Week 18
Post date: Dec 14, 2015 10:32:29 AM
12/14/15
Dear Parents,
Happy holidays and welcome to Week 18! We have an exciting, event-filled week!
I’m looking forward to seeing all of you at our Winter Show on Thursday at 11:15! Please be sure to have your student wearing RED on Thursday. Because the show takes place during part of our lunchtime, make sure your students get a little extra snack. We have a beautiful potluck buffet to follow our show - here is the sign up if you would like to contribute something. Our special guest, Antonia Riguad, attachée culturelle of the French Consulate will be joining the performance!
I hope everyone has a wonderful, restful Winter Break. Here are some ways to boost your child’s language development at home:
Let them help you write a shopping list – sound out the words to spell them together – they’re PROFICIENT in breaking words down into syllables! Ask them if they know what the name of the item is in French.
Read a story and ask them to make a prediction. Talk about the main characters and their attributes. Go back and check the prediction.
Talk about environmental shapes using, circular, spherical, rectangular, etc. and the position of things in relation to others – top, bottom, beside, to the left of, to the right of, in the middle of, etc.
When they’re drawing, have them dictate to you what they’re drawing. Simplify the sentence and write it down together. Then read the sentence together.
Reminders for this week:
Monday: Lockdown Drill
Tuesday: Primary Theatre Performance, Franklin gets recognized at the Board Meeting
Thursday: Winter Performance at 11:15am
Friday: Awards assembly, Kindergarten Pajama Day, Holiday crafts in the afternoon
Here’s a breakdown of our week:
French:
We will be working on a list of Christmas and winter vocabulary words. We will also be learning to write the letter N.
We’re getting better at differentiating between masculine and feminine words and have become more able to describe things using the correct form: “il est…” and “elle est…” “un” or “le” = masculine, “une” or “la” = feminine.,
Sight words: c’est, je, suis, le, la, il, elle, mon, and ma.
Book: We continue with reading about pine trees!
Math:
We’re working on 15 this week, in writing, decomposing, composing, and representing it.
We’re also working on counting to 50 independently, by ones and by 10s.
We will be reviewing all of the numbers, shapes, and patterns.
Art:
We will be working on various holiday themed arts and crafts – early “merci” to the parents who are volunteering on Friday afternoon!
Homework explanation:
Read for 20 minutes daily.
Reminders:
Please make sure you sign your child’s behavior log every day.
Library time is Tuesday at 8:30am. Please bring the book back in the 2-gallon ziplock bag. Your child will not be checking out a book this week. They can check one out after the break.
If there is a sibling or someone you know who is interested in Kindergarten next school year, the Magnet application is due in January!