Knowing Latin America

Classroom: Sapitos A & B

Blog Theme: Hola! Around The World

Weekly Theme: Knowing Latin America

Week: From 03/04/2019 to 03/08/2019

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 continue promoting respect for cultural diversity and equality as learning about other cultures helps children to be more accepting of diversity.

This week children will learn about Latin America. Children will explore and discover about their culture, geography, fauna and flora, traditions, cuisines, music, etc. They will also get familiar with the sounds of birds living in the Amazons.

• Natural Resources

• Learn about fauna, flora and weather.    

• Cultural Resources

• Learn about touristic places and traditional costumes.  

• Music

• Learn about traditional music and musical instruments.    

• Art

• Learn about art.

• Create a poncho.

• Create ceramic using clay.

• 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 a cooking or baking activity.

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.

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

• Picture Day at Glenwood on Monday, March 4th, 2019.

• Additional Picture Day at Glenwood on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019.

• International Fiesta for Glenwood on Friday, March 29th, 2019.

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.

• 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

• Folklore - Folklore

• The Latin party - La fiesta latina

• The traditional costumes - Los trajes típicos

• Latin America - Latinoamérica

Song of the Week

JOROPO
En mi tierra todo es gloria 
cuando se canta el joropo, (bis) 
y si es que se va a bailar 
el mundo parece poco... 
sigamos cantando, sigamos bailando, 
sigamos cantando, ¡carambas!, 
que me vuelvo loco. 

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