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3/31/2020

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Me gustan los colores
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Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
Feeling powerful, moving with intention, and completing tasks more independently are important to your child’s physical development. Physical development supports the brain in developing the synapses that connect both of its hemispheres. The right and left hemispheres of the brain need to be well connected before children can be successful at learning how to read and write. In addition, your child learns personal space and how to respect personal boundaries by interacting with you and other trusted adults.
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Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

3/26/2020

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Rutinas

​Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
Parenting involves lots of repetition. Children need multiple experiences with the same book, the same food, and the same toys. The repetition provides a sense of security, builds memory, and helps to ​establish routines​. One idea is to listen to Spanish music in the car. Create a playlist with artists such as ​1, 2, 3, Andres​, and ​Toni Gimenez​, or pick up a CD on Amazon. Try doing a search in your favorite music app. Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music all include several Spanish children’s artists. Let your child help pick favorite songs for the car rides, too. Involving children in the decision making process helps them to feel involved and important. 

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¡Miércoles Maravilloso! Wonderful Wednesday

3/24/2020

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 at home actividades

Check out these awesome sensory recipes from Mother Could. 
Spanish Stories to read aloud to your child.  Or ask your older child to read these stories to your younger child.  A great way to get some reading practice and foster positive sibling interactions. Cuentos Infantilies, offers great libros!

Do you use Amazon Music?  Sometimes we like to listen to the Relaxing Latin Playlist during nap time or other peaceful times throughout the day.  Their Latin Coffee Shop playlist is also mellow and features all Spanish songs. Here is a nap-time playlist created by Maestra Gloria on Spotify: ¡Pasitos A Dormir! 

For School Age Children
Keyboarding without Tears is a great program to help build keyboarding skills.  You can create a free account for your child to use through the end of July.  

Visit a Museum     
Virtual Museum Tours: Each week you can pick a day to “visit” a museum. Have children dress up and pretend to “get ready” to visit a museum of their choice. Let their imagination guide you.                               
   
Questions to ask/ Preguntas : What do you think we will need on our visit/ Que ocupamos para nuestra visita? Do you think we need binoculars?/ Piensas que ocupamos prismaticos? Should we write some notes or drawings of what you saw?/ Quizas podemos escribir notas o dibujar lo que miraste?
    
Extended Learning: What did you see at the museum?/ Que miraste en el museo? Where else can you see these artifacts?/ Donde mas haz visito estos articulos?
Use Google Earth to locate the museum and see it’s location on Earth. Where else we go “visit”, have you been to Paris, Africa, Antartica? What would you need if you were to visit? Let their imagination guide you!

Visit a Farm/ Visita una granja!

Virtual Farm Tours:  Have child (ren) pick a farm to "visit".
Questions to ask/ Preguntas: What animals do you see?/ Cuales animales ves?, What sounds does that animal make? Que ruido hacen esos animales? What color are they?/ Que color son? 

Have you checked out Maestra Pamela's Circle time? Maestra Alma has a special guest at her circle time! Maestra Monica also added a new video, check them out below!
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Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

3/24/2020

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Mi cuerpo puede...

​Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
An important part of Reggio-inspired learning environments relates to the image that we, as adults,
have of the child and of their capabilities. Is the child capable? Is the child competent? What can the child do alone? What can the child do with support? What is unrealistic for the child to accomplish on their own? While it is unreasonable to ask a child to do something that is beyond their developmental range, it’s important that we don’t do for a child what she or he can do alone or
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Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

3/19/2020

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Mi cara expresa mis emociones

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
Recognizing different emotions in yourself and in others is an important aspect of social emotional learning.  For young children, we like to start by talking about our faces and how it changes with our feelings. Happy faces have certain features, like a smile on the face and relaxed eyebrows. Meanwhile sad, anxious, or nervous emotions bring about changes to the face.Try talking about how you think your child may be feeling, why you think they may be having that feeling or emotion. Try sharing an emotion you are feeling, why you are feeling it, and what sensations or feelings you notice in your body.  

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¡Miércoles Maravilloso! Wonderful Wednesday!

3/18/2020

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Please enjoy this collection of ideas curated especially for you while we are all sheltering in place at our home due to COVID-19.
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For Preschoolers
  • Story Time 
    • Story Time From Space: Get to read with real astronauts in space!  
    • Questions to ask your child(ren): Why do you think their hair is up? Where in space could they be? What planet do you think they are on? How far do you think they are?
    • Preguntas en español: ¿Por qué piensas que sus pelos están parados? ¿Dónde en el espacio piensas que están? ¿En qué planeta piensas que están? ¿Qué tan lejos están los astronautas?  
  • Story Time en español! Classic tales with fun voices.  
    • Stories en Español
  • Playlist en español! 
    • Pasitos Playlist  Enjoy these Spotify playlists including música en español.  Many songs may be familiar to the children because we play them in our classrooms.  Enjoy!
  • Sensory activity
    • PlayDough- you can easily omit the Kool-aid and use food colorings for color and/or tea leaves to add a nice scent.  
    • Questions to ask while making play-dough: What do you think will happen when we mix the water with the flour? Why do you think this happens? Should we add some color? What things in the house/ around us are that color, too? How does it feel in your hands? Is it soft? Can we add textures? …
    • Preguntas en español: ¿Qué piensas que va a pasar cuando mezclemos el agua con la harina? ¿Por qué pasa esto? ¿Quizás podemos agregar colores? ¿Qué podemos encontrar en la casa que es del mismo color? ¿Cómo se siente en tus manos? ¿Se siente suave? ¿Piensas que podemos agregar texturas? ...
  • Create a routine/schedule to set expectations in your household. This allows for children to have some stability and be a part of the day. Below is a PDF of our Pasitos schedule. 
For School Age children
  • ​Schedule/routine to set expectations below are examples from Maestras & Kids Activities Blog​!
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  • School Age Pinterest: Check out these great easy to do activities with materials and supplies you have at home.
  • News ELA: Create a free parent account to get access to many news articles for your child. Articles are in a variety of reading levels for access to all grades, K-12, with 42 articles in Spanish.  
  • For Parents
    • ​Now is your time to make some projects with all those toys!
      •  Upcycled Toys 
      • Self care is crucial, do take time to make sure you are also meeting your own needs. Read that book, organize that closet, watch that show, you are not alone!

Pasitos Preschool Distance Learning
Maestra Alma highlights the shape of the week, in English and Spanish, and then us a story in Spanish.  
Maestra Monica shares a story en español. 
Maestra Monica shares a story in English.  
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Preschool Distance Learning Videos

3/17/2020

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Join Maestra Brenda for Tuesday morning English announcements and Spanish story time.  
Join Maestra Tami for Monday morning circle time.  Announcements in English then we switch our voices for a story and song in Spanish.  


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Guía de Recursos - Resource Guide

3/17/2020

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​¡Yo tengo manos!

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
We like to say ​connection before correction​. A great way to make a connection with our baby is to engage in love rituals. ​Love rituals​ are activities to help us connect with children by using patterns and routines. Through touch, eye contact, and a playful manner, we are able to build meaningful connections with children. Families benefit from I Love You Rituals at bedtime, morning routines, before or after meals, when saying goodbye, while on the diapering table, and more.​ ​Children will be more likely to engage in positive decision making after feeling connected with a caring adult. You can learn more by reading Love Rituals​.

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    Pasitos is an eco-friendly, bilingual community based on learning and fun. Through a play based Reggio inspired curriculum, children gain the necessary literacy skills to make them successful in both Spanish and English. At the same time, they build social and emotional skills in working with peers and the maestras. Together these skills help open their minds and language capabilities. Teachers interact with the children to build strong academics and positive social skills.

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