Sports & Healthy Eating

Classroom: Monitos A & B

Blog Title: Sports & Healthy Eating

Weekly Feature Theme: Sports

Week: From 09/17/2018 to 09/21/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. For the next 2 weeks, we will be learning about Sports and Healthy Eating. This week, children will focus on learning everything about Sports and understanding the importance of practicing sports and exercising to promote healthy physical and mental development. Exercising provides several benefits as it stimulates flexibility, good posture and growth potential as well as teamwork.

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. Some of the activities children will enjoy are listed below:

• Large Group Setting

• Understand the importance of sports.

• Get familiar with sports.

• Observe visual flashcards of sports.

• Play with balls of different sizes.

• Small Group Setting

• Learn about soccer.

• Kick balls of different sizes into a goal.

• Small Group Setting

• Match flashcards of volleyball, basketball and soccer balls.  

• Small Group Setting

• Classify red and blue balls by color.

• Large Group Setting

• Value and grasp the importance of sports while enjoying a sports morning.

• Participate in physical activities and active sports with classmates of other classrooms.

• Participate in the preparation of a pitcher of refreshing lemonade.

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

• Picture Day on September 17th & 18th, 2018.

• Report Cards are delivered to administration on September 17th, 2018.

• Report Cards are sent home on September 24th, 2018.

Birthdays

• Happy Birthday to Thomas who is celebrating his birthday on 09/24. 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. A parent 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

• Wash your hands and your child’s hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.

• Read your child’s journal, blogs, and Friday Newsletter.

• Label all your child’s clothing and items and make sure that your child has an 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.

• 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.

• 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 balls – Las pelotas

• I run – Yo corro

• I play – Yo juego

Song of the Week

Mueve mueve mueve  mueve bien los pies

Mueve mueve mueve la cabeza ya

Mueve mueve mueve las rodillas bien

Ponte siempre activo vamos a jugar (2)

Y corre corre corre corre

Y Salta salta salta salta

Gira gira gira  gira sin parar (2)

Manos arriba

Piernas cruzadas

Gira tu cuerpo

Ven a jugar (2)

Rhymes

Ya es hora de los deportes

Pronto va a comenzar

Ya estoy esperando la partida

Para correr, jugar y ganar

Ahí van mis amiguitos

Para jugar con mucha ilusión

Intentamos todos correr rapidito

Cualquiera puede ser el campeón.