My community and I

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: My community and I

Weekly Feature Theme: Community Places

Week: From 11/06/2017 to 11/10/2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. This week we will learn about community places. It’s important for children to learn their role in a community and that there are safe and friendly people in these community places to help them if they have an emergency. This week we will talk about places that provide help or offer services to the community such as hospitals, dental clinics, fire station, police station, supermarkets, bakeries, restaurants, schools, movie theaters, libraries, museums and theaters.  Children will understand about the community places through songs, games and other activities.

We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue learning through fun experiences that help kids explore everything related to our community places in different ways. Through practical actions we will keep enlightening kids about importance of the community places. Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills. Some of the activities children will enjoy this week are:

• Children will participate in a dramatic play regarding supermarkets.

• Children will pretend to play in a flower shop and will classify the flowers by colors such as green, red, blue and yellow.

• Children will participate in another dramatic play that will take place in our imaginary restaurant. Children will help us create cups, plates and silverware.

• Children will play to be bakers. We are going to pretend to bake delicious cookies.  

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

• Report Cards will be delivered on Monday, November 6th, 2017.

• Firefighters Visit from Monday, November 6th to Friday, November 10th, 2017.

• Parent-Teacher Conference Week from Monday, November 13th to Friday, November 17th, 2017.

• Joy of Giving week from Monday, November 13th to Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017.

• Thanksgiving Day Celebration on Wednesday, November 22th, 2017.

• Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 23rd, 2017. Spanish for fun! Pre-school will be closed.

• Thanksgiving Day Break on Friday, November 24th, 2017. Spanish for fun! Pre-school will be closed.

Birthdays

• Happy Birthday to Maria Celeste Quiseno that is celebrating her birthday on 11/16. 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. 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.

• 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.

• Label all bottles and food or lunch box that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared and place in the kitchen. If any of these items require to be refrigerated, please put it inside the refrigerator.

• 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 doctor - El doctor

• The firefighter - El bombero

• The police man - El policía

Song of the Week – Comunidad

Conozco mucha mucha gente en mi vida,

Que siempre ayuda con mucha alegría

Y si tú quieres conocer sus oficios

Jugando vamos a nombrarlos en un ratito.

Es l enfermera, es el cartero

Es la maestra de Sff!

El policía y el bombero

Son los amigos que te cuidaran.

Conozco mucha……….

Es el dentista y el granjero

El cocinero…delicias te hará

El carpintero y el arquitecto

Son los amigos que te ayudaran.

Poems

# 1

El cocinero mezcla los sabores

Tiene su cocina de ricos olores

# 2

El veterinario cura perros y pajaritos

Siempre está rodeado de animalitos