This week we continued to work with “The Ocean” Unit. Children learned more about the marine life, like the Starfish, seahorse, and seashells. We had fun with our handmade crafts!
The kiddos should know that starfish (or sea stars) are not fish, even though their name includes the word “fish”. Sea Stars come in many different bright colors and usually have 5 arms. They also learned know that, a seahorse isn’t a horse at all, but an extremely unique fish. Seahorses use their tails for grasping underwater plants to anchor themselves in place. They hold onto coral and sea grasses and camouflage themselves by changing color to hide from predators. Seahorses don’t have many predators, but some crabs and fish will pray on them. Also, we learned another surprising fact about seahorses is that the male carries the babies. The female lays the eggs in a pouch, sort of like that of a kangaroo, in the male’s stomach. He then carries the eggs until they hatch, usually two to four weeks later. We used many different materials while working with our crafts and practicing our fine motor skills with different textures. At the end of the week we painted seashells our favorite color. This was such a fun unit for everyone!
The new vocabulary that they learned this week was:
Caballito de mar/ seahorse,
Estrella de mar/starfish,
Concha de mar/sea Shell.
LETRAS
This week we learned all about the letter Hh/ letra Hh. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. This is a silent letter in Spanish. There are many words that begin with this letter but it makes no sound. Some examples:
Hilo/thread,
Helado/ice cream,
Hojas/leaves,
Hueso/bone.
We had fun learn the formation of the letter “H” with coloring, letter recognition and fine motor letter practice tracing the letter “H”.
NÚMEROS
This week we continued working with addition 1-5 and 1-8. Addition helps kids master the relationship between numbers and understand how quantities relate to one another. We worked with kids doing different activities with our collection of manipulatives (this week we used sea animals and circles shapes). They did a great job practicing their addition with hands-on manipulatives.
La Figura y El Color
This week we were reviewing all shapes that kids are learning; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/ovalo, heart/corazon, and star/estrella. Also, the kids worked on their starfish craft as well as, painting sea shells with free coloring, at the same time they reviewed our colors; rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, anaranjado o naranja/orange, and pink/Rosado. Also, they continued practicing their fine motor skills by lacing circle, square, rectangle, oval, start, heart, and triangle shapes.
Have a good weekend!
Macky J