This week we continued working with the “Zoo Animals and their habitat” unit. We focused on animals that live in the Antarctic:polar bear, penguin, and walrus. They learned that arctic animals are those that live in the Arctic region of the world which is located in the northernmost part of the Earth. It consists of the Arctic ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Alaska, and a few Nordic countries. The arctic animals are specially adapted to life in this unique region of the world. As well, they learned that polar animals are in danger since people dump garbage in the artic and polar animals eat garbage and get sick. After reading books about these animals we did a different crafts related to arctic animals: polar bear, shapes of penguins, and a walrus craft. We had a lot of fun learning about arctic animals.
Vocabulary learned this week:
Peligro/danger,
Artico/arctic,
Basura/garbage,
Enfermo/sick,
Oso polar/polar bear,
Ping”uino/penguin,
Morsa/walrus.
The children were very interested on the subject and very willing to protect the polar animals by trying to keep our earth clean. (Perfect thoughts around Earth Day!)
Letras
We reviewed the letters that they have learned in the past weeks (A,E,I,O,U, M, N, S, T, P, L, V, B, K, R,
C, F, H,Q, W,). We played games to find letters in the books and looking into letters soup, as well, before they left the classroom, we reviewed the letters placed in our letters tree.
Números
This week we worked with number 11 (once). We had a fun time playing and using some items for sorting and counting. Sorting helps children see differences and similarities. We did activities such as counting little buttons, bears and blocks. They also worked on writing the number by tracing it.
La Figura y Color
This week we learned about the diamond /diamante shape. The kiddos played with the shape by tracing it with their fingers and lacing it. Also, the kiddos continued reinforcing the colors names that they have learned: rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, anaranjado o naranja/orange, and café/brown.
Have a good weekend!
Macky J