Week of August 8th-11th

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: August 8th to August 12th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Clowns & Magicians

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

The last week of Summer Camp is finally here and we want to thank you for giving us the opportunity  to teach and take care of your little children. We feel special and value our work and we are glad that the children have experienced new learning adventures with hands-on play during the summer. This week we will learn to be Little Clowns and Magicians. We will discuss about the animals and the magicians in the circus and we have scheduled exciting learning activities related to this theme that will allow us to continue strengthening motor, cognitive-sensory and language skills such as making magic, creating puppets, painting our faces, reading short stories about the life in the circus, etc.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear swimsuit and water shoes for Splash Day. Bring a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Pack all these items in a tote bag for your child. We recommend to label the bag, swimsuit, towel and shoes with your child’s name.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag.

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

●      Bring a hat for your child if he/she is sensitive to the sun.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      “Crazy Hair” Day on Monday, August 8th.

●      Magic Day on Tuesday, August 9th.

●      Meet and Greet Day on Tuesday, August 9.

●      Painted Faces Day on Wednesday, August 10th.

●      Summer Camp Social on Thursday August 11.

●      School closed on Friday, August 12 and Monday, August 15.

●      First Day of School 2016-2017 on Tuesday, August 16

Week of August 1st-5th

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: August 1st to August 5th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Athletes

🔠 What are we learning?

 

Dear Ositos Parents,

We are getting down to the last few weeks of Summer Camp! This week we will learn to be Little Athletes. We will continue creating safe learning environments that offer the children the opportunity to explore sports. We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor, cognitive-sensory and language skills. One of them is the Olympics Parade at Sff! Children should wear sports clothes for the parade. They will also participate in competitions with Monitos and Sapitos and on Friday, they will have so much fun on our Trike-a- Thon.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

 

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear swimsuit and water shoes for Splash Day. Bring a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Pack all these items in a tote bag for your child. We recommend to label the bag, swimsuit, towel and shoes with your child’s name.

●      Have your child wear a t-shirt of their favorite sports team on Monday.

●      Have your child dressed like an Athlete on Tuesday. They can be tennis players, swimmers, soccer players, etc.

●      Bring your child’s bike, bike helmet and kneepads labeled with his/her name on Friday.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothing's that is appropriate to sunny weather.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag.

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

●      Bring a hat for your child if he/she is sensitive to the sun

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Favorite Sport Player T-Shirt Day on Monday

●      The Olympics Parade on Tuesday.

●      Splash days on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

●      Olympic Games at Sff! on Thursday

●      Bike Ride Day on Friday.

●      Meet and Greet Day on Tuesday, August 9.

●      Summer Camp Social on Thursday August 11.

●      School closed on Friday, August 12 and Monday, August 15.

●      First Day of School 2016-2017 on Tuesday, August 16

Week of July 25th-29th

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: July 25th to July 29th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Creators

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week we will learn to be little creators. We will continue creating safe learning environments that offer the children the opportunity to explore, experiment and create inventions using a variety of recycled materials. We will discuss how to create products with recycled material and turn them into reusable products.

We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills. Children will have fun while working on different art projects through the week. We will build a house for the birds, create a collage with magazine paper, make musical instruments using different materials and a garden pot using milk bottles.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

 

We will appreciate if you can help us by bringing this recycled materials

Empty juicy or milk plastic containers

Old Magazines

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers and water shoes for Splash Day. Bring a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Pack all these items in a tote bag for your child. We recommend to label the bag, swimsuit, towel and shoes with your child’s name.

●      Bring the following recycled materials: milk carton, water gallon bottle and used magazines on Monday.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothings that is appropriate to sunny weather.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag.

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

●      Bring a hat for your child if he/she is sensitive to the sun

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Splash days on Tuesday and Thursday.

Week of July 18th-22nd

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: July 18th to July 22nd, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Scientists

 

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week we will learn to be little scientists! We will discover and enjoy many new experiences together. We will be creating art figures of sea creatures after learning interesting facts about the wonders of the ocean. We will be also discussing about colors and how we can mix colors to create new ones. 

We will continue creating safe learning environments that offer the children the opportunity to explore and experiment with science. We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as discovering how a flower petals can change color if they are submerged in colored water, playing with green slime that we will prepare ourselves and exploring microscopic organisms by looking at them using a microscope.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

 

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear swimsuit and water shoes for Splash Day. Bring a towel. Pack all these items in a tote bag for your child. We recommend to label the bag, swimsuit, towel and shoes with your child’s name.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothing that is appropriate to sunny weather.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag.

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

●      Bring a hat for your child if he/she is sensitive to the sun.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Splash days on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Week of July 11th-15th

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Title: Little Gardeners

Week: July 11th thru July 15th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Gardening & Nature

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week we will learn to be little gardeners and we will discuss about nature, trees and plants. We will continue creating safe learning environments that offer the children the opportunity to explore and experiment with nature. We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as planting flower seeds in our own pots to decorate our garden, collecting dry leaves to create a collage, creating a flower with clay, having a camping day and visit the Flower Shop at Sff! that will be located in the lobby.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

 

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Bring a pot for Monday’s activity.

●      Bring a hat, flashlight, water bottle, small tent (if you have any of these items at home) and a snack.

●      Bring a real flower from your garden or an artificial one for Flower Shop Day.

●      Have your child wear swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers and water shoes for Splash Day. Bring a towel and a plastic bag for wet items. Pack all these items in a tote bag for your child. We recommend to label the bag, swimsuit, towel and shoes with your child’s name.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothing that is appropriate to sunny weather.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag.

●       If you have a little tent at home please bring it on Wednesday for our Camping Day.

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

●      Bring a hat for your child if he/she is sensitive to the sun

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Splash days on Wednesdays and Fridays.

●      Camping Day on Wednesday, July 13th.

●      Splash Days on Wednesdays and Fridays.

●      Sff! Flower Shop on Friday, July 15th.

Week of July 5th-8th

Classroom: Ositos

Blog Title: Little Readers

Week: July 4th thru July 8th

Weekly Featured Theme: Reading & Story Books

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week we will learn to be little readers. Children will learn about reading and its benefits. Reading has a significant number of benefits and it will enable children to get knowledge, stimulate them, help them with vocabulary expansion, develop analytical skills and improve focus. We are scheduling exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills. It will be a week of Princesses, Knights, castles and dragons. Children will build and paint castles, dramatize their favorite characters and participate in a Royal Parade of Knights and Princesses.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

 

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Bring recycle material such as plastic containers, etc.

●      Bring swimsuit, towel, water shoes and a tote handbag for Splash days.

●      Have your child wear his/her favorite pajama and bring sleeping bag and your child’s favorite story book for Pajama day (see holiday and upcoming events section for dates).

●      Bring favorite knights or princess doll for Character Doll Day.

●      Have your child wear the outfit of their favorite character of a story book for Princess and Knight Parade (see holiday and upcoming events section for dates).

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothings that is appropriate to sunny weather.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag.

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

●      Bring a hat for your child if he/she is sensitive to the sun.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Splash days on Wednesdays and Fridays.

●      School will be closed on Independence Day, Monday, July 4th.

●      Pajama Day on Tuesday, July 5.

●      Character Doll Day on Wednesday, July 6.

●      Princess and Knight Parade on Friday, July 8

Week of June 27th- July 1st

Blog Title: Little Travelers

Classroom: Ositos

Week: June 27th thru July 1st

Weekly Featured Theme: Celebrating the country where we live

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week we will learn to be little travelers and we will celebrate the country where we live. The children will learn about interesting facts of USA. We are scheduling exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as pretending to travel across different places in the US while looking at diverse landscape that US offers  and participating in a flag parade on Friday and having a picnic while listening to the national anthem of the United States of America.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Claudia

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear a swimsuit on Wednesday and Fridays. Make sure your child brings towel, swim shoes and a bag for the wet clothing.

●      If your child is sensitive to the sun, make sure to bring a hat for the outdoor activity days.

●      Bring recycle material like shoes boxes and paper towel rolls.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothings that is appropriate to sunny weather.

●      Sunscreen and mosquito repellant are important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn/mosquito bites. Yet applying sunscreen and mosquito repellent to your child requires planning. If sunscreen and mosquito repellent must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen and mosquito repellant should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and mosquito repellant, label the bottles with your child's name and place them in a ziploc bag

●      Apply sunscreen to your child at home in the mornings.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Splash days on Wednesdays and Fridays.

●      Flag Parade on Friday, July 1st.

●      School will be closed on Independence Day, Monday, July 4th.