Week of June 20th-24th

Blog Title: Little Chefs

Classroom: Ositos

Week: June 20th-24th 

Weekly Featured Theme: Summer, the Beach & Healthy Eating

 

🔠 What are we learning?

 

Dear Ositos Parents,

Our summer camp is finally here! We are so excited that we are able to keep encouraging children learn new things and develop their creativity while having a fun and exciting time. We are scheduling exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as cooking and baking. We will work with easy recipes and prepare delicious snacks.

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 Giselle

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear a swimsuit on Splash days. 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 a object that represents summer for Monday, June 20th (beach toys or beach play sets).

●      Bring sunglasses for your child for Tuesday, June 21st.

●      Have your child wear his/her favorite summer clothing on Thursday, June 23th.

●      Dress your child with hawaiian outfits for the Luau on Friday, June 24th.

●      Bring recycle material like big boxes, plastic bottles and recycle paper.

🔆 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.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Summer Camp First Day on June 20th.

●      Splash days on Wednesdays and Fridays mornings.

●      Sunglasses Day on Tuesday, June 21st.

●      Summer Fashion Parade on Thursday, June 23rd.

●      Luau Celebration Party  on Friday, June 24th.

Week of June 13th-17th

Blog Title: End of School Year

Classroom: Ositos

Week: June 13th thru June 17th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Celebrating Father’s Day

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

It is unbelievable how time flies! We are about to end another school year. We, as teachers, are really proud that this last year has been a year full of challenges and accomplishments. Many of our ositos will start soon a new academic stage in life since they are going to Kindergarten and others will continue their preparation in Sff!.

Thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life. We have worked as a team for the wellbeing of your children and we are very happy to say now “mission accomplished”!

Best Regards,

Miss Amparo and Miss Giselle

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and remove everything and bring new set of clothings that is appropriate to weather as Summer camp is starting on June 20th.

●      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.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Father’s Day Celebration and Early Release on June 17th at 11:15 a.m.

●      Last day of School on June 17th. Children will have early release at 12:30 p.m.

●      Summer Camp First Day on June 20th.

Week of June 6th- 10th

Blog Title: The Universe and I

Classroom: Ositos

Week: June 6th thru June 10th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: The Planets in the Solar System

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week the children will continue learning about the universe. Children will discover and explore all the planets that our solar system consists of through play. We will also review a few favorite topics that we have taught during the school year.

We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us strengthen their language skills. We will review the alphabet, word and sentence formation and creation of story and riddles. Our ositos will also rehearse for their graduation. We are happy to see how much they have accomplished and we wish them the best in Kindergarten.

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 Giselle

📄 Materials for Special Projects

●     Help us to get recycle material such as small boxes, soda cans, newspaper, paper towel roll and plastic bottles. We are going to use these material for our Father’s Day Celebration.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather.

●      Take home art crafts from your child’s cubby.

●      Check your child’s journal daily.

●      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.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Report cards will be sent to your residence next week.

●      Graduation ceremony on June 11th.

●      Father’s Day Celebration and Early Release on June 17th.

●      Last day of School on June 17th. Children will have early release at 12:30 p.m.

●      Summer Camp First Day on June 20th.

🎵 Songs of the Week - The Planets

Buenos días ya salió el sol

Miro hacia el cielo, las nubes de algodón

Buenas noches, la luna salió

Muchas estrellitas luceros de amor.

Estrellas, planetas

Luna y sol

Cuida nuestra tierra y llénala de amor.

📚 Poems, Riddles and Tongue Twisters

Poem

Todos los niños

Un gran viaje van hacer

De la tierra hasta la luna

Volar será un placer

Nos pondremos nuestros

Trajes y a la nave subiremos

Sentaditos todos juntos

A la luna llegaremos.

Father’s Day Poem

Mi papito es muy bueno,
igualito a mi mamá,
se levanta muy temprano,
yo lo voy a saludar.

Yo me subo a sus rodillas,
y me pongo a cabalgar,
ico, ico caballito,
qué bueno que es mi papa

Riddle - The Sun

Doy calorcito

Soy muy redondo

Salgo prontito

Y tarde me escondo.

Tongue Twister

Filipí filipó

La flor se abrio

Filipí filipó

El sol la abrigo

👄 Praxias

●      Review the phonemes p, l, t and r.

Week of May 30th- June 3rd

Blog Title: The Universe and I

Classroom: Ositos

Week: May 30th thru June 3rd, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: The Solar System

🔠 What are we learning?

 

Dear Ositos Parents,

This week the children will be taught about the universe. Children will discover the sun, moon, stars, the planet Earth and other planets of the solar system through play. Children will explore the earth and will learn the names and characteristics of all the planets that are part of our solar system.

We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us strengthen motor and cognitive-sensory skills.  Some of these activities for the children involve art crafts and drama play. Children will pretend to be astronauts and will experience space travel while observing the stars and they will also create their astronaut suit and draw the planets.

 

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 Giselle

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather.

●      Take home art crafts from your child’s cubby.

●      Check your child’s journal daily.

●      If your child has a astronaut cap or something that looks similar, bring it on Tuesday, May 31st for our space project.

●      Bring a small lantern for Friday, June 3 for our camping project.

●      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.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Memorial Day on Monday, May 30th. School will be closed.

●      Camping Project on Friday, June 3rd.

●      Report cards will be sent home next week.

●      June 13^th- Parent teacher conference. If you require a meeting to discuss about your child’s development and evaluation, please fill out your name, mark the day and time you would like to meet in the form that will be placed outside of the classroom.

●      Graduation ceremony on June 11th.

●      Father’s Day Celebration- June 17^th at 11:30am  

🎂 Birthdays

●      Miles Scott is celebrating his birthday in June 2nd! He is turning 5! Happy Birthday to you, Miles! We wish you the best and hope you have a wonderful day!

Week of May 23rd-27th

Blog Title: The Animal Kingdom - Insects

Classroom: Ositos

Week: May 23rd thru May 27th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Insects

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Ositos Parents,

We would like to thank you once again for all your support and for letting us play such an important role in your child’s life.

This week the children will be learning about insects through play. We will discuss about bees, butterflies, ants and spiders. We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us strengthen motor and cognitive-sensory skills.  Some of these activities for the children involve art crafts. Children will be provided with a special snack made of honey while doing art craft.

Thank you,

Miss Amparo and Miss Giselle

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to weather.

●      Take home art crafts from your child’s cubby.

●      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.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Family Story Time every day at 11:45 a.m.Let us know if you would like to join us.

●      Field Trip to Marbles Kids Museum on Thursday, May 26th.

●      Memorial Day on Monday, May 30th. School will be closed.

🐶 Travelling Pet

●      Traveling Pet “Willy” will be visiting Camila’s residence starting Monday, May 23rd through Friday, May 27th. We will look forward to see Camila's memories with Willy through pictures.

Week of May 16th-20th

Ositos Class
Miss Amparo and Miss Giselle
May 16th thru May 20th
Theme: The Animal Kingdom

Dear Ositos Parents,
During this month, we will teach about the animal kingdom. We will encourage children to respect and care for all animal species. Our Ositos will learn about wild, farm and sea animals, birds and insects and endangered species.

We have planned fun learning activities such as Pet Parade on Friday May 13th, Pet Shop on Friday May 20th and Green World. For the Pet Shop project, we will use puppet pets and we will play and have the pet have a bath, vaccine and haircut. Green World will be an ongoing project and we would like to invite you to join us and support all our activities for this project.

This week our ositos are working very hard on a beautiful surprise for their mothers. All ositos moms are welcomed to join us on Friday May 6th in the classroom to celebrate Mother’s day.

Songs of the Week
Animales de la Selva
Los animales que hay en la selva,
Tú los vas repetir,
Algunos gordos otros muy altos
Igual nos vamos a divertir.
El elefante que está muy grande
Y la jirafa que alta es
Y el monito que salta y salta
El cocodrilo… me va a morder
Los animales……..

Es un león que esta enojón
Es la serpiente que es muy decente
Y la tortuga come lechuga
Y el ratón (donde está el ratón?)
Ya se escondió.

Los animales…….
Animales de la Granja
Mi abuelita tiene, una granja bella
Con animalitos y flores muy bellas,
Ahora este jueguito de imitar sonidos
Tú lo haces primero y luego tu amiguito (x2)
El perrito ladra (sonido)
El gato maulla (sonido)
El gallito canta (sonido)
La vaca estornuda (sonido)
El conejo salta
El caballo trota
Y los pajaritos la canción entonan(x2)

Poems of the Week
Poem #1
Un elefante no es elegante
No usa sombrero
Corbata ni guantes
La trompa muy larga
La panza gigante
Las patas muy gruesas
Y las orejas muy grandes.

Poem #2
Los zorros en el monte
Las gallinas en el corral
Los peces en el río
Y los patitos dicen cua cua cua

Riddles of the Week

El Gato Riddle
Sale de noche
Miau miau
Duerme de día
Miau miau
Le gusta la carne
Y la leche fría

El Sapo Riddle
Soy verde
Me gusta saltar
Jugar en el charco
Y también croar

Tongue Twisters of the Week
El hipopótamo hipo
Esta con hipo
Quien le quita el hipo
Al hipopótamo hipo

Facial Movements Exercises
● Practice previous praxias.
● Stick tongue out and touch the sides of the lips.

Homework of the Week
● Make sure to take home your child’s notebook every Friday to reinforce the activities we have done in the classroom at home and bring it back on Monday.
● Thanks for taking an active interest in your child’s homework! Your support will help your child to be successful at school.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays
Our traveling pet “Willy” is going to visit Haley Nieman's home from May 2nd through May 8th. Haley, we are looking forward to see pictures of the time you spend with Willy.

Kindergarten Visit

Dear Ositos Parents,

We are happy to confirm that Sff! has organized a short field trip to Kingswood Elementary. This field trip will take place on Tuesday, May 17^th. Detailed information will be sent to you during the next following days.

Our Ositos will have the opportunity to get familiar with Elementary school, its library, cafeteria and its Kindergarten class!

Friendly Reminder
● Parents are welcomed to share your expertise in gardening to support our “Green World” project.
● Communicate your child’s teacher which kind of pet your child will be bringing for our project “Pet Parade” that will take place on Friday May 13th.
● Bring your child’s favorite stuffed animal on Friday May 20th for our special Pet Shop project.
● Check regularly your child’s cubby to take home art papers and clothing that he/she does not longer need.
● Fill out an authorization form for sunscreen if you are planning to bring in one for your child. Make sure to put the sunscreen inside a Ziploc bag labeled with your child’s name.
● Send in an extra set of clothing suitable for the season/weather.
● Our children love listening stories from their relatives at Family Story TIme. Let us know if you would like to join us at 11.45 a.m. any day of this coming week.

Upcoming Events and Holidays
May 14: International Migratory Bird Day
May 15 - 21: National Prevention Week
                        Hurricane Preparedness Week      
May 18th-20th- Fish Tank
May 20th- Pet Parade        
May 20: Endangered Species Day
May 30: Memorial Day

Thank you for your cooperation.
 Miss Amparo and Miss Giselle

Week of April 25th-29th

Ositos Classroom
Miss Amparo and Miss Giselle
Week: April 25th through April 29th, 2016
Theme of the Week: “The Plants” – “Las Plantas”

Dear Ositos Parents,
Our Ositos are learning interesting facts about plants while working on amazing projects and they are taking turns to take care of our plants and track its changes. This week they will learn what kind of tools they need to grow a garden. They are also very excited to participate in next big project called “Green World” that is coming soon at Sff!.

April is the month of the Military Child. We will show our support and honor one of our students whose Daddy is in the Army by wearing purple on Thursday while she recites the Pledge of Allegiance at Circle Time. Purple is the combination of Army green, Coast Guard Blue, Air Force blue, Marine red and Navy blue and symbolizes all branches of the military. while she will recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Circle Time.

On Friday our Ositos will have a special activity to celebrate Arbor Day. Please send in a small plant with your child.

Weekly Objectives
Cognitive: Seriation by color and form and other Math concepts.
Socio-emotional: Create own dramatic play
Psychomotor: Dance to the left and to the right.
Language: Learn how to use plurals

Tips
Please encourage your children to review at home the interesting things about nature, plants and trees they learn in the classroom during the month of April.

Special Events, Welcome and Birthdays
Congratulations to Alaina Carrion and her family for the new baby. New Baby was a boy and was born on Monday, April 18th.

We want to thank Alaina's grandmother and aunt for visiting our Ositos class to participate in the activity. And thank you for providing the plants and all the materials. Muchas gracias.

Our traveling pet “Willy” will be visiting Ella’s house. He is so excited to go everywhere with Ella, to be fed, be snuggled and be told stories at night by her. Remember to share your memories with your classmates.

Friendly Reminders
● Send in your child wearing something purple on Thursday 28th.
● Bring a small plant with your child on Friday 29th.
● Check regularly your child’s cubby to take home art papers and clothing that he/she does not longer need.
● Send in an extra set of clothing suitable for the season/weather.
● Make sure to take home your child’s notebook this Friday to go over things we were working in the classroom and bring them back on Monday.
● Always remember kids are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework.
● Our children love listening stories from their relatives at Family Story TIme. Let us know if you would like to join us at 11.45 a.m. any day of this coming week.

Important Upcoming Dates
April 1-30: Month of the Military Child, National Poetry Month, Autism Awareness Month
April 29: Arbor Day

Thank you to our wonderful parents for welcoming Miss Giselle as a Teacher Assistant in Ositos classroom. She is very happy and feels comfortable working with our Ositos and their families.

Miss Amparo and Miss Giselle