PRE-K 4 NEWS! LOTS OF EVENTS COMING
JUAN DIEGO ACADEMY JANUARY 25, 2016
DEAR PARENTS,
Welcome to the last week of January. Please note that the following week is Catholic Schools’ week and there are free dress activities except for Thursday which is a Mass day. Below you will find the schedule for the different dress-up days and information about Grandparents’ Day Tea after our Mass next week up in the auditorium.
Students may invite their grandparents to our Mass and then attend a school performance and enjoy a breakfast tea. Students whose grandparents are unable to attend, will have their breakfast snack in class with the teachers. After the tea, grandparents need to bring their grandchild back down to his/her classroom.
• Catholic Schools week will be from January 31st to February 6th.
• Progress Reports will go home on February 3rd. Teachers will be conferencing with parents on Feb. 12th. The conferences will be teacher requested or parent requested. This means that this trimester we are only meeting with parents we feel need more information about their students’ area of concern. It may be having to do with: social/emotional skills, physical skills, language skills, cognitive skills or literacy skills. We will e-mail you this week if we need to meet with you. After reading their Progress Report, you may want to request a conference if you have not received a request from us and you feel a need to talk to us.
• No school on February 12th.
• Children will need to create a valentine mailbox for the valentines they will be receiving on Thursday, February 11th from their classmates and teachers. We will have our Valentine Day party on this day. You can use any box (shoe boxes work best) and you cover it with paper, add doilies, paper hearts, stickers, lace, arts and crafts rhinestones, glitter, old valentines etc. Leave an opening on top that is at least 2 inches wide or leave the lid so that it can lift up. This is a home project that you can start working on now! It will be fun! We are attaching some pictures from past classes so you can see how creative you can get. If you want to address each valentine, we will send home a list of children's names.
• Our Field trip to the Post Office will be on Friday, February 5th at 1:00 p.m.(tentative time) Please fill out field trip form even though it is a walking field trip. We will be walking to the Post Office that is by Lincoln High School to mail our Valentine we made at school for Mom and Dad.
We would like you to place a stamp and write your current address on an
envelope we will send home in the brown envelope on Thursday.
• Show and Tell: The numbers for this Friday will be from 1-10.
• Dress up day schedule for next week is as follows:
• Monday: Pajama Day
• Tuesday: Sports Day
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• Wednesday: Flip-Flop Day. This is a little tricky. Students are supposed to dress up like their teachers (boys can dress like Mr. Nolting, Mr. Ivan, or myself) and teachers dress like the students. In other words, we will be wearing HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL UNIFORMS. We need to tell the students asap so that they can begin scouting out possible outfits. More details for this in the coming weeks.
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• Thursday: Grandparents Day (co-led by Mr. Nolting) More information will be sent out as it arrives. Church day means FULL UNIFORM for all students.
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• Friday: COLOR WARS ASSEMBLY
• Each grade will be given a specific color for them to represent their grade. They will participate in Religion trivias grouped by grade level (eg. k-1st, 2nd-3rd-4th, 5th-6th-7th-8th) where winning teams will receive some sort of classroom prize. Afterwards, there will be an all school assembly where grades must represent their color in several mini-games.
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• Here is the list of colors:
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• Pre-K 3 -- Blue
• Pre-K 4 -- Purple
• Kindergarten -- Red
• 1st Grade -- Orange
• 2nd Grade -- Yellow
• 3rd Grade -- Pink
• 4th Grade -- Green
• 5th Grade -- Black
• 6th Grade -- White
• 7th Grade -- Gray
• 8th Grade -- Turquoise
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Curriculum News: This week we continue with the themes of “Transportation” and “The fun things we can do in winter season.”
• Oral Language: We continue our exploration of different types of transportation.
• Science: “Let’s find Out” Mi weekly Reader. We will review how animals stay warm in winter and compare this to how humans stay warm. Then we will also discuss winter activities that families enjoy.
• Religion: Jesus is the Good Shepherd. The parable teaches how God cares for his flock.
• Estrellita Phonics: Review all letter sounds to begin the lesson. The letter Uu is our focus. Children will learn new words that begin with this vowel sound.
We hope you have a wonderful week. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Blessings,
Sra. Raquel L., Sra. Farías and Sra. Laura P.