WEEK OF JANUARY 11-15,2016

This week we are going to be working with the letter Mm. The vocabulary words that we are going to be focusing on are: moon, mitten, milk, mouse, muffin, monkey, mug, mirror, moose, mop. EXTRA WORDS: mushroom, mitten, mailbox, mask, money.

Some stories that we are going to be reading with the children are:

A boy gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings). Next he wants to take a nap, have a story read to him, draw a picture, and hang the drawing on the refrigerator. Looking at the refrigerator makes him thirsty, so the mouse asks for a glass of milk. The circle is complete when he wants a cookie to go with it.

RHYME OF THE WEEK:


''FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS''

In MATH  we are going to be practicing making patterns using transportation counters, We are also going to practice counting, matching,writing and linking numbers from 1-12. 

THEME:

''TRANSPORTATION''

Discuss different modes of transportation on land, sea and in the air. Talk about how people get to where they are going (school bus, ferry boat, car etc.) Watch videos that show different forms of transportation. Look at travel magazines. Ask if anyone has been on a plane ... a train ... a horse ... etc. Ask how students get to school everyday. How do kids in other countries travel? Leave lots of time for discussion.  Review safety rules (seatbelts in cars, obeying traffic signals, walk and don't walk signs).

SECOND QUARTER REPORT CARDS AND CONFERENCES – Report Cards for the second quarter will be issued on Friday, January 15^th. Conferences for this quarter are on a need basis. If you do not receive a notice from us but would like to meet for a conference, please contact us to set up a time for the afternoon of Friday, January 15^th. Students will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m, and conferences will be held from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m.

This month your child(ren) will have the opportunity to purchase books through the international Scholastic Book Clubs. This is an optional activity offered by the school, in case you want to motivate your child to read at home and to increase their own library. With your purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of your children in our school. The due date to purchase the books online is January 25^th. The books will arrive to school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase date.

It is hard to believe that the 100th day of school is quickly approaching and so it is time for us to start planning the festivities. This exciting day is going to be on Thursay, January 28^th. For this, we would like for you to help your child come dressed with a “100 day of school project.”  Some items that you may want to use are pennies, cotton balls, q-tips, dot stickers, legos, popsicle sticks, wiggly eyes, buttons, etc. The following pictures are just examples of what you can come up with: