January is here and I hope you had an amazing winter break! This month we are going to work with our transportation unit. Transportation is an important part of everyday life, and the kids will learn the different types of transportation:land, sea, and air. This transportation theme not only helps children learn about what different vehicles are for and how they work, but they can also learn other important concepts such as safety when riding in a vehicle or walking. We are going to use games and crafts while we are teaching the transportation unit, as it will help them remember important information. Here are some of the new vocabulary words we will work with this month:
Tren/train,
Carro o coche/ car,
Camión/truck,
Autobus/bus,
Moto/motorcycle
Bicicleta/bicycle,
Avión/airplane,
Helicoptero/helicopter,
Cohete/rocket,
Velero/sailing boat,
Barco/boat.
The first and second week of January, the kids will learn land transportation. This week they were learning how the train works, and what they can carry or transport. The kids discusses, in our circle time, how they come to the school, as car, but some of them used their imagination and said that they come in a motorcycle. Some of them explained to us that they wish to come to the school in airplane, helicopter and boat! The kids really love this unit.
We did crafts as shape train and putting their name into the train. As well we did a monster trucks activity with paint. They drove the trucks through the paint and onto paper, they loved it!LETRAS
This week, we reviewed the vowels/ las vocales (A, E, I, O, U). and letters M, S, P, T, N We did activities as, letters games, draw, coloring and letters recognition
NÚMEROSWe worked with and reviewed the numbers 1-6. The kids are doing a good job counting 1 through 6. We did different activities, as counting and recognizing the number through Legos, stickers, and color the numbers. As well, the kids did a train color sorting activity. I placed a pile of manipulatives on the ground next to the train and then I encouraged the little ones to sort the objects out to the corresponding train cars. The kids really enjoyed doing this. I extended the learning for them by asking them to add a certain number of items to a train car or to count the items in each of the train cars.
La Figura y Color This week we continued working with rectangle shape (rectángulo), and green (verde) color. The kids played a game in the classroom looking around for triangle shape and green color. They played games making figures using different sizes of shapes as circle/ circulo, cuadrado/square, and triangulo/trinagle. As well, the kids did a train shapes with cicles, rectangles, triangles and squares.
Have a good weekend!
Macky 