Monday, April 25, 2016

Week of April 25-29

Dear Nursery Parents,

This week we are going to be 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 Ff. The vocabulary for this letter is: fish, finger, frog, fire, feather, firefighter. 

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”
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.








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.



SUMMER CAMPS AT DISCOVERY SCHOOL - Like last year, there will be two summer camps in the month of June. Discovery Zone 7 will be a fun, artistic and entertaining camp for children 3 to 9 years old. There will also be a reinforcement camp for reading, writing and French for students in grades K-2. Both camps will run from June 13 to July 1, with the same schedule (8:00 a.m. to 12:00). Transportation is available at a small additional cost. If you or a relative/friend is interested, more information can be given to you by Ms. Carolina or at the accounting offices in school. 







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!


Sunday, April 17, 2016

Week of April 18-22

Dear Nursery Parents,
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 Ee. The vocabulary for this letter is: elephant, egg, envelope, elbow, elf

The following link has the vocabulary of the vocabulary of the letter e for you to practice at home. 



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 Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper
Did you know that this classic story is over a hundred years old?  When the train full of toys and food for the little children can’t get over the mountain, it asks for help.  All the big trains turn up their noses, but the little blue engine gives it a try. “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…”  This book is often used to show the power of positive thinking. We just like the fun, colorful story.

An Extraordinary Egg, by Leo Lionni, is the tale of three frogs who live together on Pebble Island. One frog, Jessica, loves to explore and bring back pretty rocks to show her friends. One day she brings back an especially beautiful stone, only to discover that it’s an egg. Since they are familiar only with chicken eggs, the frogs call the baby alligator a chicken throughout the story, which will delight small children.  Jessica and the baby “chicken” become good friends, and the baby is reunited with its mother at the end of the book.

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 5.








Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “This Old Man”
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.

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 continue learning about Zoo Animals. We are going to be discussing the different types of zoo animals. Children will get the chance to name them and identify creatures that we can find in a zoo. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: elephant, tiger, lion, hippo, crocodile, zebra, gorilla, giraffe, snake, monkey . 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.

The following link has the vocabulary of zoo animals for you to practice at home. 

This week’s Challenge at Home will be listening to songs that focus on the sound and vocabulary for letter e and also review abc phonics song. Children know most of the moves to do along with this phonic song.  

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.

ANNUAL DPTO GARAGE - The DPTO invites all our families to participate and/or attend our annual garage sale on Saturday, April 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00. You can purchase your table for only L400! Spaces are limited, so seize this opportunity now! If interested, contact cbanegas@discoveryschool.edu.hn 

For Earth Day, we will be helping Arca de Honduras. We need your help by sending in recycled materials such as clean soda cans, newspapers, magazines, clean plastic bottles. Send in as much as you can. We will be helping Arca de Honduras all month long.  

We are also working on reducing the amount of trash we throw away and reusing containers that are used to pack our lunches. Please help us out with this. Our planet will be thankful!

SUMMER CAMPS AT DISCOVERY SCHOOL - Like last year, there will be two summer camps in the month of June. Discovery Zone 7 will be a fun, artistic and entertaining camp for children 3 to 9 years old. There will also be a reinforcement camp for reading, writing and French for students in grades K-2. Both camps will run from June 13 to July 1, with the same schedule (8:00 a.m. to 12:00). Transportation is available at a small additional cost. If you or a relative/friend is interested, more information can be given to you by Ms. Carolina or at the accounting offices in school. 


ECONOMICS BAKE SALESthe 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. 



Sunday, April 10, 2016

Week of April 11-15

Dear Nursery Parents,
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 Dd. The vocabulary for this letter is: dog, duck, doughnut, dress, drum, dinosaur

The following link has the vocabulary of the letter d for you to practice at home. 

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:

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, by Mo Willems This is another fun book from the creator of the Pigeon series and the Elephant and Piggy books.  Not only do kids love this one, but you’ll appreciate all the little jokes thrown in.  When the dinosaurs set a trap of three giant bowls of chocolate pudding, “a poorly supervised little girl named Goldilocks came along.”   Goldilocks is clueless that she has just fallen into a trap until she hears the dinosaurs talking about their catch.  “Goldilocks took a minute to stop and think, which was longer than she was used to stopping and thinking.”
Funny!


There’s no Such Things as a Dragon, by Jack Kent

If you say there’s no such thing, does that mean that thing will disappear?  Not in this book.  Billy’s mother is sure “there is no such thing as a dragon,” even when it eats all the pancakes and grows so big the house comes off its foundation.  As it turns out, the dragon just wants to be noticed.  This is a favorite from my childhood, and my own kids love it too.



 

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 4.






Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “One One the Zoo is Fun”
This rhyme is more like a chant; it is hard to find it as a video, because it is not a video. You just follow the rhyme by reading along and you review the numbers. We will focus a lot on the rhyming for this chant.

















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 be learning about Zoo Animals. We are going to be discussing the different types of zoo animals. Children will get the chance to name them and identify creatures that we can find in a zoo. Some of the vocabulary words we will be focusing are: elephant, tiger, lion, hippo, crocodile, zebra, gorilla, giraffe, snake. 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.

The following link has the vocabulary of zoo animals for you to practice at home. 


On Wednesday, April 13th Nursery will be having a birthday celebration for Lianna at Snack time. You do not need to pack snack for your child on this day. Drinks, chicken meal and cake will be provided for the students.


This week’s Challenge at Home will be listening to songs that focus on the sound and vocabulary for letter d. You will also find in your child notebook a page about count to five. children need to count the dots and match to the corresponding number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7E-tnTiW_Y

MOTRICITY CLASS- We will be building a pair of  tin can stilts (zancos). You may start looking for 2 clean and empty tin cans of the same size and two pieces of rope that are as long as your child's height up to his or her shoulder. We will start using them on Tuesday April the 12thPlease make sure your child has its own pair by that date.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Week of April 4-8

Dear Nursery Parents,

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 Cc. The vocabulary for this letter is: car, cat, cupcake, carrot, cookie

The following link has the vocabulary of the vocabulary of the letter c for you to practice at home.  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bFx4O74Zt07xAg9-3zdAOLUWlMTdrtEuLYPjn_VaugQ/edit?usp=sharing

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:

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, by Laura Numeroff This is another title in the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series. While this one feels a bit more contrived than others in the series, the pictures and story are still irresistible.  If you give a cat a cupcake, he’s going to want sprinkles to go with it… and on the story goes.






Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina is one that I’ve had in my “library” for many years. Every child or class I’ve read it to has greatly enjoyed the story. As the peddler naps, some monkeys take his stack of hats. Will he get them back and how? I love how interactive the story can be and how it can teach about emotions.








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 3.














Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Alice the Camel”
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.

In our Science unit we will be continue 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.

On Monday, April 4th Nursery will be having a birthday celebration at Snack time. You do not need to pack snack for your child on this day. Drinks, pizza and cake will be provided for the students. 


MOTRICITY CLASS- We will be building a pair of  tin can stilts (zancos). You may start looking for 2 clean and empty tin cans of the same size and two pieces of rope that are as long as your child's height up to his or her shoulder. We will start using them on Tuesday April the 12th. Please make sure your child has its own pair by that date.

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.

FAMILY NIGHT: The DPTO invites you to its annual family and movie night!


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