Week of June 13-17

Hola Parents,

The theme for this week is "El Circo" (The Circus).

The words we will be reviewing are:

• Los Payasos- The Clowns
• El Circo-The Circus
• El disfraz-The costume
• El trapecista- the trapeze artist
• El malabarista-the juggler
•  Te amo Papa- I love you Dad
• El Elefante- The elephant

On Tuesday we will dress up like clowns. Please send your child with colorful shirts and pants, just for tomorrow they don’t have to match. :0) 

Congratulations Graduates! I am so proud of you. I will miss you and I wish you much succes in kindergarten. Good luck and remember to practice your Spanish!
A special thanks to all parents, graduates, relatives Spanish for fun! staff and everyone that helped make this day possible

Happy Birthday to Dulce Gasca, who turns 5 years old on Thursday June 16^th!

Welcome to our new summer campers, we are happy to have you here for the summer.

Please remember to send in towels, bathing suits, hats for Splash days!!!

Thank You and Have a Great week!!!

Miss Iris and Miss Sandra

Week of May 31st - June 10th

First  weeks of Summer Camp

Welcome to our 2011 Summer Camp!!!

Our Summer Camp will be full of fun activities, games and of course Spanish!!!!

Ositos Class teachers: Miss Iris and Miss Sandra

The theme for these weeks  is “Summer has arrived”

And the Ositos are learning about  the sea animals and the beach.

The words we are  learning these  weeks are:

• Los peces-The fish
• El delfin-The dolphin
• La tortuga de mar-The sea turtle
• El cangrejo-The crab
• El pulpo-The octopus
• La ballena-The whale
• El caballito de mar-The sea horse
• El tiburon-The shark
• La playa-The beach
• El mar-The sea
• La arena-The sand
• El sol-The sun
• Los ojos-The eyes
• Las gafas-The sunglasses

Special Events this week:

Welcome to Alejando Salgueiro, Emma Montanez and Thomas Chaney!!

Happy Birthday to Joaquin Yoon. Congratulations!!

Friday June 10: Bring your Sunglasses to school!!!

Saturday June 11th, 2011, our Graduation Ceremony starts at 12:30pm

Where: Sertoma Arts Center

1400 W Milbrook Rd, Raleigh NC 27612

Be on time!!!

Reminders:

Items your child  Must Bring at the Beginning on Summer Camp

Extra Summer Clothes

Hat

Blanket

Repellent ( if you wish) (Please fill out Authorization Form)

For Splash days bring:

• Swimsuit
• Towel
• Sunblock - Please fill out and sign permission slip!
• Swimming shoes

Remember to pick up your child's wet clothes at the end of the day on our Splash days.

Thanks and Have a great week!!!

Miss Iris and Miss Sandra

Last week of school!!

Dear Parents:

I hope you have had a great weekend.
This is our last week of this great school year 2010-2011. We want to thank you for all your support and love  during this year. It has been wonderful!! 

During this week we will review the topics we learned in this past year, specially those our children were more interested in.

We officially begun our graduation rehearsal.

This Thursday we will have our Last Day of School Party!! It will be lots of fun.

Just a friendly reminder for you to bring sunblock, towels, bathing suits, bug repellent and extra summer clothing.
For this summer every  Monday, Wednesday and Thursday we will have SPLASH!!

Thank you!!

Miss Iris and Miss Claudia

Week of May 16 - 20!

Dear Ositos Parents!

We hope you had a great weekend!

This week our Ositos will continue working the theme of the month “How we grow and change” and we will look at pictures and talk about the life stages. We will talk about our elders be respectful to them.

Thank you for all your pictures and posters they have been fun to have in our class to compare and talk about our own life stages.

This and next week we are having a very last special activity called “El libro viajero”, where each child will have the opportunity to take home a book to enjoy and read with his/her parents, along with this book, there will be a notebook, crayons and pencils to write anything your child may say or feel about the book after the reading. With this activity we will encourage our children to read and write about their feelings and interests.

I will send you more details on a later note.

Once more, thank you for all your support.

Miss Iris and Miss Claudia

Remember to check your child for tick and other insects. Also bring in sunscreen and insect repellent (only lotions, wipes and NON-aerosol sprays.)

A signed permission slip is required to administer sunscreen and insect repellent, please remember to fill one when bringing these items.

Please leave light-weight long sleeved shirts and pants, hats and sunglasses in your child’s cubby. And request that your child wear these items when outside in the sun.

Thank you

Week of May 9-13th!!

Hola Parents,

We hope all of you had a great Mother's Day and enjoyed the surprise your child made for you with love!!! 

This week we continue working with the theme “How we grow and change", children will have the opportunity to arrange pictures in chronological sequence observing how a baby grows until becoming an adult.

We will also talk about our pictures and our growth and change.

We will be writing numbers and letters in our notebooks reviewing what we have learned so far.

We will have fun in our Music Class on Tuesday.

On Wednesday Sff! is hosting a reading event sponsored by Lucy Daniels Center promoting the joys of literature in our center.

And dance and movement on Thursday to energize our mind and body.

On a sad note we would like to inform you that Miss Ruth is no longer with us, last week she had to leave us due to a family emergency and will not be able to come back right away. We are going to miss her enormously.

We will keep you posted as a new teacher may arrive and assist Miss Iris in the afternoon.

Have a great week

Miss Iris and Miss Claudia

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Week of May 02-06!!

We Grow and change!
During the month of May, we will be talking about how we grow and change. With this theme we are looking to prepare children transitioning to kindergarten.
This week los ositos will observe pictures representing different ages and placed them in sequential order. We will also talk about the stages we go while we are growing.

As a class activity I would like to have pictures of every osito growing up, a couple of pictures reflecting the changes will help them understand better the concept and will reinforce their language skills, when they share with the rest of the class some information about the picture shown.

Words of the month:

Crecer – To Grow
Cambiar – To Change
Feliz Dia Mama - Happy Mother’s Day
El Adulto – The Adult
El anciano- The Old man
El adolescente – The teenage
El amor- Love
Secuencia - Pattern

On Friday we are having our Mother's Day Celebration, we are inviting all mothers and grandmothers to come and enjoy a delicious breakfast in your honor. Breakfast will be served between 8:30 and 10:30am. Las esperamos! The same day at 4pm our class will have the chance to perform  a little song we are dedicating to you on your special day.


Also please note we are in an area where during this time of the year, insects and other animals begin to appear, even though we are careful about it, we will need your help to keep up with it. This past week we found a tick crawling on one child’s neck. The head of the tick was not embedded so it was easily lifted off and thrown into the woods. But we will call the parent if the tick is embedded to come and remove the tick since the center is not allowed to remove ticks that are embedded.


Have a great week!

Miss Iris and Miss Claudia

Week of April 25- 29!

Hola Parents,
We hope you had a great Easter break. This week we are learning about means of transportation by air. We will reinforce the numbers, the vowels and writing our names!!!
We will work on spelling and the plural of nouns.
We will finish with our theme for the month of April "Means of Transportation" and reinforce everything we have learned about land, water and air transportation.
We would like to thank all the parents for your collaboration in our Easter party, we all had a great time :)))
Thank You and Have a great weekend!!!
Miss Iris, Miss Claudia and Miss Ruth