Week of October 19, 2014

 

Dear Parents,

 

FAMILY PICTURE: Thank you to all the parents who sent in family pictures. Our bulletin board is ALMOST complete. If you have not sent in one yet, please do so.

 

SPANISH: We are fortunate to have Cristina Botas, a former TYKE Mom, teach us Spanish on Tuesdays at 2:00. The children are enjoying learning their numbers and colors in Spanish. Mrs. Botas will also be sharing the culture and celebrations of Mexico with us. We will be learning about the Day of the Dead and the symbolism behind this celebration.

iPads: We started using our iPads this past Friday. Each child was able to spend about 15 minutes on the iPad during our center rotations. We are using the “Little Writer” app to help them learn the proper way to make letters and numbers, and a Math app. Some of them used the “Funny Plate” app to learn about balancing out a meal.

 

Here is an overview of this week:

Religion: We will be talking about the story of Creation and our “Seeds” lesson will be on Sunday’s Gospel which stresses the importance of God’s two rules: “ Love God and one another.”

Math: Number sense: numbers to 10

              Measurement: levels of high and low.

Science: Frogs

Ÿ  SRA READING: Objectives for this week will be:

Ÿ  Introduce letters Aa, Bb,Cc, Dd, Ee.

Ÿ  Draw conclusions based on test and illustrations.

Ÿ  Respond to ideas, feelings and thoughts expressed by others.

Ÿ  Make and confirm predictions about story events.

Ÿ  Make a class book about friends.

Ÿ  Introduce the new High Frequency Word___and.

We have learned 3 sight words, a,the and and.

Please make flash cards of these words and have your child read them each day. They can make their own books by writing the words and drawing or cutting out pictures.

 

Have a great week!

Edde Chalk