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Wesley Kids Korner
February 15-19, 2021
Every year we have our Annual
Screening for the children.
However this year is going on the
second year we are not able to
conduct them due to Covid-19
restrictions.
Below are resources that are
available to you if you have
concerns about your child’s
vision, dental, or hearing.
First Choice Healthcare
Community Dental South
Valley Dental Center:
505-873-7423
NM Lions Club Operation Kids
Sight 575-525-5631
UNM Health Audiology
505-272-3535
Please let us know if you need
other recommendations or help
with resources.
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Milky Way
Theme of the Week: 5 Senses
Thank you to all our families for your Our activity to go with our sense of
participation in our Valentine card hearing is listening to songs that go
exchange. Even though we have a small along with our theme on “5 Senses”. The
class it was a lot of fun to do! songs are “Sight” and “5 Senses”.
This week the babies are learning about For our sense of sight the teachers are
our “Five Senses”. We have lots of fun talking to the babies about what they see
exciting activities for the babies to learn when we read them a story and what
about our sense of touch. The teachers they see around the classroom.
will be making a texture board with
Finally for our sense of taste the babies
crinkly, soft, rough, and musical toys on
it and we will encourage the babies to who are able to will be tasting a
explore it. grapefruit.
For our sense of smell we are giving the Our word of the week in English and
babies tea bags to paint with. Teachers Spanish is sense or sentir in Spanish.
will talk to the babies as they paint and Have a great week!
talk about how it smells.
Roberta and Terrie
Little & Big Dippers
Theme of the Week: Community Helpers
This week the children are learning about In story time the children are listening
“Community Helpers” and why they are and looking at the books “The Red Truck
important to us. To The Rescue” and “Emergency
Vehicles”.
In art the children are making car and
truck tracks using plastic toy cars and We are also encouraging the children to
trucks. The children are also mixing the color with markers and crayons to help
colors red, orange, and yellow to make and show them how to hold each art tool.
the color of fire. As the children are
Our vocabulary words of the week in
mixing the colors we are encouraging
English and Spanish are
them to say them as well.
community/communida, car/carro, and
In music the children are learning and truck/troca
signing the songs “The Wheels On The
Bus” and “The Firefighter Song”. We
are teaching the children to also do the Have a Great week !
hand and feet motion to the songs as they
sing. Clarita, Angela, & Janet
Explorers
Theme of the week: Zoo Animals
This week the children are learning and talking about big piece of butcher paper using our feet to make
“Zoo Animals”. elephant stomps.
In circle the children are reviewing our lesson in Our lesson for the week is a follows:
Spanish. For letter recognition we are focusing on is the
letter “Zz” for zoo. *letter of the week “Zz”
Our words of the week are monkey or chango in Spanish *color of the week orange or anaranjado in Spanish
and animal or in dongwu in Chinese. *shape of the week is a pentagon
In story time the children are listening and looking at the *number of the week is “8”
books “Put Me In The Zoo” and “Giraffe’s Can’t
Dance”. Parents if you can have your child please bring in a
small plastic zoo animal from home to place in their
During small groups the children are lining up animals zoo.
to make an animal parade. We are also rescuing animals
and doing face paintings.
In art the children are building a zoo using clay and Have a great day!
sticks to put our animals inside. The children are also
going to practice their cutting skills to make a lions Theresa, Cecilia, & Jessica
mane and a giraffe hand.
Outdoors the children learning zoo animal yoga and
rescuing birds eggs. The children are also painting on a
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Rainbows
Theme of the Week: Chinese New Year
This week the children are learning In math the children are working on
about the “Chinese New Year” this year is simple addition and different ways to
the year of the “Ox”. solve the same problem.
In circle the children review their ABC’s, In music the children are being
their numbers, and the days of the week encouraged to play with their Chinese
on a daily basis. drum as they dance and sing.
In story time the children are listening In science the children are making a
and looking at the book that Ali and her volcano using red and yellow food .
family brought in called “Peppa’s Chinese coloring . .
New Year” and watching a short video on
Outdoors the children are being .
how the Chinese New Year is celebrated.
encouraged to play on the bikes and
.
In art the children are making a slides and in the sandbox.
handprint bull, a paper bag cow, a .
Have a blessed week!
Chinese New Year drum, and paper plate .
fans. Cherish & Lisa
.
In writing the children are using stickers
.
to trace different Chinese words.
.
School-Age
Theme of the Week: Online Schooling / Chinese New Year
In the morning the children come in Fun activities that the children are
and start up their computers and working on during the week are
I-Pads to get started on their school making a ninja turtle, our own fox,
work. The teachers work one on one fingerprint bugs, and an art activity
with the children to catch up on using the first letter of our name.
work or if they need help completing
assignments.
Have a great week!
Once school is finished for the day
and all their classwork or Vanessa & Marcella
homework is done the children will
be having fun doing fun projects.
On Monday, February 15th the
children do not have school so we
are having a Valentine’s Party!
Martians
Theme of the Week: Numbers
It’s all about the numbers!! Throughout the week we are working
together to create a number line, fill in
This week the children are focusing on
number boxes, complete a
learning our “Numbers”. number match game, and do a num-
In circle the children are looking, ber hunt game.
listening, and reading the books “Ten
Outside the children are playing “What
Black Dots”, “Count The Monkey’s”, “Tally time is it Mr. Fox?” and work-
O’Malley”, and many more number
ing on a number hop game.
books.
Our vocabulary words in English and
In writing the children are working on
Spanish are numbers/numeros and
writing and spelling number words. The
counting/contar.
children are also working with writing
the number digits and continuing to Have a wonderful week!
practice their last names.
Alex and Jackie
In art the children are creating math
flowers, making a jelly fish number
picture, and playing with secret
numbers.
.
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el Menu´
February 15-19, 2021
Monday
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs & whole grain toast, can mandarin oranges, milk
Lunch: Breaded chicken patty, mashed potatoes, can sliced carrots,
can pears, whole grain bread, milk
Snack: Fresh bananas, graham crackers, milk
Tuesday
Breakfast: Sausage muffin w/cheese, can applesauce, milk
Lunch: Hard beef tacos w/cheese, can corn, fresh oranges, milk
Snack: Cheez it’s, milk
Wednesday
Breakfast: Cottage cheese, whole grain toast, thawed peaches, milk
Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich, fresh cucumbers, fresh mixed fruit, milk
Snack: Wheat thins, cream cheese, milk
Thursday
Breakfast: Cornflakes, thawed blueberries, milk
Lunch: Egg salad sandwich, canned peas/carrots, fresh pears, milk
Snack: Bean & cheese roll, milk
Friday
Breakfast: Oatmeal, can fruit cocktail, milk
Lunch: Spinach lasagna, can green beans, fresh cantaloupe, milk
Snack: Whole grain goldfish, fresh watermelon, milk
“TODAY you are you, that is truer
than true. There is NO ONE ALIVE
who is youer than you!
-Dr. Seuss
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