My community and I

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Theme: My community and I

Weekly Theme: Our Neighborhood

Week: From 11/20/2017 to 11/24/2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week.  This is our last week of learning about “My Community and I”. We will review everything we have learnt about community helpers, community places and means of transportation. We will also discuss a new weekly subtopic called “Our Neighborhood”. Children will explore their surroundings: homes, fire house, police station, restaurants, movie theater, church, school, playground and parks and ask questions to their parents about their neighborhood. They will observe the kinds of stores in their area such as groceries, dry cleaners, barber shops, clothing boutiques, bookstores and toy stores by touring with their parents and they will be able to show pictures to their classmates. Children will be able to distinguish and compare similarities and differences. And lastly children will be encouraged to be kind, nice and considerate to their neighbors and show respect to them.   

• On Monday, children will identify places that are located in their neighborhood.  

• On Tuesday, children will explore how to be good neighbors.  

• On Wednesday, children will participate in our weekly review of what we learnt during the week. They will be able to ask questions and discuss about what they enjoyed learning this week.

Through practical actions we keep enlightening kids about importance of being part of a neighborhood. We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue learning through fun experiences.  Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills.  We will learn the letter Mn in language and in math the number 8. We will also review the concepts number vs. quantity.

We will be also learning interesting facts about Thanksgiving and we will all excited for our Thanksgiving celebration on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 at 10:30 am. Children will enjoy a puppet show for Thanksgiving.

Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.

Materials for Weekly Activities

• Donate recycled materials such as cereal boxes, crackers or cookies boxes if you have some at home. These will be used for crafts. We appreciate your support!

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Joy of Giving week from Monday, November 13th to Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017.

• Thanksgiving Day Celebration on Wednesday, November 22th, 2017.

• Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 23rd, 2017. Spanish for fun! Pre-school will be closed.

• Thanksgiving Day Break on Friday, November 24th, 2017. Spanish for fun! Pre-school will be closed.

Dress Code

• Children will wear pilgrim costumes on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017.

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

• The turkey - El pavo

• The pumpkin - La calabaza

• The corn - El maíz

• The natives - Los nativos

• The pilgrims - Los peregrinos

• Thanksgiving - Acción de Gracias