Thursday, January 28, 2010

Weekly letter February 1

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great weekend. Please take note of the following information.

  • Remember to read to your child 10-15 minutes daily. This is homework. Your child is taking a small book home today. Please allow your child to read it to you. This may be used as the title for one day. Remember to send it back by Friday.
  • Congratulations to our Student of the week
    Giana!
  • Please remember it is very important for you to read the blog at least once a week.
  • Show and Tell is every Wednesday. Please help your child choose an object he or she will share. Sharing helps students develop oral language and boost their confidence.
  • February 1st-5th is Friendship week. Children will be wearing a special friendship bracelet. Please allow your child to wear it the whole week.
  • Tomorrow we will celebrate our 100th Day of school! If you did not send the t-shirt or the 100 items please do so by tomorrow.Thank you for your support.
  • Remember sight words will be evaluated every Friday. It will be done in a cumulative way, starting with 4 then 8 etc.
  • Please send back your Report Cards signed.
  • Thank you for coming to the values conference. We hope you enjoyed it.

This week we will be learning about:

Language: Letter Dd, sound, vocabulary and letter recognition.

Sight words: said, that, and, is.

Phonemic Awareness: Written blending with pictures.(match CAT with a picture of a cat)

Math: Addition to 10 and the concept of before.

Science: Animals (mammals)

Virtue of the Month:
Tolerance

"I will be patient with my friends."

Letter Dd study guide


Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Activities for January 27

  • Draw a set of 30 lollipops.
  • Write two sentences using two sight words.
  • Draw five vocabulary words and count the number of syllables in each word. Write the number under the picture.
  • Copy the math problem and add. Please have your child use small manipulatives such as crayons, cars, beans, balls.
    • 1+3=
    • 2+2=
    • 4+1=
    • 3+2=
    • 2+1=
  • Please remember to come to the values presentation on Thursday January 28 at 5:00 p.m. in room #62. "Acompañando el crecimiento de nuestros hijos". Presented by Lic. Roger Martínez.

If you have any questions please contact me. See you on Thursday.

Please remember to check Mrs. Laitano's blog.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Weekly Letter January 25

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great weekend. Please take note of the following information.

  • Remember to read to your child 10-15 minutes daily. This is homework.
  • Congratulations to our Student of the week Juan Carlos!
  • Please remember it is very important for you to read the blog at least once a week.
  • Show and Tell is every Wednesday. Please help your child choose an object he or she will share. Sharing helps students develop oral language and boost their confidence.
  • We are getting close to our 100th Day of School! To celebrate this day, students must prepare (with parents' help) a white t-shirt with 100 small items glued, pinned or sewn on to it. Please no stickers because these fall off. Be creative!!! This t-shirt must be in school by February 1st.
  • Also, to celebrate our 100th Day of School, please send with your child 100 small objects. These may be small erasers, pencils, sharpeners or any small party favors. You may find a big variety at Yip Store. No candy please.
  • Remember sight words will be evaluated every Friday. It will be done in a cumulative way, starting with 4 then 8 etc.
  • Report Cards go home today. If you have any questions please contact me.
  • There will be a Values Presentation on Thursday, January 28th from 5:00 – 6:30 in room #62. "Acompañando el crecimiento de nuestros hijos". Presentado por el Lic. Roger Martinez.

  • Friday, January 29th is Lps. 5.00 color's day.
  • The school is helping collect money for Haiti. You may send voluntary contributions in a sealed and labeled envelope.


This week we will be learning about:

Language: Letter Ll, sound, vocabulary and letter recognition.

Sight words: his, of, to, a.

Phonemic Awareness: Oral blending phoneme by phoneme. C-A-T CAT.

Math: Number line and addition to 5.

Science: Plants

Values: Growing up healthy.

Virtue of the Month:
Perseverance

"I will do my best."

Letter Ll study guide


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Early dismissal activities


  • Write numbers 1-30.
  • Write a sentence and draw a picture about a Gg word.
  • Cut and glue or draw 4 pictures that begin with the letter G.
  • Draw a picture of a plant and label its parts.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Weekly letter January 18

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great weekend. Evaluations went by smoothly. Please take note of the following information.

  • Remember to read to your child 10-15 minutes daily. This is homework.
  • Congratulations to our Student of the week Bella !
  • Please remember it is very important for you to read the blog at least once a week.
  • Show and Tell is every Wednesday. Please help your child choose an object he or she will share. Sharing helps students develop oral language and boost their confidence.
  • We are getting close to our 100th Day of School! To celebrate this day, students must prepare (with parents help) a white t-shirt with 100 small items glued, pinned or sewn on to it. Please no stickers because these fall off. Be creative!!! This t-shirt must be in school by February 1st.
  • Also, to celebrate our 100th Day of School, please send with your child 100 small objects. These may be small erasers, pencils, sharpeners or any small party favors. You may find a big variety at Yip Store. No candy please.
  • This quarter we will begin working with sight words. Sight words are words that children will find often when reading, and use in their writing. Children must identify these words by sight. This will help them become strong readers and writers. Sight words will be evaluated every Friday. It will be done in a cumulative way, starting with 4 then 8 ect..
  • Report Cards will go home on January 25th. If you have any questions please contact me.
  • There will be a values presentation on Thursday, January 28th from 5:00 – 6:30 in room #62. "Acompañando el crecimiento de nuestros hijos". Presentado por el Lic. Roger Martinez.

  • Thursday, January 21st is a staff development day. Students will be dismissed at 10:45. On this day assignments will be posted on the blog for your child to do at home and bring back on Friday. Thank you for your support.


This week we will be learning about:

Language: Letter Gg, sound, vocabulary and letter recognition.

Sight words: My, in, I, the.

Phonemic Awareness: Oral blending of phonemes with letter flash cards.

Math: Reading bar graphs and numbers 1-30.

Science: Plants

Values: Growing up healthy.

Virtue of the Month:
Perseverance

"I will do my best."

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

Reminder

If you have not sent in the empty toilet paper rol please do so by Wednesday.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Weekly letter January 11

Dear Parents,

This is evaluation week. Please make sure your child gets plenty of rest. Evaluations will be done with every day activities. Please take note of the following information:

  • Remember to read to your child 10-15 minutes daily.
  • Congratulations to our Student of the Week
    Gabriel E.!
  • We will continue learning about dinosaurs. If you have any dinosaurs or books about dinosaurs please send them in for us to share.
  • Values:
    Growing up healthy.
  • The Virtue of the month is perseverance. Our goal is

    "I will keep trying."

  • Please refer to last week's blog for more information on what to review.