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¡Miércoles Maravilloso! Wonderful Wednesday!

3/18/2020

Please enjoy this collection of ideas curated especially for you while we are all sheltering in place at our home due to COVID-19.

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!

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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New year, new beginnings

12/28/2018

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The end of the calendar year is a time to reflect upon the year behind us and to think about where we are going. Here are 6 ways to bring in the new year with a focus on your family.

1. Start by celebrating with your child. Start celebrating at 12 noon and marking the new year around the globe. Pull out your atlas, globe, or world map and track it with your child, talking about different places in the world, cities you have visited, places you'd like to take your child, stories from your family's past migration around the globe. For older children, try staying up until midnight. And then try sleeping in the next day.

2. Clean and de-clutter. In many cultures around the globe the new year is a time to clean out the old to help prepare for the new. Sit with your child and together create piles of books and toys that you no longer use and can donate to others.  Donate clothes that no longer fit and recycle ripped, stained clothes and worn out shoes.

3.  Get outside. Make a plan for the upcoming year to get outside with your children and hike, walk, or explore our local history. There is so much to see and do that is low cost, or no cost, that we all should be exploring more often. My list to start the new year includes hiking around Santa Teresa Foothills, Almaden Quicksilver Park, Coyote Creek Trail, and Mt. Madonna.

4.Commit to reduction of single use plastic. The idea of eliminating single use plastic is stressful and overwhelming to me. The negative impact of plastic on our oceans is at a point where I believe that I need to start taking small daily actions. I need to start small, by reducing and eliminating single use plastic one piece at a time.

5. Plan out Meatless Mondays and Viernes Veganos (that's vegan Fridays, but it sounds better with the alliteration in Spanish, jaja). I try to think about these, but when the days of the week come around, if I don't have a plan, it's easy to eat anything that's presented. I guess for me this also includes being more intentional with all of my meal planning to bring my family to health.

6.  Re-commit to language intentions, discuss and adopt these intentions as a family. It's easy to slip into more and more English. Talk as a family about why you are bilingual, why you want to be bilingual, and its many benefits. Make a plan for speaking, reading, and living in the languages. The challenge for many of us, "How can I include more fun, Spanish dominant activities to my children so they can have more positive associations with the language and culture?" For some families, this may be easy. But, it's not easy for me. English permeates life here. I'm thinking we are ready to get into some chapter books in Spanish. They received a couple of interesting ones for Christmas, so I'll start small by committing to reading a chapter book with each child.

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¡Miércoles Maravilloso! Wonderful Wednesday!

New year, new beginnings

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