Friday, November 1, 2019

Community Places


Classroom: MonitosBlog Title: My Community and MeWeekly Feature Theme: Community PlacesWeek: November 4th, 2019 to November 8th, 2019

What are we learning?
Dear Parents,
 
We would like to thank you for your participation at our Fall Festival. The children had so much fun! We will continue with the topic “My Community & Me.” This week, children will learn about community places. Children will explore hospitals, medical centers, dental clinics, fire stations, police stations, 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 the 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

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

o    Create a collage of all public institutions.

·         Small-Group Setting

o    Pretend play: play supermarket.

o    Create a book of all public institutions.

·         Small-Group Setting

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

o    Build a police station using recycled boxes.

·         Small-Group Setting

o    Pretend play: play restaurant in dramatic play.

o    Build our own firefighter station.

·         Large Group Setting

o    Pretend play: play bakery.

o    Bake delicious cookies.

o    Build a bakery using paper plates.

 

 
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

·         Community Helper Visit Week from Monday, November 4th to Friday, November 8th, 2019.
·         Thanksgiving Day Celebration on Wednesday, November 27th, 2019.
·         Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 28th, 2019. The school will be closed on Thursday, November 28th, 2019 and Friday, November 29th, 2019 for Thanksgiving Holiday.

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

·         Wash your hands and your child's hands when entering the classroom and help your child to find his/her seat.
·         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 refrigerator or counter. If you leave the lunch box in the counter, make sure to put ice packs inside the lunch box.
·         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 la enfermera, es el cartero
Es la maestra de Spanish for fun!
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 ayudarán

Rhymes


# 1
El cocinero mezcla los sabores
Tiene su cocina de ricos olores

# 2
El veterinario cura perros y pajaritos
Siempre está rodeado de animalitos


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