Week of April 28th- May 2nd !!!

Hola ositos parents:

We hope you had a wonderful week!

Next week will be the exhibition of art of our ositos. We will be doing a review about painting, sculpture, music, dance and literature.

Words of the week are:

·         La feria de arte- The fair art

·         la pintura-painting

·         la musica-music

·         el baile- dancing

·         la escultura-sculpture

·         la literatura- literature

Special activity:

*April 28 to May 2- Fair art

*Children will make sculpture using clay.

Special event:

*Willy the bear will be visiting Josephine's house. Enjoy your week with Willy!!

*April 30- Child day!! It will be a fun fantastic day and the ositos can come in their carnival T-shirts that they wore for the Fiesta International. Also it will be crazy hair day and toy day. The Ositos can wear a crazy hair do and bring their toy to share. Also we make popsicle.

Upcoming event:

*Friday, May 9- Mother's day is approaching and we are preparing a special activity for mothers. The activity will be during the afternoon and during the week you will be advised the time of this activity.

Homework:

Continue to write the letter of the alphabet.

All children have improved their writing skills and we are very proud of them. GRACIAS for your help!!

Have a great week!!

Ms Iris & Ms Kenia

Ositos’s parents,

Last week we had a great time talking about music, this week we will continue working with the arts, but this time our focus will be all the visual arts like sculptures and paintings.

We strongly believe that art should be taught in the classroom because it deals a lot with how each child develops abstract thinking skills. The visual arts combine abstract concepts and concrete materials in order to create, using convergent, divergent, evaluative, and visual thinking skills. The art provides the foundation for visual perception, which is the ability to recognize and understand images, whether it be found in works of fine art, blueprints, safety symbols or words.  Being able to distinguish what letter is what and what symbols mean what has a lot to do with using our visual perception an in order to develop our visual perception we need to make, study and practice the art.

Special activities:

·         We will continue a little bit talking about music

·         We will make arts and crafts

·         Painting, dancing, singing, reading and playing.

·         The Children will also dramatize the story “Goldilocks And The Three Bears” played like in a real theater for the other groups.

Words of the week:

Musica-music

Danza- dance

Literatura- literature

Poema- the poem

Cuento – tale / story

Real -real

Ficcion- fiction

Special events:

·         Congratulations to Vivian for her birthday, Feliz cumpleanos!!! Enjoy your birthday party!!

·         Willy the bear will be visiting Lily's house. Enjoy your week with Willy!

 

Upcoming events:

Important Dates and Reminders:

•       April 22^nd. “Earth Day” is an annual event, on which special activities are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In our classrooms, we have prepared plenty of recycling projects and ecological activities for our children. 

 •          April 28^th to May 2^nd.  “Art Fair”. We will have a great exhibition of your child’s art.

Homework:

Copy the first 10 letters of the alphabet.

Letter of the week:  Ww

We end with the activity of the letter of the week talking about the letter Ww. However we will continue working reading. Gracias for your help!!

Notes of thanks:

·         Thanks again for all your support in our great International Party. We are really proud of the work  made by our  Ositos. Excellent job guys!!

·         Thanks for all your donations of eggs, candy, stickers and other treats. The children had a fabulous time during our Easter celebration and Egg Hunting with the Conejo de Pascua (Easter rabbit)... MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!!!

 

Have a wonderful weekend and happy Easter!!

Ms Iris & Ms Kenia

 

Hola Osito’s Parents,

We hope that you had a wonderful week!

We want to thank you for all your cooperation for our international celebration. We are very proud of our Ositos and of you too. Thank you!

Next week we will begin the theme “Artes Plasticas” (The  Arts). We will talk about famous painters and their master pieces.

 Words of the week: 

El pintor – the painter

La pintura – the painting

El pincel – the brush

Los colores – the colors

 

Special Events:

Willy the bear will be visiting Viviana’s house. Enjoy your week with Willy!!!

April 16^th. Easter Celebration. Please remember to send your child with an Easter basket full of eggs. If donating treats, please remember to avoid any allergens such as  nut products or candy that represents a choking hazard. All candies must be individually wrapped. Send all the fillings separately.  Thank you so much for your support!

April 28^th – May 2^nd. Art Fair. Your children are very creative and this is a great opportunity for you to check out some of the beautiful art they have done that will be displayed outside of the classroom.  

Letters of the week:  Q – q

Children can bring any toy or cut out  images from magazines wich names begins with that letter or that contains the letter.

 

For example:

El queso – the cheese

El equipo – the team

La raqueta – the racquet

El paquete – the package

 

Homework:

Practice writing your first and last name.

Have a nice weekend!

 

Miss Iris and Miss Kenia

 

Week of April 7th.-11th.

Hola Ositos parents:

We hope you had a great week!

We hope you had a great spring break.

Next week we will continue talking about the theme:  “Folklore Latino/ Latin Folklore” and in this occasion we will talk about Miss Iris’s country: Puerto Rico. We will show to children the typical clothes, instruments and they will listen and dance ‘La plena”, typical music from Puerto Rico. They also will observe pictures of the most important places and different food.

Special activity:

Cooking class- we will make "Piragua" (snow cone)

Words of the week are:

·         La musica tipica- The typical music

·         La ropa tipica- The typical Clothes

·         La comida típica – The Tipical  food

·         Los instrumentos tipicos- The typical instruments

Special events:

·         Congratulations to Qadir for his birthday, FELIZ CUMPLEANOS!!!

·         Willy the bear will be visiting Qadir’s house.  Have fun Guys!

·         April 11- International Party!!!! Remember that children will use the shirts we painted in the classroom and were sent home. Make sure your child  has the shirt. We put it in your child’s cubby.

Upcoming events:

April 16- Easter celebration! Please send your child with a basket and plenty of eggs. Remember to avoid allergens such as nuts and candy that could present a choking hazard. Please bring the fillings separately.  

April 20- May 2- Art fair week

Spanish for fun!’s  Walls will be decorated with your children great art work.

Letter of the week: Kk

Children can bring any toy or cutouts from magazines that begin with this letter or that have this letter in it, for example:

·         El kiosco- kiosk

·         Karate- karate

·         El kimono- kimono

·         El koala- koala

·         El kiwi- kiwi

Homework: Tracing the letter Kk

Reminder:

All art together- The last two weeks we will be talking about the arts, for that reason the art for this month is that each child makes any art according to her/his creativity. They can use any material and any technic. Thanks to the parents who brought their art, Great creativity!!

Important note: Ms Kenia and I had a workshop titled Ready to go to kindergarten by Project Enlightenment and we want to share with you The Readiness Skills to go to kindergarten. These skills start from the most important.

1. Demonstrates self-help skills.

2. Separates from parent without anxiety.

3. Respects rights of others by keeping hands to self/ keeps to own space.

4. Self-control and positive classroom behavior.

5. Uses classroom materials appropriately.

6. Expresses emotions and feelings effectively.

7. Communicates needs, wants, and thoughts in primary language.

8. Counts to 20 or above.

9. Can read five or more sight words.

10. Understand concepts of time associates activities with time of day.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Ms Iris & Ms Kenia