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. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NLRpYz4XbBqHziVtm3TzsV_T6Ju5vQojWdwse4ho0fk/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:

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. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p3Mf-IYbYsou6At5DHTaMC0m-XUc7uf92OFNVuQWnAE/edit?usp=sharing

On Wednesday, April 13^th 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=U2IEwUFCKzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb8DqaQmNWg

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 12th. Please make sure your child has its own pair by that date.