Friday, February 14, 2020

Saving the Planet


Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Theme: Green Earth

Weekly Theme: Saving the Planet

Week: February 17th, 2020 to February 21st, 2020

      

       What are we learning?

Dear Parents,
We hope you all have a wonderful week. We will continue with the topic “Green Earth.”  It's important for children to learn about how to protect the environment. There are multiple ways to help and protect Mother Earth at pre-school.
This week we will find educational and fun ways for children to be proactive in terms of the environment. They will be discovering and exploring which simple things they can do to help save planet Earth, from conserving water (have showers instead of baths) and energy (turn off lights) to recycling (place items in corresponding recycled bins) and reusing (drink water from reusable water bottles instead of plastic).
We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue acquiring knowledge through fun experiences.  Each one of them will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills. Some activities children will enjoy are as follows:

·         Planet Pollution.   

o    Learn about the pollution on planet Earth.

·         Disposal of Products

o    What products do we dispose and where?   

·         Help Save Planet Earth

o    How can we save the planet?   

·         Recycling

o    What is recycling?

o    What are the benefits?

o    What products can we recycle?

·         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 recycling activity:

o    Build our own recycling boxes.


 
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

·         Teacher Appreciation Week from February 17th, 2020 to February 21st, 2020.

·         Early Release on Thursday, February 20th, 2020 at 12:30pm.

·         STEAM and Science Fair Week from Monday, February 24th, 2020 to Friday, February 28th, 2020.

·         Picture Day on Monday, March 2nd, 2020 for Duraleigh, Wake Forest and Glenwood.

·         Picture Day on Thursday, March 5th, 2020 for Cary.

·         Picture Day on Friday, March 6th, 2020 for Cary Graduates.

·         International Fiesta on Friday, March 20th, 2020 for Wake Forest.

·         International Fiesta on Friday, March 27th, 2020 for Cary, Duraleigh and Glenwood.

 

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 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


·         To take care - Cuidar

·         To clean - Limpiar

·         Water the plants - Regar las plantas

·         The trash - La basura

 

Song of the Week

 

Buenos días ya salió el sol
Miro hacia el cielo, las nubes de algodón
Buenas noches, la luna salió
Muchas estrellitas luceros de amor.
Estrellas, planetas
Luna y sol
Cuida nuestra tierra y llénala de amor

Rhymes


#1
Yo vivo en un mundo
No hay como él
Lleno de flores y plantas también.
Encuentro rocas, arena y mar
Tierra y ríos para disfrutar.
 
Yo vivo en un mundo
Que debemos cuidar
Su nombre es Tierra
¡Qué hermoso lugar!
 
#2
Nací para cuidar
esto que veo
para cuidar la lluvia,
para cuidar el viento,
para cuidar el ave,
al pez y a lo pequeño
nací para cuidar
Todo el Universo
 
 
#3
Soy un científico
Y voy a crear
Hacer muchos experimentos
Jugar y a explorar

Riddles


#1
Doy calorcito
Soy muy redondo
Salgo prontito
Y tarde me escondo
El sol



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