Blog Archives - Pasitos School, Spanish Immersion Preschool & Child Care in San Jose, CA

Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

5/28/2020

Primavera Maravillosa

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
Young children thrive on routines and consistency. By using simple, instructive songs, or following a chart with simple sequencing, or both, you are helping your child to build lifelong healthy habits. Positive Discipline also teaches us that children need to feel belonging and significance. When we invite our child to participate in remembering the routine and taking responsibility and ownership about what comes next, we are helping our child to feel important and a part of our family.
Try to set routines for when you wake up in the morning, for leaving the house and for bedtime. Create family routines such as Sunday breakfasts or Thursday park play dates.

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Miércoles Maravilloso/ Wonderful Wednesday

5/27/2020

Save the Abejas/Bees!

June is National Pollinator Month and Whole Foods has provided awesome activities to celebrate our lovely abejas!

At-home activities: Whole Foods

Sweet Potato Salad: Recipe

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Our amigos love making moco/slime and plastilina/playdough. But have you heard of OOBLECK!?
"Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid; it has properties of both liquids and solids". So, it's not as sticky as slime, and more liquid than playdough.

Here is an oobleck recipe from LiveScience:
Oobleck ingredients

1 part water
1.5 to 2 parts cornstarch
Small amount of food coloring (optional)

Mix ingredients

Start with the water in a bowl (or wading pool!) and add the cornstarch a bit at a time.
Keep stirring until it has a gooey consistency. You may want to use your hands.
When the oobleck is just right, slowly add food coloring, if you want. This can be a challenge to get it mixed properly.
Play with it.

Things to do with oobleck

Grab a handful and squeeze it. Let it ooze through your fingers.
Make a puddle and quickly drag your fingers through it.
Put it into a plastic container and shake it or quickly bump it against a table.
Jab at the oobleck and then slowly let your finger sink in.
Roll some oobleck into a ball. It becomes solid, but when you stop moving it, it will melt back into your hand.

Watch the video below to see a cool video of OOBLECK dancing!

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Tips for Helping Families Support Children’s Emotions during COVID-19
We invite you to read this great article on how to help children through their feelings during this time. Click Here

Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

5/26/2020

Los animales de la Granja

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
From birth, babies learn about the world and their surroundings with the support of loving parents and caregivers. When we respond to our baby’s cry, moan, or other sounds, we are building our bond, or attachment, with our child. A strong sense of attachment in early childhood has been linked to stronger emotional outcomes and better relationships in adulthood. It’s a good thing for your child to want to be with you! And it can be challenging when we want or need to take some time without our baby. The stress, commonly known as separation anxiety, can be difficult to manage for both adults and children.

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Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

5/21/2020

Pájaros y Huevos

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
The benefits of bilingualism for children and adults continue to be proven in research with advantages ranging from cultural connections, enhanced cultural awareness, higher academic achievement scores, and reduced incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s. You can introduce multiple languages to your child from an early age. Whether you practice the one-parent, one-language approach or the language location approach (speaking a specific language in specific locations, i.e. Spanish at home and English outside the home), it can help by building specific times into your schedule to speak the target language.

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¡Miércoles Maravilloso! Wonderful Wednesday

5/20/2020

Bee Life cycle from STEAMsensational
3D lifecycle
Supplies needed:

Paper plate
Markers
Clay (you can use play dough, polymer clay, or non-drying clay)

Post-It Puppets from Community Playthings
Puppets
Supplies needed:

Post- Its
Pen, colors, crayons,
Scissors
Glue (optional)
googley-eyes (Optional)

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!

With summer coming up we encourage you to look into purchasing EWG Approved Sunscreen!
A rating of 1 is ideal, especially for our amigos sensitive and vulnerable skin.

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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is offering a variety of resources for educators, parents, and students. Below are direct links to schedule examples, parent guides to Khan Academy, and how to sign up!

Yoga!
Yoga para Ninos
Here is a playlist to unwind, stretch, and breathe: Yoga & Meditation

DIY Puppets from Fairy Dust Teaching
Puppets to Create!
If you have mismatched socks, old pairs, etc. Use them to make new puppets!
Show us your creations using #pasitosathome.

Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

5/19/2020

Caballitos

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
Invite your child from a young age to be involved in daily routines. When inviting your child to participate in regular chores, it becomes a ritual in its own right while also strengthening their significance in the family unit with meaningful contributions. Invite your child to help pick up their toys before transitioning to a new activity. Invite your child to help with laundry, with the sorting and organizing of pantalones y camisas or by helping during the dressing and toileting process. While your child is helping, you have an opportunity to talk about the clothes, the colors, the textures. This chore time can become a bonding time while also a time to build vocabulary.

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Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

5/14/2020

Pelotas en Movimiento

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
We have learned from years of research that young children learn best through play. It is by exploring and interacting with objects, people, sounds, language, movement, and words that children learn about language and the world around them. Your child can learn the building blocks of literacy all through play. Here are some ideas to get you started.
● Sing and recite a wide variety of songs, poems, tongue twisters, etc. Encourage your child to recite and sing along with you. This rote memory helps to build sequencing skills and while oftentimes building vocabulary.

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¡Miércoles Maravilloso! Wonderful Wednesday

5/13/2020

Mira El Arcoíris!

Rainbows are exciting to spot after a rainy day. Our amigos and Maestra look forward to rainbow themed activities. Can you spot the rainbow on the right> ?

This week we have a 15 page PDF from STEMquest filled with Rainbow themed Experiments!

Some are super easy like #4!

We also invite you to read the article below on how to guide children through their emotions when dealing with challenging behaviors.

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Older friends can be more independent, and restless too. We love long term projects for our older amigos. It gets their brains working and engaged in something over longer periods of time.

Below are a couple awesome building projects. Share your creations on our Facebook or Instagram! #pasitosathome

3D Science: Here is a STEAM 3D Bee Here Activity.
Raft STEAM Project Kits available here.
Create a Foosball Table-check out the PDF on the right!

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“Tantrums, meltdowns, sleep disruptions, and regression are all ways that children may show that they are having a hard time. So, what can parents and caregivers do to help?”

Here is an Article on helping children cope with challenging behaviors.

Our new Youtube videos!

Guía De Recursos - Resource Guide

5/12/2020

¿Cómo Nos Movemos?

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
It’s never early to start potty training! The idea that children shouldn’t start before they are “ready” has its foundations with “readiness” including being able to sit up independently and maintain neck control, typically by six months of age. Over the last five decades “readiness” has been misinterpreted in the U.S. to begin later and later, sometimes with advice including waiting for the child to make his own decision about when he is ready to be using the toilet independently. In many parts of the world today, and for many families in the U.S., children are regularly communicating with their parents or caregiver about their pee and poop (elimination) needs between 12-24 months.

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5/7/2020

Trasporte Terrestre

Consejos Para Padres ~ Parenting Tips
Healthy eating starts with us, as parents and caregivers, being aware of what we are buying, bringing into our homes, and serving our children. This article says, "As parents, we should focus on creating independent eaters: kids who have a healthy relationship with food, who can self-regulate sweets and who enjoy all kinds of foods without a parent persuading them to eat..." Another news article cites a study that shows how preschoolers who are restricted from eating certain foods, will typically overeat and binge that target food when parents are not around.

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Pasitos School

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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