Week of November 26-30th!

Dear Monitos Parents:

Thank you to our wonderful parents and grandparents who collaborated and shared with us the Thanksgiving Celebration. This event was a success because of you all, and the children were so happy. We appreciate it so much.

Theme of the Month/Week (Tema del Mes/Semana): “My Country”/ “Mi Pais

We will continue with the same words, shape, color and numbers that we have been practicing this month.

Continuaremos con las mismas palabras, figura geométrica, color y números que hemos estado practicando este mes.

Special Words/Palabras especiales: EE.UU./Estados Unidos, my country/mi país, the President/el Presidente, the Banner and its colors/la bandera y sus colores, the National Anthem/el Himno Nacional, the eagle/el aguila, North Carolina/Carolina del Norte..

Special events this week/Welcome/Student of the week/Birthdays (Eventos especiales esta semana/Bienvenida/Estudiante de la Semana/Cumpleanos):

This week Mauri The Monkey will visit Marisa’s home. He is very happy to go with her. HAVE FUN!!!!  

Remainders (Recordatorios a los Padres de Familia):

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

As a friendly remainder: we are still waiting for some parents to pick up a week for The Student of the Week. Ask the Teachers to show you where the signup sheet is posted.

Homework this week (Tarea de esta semana):

To reinforce the theme of this week, please talk to your children about the special events, holidays and places in North Carolina. Show them the map of our State and identify where we live.

Next Friday we will be sending home the template of a sock stocking (stocking and topper) to be working with your child with Christmas decoration (All Art Together project for December). You and your child will have two weeks to display your imagination and creativity.

Other/Thank you/Upcoming events (Otros/Agradecimientos/Proximos eventos):

On Monday we will be giving your child’s Report Card with the evaluation of the First Quarter, please take a moment to read it, make a comment, sign it and return it by Monday.  The Parent-Teacher Conference will be held on December 3rd, and we have a sheet at the entrance of our classroom with times.

 

Our class will be in charge to decorate the Board for the month of December (at the entrance of our School), if you have any article about the upcoming events, please feel free to bring it and we will post it on the board. Thank You. 

Have a great week!

Miss Amparo and Miss Cristina

Week of November 19-23rd!!

Dear Monitos Parents:

Happy Monday! This week we introduce a new theme to our children. We will be learning about “My country”- “Mi Pais”.

The words for this week are:
El pavo/ the turkey
La comida/ the food
Compartir/ share
Dar gracias/ give thanks

Events this week:
* Mauri de Monkey will visit Houston's home, both are really happy to spend this time together.
*Don't forget to come to enjoy our circle time and breakfast for thanksgiving November 21^st at 8:30am.
*School is closed this Thursday and Friday. Have fun and enjoy this day with your family.

*December 3^rd is Monitos Conference day; please feel free to make an appointment if you would like to meet with us.

Thank you
*To Jason's mom, Evelyn's mom, and Samuel's mom for coming to our class and talking about their jobs to our monitos.

Our monitos had a great time learning how they help our community.

*Congratulations to Evelyn our child of the week. We really enjoyed knowing more about your likes.

Happy week, Happy Thanksgiving!

Miss Cristina and Miss Amparo

Toddler Rules of Possession

1. If I like it, it's mine.

2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.

3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.

4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.

5. If it's mine, it must NEVER appear to be yours in anyway.

6. If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.

7. If it looks just like mine, it is mine.

8. If I saw it first, it's mine.

9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.

10. If it's broken, it's yours.

Provided by Travis R. Grant

Week of November 12-16th!!

Dear Monitos Parents:

Out theme of the Week (Tema de la Semana) is : “My Community and Me”/ “Mi Comunidad y Yo”

Words of the week (Palabras que se van a utilizar esta semana):

Places/Lugares: the park/el parque, the grocery store/el supermercado, the stores/las tiendas, the church/la iglesia, the school/la escuela, the post office/la oficina de correo.

Community Helpers/Servidores de la comunidad: policeman/El policia, doctor/ el doctor, teacher/la maestra, firefighter/el bombero, nurse/la enfermera, constructor/el constructor, chef/el cocinero, garbage collector/el recogedor de basura, letter carrier/el cartero.

Transportation vehicles/medios de transporte: police car/carro de policía, fire truck/carro de bombero, bus/el autobús, car/el carro, train/el tren, airplane/el avión, ship/el barco.

Words: I am sorry/lo siento, again/otra vez, help/ayuda, forward/adelante, back/atras.

Color/color: blue/azul.

Numbers/numeros: one/uno, two/dos, three/tres, four/cuatro.

Special events this week/Welcome/Student of the week/Birthdays (Eventos especiales esta semana/Bienvenida/Estudiante de la Semana/Cumpleanos):

Margot Perkinson will turn three on Monday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET GIRL!!!This week Mauri The Monkey will visit Darcy’s home. We are sure they will have a lot of fun.      

Reminders (Recordatorios a los Padres de Familia):

Please don’t forget to label your children’s jackets and all their belongings.

Homework this week (Tarea de esta semana):

For the children: This will be a very busy week. Our Monitos will made a ship and a collage of squares, paint the number four, listen to stories about the job of our community helpers, listen to Ludwing Van Beethoven.

For the parents: we will send home the template of a turkey to be decorated in a team work (parents/children) with feathers, paint, construction paper, goggle eyes and so on. Of course we expect you have fun using your creativity and imagination.

Other/Thank you/Upcoming events (Otros/Agradecimientos/Proximos eventos):

Thank you to our wonderful parents: Mrs. Ashley Blackwell (Jason’s Mom), Mrs. Kim Cummings (Sam’s Mom) and Mrs. Chelsea Bartel (Evelyn’s Mom) who accepted to come to our classroom and talk about how they help our community through their jobs.   

Have a great week!

 Miss Amparo and Miss Cristina

Week of November 5-9th!

Dear Monitos Parents
Following our curriculum for the next two week we will be learning and talking about "My community and me " "Mi comunidad y yo "

Palabras e la semana/words of the week:
numeros/numbers: uno/one, dos/two, tres/three, cuatro/four.

forma/Sphape: el cuadrado /the square.

color:azul/blue.

Special words/palabras especiales:
avion/airplane,el policia/the policeman,carro de bomberos/fire truck,el bombero/the fireman, el doctor/the doctor, el hospital/the hospital,la maestra/ the teacher
la escuela/the school,el cocinero/the chef.

Actividades especiales/special activities:
*Mauri the Monkey will be visiting Simon's house to have fun week with him.
*this Wednesday the firefighters will be come to visit our school.
*This Thursday we will make a delicious cake and a chef hat for the kids.

Gracias /thank you
We want to thank to Margot's mom and Marisa's grandfather for helping us with our costume party

Thank you for your support

Miss Cristina and Miss Amparo