Transportation Unit
This week we continued working with our transportation unit. The transportation theme is a traditional topic in most kids, but why? Kids love activities that include playing with all types of transportation items including vehicles such as cars, trucks, airplanes and more. This topic is part of their everyday lives. They drive or walk to school, have seen or ridden on a bus or taken an airplane to go on vacation.
We did games and had fun doing crafts like; paper plate car/carro craft, paper plate school bus/autobus escolar or camión escolar. Also, we did a science project for transportation which involved color sorting and mixing racing cars through silky smooth shaving cream and paint. The purpose of this activity was for them to learn and explore colors and how they mixe to create new colors. They used their senses to gather information about the materials and the vocabulary to describe what they observed. They could explore cause and effect, doing something and making something else happen. They could think about what happened when they do something or change what they are doing to something else. These concepts are solid science foundation that provide structure for further learning.
As well they continued learning transportation vocabulary as,
Tren/train,
Carro o coche/ car,
Camión/truck,
Autobús/bus,
Moto/motorcycle,
Bicicleta/bicycle,
Avión/airplane,
Helicoptero/helicopter,
Cohete/rocket,
Velero/sailing boat,
Barco/boat.
Letras
This week we learned all about the letter Ff/ letra Ff. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter name F, can be pronounced as (ef). While the Spanish name pronunciation is; F (efe). Some examples:
Falda/skirt,
Foco/spotlight,
Fútbol/soccer,
Foca/seal,
Fresa/strawberry.
We had fun with our activities: letters games, coloring and letters recognition.
Números
This week the kids learned the number 7. We worked on counting and recognizing the number through Legos, cars, trains, and counting and sorting some pile of manipulatives on the ground next to the number 7.
La Figura y Color
This week we reviewed the shapes circulo/circle, cuadrado/square, triangulo/triangle, rectangulo/rectangle and we started with óvalo/oval shape. The kids played and reviewed the shapes in our road truck shape. They drove the cars along the roads and counted how many corners each shape has. They identified the shape names. Also, the kids reinforced the color names they learned as rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, and our new color Amarillo/yellow.
Have a good weekend!
Macky ☺