This week children continued learning the “Cuentos Clasicos” Unit. We read the classic tale “Pinocchio.” The main idea of this fairy tale is that lying is bad and you do not have to do this.
This is a description of Pinocchio Story:
“Geppetto was a carpenter who made wooden toys for the children of his village. One day, he made a wooden puppet. As soon as he had finished, the puppet came alive and began to dance and sing. Next day he sent Pinocchio to school. On the way Pinocchio found a puppet show. He began dancing with the puppets. The puppet master gave Pinocchio five gold coins and said, “Give these to your father.”
Then Pinocchio met a shy fox. He told him if he planted the coins under a tree, he would get many more in the morning. So, Pinocchio planted the coins and went to sleep under the tree.
The fox tied Pinocchio to the tree, took the coins and ran away.
A kind fairy, dressed in blue, set Pinocchio free. Pinocchio began making up a story to tell the Blue fairy. Then a strange thing happened. Pinocchio’s nose began to grow longer and longer. The more he spoke, the longer it grew.
“Stop!” said Pinocchio.
“It won’t stop. Every time you tell a lie, your nose will grow longer,” said the Blue Fairy. “Please make it stop,” said Pinocchio. “I promise not to lie again.”
The next day, on his way to school, Pinocchio met a boy who said, “Come away with me to Funland.” “In Funland every day is a holiday!” the boy said. “There are toys and games and sweets. And best of all, no lessons to learn!”
So, Pinocchio rushed off with the boy to Fun land. He had lots of fun playing and eating.
Suddenly, Pinocchio and the other boys found their ears growing longer. They were turning into donkeys! The wizard of Fun land had cast a spell on them.
As they wandered around, they came to a circus. The ringmaster made Pinocchio work for the circus. There, Pinocchio hurt his leg while doing tricks. The angry ringmaster threw him into the sea.
In the water, the spell was broken. Pinocchio became a puppet once more. A whale that was swimming by opened its huge mouth and swallowed Pinocchio.
In the Whale’s stomach, Pinocchio saw Geppetto in his boat. “I was looking for you when the whale swallowed me up. I am so glad to have found you!” he said. They hugged each other in delight. “I shall be a good boy from now on,” promised Pinocchio. When the whale was asleep, they crept out of its huge mouth and sailed home. When they reached home, Geppetto fell ill. Pinocchio fed him hot soup and looked after him. “I will go to school and work hard so that I can earn lots of money,” said Pinocchio. “You will never have to work again.”
So, Pinocchio studied hard in the school. Then one day a wonderful thing happened. The Blue Fairy appeared and said, “Pinocchio, you are brave and have a kind heart. You deserve to become a real boy.”
So, she turned him into a little boy. Geppetto and Pinocchio lived together happily.”
Kids learn new vocabulary this week:
Papá – father,
Pinocho – Pinocchio,
Grillo – cricket,
Hada – fairy,
Burro – donkey,
Zorro – fox,
Ballena- whale,
Nariz – nose.
As well the children did activities such as making Pinocchio, donkey ears, cricket and fairy puzzles. We had a great time playing with donkey ears, and Pinocchio’s nose !
Letras
This week the children reviewed the letters that they are learning (A,E,I,O,U,M,S,T,P,N,F,L), as well, we gave them a little introduction of our new program to learn the letter sounds “Estrellita.” All the kids are getting very good at saying the word chart. They were very excited!
Números
We continued working with the number 9/numero nueve, kids did some different activities, as counting 9 manipulatives, the kiddos used stickers, little animals farm animals as ducks, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, and donkeys. Also, they were tracing the number nine.
La Figura y el Color
This week kids continued learning the oval shape (óvalo). We had fun with activities tracing ovals and looking around our classroom for the oval shape. Then, we continued learning and working with brown color /color café. We colored brown donkey ears and searched for different brown manipulatives in the classroom.
Have a great weekend!