Classroom: OsitosBlog Title: My Community and MeWeekly Topic: Community Places & Means of TransportationWeek: November 11th, 2019 to November 15th, 2019
What we are learning?
Dear Parents,
We hope you are having a wonderful week. We will continue with the topic “My Community and Me” and this week children will learn about community places and means of transportation used by community helpers.
Through practical actions, we will keep enlightening kids about
transportation and places in our community. We have scheduled exciting
activities related to this topic, so children can continue learning through fun
experiences that help kids explore everything related to this topic in
different ways such as using blocks and recycled material to build a city,
streets, and an airport. 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:
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Shopping Centers
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Learn about shoe stores, clothing stores, toy
stores, flower shops, and malls.
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Public Playgrounds
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Learn about playgrounds and parks.
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Vehicles of Transportation of Community Helpers
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Learn about vehicles of transportation used by
community helpers such as ambulances, firefighter trucks, police cars,
tractors, etc. Talk about its characteristics and give a brief description.
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Find out what vehicles of transportation are for
and discover the sounds of sirens.
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Public Transportation
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Discuss public transportation and its
characteristics while identifying trains, buses, taxis, and others.
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Weekly Review & Special Project
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Review what we learn during the week, what our
favorite topic was and what else we would like to learn.
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Participate in pretend play.
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Play the shopping center. Visit a department store
and look for clothing and accessories items.
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
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Thanksgiving Day Celebration on Wednesday,
November 27th, 2019.
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Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 28th,
2019. The school will be closed on Thursday, November 28th, 2019 and
Friday, November 29th, 2019 for Thanksgiving Holiday.
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:
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Reading one book from front to
back.
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Stimulate them to express their
feelings, emotions, and thought while having a dialogue or during family
conversations.
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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. Below are the homework
assignment instructions if you decide to work on them with your child:
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Homework will be placed in wall
pocket envelopes or in your child’s cubby every Wednesday. Please feel free to
collect them every Wednesday.
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Review the enclosed assignments and
select one, two, or more worksheets and have your child work on them. Complete
all assignment worksheets is optional.
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Return completed assignments by
Tuesday of the following week.
If you have any questions regarding homework assignments, please let us
know.
Year-Round
Activities
Student 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 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
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