Dear Parents,

Our kids have learned so much about community helpers! This week we talked about teachers, doctors, nurses, police officers, dentists and mail carriers. During art we made theme related projects, for that reason the kids did a teacher’s pointer and a doctor’s head band used for his special light.

The visit from the police officers on Wednesday was definitely the highlight for this week!  The children pretended to be a teacher, a doctor, and a dentist and practice rol playing They all wanted to be the community helper!

As you are well aware, staring this week we have been publishing pictures  on our Facebook Terrific Tigers page. We will be updating you with the daily activities we have during our mornings. Please be sure that these pictures are private.

Our other special activity this week was our Valentine party on Friday. We had a colorful red and white day and it was so nice to see our students share their Valentine treats with each other. They really enjoyed their Valentine’s party at school..

Next week we will continue to learn about Community Helpers and different kinds of transportation.

We hope you enjoy your warm weather week-end!

Next week we will be going to the airport, and we will learn about the different forms of transportation. We have a great week coming ahead!

Enjoy your weekend!
Miss Lucia and Miss Vero

Dear Parents,

We have now started the new month of February!  Our Tigers have been listening  what love and  friendship are about and we have also been learning about community helpers. On Wednesday, we had a special visit from the Rescue Team and the kids had a great time. We had a chance to listen to the paramedics explain what they do and some of our students even went with them in order to try some of their uniforms, such as helmets and fire  fighter uniforms! They even payed close attention when Mr. Mike was set on a stretch bench pretending he had been hurt in an accident!

We also talked about who a garbage collector is and a baker as well! Since we are going to be talking about different community helpers during this month, we will be having a visit from one of them every week. Next week we will have a police officer visiting and he will be explaining his work and showing the children what he does. Please don’t forget to check out our latest pictures so you can see how the kids are really interested during their presentation!

We will be having our Valentine’s party next Friday, February 14th.  Your children don’t need to bring their lunch boxes that day, since snacks will be provided by different moms. It is a good idea to bring their thermos with water, since most of our students enjoy drinking water rather than juice.

You can send your kids with Valentines to share with their classmates. We would appreciate it if you would just label who  the Valentines are from. We have 15 students in our class room. Each child will be needing a bag, basket or box in order to collect the Valentines that will be shared with them. (similar to how they shared in Halloween)

We are looking forward for next week’s Valentine’s Day Party! It would be nice if your child wears red, white or pink on this special day!

Have a nice weekend!

During the month of February, we will be focusing on the themes: “Community Helpers”, “Transportation”,“Friendship” and “Valentine’s Day”.

Community    Helpers make communities cleaner, safer, and more pleasant for other people. A community helper is anyone in the community who helps others by providing service of some kind. A community is a group of people who share services, building, and laws. It can be a school, town, city or neighborhood. Examples co community helpers can be a police officer, firefighters, letter carriers, doctors, teachers, school bus drivers, paramedics, librarians, utilityworkers.

Valentine’s Day is for people who love each other. You can also celebrate Valentine’s Day with your friends. Strengthen the bond of friendship with a simple act of love. Let your friend know how much you enjoy his/her companionship with simple and nice actions towards your friend.

 Theme:

Community Helpers, Transportation,Friendship and Valentine´s Day.

Topics:

The people in your community: their jobs, uniforms, and work places. Friendship and Valentine´s Day.Air, water and land transportation.

OBJECTIVES:

• To teach who the community workers are in our city.
• To teach the titles of these workers and the jobs they do for our town.
• After the theme of Valentine is over, the children will understand the true meaning of friendship and how to demonstrate their friendship towards each other.

After the children have understood aboutthehelpers in their community, they will be asked what they can to to help out in their environment.

Values:

Love, friendship, cooperation and safety.

Vocabulary:

Bicycle, bike helmet, fire fighter, fire station, smoke, alarm, hose, fire extinguisher, teacher, dentist, mail carrier, post office, police officer, police car, whistle, signs, doctor, nurse, hospital, ambulance, friend, heart, love, work, help,

Land transportation: cars trucks, motorcycle, bus.

Air transportation: airplane, helicopter, rocket.

Water transportation: sailboat, ship.

Space, planets, moon, sun, stars, astronaut.

Language Patterns:

I love…..

…..is my friend.

May I help?

Concepts:

Full / empty;  over / under; above / below; fast / slow; be careful and be safe.

Books and Stories:

Just Going to the Dentist.Arthur´s Valentine Countdown. Jaime Visits the Nurse. The Magic School Bus. Let´s Visit the Doctor´s Office. Mr. Charlie, the Fireman´s Friend. Corduroy Goes to the Doctor.

Math Skills:

Numbers 1 to 6, introduce 7, rote counting and basic word problems.

Colors:

Red, white, pink.

Shapes:

Heart, star and diamond.

Science Discoveries and Manipulatives:

The children will be able to learn practical examples of simple machines: lever, inclined plane, wheel and axle, screws, wedge and pulley.

Motor Skills:

Fine Motor Skills: holding a crayon properly and prewriting exercises.

Physical development: Fire drill (stop, drop, and roll).

Locomotor skills: running, marching, climbing a ladder, peddling a bike.

Non-locomotor skills: hanging/swinging on the monkey bars & tugging a horse.

Coordination skills: reaction exercises and balancing.

Fine Arts:

Drama: role-playing community helps such as a mailman, doctor, nurse, policeofficer , fire fighter.

Creativity:

Healthy Mouth, Doctor´s Bag, Chef Hat, Transportation Track prints, Firefighter’s helmet, letters for Mom and Dad, Build a life-size cardboard house.

Music: The people in your Neighborhood, Red Valentine, My Valentine is Red, Flying in an Airplane, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.

Calendar dates and reminders:

• Monday, February 3^rd is our MexicanConstitution Holiday (no classes this day).
• Wednesday, February 5^th:  Rescue Team comes to Toddler Tree (community helper visit)
• Wednesday, February 12^th: Police officers visit Toddler Tree.
• Friday, February 14^th:  Mail carrier visit and Valentine´s Party at Toddler Tree. (please check to see if you are assigned something to bring on this day)
• Wednesday, February 19^th, fire fighter visits Toddler Tree.