Los dinosaurios
I can’t believe how fast the school year is going! February is here and we continued learning from our preschoolers how they are awesome. They make our day! This week we finished with our transportation unit, Monday and Tuesday kids reviewed all the material that they learned while playing games, dancing and singing. On Wednesday, we started working with our Dinosaurs Unit. Dinosaurs are attractive to children because these creatures have signs of strength and power. The purpose of this unit is to captivate your child’s imagination, through books, projects and activities that we are going to use around dramatic play. We know it’s difficult for young children memorize all the long names of these prehistoric creatures, but they will pick up a few names on their own through stories and recordings. In this unit we are going to talk about related words such as bones/huesos, fossils/fosil, museums/museos, lizard/lagarto and skeletons/esqueleto. As well, we are going to invite children to make their own stories about these dinosaur friends. The kids will learn new vocabulary; some of them as, pequeño/small, mediano/medium, grade/large, colors/colores, camina/walk, vuela/fly. Kids had fun playing with dinosaurs and doing craft as; paper plate dinosaurs and coloring dinosaurs.
This week we go over to the letter D/ letra D. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter D, can be pronounced as (di). While the Spanish pronunciation is; D (de). Some examples:
Delfin/dolphin,
Dinosaurio/dinosaur,
Dientes/tooth
Dulce/candy,
Dedo/finger.
We did activities as, letters games, coloring and letters recognition, tracing letter, and D as a dinosaur craft.
This week the kids learned the number 8, we did different activities, as counting and recognizing the number through cars, bears, dinosaurs, also, they were counting and sorting some pile of manipulatives on the ground next to the number 8.
La Figura y Color
This week we worked with ovalo/oval shape. The kids could play through the shape tracing the shape with their fingers, pasing cars and dinosaurs too. As well, the kids were passing around the shape ovalo/oval, so the children could examine this shape up close. Also, the kids continued reinforcing the colors names that they learned as rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, and amarillo/yellow, and we introduce the new color to learn purpura/purple. They coloring a dinosaur using three different colors using as number one, green/verde, number two, purpura/purple, and number three, azul/blue.
Have a good weekend!
Macky