Let's Celebrate!

Classroom: Ositos A & B

Blog Theme: Let´s Celebrate

Weekly Theme: Party in December

Week: From 12/03/2018 to 12/07/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a great week. We will continue with our theme “Let’s celebrate”. Children will be exploring Christmas traditions and how people celebrate the holidays around the world. Our focus this week will be particularly learning about the Christmas story, the festivities, and its most representative decorations such as the Christmas Tree, ornaments, and gingerbread man.

Through practical actions we keep enlightening kids about 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. Below you can find a summary of all activities during the week:

• Christmas Celebration in the World

• Learn about Christmas, a time to share with family.   

• Christmas Tree Story

• Learn about the Christmas tree story.

• Create a Christmas ornament for our tree.   

• Christmas Ornaments & Lights

• Everything looks bright while learning about ornaments such as Christmas lights and the star.

• Create winter sensory bottles in small group settings.

• Christmas Cookies & Cakes

• Learn about gingerbread cookies.

• Bake gingerbread cookies.     

• Set up a Christmas table.

• 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 dramatic play.

We will have our Holiday party on Monday, December 17th! We look forward to seeing you there.

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  

• Glenwood Holiday Party on Monday, December 17th, 2018 at 9:30 am. Location: Unity of the Triangle at 5570 Munford Rd, Raleigh, NC 27612.

• Holiday Break on Monday, December 24th and Tuesday, December 25th, 2018. School will be closed.

• New Year’s Eve Celebration on Friday, December the 28th, 2018.

• New Year’s Break on Monday, December 31st and Tuesday, January 1st, 2019. School will be closed.

Birthdays

• Happy Birthday to Ian Johnson who is celebrating his birthday on 12/03. We wish you the best!

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 tree - El arbolito

• The ginger cookies - Las galletas de jengibre

• The Christmas cake - Los pasteles de navidad

• The wreath - La guirnalda

• The glowing objects - Los objectos brillantes

• Sharing - El compartir

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

¿Qué es la navidad?

Pregunté a mamá

Un día muy dulce como el mazapán

¿Qué es la navidad?

Pregunté a papá

Un día muy lindo donde aprendemos a dar

¿Qué es la navidad?

Pregunté a mi abuela

El día que deseamos salud amor y paz.

#2

El Señor Invierno

se viste de blanco

Se pone el abrigo

Porque está temblando

Se encuentra la lluvia

Llorando llorando

Y también el viento

Que viene soplando

Riddles

#1

De verde me visto cada diciembre

Y los niños disfrutan poniéndome

Adornos y  luces de colores.

Árbol de Navidad

#2

Cuando hay nieve podemos jugar

Grande o pequeño me puedes crear

Me pones un gorro y una bufanda al revés

Una nariz de zanahoria y brazos con ramas también.

Muñeco de nieve

Tongue Twisters

Señora compre coco

No compro coco porque como poco

Como poco

Coco compro