This week we continued working with the “El Circo” unit. This topic has been very interesting for the children’s learning because the circus is a magical world for children and the activities that take place in it give the opportunity to work on aspects such as: motor skills, coordination skills and abilities perceptive-motor. We have had so much fun with all our prepositions words as we move ourselves around in our circus activities.
The circus always presents itself to children as an activity in which they can learn many things, that is why we started from this idea to develop our project.
From these ideas, we tried to create a series of different activities for children, based on circus activities, where the children have done an excellent job. Also, we reviewed the vocabulary learned during the last couple weeks (circo y/o carpa/ circus, boleto/ticket, and payaso/clown, pista/circus ring, taquilla/ticket window, and palomitas/popcorns). As well, they learned new vocabulary this week:
Domador/ circus tamer
Tigre/ tiger,
Elefante/elephant.
Children did activities for lions, elephants, and popcorn.
Numbers
We learned all about the number 13/trece. They did an excellent job counting 1 through 13. We did different activities with this number involving counting and recognizing the number. Children used some different manipulatives to count. Also, they traced the number 13, forcing on correct number formation. They did a good job!
Letras
We reviewed the letters that we have introduced throughout the past weeks (A,E,I,O,U, M, N, S, T, P, L, V, B, K, R, C, F, H,Q, W, Y, D). We played games to find letters in books and looked into letter soup. The kiddos traced the letters they found. Before they left the classroom each day we reviewed the letter placed in our letter’s tree as well.
La Figura y Color
This week we went over the shapes that kids were learning throughout the year. Children could play with shapes, looking for them throughout the classroom. Kids that found more shapes earned tickets, which they are saving, to exchange on our last day of “El Circo” unit to buy special prizes. They are so excited, waiting to exchange those tickets. Also, the kids continued reinforcing the colors names that they learned: rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, cafe/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange, and the new color blanco/white. This week children colored a sheet of paper with different circus animals like the leon/lion and elefantes/elephants, being sure to identify the colors they were using.
Have a good weekend!