¡Hola a todos!

   
 
Sending out the newsletter a little early so that I can focus on the big game tonight! I 
can’t tell you how special it is to be back in the “City of Champions” this year.  
 
The 100th day of school is February 8th!! The labeled, gallon bags went home last 
week. Please help your child collect 100 of something you have at home, and send it 
in by ​Thursday, February 7th​ for a fun class activity. The collection can be anything 
from buttons, to beads, to legos - get creative!   
 
Valentine’s Day is also coming up! Please see a letter going home this week about 
what you can send in to school.  
 
The SOUPer Bowl of Caring has officially started. If every student brings in two cans 
before February 15th, we will earn a special class surprise! 
 
La contraseña secreta (secret password) to come into the classroom this week will 
be ​ ​“Todos somos amigos” (we are all friends).  
 
A peek at our  In ​Spanish Language Arts​, students will be reading, writing 
week  and playing games with our “a syllable” words now in 
sentences! I.e. “Papá nada. Mamá agarra la taza.” etc.  
 
Our five “palabras de poder” are still: ​quiere, voy, sé, gusta, 
ella. ​We will continue to practice recognizing and reading 
the prior words as well! 
 
In ​Math​, we will continue our two month long, addition and 
subtraction unit! Students will love making real-life 
connections at home (i.e. If you have 4 apple slices and your 
little sister have five apple slices, how many do you have all 
together?) 
 
In ​Social Emotional learning​, we are going to be talking 
about and practicing being “flexible thinkers.” Things don’t 
always go our way and we need to have skills to be flexible. 

Updates  GERMS! They are here and we are working hard to keep 
students healthy and in school. Thank you to the parents 
who have sent in wipes - we will graciously continue to 
 accept them. 

Friendly  Please continue​ to send your child with boots, gloves, hats, 
Reminders  scarves and snow pants! Even as the temperature fluctuates, 
we would rather have “more” than “less.” Even though we 
may not have snow, we will certainly have mud! Students are 
also welcome to keep a change of shoes or their snow pants 
at school so that they don’t have so much to carry on a daily 
basis.  
 
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, tengo sed, hace frío, hace calor.  
 
5. Palabras con poder (high frequency words)  
 
Week 1: quiero, él, en, ir, tiene 
Current week: ​quiere, voy, sé, gusta, ella