Classroom: Ositos
Blog Theme: Hola! Around The World
Weekly Theme: Knowing North America & Central America
Week: March 2nd, 2020 to March 6th, 2020
What
are we learning?
Dear Parents,
We hope you all have a
wonderful week. We will start a new topic, “Hola! Around the world.” Being a
student of Spanish for fun! allows the child to be immersed in a diversity
environment and respect. All our activities stimulate children to develop
skills and have attitudes that promotes equality, solidarity, fraternity and
sense of belonging.
This new topic will allow
children to develop skills that will foster equality, fraternity, solidarity,
respect and sense of belonging while promoting respect for cultural diversity
and equality. Through hands-on
activities children will realize that cultural diversity conveys wealth of
information and different experiences and learn new cultures while increasing
their level of understanding about other cultures. Learning about other
cultures helps children to be more accepting of diversity, creates curiosity
and leads to global awareness.
This week children will learn
about North America and Central America. This topic will promote respect for
cultural diversity and equality.
Children will explore and discover about their culture, traditions,
cuisines, music, languages, etc. Children will learn to identify other cultures
and have respect for other cultures.
We have scheduled exciting
activities related to this theme, so children can continue acquiring knowledge
through fun experiences. Each one of them will help to continue strengthening
gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills. Some
activities children will enjoy are as follows:
·
Knowing USA
o
Learn about USA (culture, touristic places and music).
·
Knowing North Carolina
o
Learn about the Cherokee history.
o
Get familiar with culture and attractions in North Carolina.
o
Create Cherokee headbands with different materials.
·
Natural Resources in Central America
o
Discover and explore the culture of Central American countries.
o
Learn about the fauna, flora, geography and weather.
·
Cultural Resources in Central America
o
Learn about touristic places, traditions, traditional costumes and
music.
·
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 an art project and create traditional hats.
o
Watch a video about Smokey Mountains.
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
·
Picture Day on Monday, March 2nd, 2020 for Duraleigh, Wake Forest and
Glenwood.
·
Picture Day on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 for Glenwood Graduates.
·
Picture Day on Thursday, March 5th, 2020 for Cary.
·
Picture Day on Friday, March 6th, 2020 for Cary Graduates.
·
International Fiesta on Friday, March 20th, 2020 for Wake Forest.
·
International Fiesta on Friday, March 27th, 2020 for Cary, Duraleigh and
Glenwood.
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.
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 is optional.
·
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
·
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.
·
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 box 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
·
My flag - Mi bandera
·
My city Raleigh - Mi ciudad Raleigh
·
The eagle - El águila
·
North Carolina - Carolina del Norte
·
North America - América del Norte
·
The spring - La primavera
Rhymes
#1
Alrededor del mundo
Hay muchas personas como
tú y como yo
Su música y su país es
diferente
Y a todas ellas les doy
mi amor y admiración
Yo vivo en un mundo
Que debemos cuidar
Su nombre es Tierra
¡Qué hermoso lugar!
#2
Vamos amiguitos
Vamos a tocar
Muchos instrumentos
Para, papapa
Suena el tambor
Suena el violín
Suena la guitarra
Trin, trin, trin, trin
Ahí vienen las maracas
Vamos todos a tocar
En esta linda orquesta
Que es fenomenal
Riddles
#1
Buenas y sonoras
Cuerdas tengo
Cuando me rascan
A la gente entretengo
La guitarra
#2
Se toca con dos palillos
Es un instrumento que suena fuerte
Bom,
Bom, Bom
El
tambor
Tongue Twisters
El anillo del llavero
No tiene llaves
¿Quién se ha llevado las
llaves
Del anillo del llavero?
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