Bienvenidos a Prescolar!
Welcome preschool families! We are so happy to have your kiddos in our class!
Everything we do is an opportunity to learn, show kindness and caring for each other, and to have fun! This week we began our new school year by working with a social skills activity. This activity was a great way to ease anxious feelings, while allowing children to celebrate differences amongst each other. We began with our circle time, as circle sitting tends to make everyone equal and encourages participation of all kids. I announced that this was “all about us” time. Everyone introduced themselves and shared their favorite and special things! It was a wonderful activity and our returning students set great examples for our new students and helped ease some shyness.
We began working with our “My family / Mi familia” topic, which is our theme for the month of September. This week we read ¿Tú Mamá Es Una Llama? We learned some new Spanish words:
llama / llama
vaca / cow
cisne / swan
murciélago / bat
canguro/kangaroo
We also worked with different activities to build up fine motor skills. In addition, we sang songs, danced and played. It was a blast!
Letras
Each week of the school year we will focus on a new letter. We will introduce the upper- and lower-case letters to the class. We will sing songs while passing around objects that begin with that letter sound. We will play games with the sound and learn the correct formation of the letter. (Most uppercase letters begin from the top down.) This first week of school though the students started practicing their names. They used crayons and markers and traced their names with them.
Números
Every two weeks of the school year we will focus on a new number. Our goal is for the preschoolers to count, develop number sense, identify groups of a given number, correctly write numbers, and more!
This week we worked with number 1 / número uno. We had a fun time playing and using some items to recognize and identify the number in a group of other numbers. Also, they did different activities to develop their fine motor skills.
Figura y el color
Shapes is one of the topics taught during preschool mathematics. We will talk about shapes every day, but we will specifically focus on one shape each month. The students will not only learn the name of basics shapes but also how they integrate with each other. This month we are working with the circle shape / el círculo. We passed around different circles so the children could examine the shapes up close while hearing the name. We all had fun tracing the circle with our little fingers and tracing the letter with markers on the board.
We focused on the color red / color rojo. We went on a color hunt around the classroom and found red little bears all around us.
It was a great start to the school year, and we are looking forward to a great year!
Have an amazing weekend!