Sports & Healthy Eating

Classroom: Ositos A & B

Blog Title: Sports & Healthy Eating

Weekly Feature Theme: Sports

Week: From 09/17/2018 to 09/21/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. Our new theme will be “Sports & Healthy Eating” for the next 2 weeks. This week, we will focus on sports, exercise and its rules.  Children will understand the importance of exercises to maintain a good health. They will get familiar with workout routines and exercises that will promote motor skills, coordination, balance, and discipline. Sports will also teach children to trust and rely on others to achieve common goals, value everyone's individual strengths and put collective needs before individual wants. Ositos will have the opportunity to participate in a marathon on Thursday and on Friday in a sporting event!

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. Below is the list of the activities children will enjoy during the week:

• Monday - Importance of Sports in Our Lives.

• Understand the importance of sports.

• Get familiar with sports.

• Share what is your favorite sport.  

• Tuesday - Soccer

• Learn about soccer.

• Kick balls of different sizes into a goal.

• Wednesday - Basketball

• Learn about basketball.

• Learn how to score a basket.   

• Thursday - Marathon & Running

• Learn about running and marathons.  

• Learn how to start training for a marathon.

• Participate in a marathon.

• Friday - Weekly Review & Special Project

• Review what we learn during the week, what our favorite topic was and what else we would like to learn.

• Participate in our project “Morning Sporting Event”. Engage in physical activities and active sports with classmates from other classrooms.

• Participate in the preparation of a pitcher of refreshing lemonade.

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

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Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Picture Day on September 17th & 18th, 2018.

• Report Cards are delivered to administration on September 17th, 2018.

• Report Cards are sent home on September 24th, 2018.

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. 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

• Remember your child to wash his/her hands when entering the classroom and before leaving the school. This is the best way to prevent illnesses.

• Make sure to bring your child on time so he/she can participate in circle time. This activity starts at 8:45am and will stimulate and strengthen skills in all areas.

• Read your child’s journal, blogs, and Friday Newsletter. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us in case you have any comment or any question about your child’s development or any notes/comments made in your child’s journal.

• Avoid bringing your child with items that can cause distraction such as toys, necklaces, bracelets, watches, etc. This is needed to help him/her concentrate on the scheduled activities at school.

• 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, if your child has not been potty-trained yet.

• Label all bottles and food that you bring to preschool for your child with your child’s name and the date it was prepared and drop it in the kitchen. Please keep in mind we are a nut free environment.

• Take home the homework blue folder in your child’s cubby and take one or 2 paper sheets from the container that are next to the entrance of the classroom. Homework should be returned by Tuesday and do not forget to bring the homework folder back on Monday.

• 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 balls – Las pelotas

• I run – Yo corro

• I play – Yo juego

• I throw – Yo lanzo

• The workout – El ejercicio

• The sports – Los deportes

Song of the Week

Mueve mueve mueve  mueve bien los pies

Mueve mueve mueve la cabeza ya

Mueve mueve mueve las rodillas bien

Ponte siempre activo vamos a jugar (2)

Y corre corre corre corre

Y Salta salta salta salta

Gira gira gira  gira sin parar (2)

Manos arriba

Piernas cruzadas

Gira tu cuerpo

Ven a jugar (2)

Rhymes

Ya es hora de los deportes

Pronto va a comenzar

Ya estoy esperando la partida

Para correr, jugar y ganar

Ahí van mis amiguitos

Para jugar con mucha ilusión

Intentamos todos correr rapidito

Cualquiera puede ser el campeón.

Riddles

Soy de color anaranjado

Crezco en la tierra

A los conejos les gusto

y para la vista soy buena.

La zanahoria

Tongue Twisters

Si yo como como poco

Si tu comes

¿Comes poco?