Week of February 22nd-26th

Ositos Class

Miss Amparo- Miss Luz

Week of ( Semana de): February 22nd-26th

Theme of the Week (Tema de la Semana): “How things work” – Science in the daily life

Dear Ositos Parents:

This week Sff! will host the Science Fair Week, you will have the opportunity to appreciate some scientific experiments in which your children have been carrying out research and critical thinking.

At the same time, our Ositos will be learning everything about magnets, how they have two poles, how they attract each other, how they repel or push away, and what a magnetic field is. They will also be learning about elements that can combine or mix, and the importance of the 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle).

Our objectives by areas this week are:

Socio-emotional: Work in a team.

Cognitive: Group numbers in 10’s up to 50.

Psychomotor: Recognize left and right side of the body.

Language: Identify words that star with the same syllable.

Literacy Activity: Letter of the week “Ff”.

 

Tips:

·         Play with your child “go fishing” with magnets.

·         Teach your child how to take care of the environment.

·         Talk to your child about the importance and benefits of recycle.

Homework of the week: 

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working in class (LETTER Ff). Please bring them back on Monday.

Remember, kids are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework — it shows kids that what they do is important.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays (Eventos especiales, Bienvenidas y Estudiante de la Semana):

This week our Traveling Pet “Willy” will visit Eva Sofia’s house. He is so excited to have fun with Eva Sofia’s and his family. Don’t forget to record your memories (pictures) to share with your classmates.

Friendly Reminders:

·         Please bring some magnets or objects that can be attracted by magnets.

·         Don’t forget to visit the Science Fair on February 22nd-26th. Save the date in your calendar.

·         The weather is getting cold; please bring appropriate clothes for your child: long sleeve shirt, long pants, jacket, gloves, hat, scarf (in a labeled tote bag) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Don’t forget to take home your child’s blanket on Friday and bring it back on Monday.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Family Story Time: Our children love to listen to stories from their relatives. Let us know if you would like to join us at 11:45 am, any day of the week.

Important Upcoming Dates:

February 22-26: Science Fair Week

February 29 – March 4: Teacher’s appreciation week

March 2^nd: Picture Day

Thank you notes:

Thank you to all our wonderful parents for taking a time to visit our Science Fair, and praise their children for the effort in carrying out research and findings in their science projects.

Miss Amparo and Miss Luz

Week of February 15th-19th

Ositos Class

Miss. Luz & Mss. Amparo

Week of February 15th-19th

Theme of the Week: “Como funcionan las cosas” “Little scientists

Hola Osito Parents,

This week we will be working with our little scientists so that they can present our experiments in the science fair next week.

 

The purpose of teaching science is to develop the child's ability to understand the nature of their environment. Children and adults must understand what it takes to be scientific and how it can potentially affect each one of us.

 

The objective of teaching science is not to educate people that will go on to devote the rest of their lives to scientific questions, but, instead, it is to train people to have a holistic view that promotes the development of scientific thinking. It teaches them to question and reflect on natural phenomena that happen to around us by investigating the causes that generate them. We want them to develop a scientific attitude and become reflective, critical, and analytical so that they are able to follow a method to conduct research based on the available information,  formulate hypotheses and verify them through the experience.

The value will be working is Creativity.

Praxias: Ejercicios Bucofaciales

• Jugamos con los sonidos: Colocamos la lengua arriba del paladar y soplamos, emitimos el fonema Rrrrrr
• Lo pronunciamos de forma rápida y lenta.

Homework of the week:

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working on in class. Please bring them back on Monday.

Special Request

We need your help this week that we are going to be working in our experiments. Can you help us by bringing any equipment that you think is related to science experiments? Examples include: safety glasses, droppers, test tubes, and measuring cylinders.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays: (Eventos especiales, Bienvenidas y Viaje de la mascota): The traveling Pet is with Daniel. You can take him wherever you want, take care of it, dress it, take pictures and share them with us. The pet will travel with you for this week. Please return it next Monday so that he can visit another friend.

Friendly Reminders:

·         The weather is getting cold, please bring appropriate clothes for your child (long sleeve shirt, long pants, and jacket) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Label all your child’s belongings.

·         Please sign up for the“Traveling Pet.” Our sign-up sheet is outside the classroom.

·         Our Ositos enjoy story time with their family members so much. Please don’t forget to sign up for this activity. We have story time every day at 11.45 am.

Important Upcoming Dates:

·         February 22nd - 26th: Science Fair Week

·         February 29th - March 4th: Teacher Appreciation Week

We want to thank Mr. Larry Wolfgang for coming to the class and teach us about car motors and tires.

Muchas gracias to Lyla's father and Cierra's parents for taking the time to come to the Ositos class and celebrate Valentines day.

Thank you

Mss. Luz and Ms. Amparo

Week of February 8th-12th

Ositos Classroom

Miss Amparo- Miss Luz

Week of ( Semana de): February 8-12

Theme of the Week (Tema de la  Semana): “How Things Work”/”Como funcionan las cosas”

Dear Ositos Parents,

Valentine’s Day for our children is all about friendship. This week we will have appropriate activities to help our children to better understand the value of friendhip and love. They will learn the History of Valentine’s Day, who is St. Valentine and why is this holiday celebrated.

At the same time, our Ositos will continue learning how things work. Some of their parents will come to explain them how the musical instruments work and Mr. Larry will explain how the cars work.

Our objectives by areas this week are:
Socio-emotional: Do some act of kindness.
Cognitive: Spatial orientation and laterality.
Psychomotor: Make puzzles with more than 15 pieces.
Language: Memorize short texts.
Literacy Activity: Letter of the week “Gg”.
Tips:
·         Explain the value of friendship to your child.
·         Tell your child who was your best friend at school, and which are your memories with him/her.
·         Encourage your child to do some acts of kindness.

Homework of the week: 

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working in class (LETTER Gg). Please bring them back on Monday.

Remember, kids are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework — it shows kids that what they do is important.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays (Eventos especiales, Bienvenidas y Estudiante de la Semana):

This week our Traveling Pet “Willy” will visit Logan’s house. He is so excited to have fun with Logan and his family. Don’t forget to record your memories (pictures) to share with your classmates.

Friendly Reminders:

·         The weather is getting cold, please bring appropriate clothes for your child: long sleeve shirt, long pants, jacket, gloves, hat, scarf (in a labeled tote bag) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Family Story Time: Our children love to listen to stories from their relatives. Let us know if you would like to join us at 11.45 am, any day of the week.

Important Upcoming Dates:

Febrero 22-26: Science Fair Week

Thank you in advance to Lyla’s Daddy, Cierra’s parents and Mr. Larry for your help explaining to the children how things work.

Thank you to our wonderful parents for your collaboration on our Valentine’s Party.

Miss Amparo - Miss Luz

Week of February 1st-5th

Ositos Class

Miss. Luz & Mss. Amparo

February 1^st-5^th 

Theme of the Week: “Como funcionan las cosas” “How Things Work”

Hola Osito Parents,
It is important that children learn about the objects that surround us and how to operate them. This basic knowledge also stimulates interest and creativity.  It can also help to generate new concepts. Children learn various elements and artifacts of daily life by performing scientific experiments and logical comparisons that will stimulate their cognition and critical thinking.

Similarly, they'll participate in "Pequeños científicos" project, where through live experiments we will highlight the important role science plays in understanding different events of our everyday life 

The value will be working: Creativity.

Cancion
Hasta el cielo volar
En el espacio sideral

      Nuestro cohete

Volando está
De la luna hasta el sol
De saturno a plutón
Nuestro cohete
Volando está.
1, 2 3 divertido es para mi.
Nuestro cohete

regresa al hogar.

Poesía 1
Llegó el cartero
Viene a traer
Una hermosa carta
De mi tío Miguel
Las cartas llevan palabras
De amor y de amistad
Comunican muchas cosas

Y te hacen sentir especial.

Poesía 2
Soy un científico
Y voy a crear
Hacer muchos experimentos
Jugar y a  explorar
Disfruto jugando con objetos
Y descubriendo cada lugar.
Aunque aún sea pequeñito

Soy un científico de verdad!

Adivinanza 1
En la cocina  lo usan para  mezclar
muchos alimentos y asi degustar
ricos jugos y cremas también
su ruido es muy fuerte
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
es hora de comer!

La licuadora

Adivinanza 2
Si quieres mirar cosas pequeñas
Yo te puedo ayudar.
Mirando por mi lente
Se pueden agrandar.

La lupa

Trabalenguas
Lupita mira con su lupa
Libélulas que encuentra en su jardín.
Libélulas que encuentra en su jardín

Lupita mira con su lupa.

Praxias: Ejercicios Bucofaciales

• Jugamos con los sonidos: Colocamos la lengua arriba del paladar y soplamos, emitimos el fonema Rrrrrr
• Lo pronunciamos de forma rápida y lenta.

Homework of the week:

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working on in class. Please bring them back on Monday.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays: (Eventos especiales, Bienvenidas y Viaje de la mascota): You can take Willy wherever you want, take care of it, dress it, take pictures and share them with us. The pet will be your travel for this week. Please return it next Monday, will be waiting for another friend.

Special Activity:

The month of love and friendship is here and we want to celebrate with our kids. For this we would like to ask for your help by bring to school some goodies to share with the class, for example: Cards, Stickers, Playdough, gold fish and gummies any other items that you consider a good option. This special activity will be celebrated in each classroom.

Friendly Reminders:

·         The weather is getting cold, please bring appropriate clothes for your child (long sleeve shirt, long pants, and jacket) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Label all your child’s belongings.

·         Please sign up “Traveling Pet.” Our sign-up sheet is outside the classroom.

·         Our Ositos enjoy story time with their family members so much. Please don’t forget to sign up for this activity. We have story time every day at 11.45 am.

Thank you

Mss. Luz and Mss. Amparo

Week of January 25th-29th

Ositos Classroom/ Miss Amparo- Miss Luz

Week of January 25th-29th

Theme of the Week (Tema de la Semana):

We are Artists/Somos artistas

Dear Ositos Parents:

Art is an important part in children’s life. Carol B. Hillman in her book Teaching Four-Year-Olds addresses the topic: “Involving children in a variety of interesting art projects gives them a sense of accomplishment when they see what they have created with their own hands. And, when the teacher praises their efforts, children’s self-esteem increases (p.171).

This week our Ositos will show their imagination, creativity and effort to create beautiful art projects that will be displayed at the Art Fair. They also will continue creating artworks using different styles while learning the Biography of the most famous artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso.

Our objectives by areas this week, are:
Socio-emotional: Enjoy working in a group.
Cognitive: Recognition of numbers 1-20.
Psychomotor: Develop fine motor skills through art activities.
Language: Solve problems answering questions: Why, Where, When, How.
Literacy Activity: Letter of the week “Vv”.

Tips:
·         Provide different materials to your child to work in an art Project at home.
·         Take a time to sit beside your child to watch him/her works and listen to what he/she says about his/her art projects,
·         Offer encouragement and praise for his/her artwork.

Homework of the week: 

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working in class (LETTER Vv). Please bring them back on Monday.

Remember, kids are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework — it shows kids that what they do is important.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays (Eventos especiales, Bienvenidas y Estudiante de la Semana):

This week our Traveling Pet “Willy” the bear will start visiting the Ositos’ home. Make sure to check the sheet outside the classroom to take him home. He is so excited to go everywhere with your child, to the park, to the store, to the library, but most he likes to listen to stories at night. Please record your memories with him to share them in class.

Friendly Reminders:

·         The weather is getting colder, please bring appropriate clothes for your child: long sleeve shirt, long pants, jacket, gloves, hat, scarf (in a labeled tote bag) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Family Story Time: Our children love to listen to stories from their relatives. Let us know if you would like to join us at 11.45 am, any day of the week.

·         Art Fair: Please take a time to visit our Art Fair during this week and praise your child for the beautiful artwork displayed in the lobby.

·         You are invited to come and paint a Masterpiece with your child on Friday, from 4:00pm-5:00pm while having fun together. For this hand-on art activity, we will provide different art material and light snack. Don’t miss it!.

Important Upcoming Dates:

January 25-29: Art Fair

Thank you to our wonderful parents for supports our activities, helping your children to do their homework. We appreciate a lot your dedication and effort.

Miss Amparo - Miss Luz

Week of January 18th-22nd

Ositos Class

Miss Luz and Miss Amparo

Week of January 18^th – January 22^nd

Theme of the week: “Means of communication” Medios de comunicacion

Hola Osito Parents,
This week we will continue to talk about the media. This time we will turn our focus to the wide world of the net. We will talk about secured browsing, as well as the browsing and learning tools such as YouTube, Google, and more.
At home, with your children, you may navigate the net to an innumerable amount of pages with learning games for children. Here are some of our suggestions:

http://pbskids.org/games/

http://www.educapeques.com/los-juegos-educativos/juegos-de-memoria-logica-habilidad-para-ninos/portal.php?contid=90&accion=listo  http://www.kidspsych.org/oochy2.html

The value will be working: Diversity.

Jugamos con los sonidos: colocamos la lengua detrás de los dientes y pronunciamos el fonema t

Homework of the week:

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working in class. Please bring them back on Monday.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays: (Eventos especiales, Bienvenidas y Estudiante de la Semana): The student of the week is Solana Mack, we can’t wait to know everything about you (favorite toy, book, food, places to go, etc.).

Muchas Gracias
We want to thank Quincy's grandma and Maive's mom for coming to read a story. The children love the story!!!

Friendly Reminders:

·         The weather is getting cold, please bring appropriate clothes for your child (long sleeve shirt, long pants, and jacket) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Label all your child’s belongings.

·         Please sign up “The Student of the Week.” Our sign-up sheet is outside the classroom.

·         Our Ositos enjoy story time with their family members so much. Please don’t forget to sign up for this activity. We have story time every day at 11.45 am.

Important Upcoming Dates:

·         Art Fair 25th – 29th

Thank you,

Mss. Luz and Mss. Amparo

Week of January 11th-18th

Ositos Class

Miss Amparo and Miss Luz

Week of ( Semana de):  January 11th-15th

Theme of the Week (Tema de la Semana):  “Daily Media Information”

Dear Ositos Parents:
Communication is the way people share their thoughts and feelings.
This week our Ositos will learn that communication is very important for building and maintaining relationships with friends and family. They will also learn that this is a two-way process in which listening is as important as talking, and that it can be oral, written, or non-verbal.

Our Ositos will have a lot of activities to develop their communication skills.

Our objectives by areas this week, are:

Socio-emotional: Express their thoughts, feeling and interests in appropriate way.

Cognitive: Make a sequence by size.

Psychomotor: Jump like a rabbit.

Language: Identify absurd situations and objects.

Literacy Activity: Letter of the week “Cc”.

Tips:
The following tips can be used to help improve your child’s communication skills:

·         Practice, practice, practice: Children whose parents talk to them more often and in more complex sentences have wider vocabulary and can express themselves more clearly and easily.

·         Be a role model: the best way to help your child learn to communicate well, is to demonstrate positive communication skills yourself. For example, ask him/her lots of open-ended questions and be a good listener.

·         Use games and role play: games and make-believe role playing activities can be useful to teach communication skills in imagined scenarios.

Homework of the week: 

Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to reinforce the activities that we are working in class (LETTER Cc). Please bring them back on Monday.

Remember, kids are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework — it shows kids that what they do is important.

Student of the week:
Miles Scott is our student of the week, we are so excited to see your poster and can't wait to know more about you.

Friendly Reminders:

·         The weather is getting cold, please bring appropriate clothes for your child: long sleeve shirt, long pants, jacket, gloves, hat, scarf (in a labeled tote bag) and a cozy blanket for nap time.

·         Make sure your child washes his/her hands when arriving and leaving the classroom.

·         Family Story Time: We still have spaces available for Story Time in our classroom. Let us know if you would like to join us at 11.45 am, any day of the week.

·         For our upcoming activities we will need your help by bringing cardboards of any size. You can leave them outside the classroom (in the lobby area.)

 Important Upcoming Dates:

January 18: School is closed in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you notes:

Thank you for helping us to do our activities with recycled material.

Miss Amparo - Miss Luz