Green Earth

Classroom: Abejitas

Blog Title: Green Earth

Weekly Featured Theme: Care of Nature

Week: January 30^th to February 3^rd, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Abejitas Parents,

Happy New Year!

Our there for this week is Green Earth. We will explore the great outdoors and describe what we hear, see, and smell all around us. Getting to know the great planet where we will and our environment. We have scheduled exciting and fun learning activities to continue working on strengthening motor, language, sensorial and cognitive.

●      Motor Skills: We will do different exercises and give corporal massages to keep stimulating fine and gross motor skills.

●      Language Skills: We will make gestures while listening to songs and poems.

●      Cognitive/Sensorial Skills: The children will have the opportunity to explore nature through discovering leaves and tiny rocks that will be placed in a sensory basket.

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

Best Regards,

Mrs. Luisa Williams

📄 Materials for Special Projects

·         Bring a family picture if you have not brought one yet.

·         Bring any recycled bottles such as Voss bottles and Ice Juice bottles.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Science Fair from February 20^th to February 24^th, 2017.

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         The sun - El sol

🎵 Songs of the Week

Si los copos de nieve

fueran leche malteada

me encantaría estar ahí

abriendo la boca

para saborear

ahahahaha

si los copos de nieve

fueran leche malteada

me encantaría estar ahí

si los rayos de sol

fueran helado de chocolate

me encantaría estar ahí

abriendo la boca para saborear

ahahaha

si los rayos de sol

fueran helado de chocolate

me encantaría estar ahí.

si las gotas de lluvia

fueran de caramelo

abriendo la boca

para saborear

ahahahahaha

📚 Poems

El sol tiene frío

No quiere salir

Oculto entre las nubes

Se ha puesto a dormir

Sal solcito por favor

Mama nube déjalo salir

Que tengo frío y quiero jugar 

Con mis amigos en el jardín

Means of Transportation and Communication in my city

Classroom: Abejitas

Blog Title: Means of Transportation and Communication in my city

Weekly Featured Theme: Means of Communication

Week: January 23^rd to January 27^th, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Abejitas Parents,

Happy New Year!

This week we will learn about the means of communication including mass media. We will talk about the newspaper, the magazines, the landline, the mobile phone, the movies and the radio. We have scheduled exciting and fun learning activities that will help to strengthen motor, language and cognitive/sensorial skills such as listening to the horn of a boat and the sound of a telephone ring, trying a tomato and smelling a citrus or a banana, creating exciting art with a marker, saying bye and blowing kisses during drop off.

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

Best Regards,

Mrs. Luisa Williams

📄 Materials for Special Projects

• Bring a family picture if you haven't already done so.

·         Bring empty and clean seasoning containers.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      None

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         El avión- The plane.

Travel and Communication in my city.

Classroom: Abejitas

Blog Title: Travel and Communication in my city

Weekly Featured Theme: Sea and Air Transportation

Week: January 16^th to January 20^th, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Abejitas Parents,

Happy New Year!

This week we will be talking about the different sea and air means of transportation. We will be focusing on ships and planes. We will listen to the sound they make and looking at photos to see how they look like.

We will be continuing to strengthen our motor skills and working on discovering things with our senses. It is important for us to discover new materials with all of our senses. If you have any empty small water bottles, or season containers please bring them in!! They make great learning tools!!

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

Best Regards,

Mrs. Luisa Williams.

📄 Materials for Special Projects

• Bring empty water bottle and seasoning bottles.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      School will be closed on January 16^th, 2017 (Martin Luther King Day).

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         The airplane - El avión

Travel and Communication in my city.

Classroom: Abejitas

Blog Title: Travel and Communication in my city.

Weekly Featured Theme: We are artists!

Week: January 9^th to January 13^th, 2017

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Abejitas Parents,

Happy New Year!

This week we will be talking about the different means of transportation in our city as well as art. We will be focusing on cars, trains, and planes. We will be working on strengthening our muscles so we can continue crawling and walking. We will also be describing the different textures of items; these being toys, food, paper, etc.

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

Best Regards,

Mrs. Luisa Williams.

📄 Materials for Special Projects

• Bring small plastic bottles for sensory bottles, and cleaned season bottles that can be reopened.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

·         Wear shoe covers and wash your hands and your child hands when entering your child’s classroom.

·         Knock before entering the classroom to make sure there is no one behind the door

·         Wash your hands and your child’s hands once you enter the classroom.

·         Always make sure that your child has extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather in his/her cubby and label it with your child’s name

·         Bring diapers, wipes and rash ointment and label them with your child’s name.

·         Bring your child’s bottles labeled with your child’s name and date.

·         Read, review and fill out your child’s journal with information for the teacher and make sure to add last change of diaper and time of your child’s last meal.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      School will be closed on January 16^th, 2017 (Martin Luther King Day).

●      Art Fair will take place from January 9^th through January 13^th, 2017.

⭐ Star Words of the Week

·         The painter - El pintor