This week we finished our Insects Unit,. The students (and teachers!) had a lot of fun with this unit. The little ones really enjoyed learning all about the insects. Throughout this month, the kiddos had the amazing opportunity to learn and express their ideas and thoughts related to the insects. They sang, played, and worked with different insect craft activities. Also, this week they had the experience to identify the differences between insects and arachnids. They learned that the insects have a head, thorax, abdomen, six legs, and four wings, while the arachnid has a eight legs, head and thorax. It was so great working with them during this unit! I asked them what they learned this month and they answered very well! They are awesome kiddos! We read the book, “The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle…Of course, reading this book naturally inspires us to make and take a walk through our own circle time spider web. We used our whole bodies to climb under, over, in, and out of the web. Kiddos were excited to play in our spider web! These activities were a great addition to finish our insects theme learning experience for kids.
LETRASThis week we went over to the letter Hh/ letra Hh. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter H(eich). While the Spanish pronunciation is; H (ache) “H” is silent. Some examples:
Hilo/thread,
Helado/ice cream,
Hojas/leaves,
Hombre/men,
Hueso/bone.
We did activities that the kiddos enjoyed since they had a variety of ways to learn the letter “H” as coloring, letter recognition, fine motor and letter practice tracing the letter “H”.
NÚMEROS
This week we were working with addition 1-5, and 1-7. Addition helps kids master the relationship between numbers and understand how quantities relate to one to another. So, we worked with kids doing different activities with our collection of manipulatives (this week we used insects, and little balls). They did a great job practiced addition with hands-on manipulatives.
La Figura y El ColorThis week we reviewed all shapes that kids are learning; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/ovalo, heart/corazon, and star/estrella. Besides, the kids were coloring sheets of insects and free coloring and reviewing our colors range; rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, amarillo/yellow, purpura/purple, cafe/brown, anaranjado o naranja/orange, pink/Rosado, baby blue/celeste, black/negro, and white/blanco. Also, they continued practice the fine motor skills lacing circle, square, rectangle, oval, start, heart, and triangle shapes. Have a good weekend!