My community and I

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Theme: My community and I

Weekly Theme: Our Neighborhood

Week: From 11/20/2017 to 11/24/2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week.  This is our last week of learning about “My Community and I”. We will learn a new weekly subtopic called “Our Neighborhood”. Children will explore their surroundings: homes, fire house, police station, restaurants, movie theater, church, school, playground and parks. They will observe the kinds of stores in their area such as groceries, dry cleaners, barber shops, clothing boutiques, bookstores and toy stores. Children will be encouraged to be kind, nice and considerate to their neighbors and show respect to them.   

• In large groups, children will look at images of different types of neighborhoods and will describe what they see.

• In small groups, children will classify cubes by colors and build towers of different colors.

• In large groups, children will form straight and curve lines and tunnels.   

Through practical actions we keep enlightening kids about importance of being part of a neighborhood. We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue learning through fun experiences.  Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills.

We will also have our Thanksgiving celebration on Wednesday.

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

• 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.

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 turkey - El pavo

• The pumpkin - La calabaza

• The corn - El maíz