Classroom: Ositos
Weekly Feature Theme: My senses
Week: From 10/02/2017 to 10/06/2017
What we are learning?
Dear Parents,
We hope you are having a beautiful week. This week we are going to learn about a new theme called “My senses”. It will be a fun week full of learning adventures as they will learn about the five senses and their organs and functions. The five senses are the five main tools that we, humans, use to perceive the world, as the brain receives signals from each of these organs, and interprets them to give us a sense of what's happening around us. Those senses are sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Children will understand that they're vitally important to how our bodies operate, as without our senses, we wouldn't have any idea what was going on around us and the human body would be functionally useless.
We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue learning through fun experiences and that help kids use their senses in lots of different ways. Children will see with their eyes, smell with their noses, listen with their ears, taste with their tongue, and touch with their skin. Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills. Additionally, children will review the colors and the geometric shapes. In language, we will start learning the vowels. We will start with the vowel “Aa”. In the cognitive area, we will learn the concept inside/outside and the number 5.
Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.
Holidays & Upcoming Events
Columbus Day on Monday, October 9th, 2017.
Pumpkin Patch Field Trip between October 16th and October 20th, 2017. Exact details will follow.
Report Cards will be delivered on Friday, October 27th, 2017.
Fall Festival Day on Tuesday, October 31st, 2017.
Birthdays
Happy Birthday to Barret Woollen who is celebrating his birthday on October 6th. We wish you the best!
Year-Round Activities
Student of the Week & Travelling Pet
Please make sure to sign up your child for these wonderful activities as these 2 are the children favorites! Both activities allow every child to make and share memories with their classmates.
For the student of the week activity, every week a child is given a set week that he/she are the student of the week. On Monday of their week the student of the week should bring a poster and a book created with family pictures, favorite books, sports/hobbies, animals or anything they are interested in. Also, on their week parents and the student of the week may pick a day to present the poster and the book to the class. The student of the week may also bring favorite toys and books to school so they can share with classmates.
As for the Traveling Pet activity, the classroom pet will spend a whole week with the child and family. During that week, parents and the child will have fun together with a new member of the family while providing love and care to the pet. Our pet loves to read at night, go to the park, visit museums, give hugs and kisses! However, the pet does not like taking a bath as he can get sick. Parents and child will enjoy bonding time and making new memories and the child will be very excited to share all the memories with his/her classmates. In their week parents and the child should bring to school a collage of pictures and a brief description of what they did with the pet. Parent should make sure to place the collage inside the travelling pet bag.
Sign up to both activities today! Sign-up sheets are available at the entrance of the classroom.
Friendly Reminders
Remember your child to wash his/her hands when entering the classroom and before leaving the school. This is the best way to prevent illnesses.
Make sure to bring your child on time so he/she can participate in circle time. This activity starts at 8:45am and will stimulate and strengthen skills in all areas.
Read your child’s journal, blogs and Friday Newsletter. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us in case you have any comment or any question about your child’s development or any notes/comments made in your child’s journal.
Avoid bringing your child with items that can cause distraction such as toys, necklaces, bracelets, watches, etc. This is needed to help him/her concentrate in the scheduled activities at school.
Label all your child’s clothing and items and make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby.
Make sure to remove clothing from the cubby and just leave one set of clothing and a blanket for nap time.
Make sure to take the blanket home on Fridays for laundry and bring it back on Monday.
Make sure to have enough pull-ups or diapers in the cubby for the day, if your child has not been potty-trained yet.
If your child is bringing a lunch box, please label it with your child’s name and date and place it in the kitchen. If the lunch box requires to be refrigerated, please put it inside the refrigerator.
Take home the homework blue folder in your child’s cubby and take one or 2 paper sheets from the container that are next to the entrance of the classroom. Homework should be returned by Tuesday and do not forget to bring the homework folder back on Monday.
Do not bring your child to school if the child has a fever of over 101F or any contagious conditions.
Star Words of the Week
I look – Yo miro
I touch – Yo toco
I listen – Yo escucho
I smell – Yo huelo
I like it – Me gusta
I don’t like it – No me gusta
Song of the Week – La Canción de los Sentidos
Con mis cinco sentidos yo aprenderé
A ver todo a mí alrededor,
Con mis cinco sentidos puedo ver
El cielo con su color.
Escucharte a ti eso me hace feliz
Y sentir el sol sobre mí
Saborear la miel y poder oler
Las flores que hay en el jardín.
Con mis cinco sentidos…...
Poderte abrazar y también escuchar
Mi maestra en Sff
Oler, saborear, escuchar y sentir
El amor que sientes por mi!!
Con mis cinco sentidos….
Poems
Miramos con los ojos
Por la nariz puedo oler
Tocamos con las manos
Sentimos por la piel
Oímos por las orejas
Cuando escuchamos bien
Y con la lengua yo disfruto
Galletitas con miel.
Riddles
Nos sirven para oler, oír, ver
Tocar y degustar
Los tienes en tu cuerpo
Los sentidos
Tongue Twister
Tito ¿Te tomaste todo el té?
Todo el té tempranito lo tomé.
