“Spring would not be spring without bird songs”-Francis M. Chapman.
This month we started with a new topic “The Zoo”.We will be learning about the different animals that are present in our world today. Many of these animals can usually be observed in zoos. Therefore, we are introducing them the different zoo animals and their habitat, then the children will be ready for their trip to the zoo. This week, we worked with the jungle animals;
Leon/lion,
jirafa/Giraffe,
Elefante/elephant,
Mono/monkey,
Hipopotamo/ hippopotamus,
Rinoceronte/rhinoceront,
cebra/zebra.
Children did different activities such as; paper plate elephants, giraffes, and lions. As well we played the sound game, it is a nice teaching technique to inform the kiddos of the different sounds that animals make. We showed them a picture and asked them to listen to an animal sound, then they had to guess the animal sound. To finish this week, the children enjoyed their snack in the jungle, surrounded by animals, such as monkeys, snakes, and macaws. They were very excited eating some delicious bananas
LETRAS
This week we learned all about the letter Zz/ letra Zz. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The letter sounds are different in Spanish and English. The Spanish letter Z makes for of an /s/ sound. Some examples:
Zapato/shoe,
Zanahoria/carrot,
Zorro/fox,
Zorrillo/skunk.
We did activities such as tracing the letter, coloring and letter recognition.
Números
This week the kiddos continued learning the number addition 1-10. We did different activities like counting and recognizing the numbers. We worked with little bears where we placed a piece of paper with a number and then the kids needed to recognize each number placing quantities next to the numbers. Then they did addition/sumas counting buttons and different animals. They did a good job with addition.
La Figura y El Color
This week we started working with diamond shape (diamante), and we introduce a new color, cafe (brown). The kids were coloring sheets of zoo animals like the elefent (elefante), tiger (tigre), hippotamus (hipopotamo), and giraffe (jirafa), using the colors they have learned. Also, they were practicing their fine motor skills lacing shapes (circle, square, rectangle, oval, start, heart, triangle and diamond).
Have a good weekend!