Green Earth

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Theme: Green Earth

Weekly Theme: My Wonderful Planet Earth

Week: From 01/28/2019 to 02/01/2019

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

We hope you all have a wonderful week. For the next 4 weeks we will learn a new theme called Green Earth. The earth is the place where we live, and it is our responsibility to care and protect it. At present the environmental pollution and the neglect in the conservation of endangered species are causing air pollution, soil and water contamination and the extinction of species.

Our goal is to promote the love and care for nature in children within their familiar environments such as their home and school.  

This week children will learn everything about our wonderful planet earth.  It is important for the children to explore different elements, landforms and bodies of water on earth such as minerals, lakes, rivers, sea, volcanos, rocks, mountains, etc. through play, observation, stories and hands-on experiences.

We have scheduled exciting activities related to this theme so children can continue acquiring knowledge through fun experiences.  Each one of these activities will help to continue strengthening gross and fine motor skills, language and socio-emotional skills.

• Large Group Setting

• Discover the sounds coming from nature such as the rain, wind, water, birds, etc.  

• Small Group Setting

• Observe shells of different sizes.

• Paint the shells using different colors.

• Small Group Setting

• Count fish that are inside water buckets.  

• Small Group Setting

• Create sensory bottles with different nature elements.  

• Large Group Setting

• Pass across different paths such as drawn lines, tunnels and racing tracks.  

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

Materials for Weekly Activities

• Donate plastic bottles to be used for our sensory bottle activity. Please bring them on Monday.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Report Cards are sent home on Monday, January 28th, 2019.  

• Parent-Teacher Conferences from Monday, February 4th, 2019 to Friday, February 8th, 2019.

• Valentine’s Day Celebration on February 14th, 2019.

Birthdays

• Happy Birthday to Greyson Bikowsky and Alexander Hernandez who are celebrating their birthdays on 01/27 and 01/31. 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 now that is getting colder.

• 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 water - El agua

• The rocks - Las piedras

• The sand - La arena

Song of the Week

Buenos días ya salió el sol

Miro hacia el cielo, las nubes de algodón

Buenas noches, la luna salió

Muchas estrellitas luceros de amor.

Estrellas, planetas

Luna y sol

Cuida nuestra tierra y llénala de amor

Poems

#1

Yo vivo en un mundo

No hay como él

Lleno de flores y plantas también.

Encuentro rocas, arena y mar

Tierra y ríos para disfrutar.

Yo vivo en un mundo

Que debemos cuidar

Su nombre es Tierra

¡Qué hermoso lugar!

#2

Nací para cuidar

esto que veo:

para cuidar la lluvia,

para cuidar el viento,

para cuidar el ave,

al pez y a lo pequeño

nací para cuidar

Todo el Universo

#3

Soy un científico

Y voy a crear

Hacer muchos experimentos

Jugar y a  explorar

Riddles

#1

Doy calorcito

Soy muy redondo

Salgo prontito

Y tarde me escondo

El sol