May 28- June 1st

Dear Nursery Parents,

This is going to be a bitter sweet week. It is time to say good- bye to our lovely students but at the same time we know that they are ready to move on in their lives. They are all excited to go to PREK… hooray!!! We will devote this week to have fun. They can also bring toys that they are willing to share with their friends. PLEASE NO ELECTRONICS.

This week in our Social Studies unit we will be learning about the space. We will be focusing on the sun and the moon, Day/night, kids will learn and understand why the sun comes in the morning and afternoon, and why the moon comes at night and what happens in the space, earth and time while this happens. 

The “End of the Year Party” will be the last school day, June 1st^. We are planning on making a “Pajama Party” at school. We will watch movies, eat pancakes, and play a lot this day. Children will have to bring toys to play with their friends. The food the kids will bring for friday is already set with Ms. Gaby, in the chat of parents. 
So don´t forget to send your kid wearing their pajamas.

Fue un placer ser la maestra de sus hijos este primer año escolar, cada uno ellos fue increíblemente especial para mí, me enamore de esos corazones tan nobles, sus sonrisas, y abrazos.

Espero tengan un año exitoso en Pre-K, y espero seguirlos viendo, estoy para servirles!

Que tengan unas felices vacaciones. 

MS. JOHANA ALMENDARES

May 14th - 18th

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. We will be reviewing letters A-D and working on ABC’s Phonics songs.

In our Science unit we will be learning about Dinosaurs. We are going to be discussing the different types of dinosaurs. Children will get the chance to name them and identify different kinds of dinosaurs. 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. Our idea is to turn our classroom into a Dinosaur habitat, so your help by bringing anything you have about dinosaurs would be very helpful.

Some of the books we are going to be reading this week are the following:

Doris’s Dinosaur, by Rosemary Wells

Doris is a beaver who doesn’t know how to draw like her classmates. When it’s time to draw a dinosaur, she draws a big blue swirl.  Doris is discouraged until the class visits the art museum and she sees the modern art display, featuring works of art just like hers.
This book is part of the Yoko & Friends School Days series, which I adore.  Rosemary Wells knows how to write simple but wonderful stories that kids can relate to!

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!

How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Dogs? by Jane Yolen
I have loved every book in the “How Do Dinosaurs” series, written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by the amazing Mark Teague.  Each book starts with a dinosaur doing all the wrong things, whether that’s throwing a tantrum at bedtime (in How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?) or never taking his dog outside.  Each book ends with all the right things that dinosaurs do. Of course these are all lessons for small children, taught in an entertaining and endearing way.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is: “Old Lady Lived in a Shoe”

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=M3z5DeFQXgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXuOaJWB2Q

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.

SUMMER CAMPS AT DISCOVERY SCHOOL  Discovery Zone 9 will be a fun, artistic and entertaining camp for ages 2 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 11 to June 29, 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. 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON MAY 12-

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS –The Spring General Assembly will take place at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 12. Among other important items on the agenda, four new members will need to be elected for the Board of Directors, the budget for 2018-2019 will be presented for approval, and a formal presentation of our future Head of School, Mr. Kenneth Davis, will be done. It is very important for our parents to attend this assembly. As always, childcare will be provided.

We invite Parents to be a part of our Board of Directors. If you have a nominee, or want to participate yourself, please fill out the following form and send it to Carolina Villarreal, President of the Board of Directors at carovilla252@hotmail.com