Let´s Celebrate

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Theme: Let´s Celebrate

Weekly Theme: Review

Week: From 12/25/2017 to 12/29/2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you all have a lovely time with your loved one. We would also like to wish you a very happy New Year 2018 and thank you for all the support we have received from you during this year.

This coming week it will be a shorter school week as we are coming back from Christmas break.  This week we will go over some fantastic themes that children enjoyed learning in the past weeks. Children will continue learning about celebrations and sharing their traditions. We will be also discussing traditions for New Year and we will be getting ready for our own New Year celebration on Friday, December 29th, 2017.

Through practical actions, we keep enlightening kids about the significance of holidays, celebration and the winter. 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.

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

• Christmas Break from Monday, November 25th to Wednesday, November 27th, 2017. Spanish for fun! Pre-school will be closed for those 3 days.

• School opens at 7 am on Thursday, December 28th, 2017.

• New Year Celebration on Friday, December 29th, 2017.  

• New Year’s Day Holiday on Monday, January 1st, 2018. Spanish for fun! will be closed.

• In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. school will be closed on Monday, January 15th, 2018.

• Art fair on January 16th, 2018 through January 26th, 2018.

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 make 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. A parent should make sure to place the collage inside the traveling pet bag.

Sign up for both activities today! Sign-up sheets are available at the entrance of the classroom.

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 on the scheduled activities at school.

• Label all your child’s clothing and items and make sure that your child has an 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 being refrigerated, please put it in the refrigerator.

• 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

• Santa Claus – Papa Noel

• The reindeer – El Reno

• The gifts – Los regalos

• Christmas cards – Las tarjetas

Song of the Week

Aquí en mi hermoso país

Muchas tradiciones hay por mi

Y hoy yo te quiero contar

Lo que yo celebro en Sff!

4 de Julio

Memorial Day

Acción de gracias y Labor day

Good Friday , fall festival

Martin Luther King

Navidad,  Año nuevo y ahora

Vamos a repetir

4 de Julio

Memorial Day

Acción de gracias y Labor day

Good Friday , fall festival

Martin Luther King

Navidad y Año nuevo

Tradiciones por mí

Poems

#1

¿Qué es la navidad?

Pregunté a mamá

Un día muy dulce como el mazapán

¿Qué es la navidad?

Pregunté a papá

Un día muy lindo donde aprendemos a dar

¿Qué es la navidad?

Pregunté a mi abuela

El día que deseamos salud amor y paz.

#2

El Señor Invierno

se viste de blanco

Se pone el abrigo

Porque está temblando

Se encuentra la lluvia

Llorando llorando

Y también el viento

Que viene soplando

Riddles

#1

De verde me visto cada diciembre

Y los niños disfrutan poniéndome

Adornos y  luces de colores.

Árbol de Navidad

#2

Cuando hay nieve podemos jugar

Grande o pequeño me puedes crear

Me pones un gorro y una bufanda al revés

Una nariz de zanahoria y brazos con ramas también.

Muñeco de nieve