Week 22 January 25-29

January 25, 2015

Dear Parents, 

We hope you enjoyed your weekend! We have many exciting events for this week, so please reading everything below!

This month your child 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 you purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of you children in our school. The due date to purchase the books online is January 25. The books will arrive to the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date. 



100 Days of School is coming up! It will be celebrated on January 28th. Each student will create a project with 100 items. Students can use their imagination and creativity. The project should include a total of 100 items. The students will present their project to the class. The project must be brought to school on Wednesday, January 27th. 

On January 29th, Sunshine School will be joining our school for an intercollegiate sports day. The Student need to wear their Discovery School t-shirt and shorts on that day. If your child does not have a Discovery t-shirt, please talk to Ms. Carolina at the front office. Students should wear sunblock and a cap since we will be outside all day. This day will be a half day, so dismissal is at 11:45am.

This week your child will be inquiring into the following:

Language Arts

Word Wall- This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Wall words with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday, January 29th.

Vocabulary: live, me, back, give, most, favorite 

Reading: For this week, we will be continuing reading stories from Mouse Soup.  



Writing: We will be writing cinquain poems for our poetry unit.  

Science:  We will continue our unit in Solids and Liquids. Students will be comparing the different properties of solids and liquids. 

Math- This week your child will learn more about making number by the tens and ones.   

 

Chapter 6 Skills:  A3, A12, B27, B28, I1, I2, I3, I4

Homework

Monday

Reading: Read for 10 minutes and fill in the reading log.
WWW:  Working With Words Worksheet

Tuesday

Reading: Read for 10 minutes and fill in the reading log.
Math:  Math Worksheet

Wednesday

Reading: Read for 10 minutes and fill in the reading log.
Spanish:  Worksheet

Thursday

Reading: Read for 10 minutes and fill in the reading log. 

Working With Words:  Study for Spelling challenge

NEW BRICKS4KIDS MODULE – if you did not get a chance to register your child for the new upcoming module,  there are still spaces available for our students from Kindergarten to Fourth Grade who want to join the fun. This module’s title is “Cranium Contraptions”.  The New module begins today - Monday, January 25, from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.

Scholastic News - Scholastic Book Club leaflets were given out last week. This is an optional activity offered by the school, because we know you want to motivate your child to read at home.  With your purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem more books for the benefit of your children in our school.  The due date to purchase the books online is January 25. The books will arrive to the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date.

DPTO UPCOMING EVENTS – Please support the DPTO in their activities that aim to foster community building, school pride and fund raising for school project!

**FUN RUN –

to be held at school on Saturday, January 30 at 8:30 a.m.

**BINGO –

will take place on Friday February19.

VALENTINE’S DAY SALE – The Seniors 2016 will give out flyers this week so that our students can pre-order their candies, flowers, etc for Valentine’s Day, which will be celebrated on Friday,  February 12. Payment for the orders will be picked up one week before, on Friday, February 5. The Seniors 2016 thank you in advance for your cooperation in this activity.

Important Dates Coming Up: . January 25                               New Bricks4kidz Module begins  (Cranium Contraptions)                                                 Scholastic purchase deadline January 28                               Presentation for Parents 12:00 m. January 29                               FUN SPORTS DAY!                                                 Professional Development; Half Day: AM Schedule January 30                               DPTO FUN RUN 8:30 a.m. February 5                               Midterm February 12                             Midterm Progress Reports Go Home                                                 Valentine’s Day Activities  & Bake Sale)   February 15                             HOLIDAY – President’s Day Weekend February 19                             DPTO Bingo! 5:30 p.m.