Classroom: Sapitos
Blog Title: My emotions
Week: October 7th, 2019 to October 11th, 2019
What
are we learning?
Dear
Parents,
We hope you are having a wonderful week. This week we are going to learn
about a new theme called "My emotions" and emotional self-awareness,
which involves identifying and understanding one's emotions. This topic will
allow children to express if they feel happy, sad, or upset and recognize the
emotions they feel towards specific experiences or situations that they live.
Children will learn to identify and explore their feelings. Children will be
ready to talk more about what causes people to feel specific ways and to
anticipate how they might think in a particular situation.
Everyone is equally important, and so is it expressing emotions in
different situations. It is a need to help children not only to acknowledge
their feelings but also to communicate them assertively. The opportunity of
acknowledgment and expression of emotions will promote interpersonal skills in
children, increase self-confidence, regulate behavior, and foster interaction
and communication with others.
We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children
can continue learning through fun experiences, and that help kids explore their
emotions in lots of different ways. Children will experience being happy, sad,
upset, and scared. Each one of these activities will help to continue
strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language, and socio-emotional
skills. Below you can find a summary of all the activities during the week:
·
Understanding Emotions
o
Read the storybook “The Monster of Emotions.”
o
Learn about emotions.
·
Exploring Emotions
o
Explore how to express feelings towards an event.
o
Use what-if scenarios and ask children to reveal how would they feel.
·
Controlling Anger
o
Learn techniques to control emotions.
o
Show children what they can do in case they feel upset.
·
Importance of Friendship
o
Learn about friendship and empathy.
o
Review classroom rules.
·
Weekly Review & Special Project
o
Review what we learn during the week, what our favorite topic was, and
what else we would like to learn.
o
Participate in two projects:
o
Create facial expressions in paper plates.
o
Work on building a mural regarding emotions.
Thank you for letting us play
such an essential role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great
weekend.
Holidays
& Upcoming Events
·
Cary Book Fair Week from Monday, October 7th, 2019 to Friday, October
11th, 2019.
·
Columbus Day on Monday, October 14th, 2019.
·
Fall Field Trip Day on Friday, October 18th, 2019.
·
Costume Fall Festival Day on Friday, October 25th, 2019.
·
Glenwood Book Fair Week from Monday, October 21st, 2019 to Friday, October
25th, 2019.
Year-Round Activities
Student of the Week &
Traveling Pet
Please make sure to
sign up your child for these beautiful activities as these 2 are the children's
favorites! These activities allow every child to create and share memories with
their classmates. Student of the week will run from August through January and
Traveling Pet from January to the end of the School Year.
As you know, every
week, a child is given a set week that he/she is 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 and
other interests. Parents will pick a day to present a banner to the classroom.
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
children 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 a collage of pictures and a written paper
containing a brief description of what they did with the pet. Parents 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.
·
Avoid bringing your child with
items that can cause distractions such as toys, necklaces, bracelets and
watches.
·
Make sure that your child has always
an extra set of clothing in his/her cubby.
·
Bring appropriate
clothing based on weather and label them with your child's name before placing
them in his/her cubby.
·
Remove clothing from the cubby
and leave one set of clothing and a blanket for nap time.
·
Take the blanket home on Fridays
for laundry and bring it back on Monday.
·
Have enough pull-ups, diapers, wipes and rash ointment in
the cubby for the day, if your child has not been potty-trained yet.
·
Fill out an administration or
authorization form specifying when to use rash
ointment.
o Supply ointments for your child.
o Label ointments with your child's name and store
them in a fabric tote bag.
·
Label food that you bring to
preschool.
o Write your child's name and date.
o Place food or lunch box in the refrigerator or
counter. If you leave the lunch box in the counter, make sure to put ice packs
inside the lunch box.
·
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
·
Happy - Feliz
·
Sad - Triste
·
Upset - Molesto
·
Scared - Asustado
Song of the Week – Ronda de los Sentimientos
Este nuevo jueguito
sé que te va a gustar
Prepara bien tu carita
Pues tú me vas a imitar (x2)
Feliz feliz tu estas
Tu cara feliz estará! (para y se hace el gesto)
Este nuevo jueguito
Extrañas a tu mama
Muy triste, triste tu estas! (para y se hace el gesto)
Este nuevo jueguito
Un ruido extraño escuchas…
Asustado tú te pondrás (para y se hace el gesto)
Este nuevo jueguito
Helado papa no te da
Enojado tú te pondrás (para y se hace el gesto)
Este nuevo jueguito
sé que te va a gustar
Prepara bien tu carita
Pues tú me va a imitar
Este nuevo jueguito
Sé que te va a gustar
Y todos lo cantamos aquí en Sff!
Poems
Un besito aquí en la frente
Para ser amigos siempre
Un besito en la nariz
Y que seas muy feliz
un besito en tu corazón
para llenarlo con mucho amor.
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