Sea Transport

Classroom: Ositos A & B

Blog Theme: Travel & Communication in my City

Weekly Theme: Sea Transport

Week: From 01/14/2019 to 01/18/2019

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you all have a wonderful week. This week we will continue learning about our theme called “Travel & Communication in my city”. This week, children will explore and discover interesting facts about sea transport such as boats, ships, submarines etc.

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:

• Sea Transport

• Learn about sea transport.

• What sea transport do we know?

• Discuss about sea transport and talk about its characteristics and make comparisons.

• Ships

• Learn about ships.

• How they work and its characteristics.

• Create our favorite sea transport.  

• Careers in Maritime Industry

• Learn about the people that work in the maritime industry such as fisherman, marines.

• Discuss about what they do and what is their role.

• Identify what tools they use.

• Safety at Sea

• Discuss about safety at sea.

• What are the precautions?

• What is a lifeguard?

• What is a lifeboat?

• Participate in a scientific experiment.

• Work with objects that float and sink.

• 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 a project: play with water and paper boats.

• 4-year-old children will create paper boats and apply the origami technique.

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

• Martin Luther King Gr. Holiday on Monday, January 21st, 2019. School will be closed.

• Kindergarten visit on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 at 10:00

• Report Cards are sent home on Friday, January 28th, 2019.  

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 ship – El barco

• The sea – El mar

• The boat – El bote

• The yatch – El yate

• The submarine – El submarino

• The jet-ski – La moto acuática

Song of the Week – A Volar

Vamos volando en un avión

Y al ver por la ventana vemos las nubes pasar

Volando en un avión

A una enorme altura nos vamos a pasear

Desde mi ventana las alas puedo ver

Y allá abajo otras cosas también.

Los autos y edificios muy pequeños son

Y me hacen sentir que muy alto estoy.

Es muy divertido un avión pilotear

Y cuando sea mayor eso voy a estudiar

Por ahora me conformo con solo jugar

A salvo de tormentas que me puedan dañar.

Poems

#1

Son muchos los medios de locomoción

Los hay terrestres

Como el camión

Otros son acuáticos

Como el gran vapor

Y de los aéreos

El mayor de todos

Es el avión

#2

Quiero un barco de colores

Un avión para volar

Una moto de carreras

Y un gran autocar

Para ir con mis amigos

Por el cielo y por el mar

Y por la tierra redondita

Muchas vueltas dar.

Riddles

#1

Va por el cielo

Como ventarrón

Lleva pasajeros

Y anda a motor

El avión

#2

Tiene motor , Cuatro ruedas

Ventanillas sin cortinas

Un timón negro y también una bocina

El carro

Tongue Twisters

Corre corre rapidito

Solo para en la estación

Corre corre rapidito

Que el tren ya te dejó.