¡Hola a todos!

 
 
 
I hope this newsletter finds you all well! There is lots of valuable information shared 
this week so please read carefully! Tomorrow morning at Claypit’s monthly “all 
school meeting,” our students will be teaching the school the word, “logro” 
(achievement) with a double thumbs up. We loved getting to shine and show off 
what we know!  
 
Students will be coming home Monday with a small piece of paper with their login 
information for the Lexia reading program. This is an app that students may use to 
help support them in their English literacy and language development. This is 
optional and offered as an additional resource to parents. Should you choose to have 
them work in this, students should be working independently without any parent or 
sibling support! Gracias.  
 
La contraseña secreta (secret password) to come into the classroom this week will 
be “yo tengo hambre” (I’m hungry).  
 
A peek at our  In ​Spanish Language Arts​, we will be introducing syllables 
week  with vowel “e” in whole group activities and read alouds. 
Students will continue to work on words and sentences with 
vowel “a” in their reading rotation groups.  
 
Starting next week, students will go home with a list of 5 high 
frequency words (palabras de alta frequencia) to practice at 
home.​ These words make up nearly a third of all the words 
they will encounter in the books they are reading, and their 
familiarity with each one is crucial to their literacy success in 
Spanish. Stay tuned for more info!  
 
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)  

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! 
 
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