Saving the Planet

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Theme: Green Earth

Weekly Theme: Saving the Planet

Week: From 02/19/2018 to 02/23/2018

What we are learning?

We hope you all have a wonderful week. Children will continue to learn about our theme “Green Earth”. It's important for children to learn about how to protect the environment. There are multiple ways to help and protect Mother Earth at pre-school. This week we will find educational and fun ways for children to be proactive in terms of the environment. They will be discovering and exploring which simple things our youngest kids can do to help save planet Earth, from conserving water (have showers instead of baths) and energy (turn off lights) to recycling (place items in corresponding recycled bins) and reusing (drink water from reusable water bottles instead of plastic).

Here are some ideas for them at home: remind kids to turn off the lights, teach them to turn off water while brushing their teeth so water does not get wasted, have them drink water from a reusable water bottle, show them how to place bottles or magazines in the appropriate recycle bin and reuse items like water bottles, have them cut images from old magazines to do collages, 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 pollution in planet Earth.  

• On Tuesday, children will discover what products are disposed by people and where they arrived.

• On Wednesday, children will learn how they can care for planet Earth.  

• On Thursday, children will explore recycling. We will discuss what the benefits of recycling are, how we can recycle and which objects or items are good for recycling.  

• On Friday, children will review what they have learned this week and which one they enjoy the most. They will also participate in an exciting experiment related to recycling. Children will create their own recycled bins from recycled boxes.  

In math, we will review numbers 6 and 7, the purple color and the geometric shape “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.

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. 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

• To take care - Cuidar

• To clean - Limpiar

• Water the plants - Regar las plantas

• The trash - La basura

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