My emotions

Classroom: Ositos A & B
Blog Title: My emotions
Week: October 7th, 2019 to October 11th, 2019

What are we learning?

Dear Parents,

 

We hope you are having a wonderful 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. Everyone is equally important, and so is it expressing feelings through the use of words.

 

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 learn to identify and explore their feelings. Children will be ready to talk more about what causes people to feel specific ways and to anticipate how they might think in a particular situation. This type of thinking is a building block of empathy. Just like walking and talking, children will learn that emotional responses constitute development achievements.

 

It is a need to help children not only to acknowledge their emotions but also to express them assertively. The opportunity of acknowledgment and expression of feelings will promote interpersonal skills in children, increase self-confidence, regulate behavior, and foster interaction and communication with others.

 

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, and scared. 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 the activities during the week:

·         Understanding Emotions

o    Read the storybook “The Monster of Emotions.”

o    Learn about emotions.

·         Exploring Emotions

o    Explore how to express feelings towards an event.

o    Use what-if scenarios and ask children to reveal how would they feel.

·         Controlling Anger

o    Learn techniques to control emotions.

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

·         Importance of Friendship

o    Learn about friendship and empathy.

o    Review classroom rules.

·         Weekly Review & Special Project

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

o    Participate in two projects:

o    Create facial expressions in paper plates.

o    Work on building a mural regarding emotions.

 

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

Holidays & Upcoming Events

·         Cary Book Fair Week from Monday, October 7th, 2019 to Friday, October 11th, 2019.

·         Columbus Day on Monday, October 14th, 2019.

·         Fall Field Trip Day on Friday, October 18th, 2019.

·         Costume Fall Festival Day on Friday, October 25th, 2019.

·         Glenwood Book Fair Week from Monday, October 21st, 2019 to Friday, October 25th, 2019.

 Homework

Children are learning all the time; during walks, car rides, on family outings, and while they play. As parents and educators, we should encourage and support these explorations and games in a creative manner. We consider some examples of the best daily tasks that we can do at home with our kids are as follows:

 

·         Reading one book from front to back.

·         Stimulate them to express their feelings, emotions, and thought while having a dialogue or during family conversations.

·         Teach kids responsibility while asking them to complete age-appropriate chores or household tasks.

 

In addition to these suggestions, Spanish for fun! will provide weekly homework assignments to practice skills learned in the classroom. To complete homework assignments is optional.

 

Homework activity will start as of the week of Monday, September 30^th, 2019. Below are the homework assignment instructions if you decide to work on them with your child:

 

·         Homework will be placed in wall pocket envelopes or in your child’s cubby every Wednesday. Please feel free to collect them every Wednesday.

·         Review the enclosed assignments and select one, two, or more worksheets and have your child work on them. Complete all assignment worksheets are optional.

·         Return completed assignments by Tuesday of the following week.

If you have any questions regarding homework assignments, please let us know.

Year-Round ActivitiesStudent of the Week & Traveling Pet

Please make sure to sign up your child for these beautiful activities as these 2 are the children's favorites! These activities allow every child to create and share memories with their classmates. Student of the week will run from August through January and Traveling Pet from January to the end of the School Year.

 

As you know, every week, a child is given a set week that he/she is 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 and other interests. Parents will pick a day to present a banner to the classroom. The student of the week may also bring favorite toys and books to school so they can share it 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 children 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 a collage of pictures and a written paper containing a brief description of what they did with the pet. Parents 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 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.

·         Avoid bringing your child with items that can cause distractions such as toys, necklaces, bracelets, and watches.

·         Make sure that your child has always an extra set of clothing in his/her cubby.

·         Bring appropriate clothing based on weather and label them with your child's name before placing them in his/her cubby.

·         Remove clothing from the cubby and leave one set of clothing and a blanket for nap time.

·         Take the blanket home on Fridays for laundry and bring it back on Monday.

·         Have enough pull-ups, diapers, wipes and rash ointment in the cubby for the day, if your child has not been potty trained yet.

·         Fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when to use rash ointment.

o    Supply ointments for your child.

o    Label ointments with your child's name and store them in a fabric tote bag.

·         Label food that you bring to preschool.

o    Write your child's name and date.

o    Place food or lunch boxes in the kitchen. Make sure to put ice packs inside the lunch box.

o    Please keep in mind we are a nut-free environment.

·         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.