My Family

Classroom: Ositos A & B

Blog Title: My Family

Weekly Feature Theme: My Family & Family Members

Week: From 10/15/2018 to 10/19/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. Children are ready to learn about a new theme “My Family”.

It is very important for the children to learn about the significance of family and foster the feeling of sense of belonging as they are part of one. Being knowledgeable about this topic will allow children to increase self-confidence and self-esteem as well as foster love, understanding and respect towards all the family members. In the next 2 weeks, children will discover interesting facts about the role of family, the importance of family, family diversity and types of homes.

This week, children will learn about the different types of families, responsibilities and roles of each family member. We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue learning through fun experiences that help kids explore everything related to family in different ways.  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:

• Family Members

• Identify family members.

• Create a family collage. Draw each family member and place it in the mural.

• Types of Family

• Identify clothing items of green and yellow colors.

• Roles of Family Members

• Identify tasks that family members do around the world.

• Understand that children even though small can help with house chores.

• Put toys away.

• Tide up his/her room.

• Set up the table for lunch or dinner.

• Extended Family - “The Big Family”

• Learn about grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins, etc.

• Participate on a hands-on experience “My grandpa reads me a story book”.

• Participate in our project “The Three Little Pigs”.

• 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 the field trip to the farm. We are very excited about this!

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

• 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

• The parents – Los padres

• The children – Los hijos

• The grandparents – Los abuelos

• The siblings – Los hermanos

• The uncles – Los tíos

• The cousins – Los primos

Song of the Week – Tengo una familia

Tengo una familia y es fenomenal

Mi papa me ama mi mama igual

Con mis hermanitos yo puedo jugar

Y mis abuelitos bailan sin cesar.(x2)

Con este chachacha

La familia aprenderás

Respeto a papa amo mi mama

Mi abuelo y mi abuela felices están

Esta es mi familia, es mi dulce hogar.

Chachachacha amo a mi mama

Chachachacha amo a mi papa (x2)

Poems

Viva mi familia

Que felicidad

Vivo junto  a ellos

Es fenomenal

Todos los niños y niñas

Necesitan un hogar

Una casita encantada

Un lugar para soñar

Todas las mañanas

Sueño al despertar

Que del cielo viene un ángel

Que me viene a besar.

Al abrir los ojos

Miro donde esta

Y en el mismo sitio

Veo a mis papas.

Riddles

Empieza con “A”

Y muchos cariños me da.

Me cuida , me mima

Y es la mamá de mi mama

Mi abuelita.

Tongue Twister

Mi tía Pancha plancha

Con dos  planchas

Con dos  planchas

Plancha mi tía Pancha.