Let´s Celebrate

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Theme: Let´s Celebrate

Weekly Theme: The Party in December

Week: From 12/04/2017 to 12/08/2017

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a great week. This is the most wonderful time of the year! We are very excited to enter into December and learn all the exciting things that come with the season.

This week we will continue with our theme “Let’s celebrate”. Children will continue exploring Christmas traditions such as Christmas tree, holiday decorations, light displays, etc.

Through practical actions, we keep enlightening kids about the significance of holiday traditions and helping children understand holiday activities in the context of people's daily lives. 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.

• In large groups, children will explore the meaning of the Christmas tree. They will describe, look and touch it.

• In small groups, children will create an art craft for our Christmas tree while expressing our creative side. These crafts will be used to decorate our tree.   

• In small groups, children will create snowflakes that will be used to decorate the classroom.  

• In small groups, children will try to find stars that have been hidden in our sandbox.

• In small groups, children will play match cards with our ginger friends.

We will have our Holiday party on December 21st! We look forward to seeing you there. Details to come in the next weeks. Also, we will appreciate any donation to our community donation box.

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

• Santa Claus Visit on December 18th, 2017 at 10 am.

• Holiday Party on December 21st, 2017.

• Last Day of School before Christmas Break on December 22nd, 2017.  

• Christmas Break from November 25th to November 27th, 2017. Spanish for fun! Pre-school will be closed for those 3 days.

• School opens at 7 am on December 28th, 2017.

• New Year Celebration on December 29th, 2017.  

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 be 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. A parent 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.

• Read your child’s journal, blogs, and Friday Newsletter.

• Label all your child’s clothing and items and make sure that your child has an 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 being refrigerated, please put it in 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 tree - El arbolito

• The glowing Christmas balls - Las bolas de colores

• The ginger cookies - Las galletas de jengibre

Song of the Week

Aquí en mi hermoso país

Muchas tradiciones hay por mi

Y hoy yo te quiero contar

Lo que yo celebro en Sff!

4 de Julio

Memorial Day

Acción de gracias y Labor day

Good Friday , fall festival

Martin Luther King

Navidad,  Año nuevo y ahora

Vamos a repetir

4 de Julio

Memorial Day

Acción de gracias y Labor day

Good Friday , fall festival

Martin Luther King

Navidad y Año nuevo

Tradiciones por mí

Poems

#1

Estamos de fiesta!

Voy a celebrar

luces de colores

no dejan de brillar.

#2

Mi amigo el invierno

Ha llegado ya

Botas, abrigos y bufanda

Vamos todos a usar.

Riddles

#1

De verde me visto cada diciembre

Y los niños disfrutan poniéndome

Adornos y luces de colores.

Árbol de Navidad

#2

En la calle de  muchos colores me verás

Brillo brillo brillo

Y no dejo de brillar.

Las luces de colores.