Classroom: Sapitos
Blog Theme: Hola! Around The World
Weekly Theme: Knowing Latin America
Week: From 03/05/2018 to 03/09/2018
What we are learning?
Dear Parents,
We hope you all have a wonderful week. We will continue with our theme “Hola! Around the world”. This topic will promote respect for cultural diversity and equality as learning about other cultures helps children to be more accepting of diversity, creates curiosity and leads to global awareness.
This week children will learn about Latin America. Children will explore and discover about their culture, geography, fauna and flora, 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 all the natural resources that we can find in Latin America. They will discover interesting facts about the climate, fauna and flora.
On Tuesday, children will learn about cultural resources such as touristic destinations and traditional costumes.
On Wednesday, children will explore Latin American music including traditional musical instruments.
On Thursday, children will learn about Latin American art. They will make ponchos and create pottery using clay.
On Friday, children will review what they have learnt this week and which one they enjoy the most and what else they would like to learn. Children will also participate in a cooking activity. Recipe will be shared with all the children. They will help preparing Pan de bono (Colombian Bread), Arepas (Venezuelan corn tortilla) or causa (Peruvian causa). Additionally, they will also enjoy the visit of one of the parents that will be sharing a story about his/her Latin American country.
In math they will review the number 6 & 7, the mix of primary colors to create secondary colors, and the geometric shape “the triangle”.
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
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. 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
Folklore - Folklore
The Latin party - La fiesta latina
The traditional costumes - Los trajes típicos
Latin America - Latinoamérica
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
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