Sports & Healthy Eating

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Title: Sports & Healthy Eating

Weekly Feature Theme: Healthy Eating

Week: From 09/24/2018 to 09/28/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. We continue with our theme “Sports and Healthy Eating”. This week children will learn about wholesome foods and nutrition. Children will also understand the role a good nutrition plays when it comes to health. The goal is to be able to distinguish between healthy choices from bad ones and understand the importance of drinking water.

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. Below are the activities the children will enjoy during the week:

• Importance of Healthy Eating in Our Lives

• Understand the importance of nutrition and healthy eating and its benefits for the human body.

• Participate in our activity “My Plate”.

• Processed Food

• Identify solid food that is not healthy.

• Understand the consequences of eating processed food.

• Healthy Beverages

• Identify healthy beverages.

• Understand the importance of drinking water for the human body.

• Participate in our hands-on experience with coca cola and coins.

• Farm & Orchard to Table

• Explore and discover where healthy food comes from.

• Learn about the farm and orchard, its care and farmers.

• Participate in a hands-on experience “eating healthy”.

• Pretend play: play supermarket and pick vegetables and fruits while giving a brief description.

• Weekly Review & Special Project

• Review what we learn during the week, what our favorite topic was and what else we would like to learn.

• Participate in the preparation of a delicious fruit salad.

Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.

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Materials for Weekly Activities

• Bring your child’s favorite fruit for Friday, September 28th. It can be strawberries, bananas, grapes, apples, tangerines or kiwi.  

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Report Cards are sent home on September 24th, 2018.

Birthdays

• Happy Birthday to Madelyn & Maribel Padilla who are celebrating their birthdays on 09/24. We wish you the best!

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.

• Label all bottles and food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared and drop it in the kitchen. Please keep in mind we are a nut free environment.

• 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

• I eat – Yo Como

• I drink – Yo tomo

• The food – La comida

• The water – El Agua