April arrived! And I hope every family of Spanish with Sarah enjoyed their spring break. This month we are going to work with our new “Sports/Deportes” unit. There are so many great things to do with the sports theme. Sports can provide children with lifetime benefits, from the encouragement of exercise to the development of interests and hobbies they can carry into and adulthood. We are going to teach kids about sports by emphasizing the fun aspects of each sport. Focusing on the most common sports like soccer, football, baseball, tennis, golf, basketball and swimming. Through this theme we’re going to read different books, do crafts, and play sports. Kids are going to learn new vocabulary:Fútbol Soccer/soccer
Beisbol/baseball
Fútbol Americano/football
Basquetbol/basketball
Tenis/tennisGolf/golf
Natación/swimming
Boliche/bowling
Casco/helmet
Gorra/cap
Guante/glove
Bate/bat
Raqueta/racket
Pelota/ball
Balón/ball (soccer and football)
Malla/mesh
Cancha/field, court
Campo/pitch, ground
Trofeo/trophy
Medalla/medal
This week we put our focus on two sports/deportes; soccer and tennis. In our circle time we discussed general sports ideas like accessories and kind of clothes the people used for these sports, and general ideas of soccer. Most of the students like soccer better than tennis, and everyone wanted to kick the soccer ball. Gross motor activities are very important to preschoolers, so we played indoor soccer with a soft soccer ball. We also did different craft as finger people soccer player and paper plate soccer ball and balloon tennis!
LETRAS This week we go over to the letter Zz/ letra Zz. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The English letter Z, can be pronounced as (zi). While the Spanish pronunciation is; Z (zeta, sounds like “s”). Some examples:
Zapato/shoe
Zebra/zebra
Zorro/fox
Zorrillo/skunk
We did activities like letters games, coloring, making the letter with play dough and letter recognition.
NÚMEROSThis week we worked with addition 1-10. We continued really working with the kids this week on understanding the concept of addition. We have been working with numbers 1 through 10 and number combinations. We are doing this so they can continue knowing what happens when they add two numbers. We gathered up our collection of manipulatives to work with the kiddos to have fun with addition. They did a great job and also hey had the opportunity to learn while having fun.
La Figura y Color
This week we reviewed all shapes that kids are learning; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/ovalo, heart/corazon, and star/estrella. The kids were coloring sheets of sports like tennis and soccer. They used different colors, reviewing our color 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.
Have a good weekend!
Macky J