by Macky & Veronica | Feb 11, 2017 | Preschool
Los Dinosaurios
This week we continued working with our Dinosaurs Unit. Kids really love this unit! They had a lot of fun playing, singing and doing different craft activities with dinosaurs. We read different dinosaur books and the kiddos enjoy learning names, sizes and colors of dinosaurs. After reading a book they wanted to play dinosaurs game…! They pretended to be a dinosaur, stronger, with a lot of power! They have a lot imagination. This was a good time to teach them the concepts about small/pequeño, median/mediano and big/grande. Kids are doing pretty good learning and visualizing dinosaurs sizes by comparing them to everyday things, for example; brontosaurus/apatosaurio was tall/alto as a skyscraper building, as some dinosaurs were large/largo o ancho, and still others were the sizes of chickens. Finally, kids had fun doing crafts; dinosaurs book, hands print dinosaurs, and dinosaurs track painting, the last activity got a little messy, but the kids loved it! The purpose of these activities was to develope their hand muscles and coordination as they manipulated the dinosaurs.
LetrasThis week we went over the letter B/ letra B. Be sure to point out the letter we practice when you are reading. The English letter B, can be pronounced as (bee). While the Spanish pronunciation is; B (bay). Some examples:
Bolsa/bag or sack,
Bandera/flag,
Bicicleta/bicycle,
Ballena/whale,
Barco/boat.
We did activities as, letters games, coloring and letters recognition, and tracing letter B.
NúmerosThis week the kids continued learning the number 8, we did different activities, as counting and recognizing the number through counting eight/ocho dinosaurs/dinosaurios, jumping into dinosaur’s tracks/huellas de dinosaurio, as well, they were counting and sorting a pile of manipulatives on the ground next to the number 8.
La Figura y Color This week we continued working with ovalo/oval shape. The kids could play through the shape, tracing the shape with their fingers, passing cars and dinosaurs too. As well, the kids were passing around the shape ovalo/oval, so they could examine it up close. They reinforced this shape doing a dinosaur egg. Also, the kids continued reinforcing the colors names that they learned as rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, and amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, and we introduced the new colors to learn as, café/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange.
Have a good weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Dec 3, 2016 | Preschool
I cannot believe that the holidays are almost coming!!
This week we continue working with The Farm/La Granja unit. The kids did a great job learning animal’s names and sounds. This week we read a book El Chivo en la Huerta/ The Goat in the Orchard, and Dubi, Dubi Muu book. The kiddos enjoyed this book that shows us a trip to the county fair and involves secretly entering a talent contest-unbeknownst to Farmer Brown-to win a trampoline. In the contest tres vacas/three cows, cuatro ovejas/four sheeps, cuatro cerdos/ four pigs and un pato/one duck participated. After reading the book the kids were singing the same as animals did, in different tones. 
Also, the kiddos did different projects, such as chivo/goat paper plate and a goat mask. In addition, I explained to them about cows and what they give us, as example, leche/milk, queso/cheese, mantequilla/butter, and meat. So, we did a little experiment and they milked a “cow” by hand. It works just like a real cow!!!! All I did was fill a rubber glove with water and a bit of tempera paint to make it white and a tiny bit thicker than water. I poked a hole in one of the fingers. Then, I hung my little “Milk the Cow” I had to pinch off one of the utters with my thumb and pointer finger to trap the milk in the utter-so that it doesn’t go back up. Then, the kids squeeze it!! The kids think this is the neatest thing ever! 
LETRASThis week we go learned all about the letters Tt /la letra Tt. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter Tt can be pronounced in English T(Ti). While the Spanish pronunciation is T (te). As example
tomate/tomato
tambor/drum
tijeras/scissors
triciclo/tricycle
tortuga/ turtle
tubo/tube
We did activities as, find the letter Tt into our classroom and letters game, draw, coloring and recognition of letter Tt.
NÚMEROS
This week we worked with the number six (6)/ número seis doing different activities like placing five watermelon seeds into the watermelon, counting mole cows, and sorting activities with colors, shapes, and sizes.
La Figura y Color This week we continued working with the triangle shape (triangulo), and green (verde) color. The kids played in the classroom looking around for triangle shapes and green color. They played games doing figures, using different sizes of shapes as circle/ circulo, cuadrado/square, and triangulo/trinagle.
Have a good weekend!
Macky J
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 19, 2016 | Preschool
La Granja
We continued working with The Farm/La Granja. The kids are doing great learning animal’s names and sounds. This week we read a book la Gallinita Roja / The Little Red Hen. The kids enjoyed this book.
Here is a short summary for our week lecture; the little red hen finds a grain of wheat and asks for help from the other farmyard animals, cat, dog and mouse to plant it, but none of them volunteer. At each later stage (harvest, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and baking the flour into bread), the hen again asks for help from the other animals, but again she gets no assistance. Finally, the hen has completed her task and asks who will help her eat the bread. This time, all the previous non-participants eagerly volunteer. She declines their help stating that no one aided her in the preparation work. Thus, the hen eats it with her chicks leaving none for anyone else. The moral of this story is that those who pay no to contribution to a product do not deserve to enjoy the product: “if any would not work, neither should he eat.” The kids did different projects, as a red hen, as well, they learned the life cycle of a chick. We discussed how the hen lays an egg, how the baby chick grows inside the fertilized egg and then uses its beak to break the egg and come out, and how the chick grows into an adult chicken. They were fascinated with this process. In addition, we closed this week doing activities related with Thanksgiving celebration. It was nice to hear how they were thankful for their parents, brothers and sisters!!
LETRASThis week went over to the letters Pp /la letra Pp. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter Pp can be pronounced in English P(PI). While the Spanish pronunciation is P (pe). As example
pelota/ball
pez/fish
puerco/pig
pavo/turkey
pantalones/ pants
plancha/iron
We did activities like find the letter Pp into our classroom and letters game, draw, coloring and recognition of letter Pp.
NÚMEROS We continued working with the numbers 1-5 doing different activities, as placing five corn grain into pig mouth, counting farm animals, as well, the kids did sorting activities with colors, shapes, and sizes. This is an important math skill for them.
La Figura y Color
This week we continued working with the triangle shape (triangulo), and green (verde) color. The kids played by looking around for the triangle shape and green color. They passed around the different sizes of the shape. They could draw a clown, ice cream cone and pine tree with the triangle shape.
Have a great weekend and Happy Thanksgiving!
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 12, 2016 | In The Loop, Preschool
La Granja
November is a perfect time to learn about farm! We had fun this week doing a simple farm unit with the kiddos.This unit is a great way to introduce the kids to the differences between types of animals and types of lifestyle. Also, kids can learn how the farm is important for our life. They will learn how farm animals can contribute to our life style. We also will learn who and how take care of farm animals. The objective for this unit is that kids learn name of animals, sounds of animals, food of farm animals, uses of farm animals. We did different projects for the farm like sensory play activities, paper plate chickens, paper craft chicks, paper plate caws, and paper plate and cotton ball sheep.LETRAS
This week we learned all about the letters Ss /la letra Ss. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter Ss. These can be pronounced in English S(es). While the Spanish pronunciation is S (eh seh). We did activities related with the letter Ss and we sang songs too.
As example:
museo/museum
casa/house
silencio/silence
serpiente/snake
sandia/ watermelon
sombrero/hat.
NÚMEROS
We worked with the numbers 1-5, doing different activities such as counting pigs and corn. We started with addition (making groups of 5 using two different colors of bears, how to find the number five counting 3 blue bears and two green bears). ,We also did five little chickens, placing a number inside of the body.
La Figura y Color
This month we started with triangle shape (triangulo), and green (verde) color. I talked about it with the kids, passing around the shape, so the children could examine this shape up close. We compared different sizes of the triangle shape. Also, they did an activity to draw and cut triangle shapes.
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 10, 2016 | Preschool
Welcome to all preschool families!
I am so happy to have your children in my class!
This week we started working with a socials skills activity. This activity was a great w
ay to ease anxious feelings, while allowing children to celebrate differences amongst each other. Circle time social skills are very important. Circle sitting tends to make everyone equal and encourage participation to all kids, so I announced to them that this was “all about us” time. Everyone introduced themselves and shared their favorites and special things! it was a wonderful activity.
We are also working with the “My family” topic for the month of September. This week we read ¿Tu Mamá Es Una Llama? where the kiddos learned some Spanish words as llama/llama, vaca/cow, cisne/swan, murciélago/bat., also we worked in different activities building up their fine motor skills. In addition, we sang songs, danced and played.
Letra
The children practiced tracing their names. We work on holding all writing utensils correctly. Grip is important! Recognizing the first (or all) letter in their names was our focus this week.
Números
This week we worked with number 1. We had a fun time playing and using some items to recognize it. We did different activities with the number such as making number 1 with play dough, and coloring it, identifying groups of the number.
Figuras
This month we are working with the circle shape, el círculo. We talked about the shape, passing it around, so the children could examine this shape up close. We compared different sizes of the circle shape and students sorted the shape from others.
