Little Gardeners

Classroom: Sapitos
Blog Title: Summer Camp 2017
Weekly Feature Theme: Little Gardeners
Week: July 3^rd to July 7^th, 2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,
 
We hope you are having a beautiful week. This week the children will learn everything about being little gardeners.
 
We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills so children can continue learning through experiences. The week will start with our Independence Parade on Monday. Children will also enjoy discovering and exploring nature, flowers and gardening and of course watering the plants. Children will explore how flowers grow and help to keep our garden tidy. On Wednesday, they will enjoy sharing moments with their classmates on Camping Day.
 
Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.
 
Miss Paula & Miss Jenny

Holidays & Upcoming Events
·         Splash Days on Tuesdays in the afternoon and Fridays in the morning.
·         Independence Day Parade on Monday, July 3^rd.
·         Independence Day on Tuesday, July 4^th. Spanish for fun! will be closed. 
·         Camping Day on Wednesday, July 5^th.
Friendly Reminders
·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.
·         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 refrigerator.
·         Label the food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared.
·         Do not bring your child to school if the child has a fever of over 101F or any contagious conditions.
·         Apply sunscreen to your child every morning.
·         Make sure to keep in your child’s cubby a pair of glasses and a summer hat.
·         Have your child wear swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers and water shoes for Splash Day. Make sure to send a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Label and pack all these items in the tote bag.
·         Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a Ziploc bag. 

Little Travelers

Classroom: Sapitos
Blog Title: Summer Camp 2017
Weekly Feature Theme: Little Travelers
Week: June 26^th to June 30^th, 2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. This week the children will learn everything about being little travelers and interesting facts about United States of America.

We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills so children can continue learning through experiences. Children will keep enjoying summer with outdoor activities and Splash days. They will be making and decorating an airplane out of a cardboard box. We will pretend to travel to several places around the world such as the beach, the dessert, the mountains, etc. It will be a week full of learning and fun activities kids enjoy and cherish!

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

Miss Paula & Miss Jenny

Holidays & Upcoming Events

·         St. Jude Trike-A-Thon on Friday, June 30^th. Please remember to bring your child bicycle and helmet and to sign the permission slip so they can ride in the parking lot.
·         Picnic Day on Wednesday, June 28^th. Please help us bringing some snacks and fruits for our children to share and enjoy on the picnics day!
·         Independence Day on Tuesday, July 4^th. Spanish for fun! will be closed.  

Dress Code
·         Have your child wear red, white and blue for our Independence Day Parade.

Friendly Reminders

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.
·         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 refrigerator.
·       Label the food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared.
·    Do not bring your child to school if the child has a fever of over 101F or any contagious conditions.
·         Apply sunscreen to your child every morning.
·         Make sure to keep in your child’s cubby a pair of glasses and a summer hat.
·         Have your child wear swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers and water shoes for Splash Day. Make sure to send a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Label and pack all these items in the tote bag.
·         Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a Ziploc bag.

Little Chefs

Classroom: Sapitos
Blog Title: Summer Camp 2017
Weekly Feature Theme: Little Chefs
Week: June 19^th to June 23^rd, 2017
Dear Parents,
 
What we are learning?

We hope you are having a beautiful week. Summer has started and so have fun days with our Splash days. This week the children will learn everything about being little chefs and everything about the summer and its advantages.
 
We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills so children can continue learning through experiences while playing with water and being in the outdoors.  Children will enjoy Splash time. They will also learn how to prepare pizza, sandwich and fruit salad while playing little chefs. They will explore and discover the benefits of the vegetables. They will also participate in our Sunglasses and Fashion Parade Days. 
 
Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.
 
Miss Paula & Miss Jenny
 

Materials for Weekly Activities
·         Bring some fruits for Tuesday, June 20^th. We will prepare a delicious fruit salad. 

Holidays & Upcoming Events

·         Splash Days on Wednesday, June 21^st and Friday, June 23^rd.
·         Sunglasses Day on Tuesday, June 20^th.
·         Fashion Parade on Thursday, June 22^nd.
·         Independence Day on July 4^th. Spanish for fun! will be closed. 
·         Wear sunglasses on Tuesday, June 20^th.
·         Wear your favorite summer clothing for Thursday, June 22^nd.  
·         Make sure to bring your swimwear outfit and your child's Splash day backpack for Splash days.

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Emma Potter! We wish you the best and hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Friendly Reminders

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.
·         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 refrigerator.
·         Label the food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared.
·         Do not bring your child to school if the child has a fever of over 101F or any contagious conditions.
·         Apply sunscreen to your child every morning.
·         Make sure to keep in your child’s cubby a pair of glasses and a summer hat.
·         Have your child wear swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers and water shoes for Splash Day. Make sure to send a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Label and pack all these items in the tote bag.
·         Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a Ziploc bag. 

 

Year Learning Review

Classroom: Sapitos
Blog Title: Year Learning Review
Week: June 12^th through June 16^th, 2017
Dear Parents,

What we are learning?

We hope you are having an awesome week. This is our last week of this school year and we must say that we are very proud of the achievements of all the children and we are very thankful to have had your continued support at home.

This coming week we will continue reviewing everything we have learnt through the school year, particularly the areas that require improvements. Children will review straight, curved and wavy lines.

We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills so children can continue learning through experiences. Children will draw lines using different colors on a cardboard, they will also identify toys that have lines and they will try to distinguish among wavy, straight and curly hair.

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

Miss Paula & Miss Jenny

Materials for Weekly Activities

·         Bring a white cardboard for Monday, June 12^th.

Holidays & Upcoming Events
·         Father's Day Celebration on June 14^{th at} 10:00 am.
·         Last Day of School on June 16^th, 2017. Early Release at 12:30 pm.
·         Summer Camp starts on June 19^th.

Friendly Reminders

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.
·         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 refrigerator.
·         Label the food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared.
·         Do not bring your child to school if the child has a fever of over 101F or any contagious conditions.
·         Apply sunscreen to your child every morning.
·         Make sure to keep in your child’s cubby a pair of glasses and a summer hat.
·         Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a Ziploc bag.

Star Words of the Week

·         My daddy - Mi papá
·         Father's Day - Día del Padre
·         I love you - Te amo
·         Job - Trabajo

Year Learning Review

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Title: Year Learning Review

Week: June 5th through June 9th, 2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

 

We hope you are having a beautiful week. This month our theme is “annual review”. This coming week we will review everything we have learnt through the school year, particularly the areas that require improvements.

 

We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills so children can continue learning through experiences. Children will identify and distinguish different types of objects through pictures from magazines and they will classify them and paste them in a paper. They will learn about what they do and their names.    

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

 

Miss Paula & Miss Jenny

Materials for Weekly Activities

 

• Bring some pictures from a flat iron, a blender, a refrigerator and a toaster for Monday, June 5th.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Parent Teacher Conference Week from June 5th to June 9th.

• Father's Day Celebration on June 14th.

• Early Release on June 16th.

• Summer Camp starts on June 19th.

Friendly Reminders

• Wash your hands and your child’s hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.

• 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 refrigerator.

• Label the food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared.

• Do not bring your child to school if the child has a fever of over 101F or any contagious conditions.

• Apply sunscreen to your child every morning.

• Make sure to keep in your child’s cubby a pair of glasses and a summer hat.

• Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a Ziploc bag.

Star Words of the Week

• The wheel – La rueda

• The hammer – El martillo

• The scissors – La tijera

• The spoon – La cuchara