Green Earth

Classroom: Mariquitas

Blog Title: Green Earth

Weekly Featured Theme: Care of Nature

Week: January 30^th to February 3^rd, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Mariquitas Parents,

This week we will start with a new theme called “Green Earth”. This particular week we will learn about nature and how to care for it. Currently there are environmental problems since our environment is constantly undergoing changes and alterations of various industrial causes. Therefore, it is important for children to get to know all the components and resources of the earth: rivers, volcanos, rocks, etc.  Children will also discover how to cultivate love for nature and how to care for it.

We have scheduled exciting and fun learning activities in regards to this theme that keep strengthening motor, cognitive/sensorial and language skills.  Children will learn through experiences so they can use their creativity and imagination.

●      Gross Motor Skills: We will place tapes on the floor of different colors and then have the children to walk over them.

●      Fine Motor Skills: Children will pass toys to one another.  

Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.

Best Regards,

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

·         Fill out information in the journal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Science Fair from February 20^th to February 24^th, 2017.

🎂 Birthdays

·         None

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         The sun - El sol

·         The moon - La luna

🎵 Songs of the Week

Si los copos de nieve

fueran leche malteada

me encantaría estar ahí

abriendo la boca

para saborear

ahahahaha

si los copos de nieve

fueran leche malteada

me encantaría estar ahí

si los rayos de sol

fueran helado de chocolate

me encantaría estar ahí

abriendo la boca para saborear

ahahaha

si los rayos de sol

fueran helado de chocolate

me encantaría estar ahí.

si las gotas de lluvia

fueran de caramelo

abriendo la boca

para saborear

ahahahahaha

📚 Poems

Gota tras gota la lluvia te moja,

La lluvia se ríe y a veces se enoja,

La me canta y a veces me entretiene

Y gota tras gota se va como viene.

La lluvia me moja, me moja y salpica

La lluvia es mi amiga.

Que cosa más rica!

📚 Riddles

 Cae del cielo

 Y al tocarte

 No te libras de mojarte.      

La lluvia

Means of Transportation and Communication in my city

Classroom: Mariquitas

Blog Title: Means of Transportation and Communication in my city

Weekly Featured Theme: Means of Communication

Week: January 23^rd to January 27^th, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Mariquitas Parents,

This week we will learn about the means of communication including mass media. We will talk about the newspaper, the magazines, the landline, the mobile phone, the movies and the radio. We have scheduled exciting and fun learning activities that will help to strengthen motor, language and cognitive/sensorial skills such as:

·         Stacking hoops.

·         Building towers with blocks

·         Dipping our hands in tempera.

·         Flying planes.

·         Looking at family pictures.

Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.

Best Regards,

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

·         Fill out information in the journal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      None

⭐ Star Words of the Week

El avión- The Plane.

El barco- The Ship. 

Travel and Communication in my city.

Classroom: Mariquitas

Blog Title: Travel and Communication in my city

Weekly Featured Theme: Sea and Air Transportation

Week: January 16^th to January 20^th, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Mariquitas Parents,

We hope you have a great weekend. This week we continue learning about sea and air transportation. We have scheduled exciting and fun learning activities that will help to strengthen motor, language and cognitive/sensorial skills. Children will have to recognize what type of transportation we are showing images from and learn about their characteristics.

We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme in order to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio, emotional skills such as:

·         Put food into the basket.

·         Enjoy a puppet show.

·         Look at flashcards of emotions.

·         Ride in cars.

·         Roll balls in different directions.

·         Play with treasure box.

·         Do puzzles.

Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.

Best Regards,

Mrs. Jeanette Alvés and Mrs Natalia Campbell.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

·         Fill out information in the journal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      School will be closed on January 16^th, 2017 (Martin Luther King Day).

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         The airplane - El avión

·         The ship - El barco

Travel and Communication in my city

Classroom: Mariquitas

Blog Title: Travel and Communication in my city

Weekly Featured Theme: We are artists!

Week: January 9^th to January 13^th, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Mariquitas Parents,

This week we will participate in our art fair and learn about art. We have scheduled exciting and fun learning activities that will help to strengthen motor, language and cognitive/sensorial skills.

We have scheduled learning activities related to this theme in order to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio, emotional skills such as:

·         Listen to sounds.  

·         Work on art projects since it is our art fair week.  

·         Play with water.

·         Read books.

·         Look at flashcards of means of transportation.

·         Play with fire fighter trucks.

Thank you for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life and we hope you have a great weekend.

Best Regards,

Miss Jeanette Alvés and Mrs Natalia Campbell.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

●      Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

●      Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

●      Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

●      Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

●      Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

●      Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

●      Fill out information in the journal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      School will be closed on January 16^th, 2017 (Martin Luther King Day).

●      Art Fair will take place from January 9^th through January 13^th, 2017.

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         The painter - El pintor

·         The paint brush - El pincel