Preschool Week 8

This week was all about our sense of smell / el olfato. We read about different ways we use el olfato as well

as participating in several activities where students played using this sense. The students had a great time making cupcakes. In this activity they used their sense of smell with each flavor that we used. We also worked with sequencing the steps during this activity. Another activity was for them to guess what was inside each of a set of glasses using only their sense of smell/ el olfato.

This week we learned about letter U/ vocal u, and the number 5. Be sure to point out the letter U when you are reading. The English pronunciation of this letter is the long vowel sound /u/:u-e, use, ew /u/ as unicorn. The Spanish pronunciation stops with just the /u/ sound. (Think of this as the monkey’s favorite letter.  u-u-u.)

We also incorporated our previous touch investigation with our letter U’s.

We worked with the number five doing many different activities. One activity was an ice cream cone with five ice cream flavors, counting numbers 1 thought 5, identifying groups of 5. See if your child can put together different groups of 5 items.  Can they find the number 5 anywhere? On mailboxes, or house numbers during a fall walk?