Classroom: Sapitos A

Blog Title: New School Year

Week: August 15th to August 19th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: My classroom & My friends!

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos Parents,

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

Welcome to a new school year at Sff! We are also excited to welcome new children in our classroom! We are looking forward to getting to know you and your child. Children will need to adapt to a new teacher and new friends, we will be with them in every step of the way. This week our theme will be My school and friends! Children will start exploring the school as a big house and a big family. We have scheduled exciting learning activities related to this theme that will allow us to continue strengthening motor, cognitive-sensory and language. Children will get familiar with all the school materials and our guidelines and rules in the classroom.

Best Regards,

Miss Andrea and Miss Karol

Friendly Reminders

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen (no spray please) and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Check sunscreen bottles to see if you need to bring a new ones.
• Bring your child’s  insect repellent if he/she needs it.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

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

Classroom Rules Day on Friday, August 19.

Star Words of the Week

The teacher - El maestro

The school - La escuela

The friends - Los amigos

The games - Los juegos

🎵 Songs of the Week - Valores y Buenos Modales

Esta canción especial, lindas palabras te enseñará, por siempre tú las repetirás, aquí en SFF, buenos días, muchas gracias, mucho gusto, por favor, Estas son palabras mágicas, que por siempre te harán mejor (x2).

Buenos días, muchas gracias, se amable y de buen corazón, saludando a tu vecino y ayudando con mucho amor.

📚 Poems, Riddles and Tongue Twisters

Poem

Llego la hora de despertar,

Para ir a mi colegio,

Spanish for fun,

Allí tengo amigos,

Y puedo jugar,

Aprendo canciones,

Y muchas cosas más.

Riddle - The Crayons

A veces soy grueso

A veces delgado

De muchos colores pinto

Cuando me coges con la mano.

Riddle - The scissors

Traz traz corto papeles

Traz traz corto cartón

Traz traz

Creo muchas cosas

Con tu imaginación

Tongue Twister

Teresa trajo tizas hechas trizas

Hechas trizas trajo Teresa Tizas.

Classroom: Sapitos A

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: August 8th to August 12th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Clowns & Magicians

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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.

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. The children have enjoyed all our learning activities including Camping Day, Splash Day, Princesses and Knights Parade, etc.

This week we will learn to be Little Clowns and Magicians. Children will explore the life in the circus. We have scheduled exciting learning activities related to this theme that will allow us to continue strengthening motor, cognitive-sensory and language skills. On Thursday, we will have a social event at Sff! Children will dance, play and have a lot of fun.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia and Miss Juliana

Materials for Special Projects/Activities

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

Friendly Reminders

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen (no spray please) and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Check sunscreen bottles to see if you need to bring a new ones.
• Bring your child’s  insect repellent if he/she needs it.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

Splash day is on Tuesday.

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

Clown Day on Tuesday, August 9th.

Magician Day on Wednesday, August 10th.

Summer Camp Social and last Day on Summer Camp on Thursday August 11.

School closed on Friday, August 12 and Monday, August 15 (Teacher Work Day).

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

Star Words of the Week

The clown - El payaso

The circus - El circo

The magician - El mago

The parties - The parties

Classroom: Sapitos A

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: August 1st to August 5th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Athletes

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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.

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 will create the Olympic Flag, they will also participate in competitions and on Friday, they will have so much fun on our bike ride.

Miss Juliana will be on vacation but she will be kept in the loop of all our activities for this week.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia and Miss Juliana.

Materials for Special Projects/Activities

• Bring swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers, towel, water shoes and a plastic bag for wet clothes. Pack all these items in a tote bag for your child on Splash days. We recommend to label the bag, swimsuit, towel and shoes with your child’s name.
• Have your child dressed like an Athlete on Tuesday. They can be tennis players, swimmers, soccer players, etc.
• Have your child wear a yellow t-shirt for the activity on Thursday.
• Bring your child’s bike, bike helmet and kneepads labeled with his/her name on Friday.

 

Friendly Reminders

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen (no spray please) and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Check sunscreen bottles to see if you need to bring a new ones.
• Bring your child’s  insect repellent if he/she needs it.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Splash days are Tuesdays and Fridays.
• The Olympics Art Project Day on Monday.
• The Olympics Parade on Tuesday.
• Sports Practice Day on Wednesday.
• Olympic Games at Sff! On Thursday.
• Bike Ride Day on Friday.

Star Words of the Week

The Olympic Games - Los juegos olímpicos

The Olympic Torch - La antorcha olímpica

The games - Los juegos

The bike ride - La bicicleteada

Classroom: Sapitos A

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: July 25th to July 29th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Creators

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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 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 products or inventions using a variety of recycled materials. We will discuss how important is to care for nature and to recycle materials. 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. One of the most exciting activities will be water play. Children will give a bath to their plastic animal in the preschool backyard.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia & Miss Juliana 

Materials for Special Projects/Activities

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

Bring a plastic animal or toy for Monday’s activity.

Bring recycled material such as small boxes, bottles and lids on Monday for all weeks projects.

Friendly Reminders

 

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Check sunscreen bottles to see if you need to bring a new ones.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

Splash days are Tuesdays and Fridays.

Water Play on Monday.

Art Project using boxes on Tuesday.

Art Project using water bottle on Wednesday.

Butterfly Art Project on Thursday.

Art Project using lids on Friday.

Star Words of the Week

The boxes - Las cajas

The bottles - Las botellas

The recycle - El reciclaje

The lids - Las tapas

Classroom: Sapitos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: July 18th to July 22nd, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Scientists

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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 we will learn to be little scientists. We will continue creating safe learning environments that offer the children the opportunity to explore and experiment with science. We will talk about aquatic animals and we will tell stories about the sea world. We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as preparing homemade play dough, playing with water while mixing colors in it, creating aquatic animals shapes to decorate the classroom and painting a rainbow.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia & Miss Juliana

Materials for Special Projects/Activities

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

Bring plastic bottles for our ongoing gardening project.

Friendly Reminders

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Check sunscreen bottles to see if you need to bring a new ones.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

Water Play on Monday, July, 18th.

Coloring Day on Tuesday, July 19th.

Experiment Day on Wednesday, July 20th.

Magnets Day on Thursday, July 21st.

Play dough Day on Friday, July 22nd.

Star Words of the Week

• The colors - Los colores
• The scientists - Los científicos
• The soil - La tierra
• The water - El agua

Classroom: Sapitos A & B

Blog Title: Little Gardeners

Week: July 11th thru July 15th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Gardening & Nature

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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 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 to create a garden, creating art projects of flowers with clay and decorating flower pots and participating in a camping.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia, Miss Juliana , Miss Aida & Miss Miosotys

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Bring flashlight, binoculars and a backpack for Monday activity.

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

●      Bring plastic bottles for our gardening project on Monday.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.

●      Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.

●      Check sunscreen bottles to see if you need to bring a new ones.

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📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Explorer Day on Monday, July 11th.

●      Splash Day on Tuesday, July 12th.

●      Camping Day on Wednesday, July 13th.

●      Art Project Day on Thursday, July 14th.

●      Florist Game Day on Friday, July 15th.

⭐ Star Words of the Week

●      The gardener - El jardinero

●      The seeds - Las semillas

●      The flowers - Las flores

●      The rocks - Las piedras

Classroom: Sapitos 

Blog Title: Little Readers

Week: July 4th thru July 8th

Weekly Featured Theme: Reading & Story Books

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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 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 such as playing with favorite characters and imitating them and participating in a Princess and Knights Dress up Parade.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia & Miss Juliana 

Materials for Special Projects/Activities

Bring sleeping bag 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 his/her favorite outfit for Princess and Knight Dress up Parade (see holiday and upcoming events section for dates).

Friendly Reminders

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Bring swimsuit or Splashers diapers, a towel and extra set of clothing for Splash days and make sure to label Splash day bathing suit if your child wears a swimsuit instead of Splasher diapers.

Holidays & Upcoming Events

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

Pajama Day & Splash Day on Tuesday, July 5.

Character Doll Day on Wednesday, July 6.

Princess and Knight Dress up Parade on Friday, July 8.

Star Words of the Week

The princess - La princesa

The Knights - Los caballeros

To read - Leer

The castle - El castillo

Classroom: Sapitos

Week: June 27th thru July 1st

Weekly Featured Theme: Celebrating the country where we live

What are we learning?

Dear Sapitos 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 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 going to learn about all the amazing places we can find in the US like lakes, beaches, etc. We are scheduling exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as participating in the Independence Day parade on Friday. It will be a colorful and fun day for the children.

Best Regards,

Miss Marcia & Miss Juliana

Materials for Special Projects/Activities

Bring swimsuit or Splash diapers, a towel and extra set of clothing for Splash days.

Friendly Reminders

• Bring extra sets of clothing for your child so your child gets changed if he/she gets wet or dirty.
• Sunscreen is important to protect your child because he/she is very susceptible to sunburn. Yet applying sunscreen to your child requires planning. If sunscreen must be applied to your child, make sure to fill out an administration or authorization form specifying when sunscreen should be applied and be sure to supply the sunscreen and label the sunscreen bottle with your child's name.
• Bring diapers, wipes and diaper rash ointment/cream on Mondays or when needed and make sure to label them with your child’s name.
• Bring towels for your child and make sure to label it with your child’s name.

 

Holidays & Upcoming Events

• Art crafts Day on Monday, June 27th.
• Travel Day on Tuesday, June 28th.
• Picnic Day on Wednesday, June 29th.
• Baking Day on Thursday, June 30th.
• The Independence Day Parade on Friday, July 1st.
• School will be closed on Independence Day, Monday, July 4th.

Star Words of the Week

The flag - La bandera

The eagle - El aguila

The fruits - Las frutas

The basket - La canasta