by Macky & Veronica | Nov 16, 2019 | Preschool
This week we continued working with “The Farm” topic. The kids learned that on the farm live different kinds of animals such as dogs, cats, cows, chickens, pigs, sheep and other animals. This week we learned all about the chicken and their products: eggs and meat. They learned that the chicken is one kind of bird because they have wings, feathers, and they lay eggs. They learned that there are more chickens in the world than any other bird or domesticated fowl, and that people keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and eggs.We read “La Gallina en la Granja” and “La Gallinita Roja”. The kids did activities related with our topic such as the chicken life cycle, chicken paper plate, paper tractor, and farmer. Also, they tried the chicken products in our snack time with boiled eggs and chicken. Some of them like to eat eggs and others prefers chicken 
.
Words of the week:
Gallina-chicken,
Pollo-chicken (white meat),
Huevo-egg,
Perro-dog,
Gato-cat,
Raton-mouse,
Trigo-wheat,
Pan-bread.
They did a great job learning the vocabulary and singing la gallina song.
Libros:
La Gallinita Roja
La Gallina en la Granja
Have a great weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 9, 2019 | Preschool
November is here!! And our new topic too “The Farm / La Granja.” This month kids are going to learn all about the farm concept, animals that live there and the products that we can obtain from the animals. The cow gives us milk and milk-by products, as well as meat. The chicken gives us meat and eggs. The pig gives us meats: salami, ham, sausage, bacon.
So, this week we started learning about the cow and the food that we can eat from the cow. The words of the month will be;
Granja-farm,
Granjero-farmer,
Granero-barn,
Tractor-tractor,
Vaca-cow,
Gallina-chichen,
Cerdo-pig.
This week the kids learned all about the cow; the cow is a mammal with hair on their body, they have hooves, horns, a long tail, head and udders. They learned that the cow can give us milk and meat, and with the milk we can have yogurt, butter, cream cheese, ice cream, and cheese. We did activities and projects related to the cow. The kids milked the cow, and then we made butter with the milk. We had a great time milking the cow, as well, eating the butter with salty crackers, and bagels with cream cheese. The words of the week:
Vaca-cow,
Leche-milk,
Yogurt-yogurt,
Mantequilla-butter,
Helado-ice cream,
Queso-cheese,
Carne-meat.
Libros de la semana
Animales de la Granja “La Vaca”
La vaca que decía OINK
Letra: Ss
Número : 5 cinco
Color : verde / green
Fígura: Triangulo / triangle
Have a great long weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 2, 2019 | Preschool
This week we continued working with “The Five Senses” / “Los Cinco Sentidos” Unit. We learned about their sense of smell. They learned that we breathe in odors in the air and our brain makes sense of what we smell, how to protect our noses and how our noses can protect us. We learned that the nose sends messages to our brain and the brain tells us what we smell. The sense of smell was the last lesson of the five senses. We all really enjoyed this unit of study. The little ones did a great job completing projects and science activities.
Cultural Holidays: We also celebrated Halloween in the classroom. All the kiddoss looked so cute with their costumes! We did Halloween activities and we read the book “Samuel El Espantapájaros”. On Friday, we learned about “The Day of the Dead” and did activities related with this. We also talked about this celebration that is celebrated in Mexico. I explained to them that it’s a festive holiday in which families come together to honor their ancestors.
By creating an altar called “La Ofrenda,” in which we put pictures of our ancestors to remember them so they can cross to the land of the living to visit their families.
“Dia de los Muertos” is spread over two days. November 1 is Día de los Inocentes, honoring children.. Graves are decorated with white orchids and baby’s breath. November 2 is Día de los Muertos, honoring adults, whose graves are decorated with bright orange marigolds.
Libro
Sentido del Olfato “Que Huele”
Samuel el Espantapájaro
Have a great weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 26, 2019 | Preschool
This week we continued working with “The Five Senses” / “Los Cinco Sentidos”. We focused on the sense of touch (tacto) and sense of hearing(oído)
Sense of touch The kiddos did a god job feeling different materials and textures such as fleece, rocks, sandpaper, cotton, silk paper, sand, beans, playdough, slime, noodles, jelly. We read about different ways that we used the sense of touch; they had a great time doing a texture book and playing textures games. This experience encourages the kids to explore various textures and at the same time promotes observation plus expressive and descriptive vocabulary.
Sense of hearing The little ones learned that we use our ears to take in information about things around us. We used listening games and listened to different instruments. The kids heard sounds from different objects and then I asked them to name the object making the sound, We also did this with different animal sounds and then they had to guess what animal it was. Then the kiddos made different sounds and the teacher had to guess!! The kiddos sang los cinco sentidos and la araña pequeñita while we were varying the volume of our voice.
Kids had a great learning week with us
Libros
El Tacto
El oído
Letra
Las vocales
Número
4
Fígura
Cuadrado
Color
Azul
Have a great weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 12, 2019 | Preschool
We continued working with the “Five Senses” Unit and the kiddoss did a great job learning Spanish vocabulary and singing songs related to our unit. Also, this week we read the book “It’s Pumpkin Time!” We are learning the pumpkin life cycle and sequencing illustrations from this. Vocabulary:
Semilla-seed,
Brote-sproud,
Planta-plant,
Flor-flower,
Fruta-fruit
calabaza-pumkin
We did sensorial and fine motor skills activities like cutting, with their fingers, a little pieces of orange paper and gluing it on the paper pumpkin, painting paper plates with orange tempera, painting a white paper pumpkin with tempera and Legos (for texture).
It was also amazing to share with all the preschoolers our Bi-Zi Farm field trip. Miss Veronica and I (Macky) were very happy to see all those little ones enjoying feeding the animals, playing and collecting pumpkins. Thank you to all parents to give us the opportunity to have that special time.
Libro
¡Tiempo de Calabazas!
Have a great long weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 5, 2019 | Preschool
“I am falling for you sweet October”
― CHARMAINE J FORDE
Welcome October and our new unit is here! “The Five Sense”/ “Los Cinco Sentidos” The five senses to our students are really important because children need to have an understanding of the world they live in. Understanding comes through their experiences of this world that 
they can only have through their five senses. It’s also important that we emphasize to the little kids the importance of the five senses since our senses do more than let us see the sky, smell a flower, taste a sandwich, hear the music from the radio, or feel snowflakes against our skins. The five senses also enable all of us to learn, enjoy different activities, protect ourselves, and have a clear picture of the things around us.
Thus, we started talking about five senses doing fun projects in which we used our five senses:hearing music in music class on Wednesdays was an amazing experience for them, they were very exited going to a different class and sharing with the older kids..
As well, they could smell, touch, see, hear, and taste delicious popcorns. We also made five senses puppets and crowns!!
New vocabulary;
Ojos-eyes,
Lengua-tongue,
Manos-hands,
Oido-ears,
Nariz-nose,
Vista-sight,
Gusto-taste,
Tacto-touch,
Oido-hearing,
Olfato-smell.
They had a lot of fun singing songs, dancing and learning the vocabulary.
Libro:
Mis Cinco Sentidos-My five Senses
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Have a Great weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 28, 2019 | Preschool
This week we completed our “Mi Familia” unit. This month was amazing! The kids did a great job learning family vocabulary such as;
Mamá-mother,
Papá-father,
Bebé-baby,
Hermano-brother,
Hermana-sister,
Abuela-grandmother,
Abuelo-grandfather.
As well, we learned more about our students and their awesome families through their family’s picture and stories that they brought to class!
This week we read the book “¿El Canguro Tiene Mamá? by Eric Carle. In this book we met 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. Kids 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 such as, paper plate kangaroos, counting kangaroos’ game, kangaroo crown, as well, coloring, cut, glue with different materials.
Libro de la Semana
¿El Canguro Tiene Mamá?
Special Focus of the Week:
Have a great weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 21, 2019 | Preschool
This week we continued working with our “Mi Familia” – “My Family” unit. We use this unit as a guide to continue teaching the children more about families and what makes up a family. It’s so lovely to see how the kiddos are learning in every class! We worked with reading the book “Ricitos de Oro y los Tres Osos” “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. With this classic and amazing story the kids learned new Spanish words such as:
mamá oso- mama bear,
papá oso- papa bear,
bebé oso- baby bear,
casa-house,
bosque -forest,
oso- bear,
cuchara-spoon,
plato-plate,
sopa-soup,
silla-chair,
cama- bed,
pelo -hair,
niña-girl
Also, this week we introduced an “All about me” lesson. Kids did a great job describing their self in circle time. They did an amazing activity such as; draw on a piece of paper their eyes, nose, mouth and hair. They did a sequence activity, followed by recognition of three different sizes big-grande, medium-mediano, small-pequeño. The kids enjoyed “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” book and they had a good time learning our new Spanish words. In addition, we worked on different activities to help build up their fine motor skills.
Libro
“Ricitos de Oro y los Tres Osos”
(Oops! square = cuadrado)
Have a good weekend!
Macky 🙂
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 14, 2019 | Preschool
This week we continued working with our social’s skills activity and “Family” unit. Family is forever. This unit provides the kiddos with a basic knowledge of how family works and how every family is different. When the children were participating in our circle time, they had the opportunity to discuss their families, and gain knowledge on how each family is unique. I provided a variety of ideas to capture the essence of family importance. We have worked with reading the book as “Eres tu Mi Mama?”/ “Are You My Mother?” The kids enjoyed this book and they had a good time learning new words such as:
gato – kitten,
gallina-hen,
perro- dog,
vaca- cow.
The kiddos were very excited learning about families. Words of the month:
Mamá-mother,
Papá-father,
Bebé-baby,
Hermano-brother,
Hermana-sister,
Abuela-grandmother,
Abuelo-grandfather.
In addition, the children did activities with a bird and nest, bird nest sensory bin, pasta bird nest, baby bird eats the worm (fine motor sensory bin) and find the mamá game.
These activities help the children to build up their fine motor skills.
Special Focus:
We practiced tracing and writing our names throughout the week. Soon we will begin our letter study!
Gallina-chicken,
They did a great job learning the vocabulary and singing la gallina song.
