WEEK OF OCTOBER 22-26

Teddy Bear´s picnic was a great blend of learning and having fun. The children had to sort, count, and compare the teddy bears, then we played hide and seek. Thank you very much for all the delicious snacks that you provided for this activity.

 

 

During this week, we will introduce the Zoo-phonics; this is a really nice reading program that we use with our students to teach the letters and sounds of the alphabet.

The Zoo-phonics Multisensory Language Arts Program is a kinesthetic, multi-modal approach to learning all aspects of language arts, including vocabulary development and articulation, based on phonics and phonemic awareness.

The principle of Zoo-phonics maximizes understanding, memory, utilization and transference to all areas of the reading, spelling and writing process in a playful and concrete manner.

Zoo-phonics is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a "phono" (hearing), "oral" (speaking), "visual" (seeing), "kinesthetic" (moving), and tactile (touching)—whole brain approach. Students actually learn the sounds of the alphabet and advanced phonemic concepts through an easily understood, concrete method of presentation.

Zoo-phonics uses animals drawn in the shapes of the letters for ease in memory. A related body movement is given for each letter. This concrete approach cements the sounds to the shapes of the letters. Lowercase letters and their sounds are taught first (needed 95% of the time in text), capital letters and letter names are taught later.

We will be sending you more information regarding this program. 

  Thursday, October 25th is UN Day here at Discovery School.  This is a very special day where we celebrate diversity with the help of some dedicated parents. We want to invite you to come and enjoy the special activities.