My Wonderful Planet Earth

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Theme: Green Earth

Weekly Theme: My Wonderful Planet Earth

Week: From 01/29/2018 to 02/02/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you all have a wonderful week. For the next 4 weeks, we will learn a new theme called Green Earth. The earth is the planet where we live and our objective with this new theme is to help children understand the importance of the care of our planet and species conservation. This week children will learn everything about our wonderful planet earth.  It is important for the children to explore different elements, landforms and bodies of water on earth such as minerals, lakes, rivers, sea, volcanos, rocks, mountains, etc. through play, observation, stories and hands-on experiences.

We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue acquiring knowledge through fun experiences.  Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills.

• On Monday, children will learn everything about the planet we are living. They will discover when it was formed and the objects in space Earth interacts and will identify the different sounds we hear when we are exploring nature.

• On Tuesday, children will get familiar with the different landforms that exist on Earth such as the jungle, the desert, the isles, the mountains and mountain systems.

• On Wednesday, children will learn everything about rivers and oceans.  

• On Thursday, children will learn about rocks and minerals that exist on Earth. They will discover what objects can be created from rocks. They will also participate in a magnet experiment.

• On Friday, children will review what they have learned this week and which one they enjoy the most. They will also participate in a science project as they will create sensory bottles with different elements from nature.   

In writing, children will learn the vowel U and in math, they will review the number 6 and the color green.

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

• Bring empty plastic bottles and boxes for Monday, January 29th, 2018.  

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Valentine’s Day Celebration on Wednesday, February 14th, 2018.

• Science Fair from February 26th to March 2nd, 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 be 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. The parents 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

• The beach - La playa

• The lakes - Los lagos

• The rocks - Las piedras

• The mountains - Las montañas

Song of the Week

Buenos días ya salió el sol

Miro hacia el cielo, las nubes de algodón

Buenas noches, la luna salió

Muchas estrellitas luceros de amor.

Estrellas, planetas

Luna y sol

Cuida nuestra tierra y llénala de amor

Poems

#1

Yo vivo en un mundo

No hay como él

Lleno de flores y plantas también.

Encuentro rocas, arena y mar

Tierra y ríos para disfrutar.

Yo vivo en un mundo

Que debemos cuidar

Su nombre es Tierra

¡Qué hermoso lugar!

#2

Nací para cuidar

esto que veo:

para cuidar la lluvia,

para cuidar el viento,

para cuidar el ave,

al pez y a lo pequeño

nací para cuidar

Todo el Universo

#3

Soy un científico

Y voy a crear

Hacer muchos experimentos

Jugar y a  explorar

Riddles

#1

Doy calorcito

Soy muy redondo

Salgo prontito

Y tarde me escondo

El sol