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I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend with loved ones. We have lots of fun
sprinkled throughout this week including “Baseball Spirit Day” on Tuesday, some
indoor planting on Thursday and a visit with our third grade buddies on Friday.
La contraseña secreta (secret password) to come into the classroom this week will
be “gracias por venir” (thank you for coming).
A peek at our In Spanish Language Arts, we will be reading and creating
week slightly more complex sentences using our “a” and “e”
syllable words i.e. “Ella sale a jugar.” “Pepe llega a la casa.”
In Math, we are wrapping up our 2D and 3D shape unit -
students have blossomed into shape experts!
In Social Emotional learning, as part of our Open Circle
curriculum, we will continue to self-reflect on how we are
doing with our classroom rules:
1. Respetar a tus amigos y a las maestras (respect your
friends and the teachers)
2. Cuidarse (take care of yourself)
3. Cuidar las cosas del salón (take care of classroom and
everything in it!)
We will revise or add rules as necessary.
Friendly Please mark your calendars for Friday, May 3rd for our next
Reminders classroom open house 8:15-8:45 AM.
Conference *These are very involved topics and I’m just offering a few quick
wisdom! suggestions*
Reading in English with your child at home:
1. Reading to and with them nightly and asking them
comprehension questions as you go (i.e. How is the
character feeling? Why? What might happen next?
Why? What was your favorite part? Why?).
2. Take a trip to the library to find “good fit” books for
your child to try and read themselves or with your
support. Encourage them to use picture clues,
letter/sound recognition, and help them to problem
solve when they struggle with a word.
3. English phonics app: Lexia. Login and password are
your child’s four digit student ID number.
Reading in Spanish with your child at home:
1. If you do not speak Spanish yourself, choose books
that you are already familiar with in English so that you
will understand the plot and characters well enough to
ask your child questions. Searching the books on
youtube to hear how they are read aloud in Spanish is
also an option.
2. (Almost) every week we read a Let’s Find Out
(Scholastic) magazie in class together that goes home
with your child. Take advantage of the resources
online to talk about it more using class password:
claypithill2019 h
ttps://letsfindout.scholastic.com/
3. The app, Raz-kids has a “reading room” with books in
Spanish that you can listen to with your child and then
read together!
Handwriting (pencil grip and hand strength)
1. Many students are working on handwriting and part of
this is related developing fine motor skills. I reached
out to our occupational therapist for some tips and will
include them in an attachment in tonight’s email.
Being a flexible thinker and having a growth mindset
1. Even at this young age, many students can develop
“fixed” mindsets when it comes to learning. They get
frustrated when they can’t figured something out the
first time and think that they a “good” at some things,
“bad” and others and that this will never change. Be
patient with them and encourage their efforts more
than their successes (“wow you were working really
hard to stretch out all the sounds in that word, you
almost got it!”). Model making mistakes yourself, and
point out that making mistakes and “failing” is often
the path to learning and success. *Our guidance
counselor will be sharing more specific resources
with me soon!
Incorporating Many card and board games can easily be adapted to be
more Spanish at played in Spanish. Some classroom favorites are: Uno,
home Monopoly, and Go Fish (a pescar).
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, tengo sed, hace frío, hace calor, día del amor y
la amistad, día del presidente, lectura por toda América,
buena suerte, hola primavera
Palabras con poder (high frequency words)
Week 1: quiero, él, en, ir, tiene
Week 2: quiere, voy, sé, gusta, ella
Week 3: eres, una, hay, el, está
Week 4: veo, allí, tengo, un, esa