Dear Nursery Parents,
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:
Froggy Gets Dressed,
by Jonathan London
I think what my kids love about Froggy is that he’s
goofy, he has silly sound effects, and there’s a familiarity about the books
that’s comforting. Each book, Froggy’s
mother calls “Frooogggy!” and he replies “Whaaat?” Each book, he does something
embarrassing, and blushes. Some Froggy
books are better than others; this first one is one of the best.
Fish is Fish, by Leo
Lionni
This was a new book for me, and I’m sorry it took me
so long to discover it. In a pond, a
minnow and tadpole are great friends. The fish is alarmed when the tadpole turns
into a frog and climbs out of the pond.
When the frog returns, he shares stories of everything he’s seen. The
fish imagines birds as fish with feathers, cows as fish with udders, and people
as fish with legs. The fish longs to see
this amazing world and jumps out of the water.
When the frog rescues him he realizes that, for him, his water world is
the most beautiful of all. “Fish is fish.”
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 0.
Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Dr. Foster”
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 our Science unit we will begin learning about Insects. We are going to be discussing
the different types of insects. Children will get the chance to name them and identify
different kinds of insects. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing
are: bee, ant, mosquito, spider,
butterfly, caterpillar, ladybug, grasshopper, dragonfly, fly.
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.
In
Honduras we celebrate Mother’s Day on May 8th. We would like to
invite all of our MOMMIES to have Muffins with your child on Friday May 6th
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. We would like to ask our wonderful DADDIES to
kindly help us with Lps. 150.00 for Mother’s Day gift. Please send it before
Friday April 29th. Thank you for your support.
This
week’s Challenge at Home will be listening to songs that focus on the sound and
vocabulary for letter f and also review abc phonics song. Children know most of
the moves to do along with this phonic song.
ECONOMICS BAKE SALES – the third graders will be conducting their integrated Math/Social Studies bake sales on April 21 and 28. They will really appreciate the support of fellow students as they conduct their economics activity.
EARLY DISMISSAL AND HOLIDAY – This Friday, April 29 is an early dismissal day for our students. We will be following P.M. schedule. We want to remind parents that Monday, May 2 is a holiday. Classes resume on Tuesday, May 3.
RECYCLING CHALLENGE: Students keep bringing in your recyclable materials (newspapers, magazines, notebooks, paper board boxes, cardboard, aluminum cans, and plastic bottles) for the recycling challenge given by Arca de Esperanzas. Remember that juice and milk boxes and Pringles-type cans cannot be recycled due to being a pressed mixture of aluminum, plastic, and paper. Thank you for continuing to support environmental awareness. Class that meet their challenge of bringing 10 lbs per student will earn a cookie party!
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