Week of August 8th-11th

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: August 8th to August 11h, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Clowns & Magicians

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

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. We feel special and value our work and we are glad that the children have experienced new learning adventures with hands-on play during the summer. This week we will learn to be Little Clowns and Magicians. We will discuss about the animals and the magicians in the circus and we have scheduled exciting learning activities related to this theme that will allow us to continue strengthening motor, cognitive-sensory and language skills such as creating puppets and painting a circus tent, reading short stories about the life in the circus and walking over a striped carpet and play with balls.

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 Cristina and Miss María

📄 Materials for Special Projects

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

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to remove everything and take it home.

●      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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

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

●      Puppet Day on Tuesday, August 9th.

●      Meet and Greet Day on Tuesday, August 9.

●      Painted Faces Day on Wednesday, August 10th.

●      Summer Camp Social on Thursday August 11.

●      School closed on Friday, August 12 and Monday, August 15.

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

🎂 Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Charles who is celebrating his birthday on August 5th. We wish the best and we hope you have a wonderful Birthday!!!

Week of August 1st-5th

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: August 1st to August 5th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Athletes

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

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 should wear sports clothes for the parade. They will also participate in competitions with Sapitos and Ositos and on Friday, they will have so much fun on our bike ride. We will also create the Olympic Torch and Rings as an art project.

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 Cristina and Miss María Gracia

📄 Materials for Special Projects

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

●      Have your child wear a t-shirt of their favorite sports team on Monday.

●      Have your child dressed like an Athlete on Tuesday. They can be tennis players, swimmers, soccer players, etc.

●      Have your child wear a green 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

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to 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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

●      Remove wet clothing from the cubby on Splash days.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Favorite Sport Player T-Shirt Day on Monday.

●      The Olympics Parade on Tuesday.

●      Olympic Games at Sff! on Thursday

●      Bike Ride Day on Friday.

●      Meet and Greet Day on Tuesday, August 9.

●      Summer Camp Social on Thursday August 11.

●      School closed on Friday, August 12 and Monday, August 15.

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

Week of July 25th-29th

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: July 25th to July 29th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Creators

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

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 read books about recycling, decorate and paint recycled boxes and create colored ice so children can feel the texture.

We have scheduled exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills. Children will also have fun while working on different art projects through the week.

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 Cristina and Miss María Gracia

📄 Materials for Special Projects

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

●      Bring a plastic animal for Monday’s activity.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to 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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

●      Remove wet clothing from the cubby on Splash days.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Water Play on Monday.

●      Art Project using recycled boxes on Tuesday.

●      Art Project using recycled bottles on Wednesday.

Week of July 18th-22nd

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: Summer Camp

Week: July 18th to July 22nd, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Little Scientists

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

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. Children will learn about the aquatic animals and colors and we will experiment with water and colors and we will explore the plants and insects in our surroundings.

We will be scheduling the following fun learning activities so children can continue strengthening motor, language and cognitive-sensory skills such as working on art projects and reading story about aquatic animals during story time.

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 Cristina and Miss María

📄 Materials for Special Projects

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

●      Bring books about experiments with water if you have one at home so we can share it with your child’s classmates.

●      Bring magnifier and binocular for Wednesday’s project.

●      Bring a fresh flower for a sensorial activity on Wednesday.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to 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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

●      Remove wet clothing from the cubby on Splash days.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Exploration Day on Wednesday, July 20th.

Week of July 11th-15th

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: Little Gardeners

Week: July 11th thru July 15th, 2016

Weekly Featured Theme: Gardening & Nature

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

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 will be scheduling the following fun learning activities so children can enjoy contact with nature and continue strengthening motor, language and cognitive-sensory skills:

❖      For motor skills: We will create art projects of diverse colors with play dough.

❖      For language skills: We will read about fun adventure stories about camping.

❖      For cognitive/sensorial skills: We will decorate and paint pots using different materials so children can feel different textures.

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 Cristina and Miss María

📄 Materials for Special Projects

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

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to 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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

●      Remove wet clothing from the cubby on Splash days.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Camping Day on Wednesday, July 13th.

Week of July 5th-8th

Classroom: Monitos

Blog Title: Little Readers

Week: July 4th thru July 8th

Weekly Featured Theme: Reading & Story Books

 

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

This week we will learn to be little readers. Children will enjoy sharing with the classroom their favorite story book and dramatizing their favorite character. We are scheduling exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as participating in a Pajama party and creating crowns and shields for the Parade, etc.

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 Cristina and Miss María

📄 Materials for Special Projects

●      Bring swimsuit, splashers or swim diapers and towel for your child on Splash days.

●      Have your child wear his/her favorite pajamas and bring your child’s sleeping bag and favorite book 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 the outfit of their favorite character of a story book for Princess and Knight Dress up Parade (see holiday and upcoming events section for dates).

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to 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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

●      Remove wet clothing from the cubby on Splash days.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

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

●      Pajama Day on Tuesday, July 5.

●      Character Doll Day on Wednesday, July 6.

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

Week of June 27th-July 1st

Blog Title: Little Travelers

Classroom: Monitos

Week: June 27th thru July 1st

Weekly Featured Theme: Celebrating the country where we live

🔠 What are we learning?

Dear Monitos Parents,

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 discuss about the american flag, its color and the stars and what they represent. We are scheduling exciting learning activities that will allow us to continue strengthening motor and cognitive-sensory skills such as:

●      Reading books about United States.

●      Build a plane with boxes.

●      Create the American Flag with printed paper balls.

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 Cristina and Miss María

📄 Materials for Special Projects/Activities

●      Have your child wear a swimsuit if the Splash days are taking place in the mornings.

🔆 Friendly Reminders

●      Check your child’s cubby and make sure to bring extra set of clothing that is appropriate to 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. We will also appreciate if sunscreen is applied to the child in the morning before dropping him/her at the preschool.

●      Remove wet clothing from the cubby on Splash days.

📆 Holidays & Upcoming Events

●      Splash days on Mondays in the morning and Thursdays in the afternoon.

●      Flag Parade on Friday, July 1st.

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