Letter Sounds

A A A... Acrobats

Learning the alphabet sounds is going well! The students did great last week. Since "A" was our first sounds, we practiced being Acrobats!

Chapel

Last week we had a very special chapel. We had chapel with the whole Elementary. Mrs.Moyer led it with her class' help. She also chose one student from each grade to help with her illustration.

Brown Day

"There is a color we all know, can you guess what it is? B-R-O-W-N, B-R-O-W-N, B-R-O-W-N, that's how we spell brown." This is our brown song, the students have done an excellent job learning how to spell the different colors.

Thank you for your help with homework! Have a blessed week!

Thank You for Coming!

Open House

Thank you so much for coming to our open house. We truly enjoyed sharing this time with you. We had been looking forward to it because we wanted you to see our classroom, sing with us some of the songs that we have learned and show you some of the work we have done. It was a very special day:)!

Green Day

We continue to enjoy our "color" day. The students have done a great job learning the songs and wearing as many clothes as they have with the color of the week! Keep up the great work:)!

On the day that we all wear the same color, we get to share with our friend Snoopy and the rest of the class what we are wearing. It is a great way to practice our speaking skills!

This Upcoming Week...

This week we will be starting many new things. We start leaning the sounds of each letter of the alphabet. We will do one letter per week. We will also start to learn a Bible verse with each letter. Thank you for your prayers and incredible support at home! Have a wonderful week!

Another Special Week

Blue Day

" B-L-U-E spells blue, B-L-U-E spells blue. Hi, ho, how did you know B-L-U-E, spells blue." This is our blue song and we sang it as many times as we could last week. I wouldn't be surprised if you heard it at home:)!

Special Class

Our school nurse and our school counselor visited our classroom last week. They shared with us some special guidelines and advice. They encouraged us to take good care of our bodies and to respect others.

Birthdays

In September, we celebrated five special birthdays. We celebrated Samuel Alvira's, Sofia's, Isabela , Gabriela and Samuel Segura's. Last week the Segura's came on Wednesday and we had a great celebration with delicious cake and great singing!

Chapel

Chapel is always one of the highlights of our week! We enjoy getting to see all of our friends from the other grades and love singing the song that Mrs. Moyer leads:)! We are truly blessed by this time of Christian fellowship. Last week all the teacher aides introduced themselves during this time. We also reviewed our school rules with some important people who love us and take excellent care of us while we are here at school.

Have a wonderful week and we will see you on Thursday at our open house. We are looking forward to it!

Learning a Lot!

Miss Olivera's "Friends"

We have new friends in our classroom! These friends help us learn songs and definitely make our time together more enjoyable than it already is!

Red Day

We have started learning a color per week. Last week our color was red. The students did a great job wearing as much red as they could on Tuesday and also learning the song.

Singing in Spanish Class

Mrs. Velasco has been teaching us some great songs in Spanish. Here are some videos of the students singing,

Thank you for your support at home!

We Love to Sing!

In Pre- Kinder we are learning many new songs and learning a lot by singing them. Every day we sing, "Hello Friends" in the morning. In the afternoons, before we go home we sing, "Good-Bye Friends." We are also learning the days of the week and will begin to learn one color per week. In the video you will be able to see the students singing. They love the songs and do a fantastic job singing them! Enjoy the video!

Rewarding Good Behavior

We want to encourage our students to behave in a positive way. In order to this we have created a system that is working well so far. Each student has a note card with their name on it. When they earn ten stickers, they get a prize. The students can earn stickers by showing outstanding behavior or being a good example to the rest of the class.

Thankful for Extra-Helpers!

We are very thankful to have extra help in our classroom. We have two high schoolers who come every week. Mrs. McCrea comes to our classroom every morning and helps us with a little bit of everything. And Mrs. Uribe comes to help every day during lunch time and help us get ready to go home. They are a great addition to our class!

Thank you for your support at home and have a blessed week!

Loving Every Day

Enjoying Special Activities

The students are getting used to the different class routines and being at school every day. They seem to enjoy classroom activities as well as special classes. Last week, we had Art class with Mrs. Mendoza and they had a great time decorating their names. They did a beautiful job! We will be having Art class once a month. We have P.E twice a week with Mr. Bautista and this is always a highlight on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Chapel is on Thursdays, and last week we got quite a few complements for behaving well! The students sang throughout the whole day the songs that we had learned that morning. Mrs. Afanador was the speaker and she encouraged us to be ambassadors for Christ wherever we are.
Every day in the classroom we have time for centers. We have a home, building, writing, reading and a math center. Mrs. Velasco or Miss Olivera assign about four students per center. This is a great time for the students to get to know each other.
Our afternoons continue to be quite restful considering we have a pretty full morning! About half of the students take naps. The rest just lay quietly for about 30 minutes. After waking up, the students brush their teeth and then go to a center for remaining time. This is what our days are looking like here at school. I know that you enjoy knowing what your children are up to :)! They are doing great!

"Miss Olivera we are not playing in the bathroom, just brushing our teeth..."

Thank you very much for your support at home.Have a blessed week!

First Week in Pre-Kinder

Happy Birthday Miss Olivera

On our very first day of school we had a birthday party!!! I never thought that I would be starting the first day of pre-school on my birthday. What a great present!! I received many hugs, beautiful cards, many wishes, a lot of cake and candies. I felt loved and blessed to be able to spend this special day with my new students!! Thanks for all the notes and presents!

Classroom Rules and Routines

This week we spend a lot of time learning the classroom rules. They are, "Obey right away and never hurt anyone inside or outside." The students placed the fingerprint on the poster where they are written. By placing their fingerprint they were committing to follow the rules. We also spent time learning classroom routines in order to make our days go by smoothly.

Have you seen Our Gingerbread Man?

That is right we spent one hour looking for the Gingerbread man all over the school. We only found clues in the different offices and special places of our school. They all said, "Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me I am the Gingerbread man." We finally found him resting in the nurse's office. As we were looking for him we met some important people and became familiar with our school. We had a lot of fun!

Tired Anyone?

As you can see we have been having great days together. Mrs. Velasco and I love being the Pre-Kinder teachers. We have truly enjoyed getting to know each one of the students, they are precious! Each day we work very hard and have a great time together but by the end of each day we are exhausted:)!

Thank you for your support!