by Macky & Veronica | Dec 7, 2018 | Preschool
December is here and the holidays too!! So, this month we are going working with our “Celebration” Unit. We are going to learn about Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas celebration. This week we started working with the Januca/Hanukkah celebration. The kids will be learning about the different ways to share with others. They will learn about values and generosity by examples. Monday and Tuesday kids were working on their stocking decoration to add to our awesome preschool bulletin board. They did a great job decorating their stocking sock using their own imagination and at the same time developing their fine motricity using all the manipulative decorations. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they learned about the Hanukkah celebration. Kids learned that holidays give us a wonderful opportunity to share and learn about different traditions. The kids were really exited learning a little bit of this Januca/Hanukkah tradition. The kids did a different activity such as: kids painted their hands with a blue water paint and they print their little hands in a piece of white paper making a Menorah: candle holder with nine branches.
LETRAS
This week learned all about the letter Tt. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. This letter has pretty much the same pronunciation in English and Spanish. (Less air in the Spanish pronunciation.)
tomate/tomato
tambor/drum
tijeras/scissors
triciclo/tricycle
tortuga/ turtle
We had fun with out letter activities: find the letter Tt in our classroom, letters game, drawing, coloring and recognition of letter Tt.
NÚMEROS
We were working and reviewing the number 7/número siete. The kids did a good job counting and recognizing the number 7. They did different activities like counting dots, blocks, stickers, fishes, color and tracing the number seven too. Forming groups of a given number is an important skill and something you can continue to work on at home during play time.
La Figura y Color
The ability to accurately identify shapes is a foundational mathematical skill, and it is quite rewarding for children because their world is full of shapes. Understanding shapes will enable students to be more in tune to the world around them and see the connections between objects. So, this month we started working with rectangulo shape (rectangle). We talked about it and examined it up close. We counted and noticed that this shape has a 4 sides/cuatro lados, just like a square but two sides are longer. We also reviewed the yellow/amarillo color, coloring, and finding different yellow/ amarillo objects in our classroom.
Have a wonderful weekend
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 30, 2018 | Preschool
This week we finished our unit on The five senses/ Los Cinco Sentidos. This week the kids learned about their body’s sense of hearing. They learned that we use our ears to take information about things around us. Like other skills that children learn, listening takes practice. So, we used listening games like listening to different instruments and sounds of music at various volumes. Kids heard sounds from different objects and then I asked them to name the object making the sound. They did great! I changed the volume from quiet to loud to demonstrate the difference. We sang los cinco sentidos y la arana pequenita while varying our volume.
We read the book Oso Polar, Oso Polar, Oso Polar ¿Qúe Es Ese Ruido? /Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Through this book we had the opportunity to make a lot of animal noises: lion, sea lion, flamingo, zebra, elephant, leopard, and peacock. As well, we played games related to the unit like, guess the noise of things that we use in home (phone, timer, blender, vacuum, keys), and body sounds (clap, crying baby, hiccups, coughing, sneezing, drinking water, snoring). We also reviewed the five senses. The kids did a great job in this unit and really enjoyed it!!
LETRAS
This week we learned all about the letter Pp /la letra Pp. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The pronunciation is just about the same in English and Spanish. (There is less air that comes out in the Spanish pronunciation but the sound is the same.)
pelota / ball
pez / fish
puerco / pig
pavo / turkey
pantalones / pants
plancha / iron
We did activities finding the letter Pp in the classroom, playing letters game, drawing, coloring and recognizing the letter Pp.
NÚMEROS
We continued working with the number 6 doing different activities, placing colored corn on the number 6/número seis, tracing the number and coloring six fish/seis peces. They traced the number six in sand, finding and coloring the number six with green color.
La Figura y Color
This week we continued working with triangle shape (triangulo), and green (verde) color. The kids played in the classroom, looking around for the triangle shape and green color. They played games making figures using different sizes of shapes with the circle/ circulo, cuadrado/square and triangulo/triangle.
Have a good weekend!
Macky J
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 16, 2018 | Preschool
We continued working with the five senses/ Los Cinco Sentidos. This week, the kids learned about the sense of touch (sentido del tacto) by feeling different materials and textures. We used a collection of fabrics including fleece, burlap, silk and satin, also, we used rocks, sandpaper, cotton, and silk paper.
We talked about the difference between soft, rough and smooth. We read about different ways that we use our sense of touch. The kids enjoyed all the activities, playing and singing songs of the 5 senses. The students had a great time touching different textures. We did activities as sensory texture touching and gluing rocks, fabrics, etc., This experience encourages the children to explore various textures and promotes the use of observation, plus expressive and descriptive vocabulary. As well, we did a texture book, this activity helped the kids to observe, compare, experiment and practice descriptive and expressive skills.
As well, this week we worked with the sense of taste. During this theme I started teaching the kids that our tongues are covered in taste buds that allow us to taste things that are salty/salado, sweet/dulce, sour/acido and bitter/amargo. I provide students examples of each flavor to taste. Lemon/limon pretzel/pretzel, dark chocolate/chocolate amargo, apples/manzanas and radish/rabanos. As well, we discussed about the foods, and what kind of food they prefer or like most and why. They did activities such as paper tongue, and paper plate gluing pictures as radish, lemon, pretzel, and banana. Another activity was for them to guess the different flavor that I gave them using only their sense of taste/ el gusto. Kids enjoyed this activity, especially tasting sweets. Whit this theme, the kids learned new vocabulary, such as:
bitter/amargo,
sour/acido,
salty/salado,
sweet/dulce.
LETRAS
This week we learned about the letter Ss /la letra Ss. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. This letter has the same sound in Spanish and English.
sandia/ watermelon,
sombrero/hat,
sarten/frying pan,
sol/sun,
silla, chair.
NÚMEROS
We started working with the number 6 doing different activities such as placing six(seis) calcomanias/stickers in the number six, tracing the number six, and counting six manipulatives as blocks, bears, and fishes.
La Figura y Color
This month kids continue working with triangle shape (triangulo), and green (verde) color. We talked about it while the kids passed around the shape, and compared different sizes of triangle shape. Kids did activities counting and glueing six green different sizes of triangle shapes in number six.
Have a wonderful holiday…Macky 
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 9, 2018 | Preschool
This week we started working with “The five Senses” “Los Cinco Sentidos”. During this theme we will identify, compare and classify items as we investigate the world around us. So, we are going to explore the five senses of touch, sight, smell, taste and sound for the rest of the month. Thus, we started this week with the sense of sight. Children were working with a fantastic book “Brown Bear, brown Bear, What Do You See? / Oso Café, Oso Café, Qué Es Lo Que Tu Ves? The narrator of this book asks various animals what they see with the response usually being another animal, the respondent is then asked what they themselves see, and the process is repeated. It features a
Brown Bear/ Oso Cafe
Red Bird/Pajaro Rojo
Yellow Duck/ Pato Amarillo
Blue Horse/Caballo Azul
Green Frog/rana Verde
Purple Cat/Gato Morado
White Dog/ Perro Blanco
Black Sheep/ Cordero Negro
Goldfish/ Pez Dorado
Also, this week kids learned about their body’s 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, as well, they learned that the nose sends messages to our brain and the brain tells us what we smell. The kiddos were fascinated with these amazing senses and with the books that we read.
In addition, we were working in different activities that help them to build up their fine motor skills. Kids did activities such as coloring, glue little pieces of tissue paper in flowers that they colored, recognizing different color schemes, and science activities related with our senses.
LETRAS
This week we learned all about the letter M m /la letra M m.. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. This letter makes the same sound in English and Spanish.
Mamá / mother,
Mano / hand,
Mono / monkey,
Mariposa / butterfly,
Murciélago / bat,
Moto / motorcycle,
Manzana / apple,
We incorporated our touch investigation with the letter Mm, reading books, tracing the letter, and games of letter recognition.
NÚMERO
We reviewed the number 5 with different activities. We had a fun time playing and using different items for sorting and counting. We did activities counting 5 bears, 5 triangles, and 5 stickers. Also we traced the number 5 on the board.
La Figura y el Color
This week we started with the triangle shape (triangulo), and green (verde) color. We compared different sizes of the triangle shape. Also, we did an activity to color and find the triangle shape in the classroom.
Have a weekend!
by Macky & Veronica | Nov 2, 2018 | Preschool
Last week we finished with el cuerpo humano/ the human body unit! The children did an amazing job learning and singing the body parts such as:
Cabeza/head,
Cabello/hair,
Orejas/ears,
Cara/face,
Ceja/ayebrow,
Ojos/ eyes,
Nariz/nose,
Boca/mouth,
Lengua/tongue,
Brazos/arms,
Manos/hands,
Dedos/fingers,
Piernas/legs,
Rodillas/knees,
Pies/feet,
Cerebro/brain,
Corazon/heart,
Pulmones/lungs,
Estomago/stomach,
Intestinos/intestines,
Esqueleto/skeleton,
Musculos/muscles.
Parents keep practice with them, they love singing and reviewing the words that they learned in class!!
This week (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday), children worked with activities related to Halloween. They were so exited waiting for Halloween and to dress up in their costumes. They did projects with witches, Frankenstein, and bats.
November is here and it is a perfect time for children to learn “Autumn and the five sense” “El Otoño y los cinco sentidos” Unit. Fall means colors in beautiful earth tones and lots of exploration with natural materials, so this week (Thursday and Friday) we had a little introduction about autumn. We did activities such as leaf exploration and making a leaf collage so they could explore their different colors and sizes. We read “El Otoño Llego.”
The purpose of this unit it is to introduce children to the natural environment that surrounds them and unknown spaces. Through this unit we will provide children with tools that will help them build meaningful vocabulary related to the Autumn and five senses. The purpose is to work directly with experiences, manipulation, observation, and creativity.
LETRAS
This week we continued reviewing the vowels/las vocales. Be sure to point out the vowels (A, E, I, O, U) that we practice when you are reading. We incorporated our touch investigation with the vowels, playing memory games and vowels recognition.
NÚMERO
We worked with number 5/ número cinco while doing different activities. They had a fun time playing and using different items for sorting and counting. Sorting helps children see differences and similarities. They did activities like tracing the number, a game to find the number around the classroom, counting five green triangles, and placing five stickers in the number five.
La Figura y Color
This month we started with the triangle shape (triángulo), and green (verde) color. We talked about it while the kids passed around the shape so they could examine the shape up close. They did activities such as cutting a little piece of green paper and glue it onto the larger shape.
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 26, 2018 | Preschool
This week we continued working with the unit “My Body”/ “Mi Cuerpo”, In the last couple weeks the children have learned body parts such as head, hair, eyebrow, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, arms, hands, fingers, legs, knees, feet, brain, heart, lungs, stomach, intestines. This week we learned how our body work. We learne
d that the inside of our body is a skeleton/esqueleto made up of all our bones. A bit like a giant coat hanger, our skeleton keeps our body the right shape! I taught them that babies are born with 300 bones. Some of these joins together as their grown. A fully-grown adult has 206 bones. And the skeleton is covered by muscles/musculos. As well, they learned this week that they have more than 600 muscles/musculos in their body. Some help to move food and blood, while others help you move around.
Therefore, this week kids did gross motor activities such as: balance, jump, gross motor activity with hula hoops, obstacles, foot circuit, and more, kids did a great job!!
LETRAS
This week we reviewed the vowels/las vocales. Be sure to point out the vowels (A, E, I, O, U) that we practice when you are reading. We incorporated our touch investigation with the vowels, reading books, tracing the vowels, coloring the vowels with different colors, and games of vowels recognition.
NÚMERO
This week we continued working with number 4 (número cuatro) doing different activities. We used a white paint to place it in the number four/ número 4. They traced the number and counted four Halloween erasers and four different little manipulatives too.
LA FIGURA Y EL COLOR
This week we continued working with the square shape (el cuadrado) and blue color (color azul). We reviewed the square shape comparing different sizes of this shape. We did activities such as gluing four blue different sizes of squares on a red piece of paper. Also, had fun with different counting activities. Kids were looking around the classroom for blue manipulatives in our classroom.
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 19, 2018 | Preschool
Exploring our 5 senses on our farm field trip.
This week we continued working with the unit “My Body”/ “Mi Cuerpo”. We talked about why we are so different, with the goal of understanding that people have many different skills and do many different jobs. Humans can be many sizes and we talked about how a human body is made up of lots of parts that all work together to help us live our lives. In the last couple weeks, the children have learned body parts such as head / cabeza, hair / cabello or pelo, eyebrow / ceja, eyes / ojos, ears / orejas, nose / nariz, mouth / boca, tongue / lengua, teeth / dientes, arms/ brazos, hands / manos, fingers / dedos, legs / piernas, knees / rodillas, and feet / pies. Thus, this week they learned all about “how does my body work?” We talked about how organs are inside our bodies working:
Cerebro / brain
Corazon / heart
Pulmones / lungs
Estomago / stomach
Intestinos / intestines
We learned all about the:
Brain; is in charge! Because it tells body what to do and makes sure they grow, the brain lets us think, learn, and remember a hundred of things you think of!!
Heart; the heart is the strong muscle that pumps blood around their body and it is the size of their fist.
Lungs; lungs help us breathe in fresh air and get rid of used air.
Stomach; the stomach is like a stretchy bag where the food that we eat is stored.
Children did activities such as:
Glue a little piece of paper (we used different colors to identify each organ) and in the body parts(organs) that they learned, Pre-k did a great job , coloring and placing the organs in the correct place, and they colored a face and then they placed letter soup in the brain, some of them drew their brain. They were fascinated by this and the kiddos did a good job !!
LETRAS
This week we learned all about the letter U u /la letra U u. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. This is the monkey’s favorite letter (think monkey sounds)! It only makes the one sound in Spanish. (Think: ew!)
Unicornio / unicorn
uva / grape
Uniciclo / unicycle
Uno / one
We incorporated our touch investigation with the letter U, reading books, we used different decorations in the letter Uu, traced the letter and they colored and used a paper car to drive in the letter as well.
NÚMERO
This week we started working with number 4 (número cuatro) doing different activities such as using a paper car to drive in the number four. They traced the number, as well, they were counting four little manipulatives like bears and fishes to form groups of the number.
LA FIGURA Y EL COLOR
This week we continued working with square shape (cuadrado) and blue color (color azul). We reviewed the square shape by using and comparing different sizes of the shape. Also, they did an activity counting 4 blue bears, 4 blue fishes and finding blue things in our classroom.
Have a Wonderful weekend….Macky!
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 12, 2018 | Preschool
Pajama Day!
Pumpkin Fun Run!
This week we continued working with our unit “My Body” “Mi Cuerpo”. This week we talked about how our bodies are alike in someways and different in others, unique. Most people have one head, two arms, two legs, two hands, ten fingers, two feet, two shoulders, and two knees. We talked about how bodies are different sizes, like babies with small bodies, children with a little bit bigger bodies, and teenagers and adults with much larger bodies. We provided them with picures to show that we have different sizes and weights. We worked on these body parts:
Brazos / arms
Manos / hands
Dedos / fingers
Piernas / legs
Rodillas / knees
Pies / feet
We had fun during our activities and worked on the following skills:
- cutting
- gluing
- coloring
- comparing heights and weights
- singing body parts songs to help learn our vocabulary
- using our bodies for jumping, running, dancing and stretching
Letras
This week we continued working with vowels. We learned all about the vowel Oo. The kids identified this letter in our daily reading and they practiced the letter Oo with different activities like tracing it with their finger first and then tracing it with crayons and markers. They placed tissue paper in the vowel as well. We read a book of the letter Oo too. As example:
Oso / bear
Ocho / eight
Olla / pot
Ovalo /oval
NÚMERO
We continued working with number 3 (número tres) doing different activities. We used beans, colored corn, silk paper, stickers, buttons and little bears to practice our counting. Also, kids were sorting and counting, it helps them to begin notice how items are alike and different and creates an awareness that is vital for math learning. The kids traced and colored the number 3 too.
La Figura y Color
This week we continued with square shape (cuadrado), and blue (azul) color. Kiddos followed the shape with their little finger and passed around the shape examining and counting the four sides and the different sizes. They also did an activity to find 3 different blue items in our classroom.
Have a Good weekend!
Macky J
by Macky & Veronica | Oct 5, 2018 | Preschool
“The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves” Humbert Wolfe.
Welcome October!
This week we started working with our new theme:“The Body” / “El Cuerpo Humano”. Study of the human body, which falls under the category of health science, is where science starts for young children. As infants, they begin to discover the parts of their bodies and as a toddler can identify more than six parts of their bodies. So, this week we began doing various body parts activities. This not only provides a good starting foundation to build on to for the education to come, but it helps them get comfortable with knowing their own body and being confident in communicating various aspects associated with it.
We worked specifically with the following vocabulary:
Finding the letter of the week.
Cabeza / head
Cabello / hair
Orejas / ears
Cara / face
Ceja / eyebrow
Ojos / eyes
Nariz / nose
Boca / mouth
Lengua / tongue
Children did activities like identifying different body parts in Spanish as well as drawing a face following Spanish instructions. They colored the face parts: eyebrow, eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Then they placed these onto a face. This was a great activity for them. They did a great job this week!
For the remainder of October children will be able to learn the human body parts from the head to the feet, as well as the hidden parts of the body such as; the heart, muscles, bones and lungs.
Letras
This week we continued working with vowels. We focused on the letter Ii. This letter makes the sound /ē/ like the ee in the English word feet. The kiddos identified this letter in our daily reading. They also practiced the letter Ii during different activities like tracing the letter I i using their finger first and then tracing the vowel with crayons and markers. We made the letter with play dough. Kids looked through books and tried to fiend the letter Ii in the text.
Iglu / igloo
Insignia / insignia or emblem
isla / island
Insecto / insect
Iman / magnet
Números
This week we started working with the number 3. We had a fun time playing and using different items for sorting and counting. Sorting helps children see differences and similarities. We counted three bears and fish and traced the number 3. We also had fun by placing colored corn in the number three to practice it’s shape.
La Figura y Color
This month we started with the square shape (cuadrado), and the color blue (azul). We passed around the shape so the children could examine it shape up close. Also, they did an activity to find 3 different blue manipulatives in our classroom.
Have a Good weekend!
Macky J
