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