My emotions

Classroom: Ositos A & B

Blog Title: My emotions

Week: From 10/08/2018 to 10/12/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. This week we are going to learn about a new theme called “My emotions” and emotional self-awareness which involves identifying and understanding one's emotions. We will provide children with tools not only to acknowledge their emotions but also to express them assertively. The opportunity of acknowledgment and expression of emotions will promote interpersonal skills in children, increase self-confidence, regulate behavior and foster interaction and communication with others.

This topic will allow children to express if they feel happy, sad or upset and identify the emotions they feel towards specific experiences or situations that they live. Children will be ready to talk more about what causes people to feel certain ways and to anticipate how they might feel in a particular situation.

We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue learning through fun experiences and that help kids explore their emotions in lots of different ways. Children will experience being happy, sad, upset, scared, etc.  Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills. Below you can find a summary of all activities during the week:

• Understanding Emotions

• Read the story book “The Monster of Emotions”.

• Learn about emotions.

• Exploring Emotions

• Explore how to express emotions towards an event.

• Use what if scenarios and ask children to express how would they feel.

• Controlling Anger

• Learn techniques to control emotions.

• Show children what they can do in case they feel upset.

• Importance of Friendship

• Learn about friendship and empathy.

• Review classroom rules.

• 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 two projects:

• Create facial expressions in paper plates.

• Work on building a mural regarding emotions.

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

• Parent - Teacher Conference Week from Monday, October 1st, 2018 to Friday, November 5th, 2018.

• Columbus Day on Monday, October 8th, 2018.

• Fall Field Trip on Friday, October 19th, 2018.  

• Costume Festival on Friday, October 26th, 2018.

• Glenwood Book Fair from Monday, October 29th, 2018 to Friday, November 2nd, 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. 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

• 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 in the scheduled activities at school.

• 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, 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

• Happy - Feliz

• Sad - Triste

• Upset - Molesto

• Scared - Asustado

• Excited - Emocionado

• Shy - Tímido

Song of the Week – Ronda de los Sentimientos

Este nuevo jueguito

sé que te va a gustar

Prepara bien tu carita

Pues tú me vas a imitar (x2)

Feliz feliz tu estas

Tu cara feliz estará! (para y se hace el gesto)

Este nuevo jueguito

Extrañas a tu mama

Muy triste, triste tu estas! (para y se hace el gesto)

Este nuevo jueguito

Un ruido extraño escuchas…

Asustado tú te pondrás (para y se hace el gesto)

Este nuevo jueguito

Helado papa no te da

Enojado tú te pondrás (para y se hace el gesto)

Este nuevo jueguito

sé que te va a gustar

Prepara bien tu carita

Pues tú me va a imitar

Este nuevo jueguito

Sé que te va a gustar

Y todos lo cantamos aquí en Sff!

Poems

Un besito aquí en la frente

Para ser amigos siempre

Un besito en la nariz

Y que seas muy feliz

un besito en tu corazón

para llenarlo con mucho amor.

Riddles

Juegos y risas

Comparto con ellos

Me ayudan, me quieren

Soy feliz de tenerlos.

¿Quienes son?

Los amigos

Tongue Twister

Tres tristes tigres

Comen trigo en un trigal.