thank each one of you for everything you sent last Friday for our “Desayuno Catracho”. The students enjoyed tasting Tamalitos de Elote, Baleadas, Catrachitas, Platanitos, Rosquillas, Tustaca, Pupusas, elote loco and lemonade! 

Midterm Reports were issued last Thursday, September 10^th. Please go over them, sign them and send them back to school. If you would like a conference, and one was not requested, please contact me or call the school to set up an appointment.

This week we will be reviewing the vocabulary of the colors learned so far since the beginning of the school year. Which are colors red, blue, yellow and green. For Friday we are asking to please have your children wear clothes of any of these four colors we have learned so far. Thank you for your involvement. 

This week we will be working our first author study which will be about Laura Numeroff. Laura Numeroff is an amazing author of the books like the ones we will be studying this week. Her books are great to encourage sequencing, cause and effect 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: 

In our Social Studies unit we will continue talking about this gorgeous country HONDURAS. Some of the vocabulary words we will be learning this week are: map, macaw, lempiras(money), white tail deer, pine tree, flag. If you have anything about Honduras that you are willing to share with us, we would really appreciate it. You are more than welcome to come into the classroom and talk about this beautiful country, show pictures, or even share a typical food with the kids. Let us know in advance if you would like to do a special activity with the children.

Week of Sept. 7-11

Dear Parents,

This week we will be having many amazing activities. We will begin learning about color green. We will be working on color green activities. The vocabulary words we are going to be focusing on are: frog, leaf, turtle, pear, snake and broccoli.
If you have any items at home that are color green, 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 Thursday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.
On Thurday the students will have ¨Green dress day¨ Please have your child wear a green piece of clothing. Thanks a lot for your involvement.

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

For the following two weeks in our Social Studies unit we will be talking about a gorgeous country HONDURAS. Some of the vocabulary words we will be learning this week are: map, macaw, lempiras(money), white tail deer, pine tree, flag. We are asking for your child to please bring Honduran coins about 2 of each (5,10,20, 50 cents, if you have, by any lucky chance, 1 cent please send it) we will give them back to you when we finish the two week Honduras study. If you have anything extra about Honduras that you are willing to share with us, we would really appreciate it. You are more than welcome to come into the classroom and talk about this beautiful country, show pictures, or even share a typical food with the kids. Let us know in advance if you would like to do a special activity with the children.

In Honduras on September 10^th of every year we celebrate Children’s Day. As you were informed in our chat. We would like to make a small celebration to our kids at snack time on Thursday September 10^th. We are asking for your support with Lps. 60.00 by Wednesday to pay candy bags, cake and juice. Thank you for your support and involvement. 

 Last week, you all received information about the Honduran typical breakfast that we are going to have with the students this Friday, September 11th. You do not need to send your child with a snack on this day since we will all be having the breakfast. Children will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m. on this day. The program will begin at 9:00 at the gym if you would like to come and join us. Let us know if you have any problem with whatever you were assigned with. Thank you in advance for your support with this celebration.

On Friday September 11th Early Childhood will be participating on a parade around the school after the Honduran Typical Breakfast. Children are asked to wear blue and white clothes. But if your child already has a Honduran typical dress, we would appreciate to have them wear it on this day.