WEEK OF OCTOBER 20-24, 2014

Dear Parents,
 We would like to remind you that your child can come to school dressed like any book character he/she chooses and will be asked to bring the book his/her character is from to school on Tuesday, October 28th and be ready to present his/her costume and book to the class. Dressing up is fun and we encourage all students to do so. 

*Each child needs to bring a bag of soft candies or chocolates by Thursday, October 23.

We need volunteers for ''BOOK CHARACTER DAY'' you can help us by providing the snack and drinks or with the bags for trick or treating . Also you can contribute by providing a treat for the bags like: stickers, pencils, etc...





This week we will learn the letter Ii. The vocabulary we will be  covering is: ink, igloo, insect, inchworm, iguana, instruments, indian, in.


STORY OF THE WEEK:




Room on the Broom is full of repetiton, rhyme, phonics and punctuation! The book has such lovely illustrations that children can talk about the book using the images.
Room on the Broom is the tale of a witch who keeps losing things whilst on her broomstick, her belongings are returned by various animals on the way in return for a ride on her broomstick. Inevitably the broomstick breaks and the witch is trapped by a hungry dragon. The animals help the witch escape the snapping jaws of the dragon and in return she builds a delux broomstick for them all to travel on.

MORE STORIES TO READ:

In Math we will start working with patterns. This week we will begin with AB patterns.

We will be working with the number 6.



Our theme for this week will be ''Pumpkin and Fall'' The vocabulary we will be learning is: pumpkin, scarecrow, corn, fall, leaves.





RHYME OF THE WEEK:

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS-

·        Our Student Led Conferences will take place next Friday, October 24. Conferences for the first quarter are mandatory at Discovery School. Parents will be contacted this week.

·        Our U.N. Day Celebration will take place on Wednesday, October 29. If you want to set a country up, or contribute with the organization, please let the DPTO know. 

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    There will be no school on October 30 and 31 in compliance to Congress’ decree for mowing the holidays this month.  Classes will resume on November 3