Hola! Around The World

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Theme: Hola! Around The World

Weekly Theme: Knowing America & Central America

Week: From 02/26/2018 to 03/02/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you all have a wonderful week. We will start a new theme called “Hola! Around the world”. Learning about other cultures helps children to be more accepting of diversity, creates curiosity and leads to global awareness. Being curious may specially help children better understand and accept cultural differences that may be a challenge without visiting the country of the cultural difference that they are learning about. This topic will promote respect for cultural diversity and equality.   

This week children will learn about North America and Central America and all the countries that this continent is consisted of. Children will explore and discover about their culture, traditions, cuisines, music, etc.

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 about the United States of America.   

• On Tuesday, children will learn everything about North Carolina. They will discover interesting facts about the Cherokee who an Iroquois language-family Indian tribe. They will also create the Cherokee headband.  

• On Wednesday, children will learn about the countries in Central America. They will explore the flora and fauna and its climate.   

• On Thursday, children will explore cultural traditions such as music and costumes.  

• On Friday, children will review what they have learnt this week and which one they enjoy the most. They will also participate in a craft project and they will create traditional hats of a few countries.

Children will also review the letter B in pre-writing, while in math they will review the number 7, the color “orange” and the geometric shape “the rectangle”.

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

• Science Fair from February 26th to March 2nd, 2018.

• Report Cards are sent home on March 5th, 2018.

• Monday-Friday, March 12-16: Parent-Teacher conferences.

• Thursday, March 29: Easter Celebration.

• Friday, March 30: Good Friday – School is closed.

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.

This week our student of the week is Gunther. We are looking forward to learning more from you!

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

• 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. If the lunch box requires to be refrigerated, please put it inside 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

• My flag - Mi bandera

• My city Raleigh - Mi ciudad Raleigh

• The eagle - El águila

• North Carolina - Carolina del Norte

Poems

#1

Alrededor del mundo

Hay muchas personas como tú y como yo

Su música y su país es diferente

Y a  todas ellas les doy

mi amor y admiración.

Yo vivo en un mundo

Que debemos cuidar

Su nombre es Tierra

¡Qué hermoso lugar!

#2

Vamos amiguitos

Vamos a tocar

Muchos instrumentos

Para pa pa pa

Suena el tambor

Suena el violin

Suena la guitarra

Trin trin trin trin

Ahí vienen las maracas

Vamos todos a tocar

En esta linda orquesta

Que es fenomenal.

Riddles

#1

Buenas y sonoras

Cuerdas tengo

Cuando me rascan

A la gente  entretengo.

La guitarra

#2

Se toca con dos palillos

Es un instrumento que suena fuerte

bom bom bom

El tambor