Los Dinosaurios
This week we continued working with our Dinosaurs Unit. Kids really love this unit! They had a lot of fun playing, singing and doing different craft activities with dinosaurs. We read different dinosaur books and the kiddos enjoy learning names, sizes and colors of dinosaurs. After reading a book they wanted to play dinosaurs game…! They pretended to be a dinosaur, stronger, with a lot of power! They have a lot imagination. This was a good time to teach them the concepts about small/pequeño, median/mediano and big/grande. Kids are doing pretty good learning and visualizing dinosaurs sizes by comparing them to everyday things, for example; brontosaurus/apatosaurio was tall/alto as a skyscraper building, as some dinosaurs were large/largo o ancho, and still others were the sizes of chickens. Finally, kids had fun doing crafts; dinosaurs book, hands print dinosaurs, and dinosaurs track painting, the last activity got a little messy, but the kids loved it! The purpose of these activities was to develope their hand muscles and coordination as they manipulated the dinosaurs.
LetrasThis week we went over the letter B/ letra B. Be sure to point out the letter we practice when you are reading. The English letter B, can be pronounced as (bee). While the Spanish pronunciation is; B (bay). Some examples:
Bolsa/bag or sack,
Bandera/flag,
Bicicleta/bicycle,
Ballena/whale,
Barco/boat.
We did activities as, letters games, coloring and letters recognition, and tracing letter B.
NúmerosThis week the kids continued learning the number 8, we did different activities, as counting and recognizing the number through counting eight/ocho dinosaurs/dinosaurios, jumping into dinosaur’s tracks/huellas de dinosaurio, as well, they were counting and sorting a pile of manipulatives on the ground next to the number 8.
La Figura y Color This week we continued working with ovalo/oval shape. The kids could play through the shape, tracing the shape with their fingers, passing cars and dinosaurs too. As well, the kids were passing around the shape ovalo/oval, so they could examine it up close. They reinforced this shape doing a dinosaur egg. Also, the kids continued reinforcing the colors names that they learned as rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, and amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, and we introduced the new colors to learn as, café/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange.
Have a good weekend!