¡Hola a todos!

 
 
 
I hope you all enjoyed the weekend! A huge GRACIAS to Betsy and Chris Cullen to 
opened their home to us for the parent social last Thursday. Federica and I were so 
happy to be able to make it and get a chance to see and chat with you. Hopefully we 
can get everyone together again soon!  
 
We are kicking off our week tomorrow morning with a visit from “Firefighter Todd,” a 
Wayland legend, who will be sharing his fire-safety wisdom with the whole grade 
level.  
 
In addition to Lexia, another online/app reading resource is Raz-kids.com. My 
username is kdavis377 and students should know their password information. All 
books under “level up” are in English and all books in the “reading room” are in 
Spanish. P​ lease remember that the best option is always reading with and to your 
child - no technology necessary!  
 
La contraseña secreta (secret password) to come into the classroom this week will 
be “yo tengo sed” (I’m thirsty).  
 
A peek at our  In ​Spanish Language Arts​, students will continue to work on 
week  syllables with vowel “a” in their reading rotation groups and 
words created when they are combined. This week we will 
also introduce our first five “palabras de poder” (power words) 
as known as “sight words”. We will start with 5 words every 
two weeks and see how quickly students are able to 
recognize and read them. The week’s “palabras de poder” 
are: q
​ uiero, ir, él, tiene, en​. 
 
If you would like to learn more about why sight words are so 
important as children learn how to read, see the following 
article: 
https://www.speechbuddy.com/blog/language-development
/what-are-sight-words/  
 
In ​Math​, we will continue our new, two month long, addition 
and subtraction unit! We have been having fun with some 
 interactive story problems and the students are catching on 
fast!  
 
Key words: sumar (to add) restar (to subtract) más 
(more/plus) menos (less, minus)  
 
In ​Science​, we started our “Materials and Motion” or 
“materiales y movimiento” FOSS unit last week. We started 
thinking about what “materials” are and specifically about 
what is made out of wood.  

Updates  Last week we started our classroom “power chain” or “cadena 

de poder.” We are trying to catch students going above and 
beyond what is expected in terms of being kind to one 
another and are recognizing them with a link of our chain. 
This has been a special way to highlight students acting 
honestly, selflessly and with exceptional kindness towards 
others.  

Friendly  Don’t forget to check out our classroom instagram 

Reminders  (@davis103_kinder) and shutterfly accounts 
(​https://seoradaviskclass20182019.shutterfly.com/​ ). We wish 
we could capture every sweet moment, but this gives you a 
chance to peek into the daily lives of your children at school!  
 
Please make sure you switch out student’s extra clothes with 
weather appropriate options!​ THANK YOU for sending 
students with boots so that their feet stay warm and dry. 
Students are encouraged to come with hats, gloves, scarves, 
etc every day - ¡hace frío! 
 
If your child is sick or will be absent, please continue to email 
myself, Señora Ponce (federica_ponce@wayland.k12.ma.us) 
and the school (ch_attendance@wayland.k.12) so that 
everyone is in the loop!  

Incorporating  1. Play our version of “I spy” - “Veo veo” In class we have one 
more Spanish at  student come up and say the bolded text and the class 
home  chants the responses below.   
 
“Veo veo” - I see 
“¿Que ves?” - what do you see? 
“Una cosa” - something 
“¿De que color?” - what color is it? 
“De color…. rojo/amarillo/morado/azul/blanco/negro/etc” - 
the color of the object  
 
Next, students begin to guess what the child has “spied” - if 
they guess correctly, they get to be in charge the next round!  
 
2. Practice winter clothing vocabulary at home: guantes, 
mitones, abrigo/chaqueta, botas, bufanda, gorro, etc.  
 
3. Take advantage of any opportunity to count in Spanish! 
Many students are now naturally defaulting to Spanish 
numbers when counting - awesome to see! Practicing 
counting “up” 1-30 as well as “down” 30-1. Counting by tens is 
also an “end of year goal” for kindergarten: diez (10), veinte 
(30), treinta (30), cuarenta (40), cincuenta (50), sesenta (60), 
setenta (70), ochenta (80), noventa (90), cien (100).  
 
4. Encourage students to use the past “contraseñas secretas” 
with you at home! Previous contraseñas: Gracias, por favor, 
buenos días, puedo ir al baño, puedo tomar agua, permiso, 
buenas tardes, me gusta, no me gusta, feliz año nuevo, yo 
tengo hambre