Thursday, January 9, 2020

Air Transport


Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Theme: Getting around and communicating in my city

Weekly Theme: Air Transport

Week: From January 13th, 2020 to January 17th, 2020   

       What we are learning?

 
Dear Parents,
 We hope you all have a great week. This week we will continue learning about the topic called “Getting around and communicating in my city.” This week, children will explore and discover air transport such as airplanes, helicopters, rockets, and aerostatic globes.
Through practical actions, we keep enlightening kids about how we move from one place to another. We have scheduled exciting activities related to this topic so children can continue learning through fun experiences. Each one of them will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills. Below you can find a summary of all activities during the week:

·         Air Transport

o    Learn about air transport.

§   What air transport do we know?

o    Discuss airplanes, helicopters, small aircrafts, hot-air balloons, rockets, etc., talk about its characteristics and make comparisons.

·         Aviation Careers

o    Identify the people that work as pilots and in the air force. 

o    Learn about airplanes.

o    Build our favorite air transport such as an airplane with sticks, a rocket with paper rolls or balloons with paper plates.

·         The Air

o    Learn about the air. Share if we can smell it and feel it.

o    Participate in an experiment regarding air.    

·         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 a hands-on experience: play airport. 

 

 
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

·         Kindergarten Visit for Ositos from January 13th, 2020 to January 17th, 2020.

·         Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The school will be closed.

·         Delivery of Report Cards on January 27th, 2020.

·         Parent-Teacher Conference Week from February 3rd, 2020 to February 7th, 2020.

 

Homework

Children are learning all the time; during walks, car rides, on family outings, and while they play. As parents and educators, we should encourage and support these explorations and games in a creative manner. We consider some examples of the best daily tasks that we can do at home with our kids are as follows:
 

·         Reading one book from front to back.

·         Stimulate them to express their feelings, emotions, and thought while having a dialogue or during family conversations.

·         Teach kids responsibility while asking them to complete age-appropriate chores or household tasks.

 
In addition to these suggestions, Spanish for fun! will provide weekly homework assignments to practice skills learned in the classroom. To complete homework assignments is optional. Below are the homework assignment instructions if you decide to work on them with your child:

 

·         Homework will be placed in wall pocket envelopes or in your child’s cubby every Wednesday. Please feel free to collect them every Wednesday.

·         Review the enclosed assignments and select one, two, or more worksheets and have your child work on them. Complete all assignment worksheets is optional.

·         Return completed assignments by Tuesday of the following week.


If you have any questions regarding homework assignments, please let us know.
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 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


·         The airplane – El avión

·         The clouds – Las nubes

·         The helicopter – El helicóptero

·         The rocket – El cohete




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