Community Places

Classroom: Monitos A & B

Blog Title: My Community and Me

Weekly Feature Theme: Community Places

Week: From 11/05/2018 to 11/09/2018

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you are having a beautiful week. We will continue with our theme “My Community & Me. This week children will learn about community places. It’s important for children to learn their role in a community and that there are safe and friendly people in these community places to help or serve them. Children will explore hospitals, dental clinics, fire station, police station, supermarkets, bakeries, restaurants, schools, movie theaters, libraries, museums and theaters.  Children will also be able to associate the community helpers with the community places.

Through practical actions we will keep enlightening kids about importance of the community places. We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme, so children can continue learning through fun experiences that help kids explore everything related to our community places in different ways. 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:

• Large Group Setting

• Learn about community places such as hospitals, supermarkets, flower shops, bakeries and vet clinics.

• Small Group Setting

• Pretend play: play supermarket.  

• Small Group Setting

• Classify flowers by green, red, blue and yellow colors.

• Small Group Setting

• Pretend play: play restaurant in dramatic play.

• Create cups, plates and silverware.   

• Large Group Setting

• Pretend play: play bakery.

• Bake delicious cookies.   

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

• Community Helper Visit Week from Monday, November 12th to Friday, November 16th, 2018.   

• Art Fair from Monday, November 12th to Friday, November 16th, 2018.   

• Thanksgiving Day Celebration on Wednesday, November 21st, 2018.

• Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday, November 22nd, 2018 and Friday, November 23rd, 2018. Spanish for fun! will be closed both days.

• Cary Book Fair from Monday, November 26th, 2018 to Friday, November 30th, 2018.  

Birthdays

• Happy Birthday to Gracey George who is celebrating her birthday on 11/4. 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. 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

• 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 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 doctor - El doctor

• The firefighter - El bombero

• The police man - El policía

Song of the Week – Comunidad

Conozco mucha mucha gente en mi vida,

Que siempre ayuda con mucha alegría

Y si tú quieres conocer sus oficios

Jugando vamos a nombrarlos en un ratito.

Es l enfermera, es el cartero

Es la maestra de Sff!

El policía y el bombero

Son los amigos que te cuidaran.

Conozco mucha……….

Es el dentista y el granjero

El cocinero…delicias te hará

El carpintero y el arquitecto

Son los amigos que te ayudaran.

Poems

# 1

El cocinero mezcla los sabores

Tiene su cocina de ricos olores

# 2

El veterinario cura perros y pajaritos

Siempre está rodeado de animalitos