domingo, 5 de agosto de 2012

The Circus


Hola Monitos B parents,

Hope you had a good weekend. We had a terrific week, all our dear children loved to dress up like a “Knights and Princesses”. During this week we will be having lots of fun learning about “El Circo”-The Circus.

Words That Were Used This Week:
El payaso: The clown
Los animals: The animals
El trapecio: The trapeze
El malabaristas: The jugglers
El entrenador: The trainer


Activities:
Wednesday:
Clown Day, Please bring your child dressed as a clown.

Friday: 
We will have a summer closing party where children recreate a circus, with different activities, games and lots of fun.

EARLY RELEASE: Friday August 13th at 12:30 pm


Reminders to Parents:
Please bring a clown costume for the day Wednesday. Please be mindful that your might child has extra wet clothes and take home clothes and towel in Splash day (Monday, Tuesday and Friday)


Happy Week!

Ms. Karina and Ms. Rosanna

domingo, 29 de julio de 2012

Knights and Princess


Hola Parents:

Hope you are enjoying a great weekend. During this week we are going to have a Fairy Tale Week, learning about Knight and Princess. We will do great art work to be exhibit Friday.

Words that we will learn this week:
El caballero = The Knight
La armadura =The armor
El caballo = The horse
El Castillo = The Castle
El dragón =The dragon
El escudo = The shield
La princesa= The Princess

Special Activities:
Tuesday: We will paint faces.
 Thursday: Parade of Knights and Princesses (Costumes. Please bring clothing to change your child after the parade.)
Reminders to Parents:
Please be aware that your child has extra clothes and take home the wet clothes and towel in Splash day (Monday, Tuesday and Friday)  

Happy Week!

Ms. Karina and Ms. Rosanna

sábado, 21 de julio de 2012

The ZOO!


Hola Parents:

Hope you all had a great week. During the next week we will be learning about the ZOO, in Spanish “El Zoológico”. We are going to have a lot of fun, singing and doing art.

Words that we will use for this week:
Elefante - Elephant
Oso - Bear
Mono - Monkey
Jirafa - Giraffe
Hipopótamo - Hippo
León - Lion
Cebra - Zebra
Tigre - Tiger
Culebra - Snake

Special Activities:
Monday – Crazy Hair Day.
Friday – Animal Festival

Please make sure that your child has extra clothes; and take home wet clothes and towel in Splash day (Monday, Tuesday and Friday)  

Thank you for the great support to the activities of the Olympic Week. We had incredible fun!

Happy Weekend!
Ms. Karina Alvarez and Ms. Rosanna

viernes, 13 de julio de 2012

Olympic Games

Hola Parents:

Wehope you had a wonderful week and are ready for the weekend. Next week we arelearning about ¨Las Olimpiadas¨ or Olympic games. We will have even more funlearning about the different types of sports andpractice some of them as Cycling.


Words thatwe will use for this week:
Basketball-Baloncesto
Tennis-Tenis
Cycling-Ciclismo
Athletics-Atletismo
Ball-Pelota/Bola
Exercise-Ejercicios
Bicycle-Bicicleta
Security-Seguridad
Helmet-Casco
Cheerleaders-Porristas

Special activitiesfor the Olympic Week:
Tuesday – Wear the Jersey of your favorite Team
Wednesday – bring your child’s bicycle or tricycle, with protective gear
Friday – Sff! Olympics, We will wear Red (not Spanish for fun!)T-Shirt.


Have a great week!

Mrs. Karina and Mrs. Rosanna

viernes, 6 de julio de 2012

DINOSAURS


Hola Parents,

We hope you are ready to have a wonderful weekend. Next week we will be learning about “DINOSAURIOS” - DINOSAURS. On Thursday please send your child’s favorite Dinosaur. We will share and talk about it during circle time. We will have lots of fun activities.

Words That Were Used This Week
Dig - Excavar
Shovel - Pala
Tyrannosaurus - Tyranosaurio
Diplodocus - Diplodocus
Fossils - Fosil
Pterodactyl – Terodáctilo
Paleontologist – Paleontólogo

Activities:
Monday: We make a dinosaur
Tuesday: We make a hat of Paleontologist and a fossil detector.
Wednesday: We make a fossil.
Thursday: Bring our favorite dinosaur.
Friday: Expedition! Dig a fossil from the sand.

Parents please remember to bring extra summer clothes and diapers for Splash Day, just in case your child needs it.
Please fill the sunscreen form before you leave it in the classroom.
Please do not bring plastic bags to the classroom.
 
Happy Weekend!

Mrs. Karina and Mrs. Rosanna

viernes, 29 de junio de 2012

Celebrating Independence Day


Hola Parents,

We hope you are having a wonderful week! This week we will be celebrating Independence Day and we will learn about the patriotic symbols of the country we live in USA. TUESDAY we need for our children to wear patriotic clothing or Red, White or Blue T-shirt.



Words of the week:

Presidente – President

La Bandera – The Flag

El Aguila – The Eagle

El Himno – The Anthem

Las Estrellas – The Stars



Please do not forget to bring sunblock, a towel, your child’s bathing suit, swimmers (swimming diapers if needed) because SPLASH starts on Monday. Please label every item with your child’s name and class.

Thank you and have a great 4th of July weekend.



Mrs. Karina and Mrs. Rosanna

miércoles, 20 de junio de 2012

Summer is here!!


Hello Parents:

We hope you are having a wonderful week. As you all know this past Monday we started our Summer Program and this is going to be fun. We had lots of fun yesterday with the Sunglasses Day and today with the Hat Day.
Remember Friday Luau, please send your child with Hawaiian style clothing. We are going to make lemonade and we will have popsicles.

Vocabulary
El verano-Summer
La playa-Beach
El sombrero-Hat
Las gafas-Sunglasses
El sol-Sun
La Arena-Sand
El Mar-The Sea

We have a new friend in our class, is a Hermit Crab.

We want to welcome to our Monitos Olivia Maglio, Italo Valdivieso, Talan Dietch and Evan Rineer. We are sure you will enjoy being with us. 

We want to wish the best to our friends Julian Sloan, Austin Erwin, Micah Roebuck and Evan Garcia that have moved to the Sapitos A class. We will miss you! 

Have and awesome Friday

Mrs. Karina A. and Mrs. Rosanna