by Macky & Veronica | Sep 28, 2018 | Preschool
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.
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 21, 2018 | Preschool
This week we continued working with “Mi Familia” /“My Family” theme. We use this theme as a guide to teach children more about families and what makes up a family. It’s so lovely to see how they 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.
We did great activities, such as painting bears faces using a fork to paint them, followed by recognition of three different sizes big/grande, medium/mediano, small/pequeño. As well, they were coloring bears, cutting out, and arranging correctly. The kids enjoyed this book and they had a good time learning our new words. In addition, we worked on different activities to help build up their fine motor skills.
Letra
This week we began our letter introduction. We started with vowel A a. The Spanish /a/ sound is what the dentist ask you to say, “ahhh”. This letter only has the one sound!
Kids found the vowel A in their names, daily reading and handwriting. The kids did different activities such as making vowel A a with play dough, and in different sensorial materials ( salt, flour, and mixed flour with water and coloring food). They had a lot of fun 
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Números
This week we started working with number 2. We had a fun time playing and recognizing the number, they traced the number with play dough, traced the number in the board, counting bears, and pom poms.
La figura y el Color
This month we continued with the circle shape (círculo). I talked about it with the kiddos, passing around the shape, so the children could examine the shape up close. We compared different sizes of the circle shape. They also made different sizes of circles with play dough (small, medium, and big). Finally, we continued reviewing the color red with paint, colors, and finding red bears in the classroom.
Have a good weekend
Macky
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 14, 2018 | Preschool
This week we continued working with our socials skills activity and “Family” unit. We talked all about families with our “Family “preschool theme. We use this theme as a guide to learn more about families and what makes up a family. We have worked with reading book as “Eres tu Mi Mama”. “Are You My Mother?” This is a story about a hatchling bird. His mother, thinking her egg will stay in her nest where she left it, leaves her egg alone and flies off to find food. The baby bird hatches. He does not understand where his mother is, so he goes to look for her. As he is unable to fly, he walks, and in his search, he asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a cow if they are his mother, but none of them are. Finally, his mother returns to the nest and the two are united, much to their delight, and the baby bird recounts to his mother the adventures he had looking for her. The kids enjoyed this book and they had a good time learning new words as:
gato / kitten,
gallina / hen,
perro / dog,
vaca / cow.
The kiddos were very excited to share their family pictures with their classmates and teachers.(one funny thing; more of kids said this is my family but I don’t want to share my family, you can see them, but don’t take my picture ). In addition, the children did activities with: a bird nest, cows, cats and birds placing little dots of paper mache. These activities help them to build up their fine motor skills.
Letter
We practiced tracing and writing our names. We also did a name recognition activity with letter beads and letter stickers.
Numbers
This week we continued working with number 1 / número uno. We had a fun time playing and using some items to recognize it. We did different activities such as tracing number 1, coloring and counting 1 drum/tambor.
Shape
This month we will continue working with circle shape / circulo, and red/ rojo color. This week we enjoyed using scissors to cut small pieces of red paper to place it in circle shape. We looked around the classroom for circle manipulatives and traced the circle shape. Also, we played sorting colors and recognition of red color.
It was a great week. Thank you!
by Macky & Veronica | Sep 7, 2018 | Preschool
Preescolar!
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone to believes in them” Magic Johnson.
Welcome preschool families! We are so happy to have your kiddo’s in our class!
Everything we do is an opportunity to learn, show kindness and caring for each other, and to have fun! This week we began our new school year by working with a socials skills activity. This activity was a great way to ease anxious feelings, while allowing children to celebrate differences amongst each other. We begin with our circle time as circle sitting tends to make everyone equal and encourages participation to all kids. I announced to them that this was “all about us” time. Everyone introduced themselves and shared their favorite and special things! It was a wonderful activity and our returning students set great examples for our new students and helped ease some shyness.
Also, we began working with our “My family / Mi familia” topic, which is our theme for the month of September. This week, we were read ¿Tú Mamá Es Una Llama? We learned some new Spanish words:
llama / llama
vaca / cow
cisne / swan
murciélago / bat
Focusing on the first letter of our names is a great start!
Also, we worked with different activities to build up fine motor skills. In addition, we sang songs, danced and played.
Letter
Each week of the school year we will focus on a new letter. We will introduce the upper and lower case letters to the class. We will sing songs while passing around objects that begin with that letter sound. We will play games with the sound and learn the correct formation of the letter. (Most uppercase letters begin from the top down.) This first week of school though the students started practicing their names. They used play dough and traced their names with it as well as sorting their names by first letter.
Números
Every two weeks of the school year we will focus on a new number. Our goal is for the preschoolers to count, develop number sense, identify groups of a given number, correctly write numbers, and more!
This week we worked with number 1 / número uno. We had a fun time playing and using some items to recognize it. We did different activities to work with the number such as: make number 1 with play dough, trace the number one with crayons and markers, identify the number in a group of other numbers. Also, they glued tissue paper onto the number (developing those fine motor skills).
Color sorting AND fine motor skills practice all in one.
Figura y el color
Shapes is one of the topics taught during preschool mathematics. We will talk about shapes every day but we will specifically focus on one shape each month. The students will not only learn the name of basics shapes but also how they integrate with each other. This month we are working with the circle shape / el círculo. We passed around different circles so the children could examine them shape up close while hearing the name. We all had fun tracing the circle with their little fingers.
We focused on the color red / color rojo. We went on a color hunt around the classroom and found red items all around us.
It was a great start to the school year and we are looking forward to a great year!
Thank you and have a good weekend!
by Sarah Segall | Jul 19, 2018 | In The Loop, Preschool
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by Macky & Veronica | Jun 16, 2018 | Preschool
“A Father is neither a sun nor moon to light up the whole sky. He is just a candle in the shadow of the night, shinning brightly to those that surround him” Happy Father’s Day! This week we started work with the plants, I was teaching the little ones what the plants need to grow (sun, water, soil, and air), and plants parts (root, steam, leaves and flower), as well the life cycle of plants from seed to plant. Children were fascinating by the notion that a tiny seed can emerge from the ground as a plant. the little ones enjoyed what they were learning, we did some science projects and paper project too. As well, the kids were working doing a Father’s Day project. Thank you, papas/ Dads, to come a read a book to the children they were very excited.
Número de la semana: This week we focused on the number: 17 We are focusing on correct number formation (top -down), making groups of objects, and counting up to this number. We used our plants topic to do different activities like counting seeds. This was a simple activity to help kids practice counting and number recognition.
Letra de la semana: This week we learned all about the letter Gg. This letter follows the same rules in Spanish as in English. It makes the hard sound (like in Goat) before all letters except
i and
e (like in
giant or
gentle). Please be sure to have your child point this letter out when you are reading together.
Some examples:
Gato/cat,
Gorilla/gorilla,
Gusano/worm,
Guitarra/guitar,
Galleta/cookie,
Gorra/hat.
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We reviewed all the shapes we have learned; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/ovalo, heart/corazon, and star/Estrella and diamond/diamante. Also, we reviewed our color range; rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, cafe/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange, pink/Rosado, baby blue/celeste, black/negro, white/blanco and gray/gris. They reinforced the colors by making a beautiful tie for their dads.
by Sarah Segall | Jun 8, 2018 | Preschool
This week we started working with a new topic: “Water Cycle, Plants, and Light”.
In order to understand the water and why it rains, kids need to know about the water cycle first. So, this week we learned all about how the water cycle works. Water covers more than 70% of the earth’s surface, and living things need water to survive. The water cycle is nature’s way of purifying, circulating, and replenishing water. Kids learned the four basic steps in the water cycle:
1. Evaporation: When heat from the sun turns liquid water into gaseous water vapor, causing it to rise into the air.
2. Condensation: When gaseous water vapor cools at high elevations and becomes liquid (or solid) again
3. Precipitation: When liquid water (e.g., rain) or solid water (e.g., snow) falls to the ground.
4. Collection: When large amounts of water gather in oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams
We did a simple demonstration to help the kiddos understand the basic elements of the water cycle. The demonstration also shows why our rain water is drinkable despite, the fact that much of our rain water comes from the salty ocean. We used salt, water, and ice. In a larger container I put hot water and salt then I stirred well to make the ocean(evaporation). I placed and small container in the middle of the larger container to collect the rain that falls. I covered the top of the container with a plastic wrap, this provided water to condense into clouds. I then placed some ice cubes into the center of the cling wrap covering the top of the container, so the cool ice in the “sky” caused the evaporated water to condense when it rose up. After several minutes kids could see water condensing into “clouds”, then, precipitation began, water dropped from the plastic cling wrap back into the ocean. Some of that water fell down in the small container.
Kids could taste the water of the small container and they noticed that the water wasn’t salty compared to the ocean water we began with. That is because only the ocean water evaporates, not the salt that is in it. Thus, rain water is okay to drink even if it originally came from the salty ocean. After all, we did a precipitation experiment too with coloring food, shaving cream, and water.
Letra
This week we learned all about the letter “J”/letra J. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter (J) can be pronounced as (llei). While the Spanish pronunciation is; J (hotah) makes an “h” sound as in English him. Some examples:
Juego/game,
Jugo/juice,
Joya/jewel,
Jeep/jeep,
Jirafa/giraffe,
Jaula/cage.
Números
This week we started working with number 16. We had a fun time playing with this number and using some items for sorting and counting. We used the water cycle topic to do different activities:counting clouds and counting water drops. It was a simple activity to help kids practice counting and with their number recognition. As well they counted and tracing the number with play dough.
La Figura y Color
This week worked with the diamond /diamante shape. The kids played with the shape, tracing it with their fingers and lacing shapes. Also, the kids continued reinforcing the colors names that they’ve learned: rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, and amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, cafe/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange, black/negro, and we introduced the new color to learn white/blanco. This week kids colored a sheet of paper using the colors that they were and are learning, saying the colors as they used them.
Have a good weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Jun 1, 2018 | Preschool
‘The sun shines in the east, the first rays of light end with the darkness of the night and the chirping of the birds warns us the last day of May has arrived.’ As it has happened fast in our school year!
This week, we finished the unit/La unidad “El Circo/The Circus”. Kiddos had a lot of fun with this unit as they enjoyed learning the circus vocabulary and pretending to be artists from the circus. They did a great job with this as well as all their fun projects. This week children added to their circus vocabulary while working with all our previous vocabulary: (circo y/o carpa/ circus, boleto/ticket, and payaso/clown, Pista/circus ring, Taquilla/ticket window, Palomitas/popcorns, Domador/tamer, Tigre/tiger, and Elefante/elephant, Jaula/ cage, Tren/ train, Trapecista/trapeze artist).
New vocabulary:
Foca/seal,
Caballo/horse,
Pelota/ball.
Kids had fun playing in the circus with hoops games and a circus memory game.
LETRA
This week kids learned the letter “Ch”. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. While in United States this is two separate letters, it’s one letter in Spanish. They do make the same sounds in both 
languages. Some examples:
Chicharo/peas,
Chocolate/chocolate,
Chile/chile,
Chivo/goat,
Chapulin/grasshopper or locust.
We did activities as, handwriting the letter Ch in the board, singing, letters games and letters recognition.
Números
This week we started working with the number 15. We had a fun time playing and using different items for sorting and counting. Sorting helps children see differences and similarities. We did activities such as counting and traced the number 15 (número quince) with play dough and other manipulatives.
La Figura y Color
We reviewed all the shapes we have learned this year; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/óvalo, heart/corazon, and star/Estrella and diamond/diamante. We also reviewed the colors that we’ve learned in our daily class routines: rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, cafe/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange, pink/Rosado, and black/negro.
by Macky & Veronica | May 28, 2018 | Preschool
This week we continued working with “The Circus” unit. The children have had a lot of fun with this topic since it gives them the opportunity to use their wonderful imaginations with: juggling, pretending to jump in the ring of fire, taming animals, being clowns, dancers and trapeze artists. They did a very g
ood job. Besides playing and having fun in the circus, the kiddos learned new words related to “The Circus/ El Circo” unit as review the vocabulary that we started with this unit: (circo y/o carpa/ circus, boleto/ticket, and payaso/clown, Pista/circus ring, Taquilla/ticket window, Palomitas/popcorns, Domador/tamer, Tigre/tiger, and Elefante/elephant).
New vocabulary:
Jaula/ cage,
Tren/ train,
Trapecista/trapeze artist.
We did projects such as; tigers, lions, and elephants in cages, trapeze artists, and masks.
LETRA
This week we continued reviewing the letter Ñ ñ/. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. While in United States this letter does not exist in the alphabet. In the Spanish pronunciation is; N (enye). Some examples:
Niño/boy,
Piña/pineapple,
Leña/firewood,
Ñandu/rhea,
Araña/spider.
Números
This week we started working with number 14. We had a fun time playing and using some items that the students sorted and counted. Children have a natural desire to make sense of their world that seems largely out of their control. For that reason, “sorting activities often attract children, and help them see differences and similarities”. We also did activities such as counting fourteen manipulatives. As well, they traced the number 14 (número catorce).
La Figura y Color
We reviewed all shapes that we have worked with so far; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/ovalo, heart/corazon, and star/Estrella and diamond/diamante. Also, we reviewed the colors that we have learned: rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, cafe/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange, pink/Rosado, and black/negro.
