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!