This week we finished our theme “Mi Familia y Yo”. This month was amazing! All the kiddos learned new family words such as Mamá/mother, Papá/father, Abuela/grandmother, Abuelo/grandfather. As well, we learned more about our students and their awesome families through the beautiful pictures families brought to class!

This week we read a book “¿El Canguro Tiene Mamá? by Eric Carle. In this book we met the little joey bouncing in mother kangaroo’s pouch, watched little cubs prance around their mother lion, and swim with a baby dolphin calf in the deep blue sea.  Kiddos know that all moms love their children. Also, they learned new vocabulary:

Canguro/kangaroo

León / lion

Jirafa / giraffe

Cisne / swan

Pingüino / penguin

Zorro / fox

Delfin / dolphin

Cordero / lamb

Oso / bear

Elefante / elephant

Mono / monkey

We had a lot of fun with our different activities related to the book, kangaroos, dolphins, and swans.

Letra

This week we continued working with vowels. The kiddos recognized and practiced the vowel E e. They did different activities with the letter, such as finding the vowel E e, in our daily reading and handwriting. The Spanish E makes the same sound you hear at the beginning of the word: egg.  This week children learned words such as:

Estrella / star

Elefante / elephant

Esponja / sponge

Espejo / mirror

Escoba / broom

 

Números

This week we continued working with number 2. We had a fun time playing and recognizing the number 2 / dos.  They traced the number with play dough, on the board, counting two kangaroos/ dos canguros.  We put two stickers/dos calcomanias y/o pegatinas on the number two. They glued two buttons/ dos botones on the kangaroo.

 

La figura y el Color

This month we continued and finished with our circle shape (círculo). We talked about it while the kiddos passed around the shape so they could examine it up close. We compared different sizes of the circle shape with buttons. We also played a game that involved finding the circle shapes in our classroom. We made different sizes of this shape with a variety of manipulatives. Finally, we continued reviewing the red color with paint, colors, and finding different red manipulatives in the classroom.