¿Igual o diferente?—Same or different?
Week 2 of preschool was fun!! Everyone is getting to know each other, friendships are forming. Students are becoming more familiar with the routines of the day. Yay!
We are always pointing out how things are the same or how they are different. Each week we have several activities where we compare groups of objects trying to determine if they are the same or different. In Spanish we say: igual—same and diferente—different
This is an important concept for preschoolers. It asks them to focus their attention, to look for small details, to compare and contrast, to categorize, etc. To reinforce this concept you can:
- Read different versions of the same story and discuss how they were similar and how they were different.
- Look at pictures of the family and discuss differences (who is missing in one picture, who was wearing what, whose hair changed, etc.)
We worked on our fine motor skills by drawing horizontal lines between two dots. (More practice can easily be done at home and is fun.)
Our story focus this week as ¿Eres tu mi mama? This is another book with several different animals. Sequencing this story is always fun. Our older children dictate their own captions for the story. They were great!
Letras y Numeros
This week we continued with our name identification and formation practice. Improvement can already be seen! Letters are fun, especially when we can claim them as part of our own name. We can incorporate numbers by counting how many letters each student has in their name.
At home: write down the names of everyone who lives in your house. Have your child look for letters that are the same. Do you share letters? Count how many letters each person has in their name. Who has more? Who has less?