Playing with my body II

Classroom: Monitos A & BBlog Title: My BodyWeekly Feature Theme: Playing with my body IIWeek: September 2nd, 2019 to September 6th, 2019

What we are learning?

Dear Parents,

 

We hope you are having a beautiful week. This week we will continue learning about the parts of the human body and their functions. Children will explore and identify the external parts of the human body using figures and puzzles. We will also continue encouraging the children to be nice to their classmates and have respect.

 

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 as follows:

·         Large Group Setting

o    Look at photographs of ourselves and provide a brief description.

·         Small-Group Setting

o    Give a bath to our dolls while identifying body parts. 

·         Small-Group Setting

o    Strengthen our fine motor skills playing with homemade playdough.

·         Small-Group Setting

o    Move different parts of our body.

o    Play with scarves. 

·         Small-Group Setting

o    Participate in finger games.

o    Engage in finger puppets play.

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

·         Labor Day on Monday, September 2nd, 2019. The school will be closed.

·         Grandparents Day Celebration on Friday, September 6th, 2019.

·         Fall Picture Day on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019.

·         Delivery of Report Cards on Monday, September 23rd, 2019.

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. Student of the week will run from August through January and Traveling Pet from January to the end of the School Year.

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 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 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 hands – Las manos

·         The fingers – Los dedos

·         The legs – Las piernas