This week we continued working with“Servicios Publicos y/o Ayudantes de Mi Comunidad/ Community Helpers” unit. So, this week we were working with Community Helpers, specifically Police: This theme helps to inform children about the role of the police. They learned that their job is to enforce the law and they do this in many ways, by patrolling the streets, getting to know the people who live in the town, helping people who have accidents, directing traffic to avoid accidents and more. They really loved it and then we acted out playing a police officer. They used their imagination driving a car, watching the streets and more, it was fun! As well, they did different craft activities of police officers. We continued reviewing the vocabulary of the month:
Bombero/ firefighter,Policia/police,
Recolector de basura/ garbage collector,
Soldado, soldier,
Enfermera/nurse,
Doctor/doctor,
Veterinario/vet,
Dentist/dentist,
Cartero/postman or postwoman,
Bibliotecario/librarian,
Maestro/teacher,
Trabajadores de construccion/ construction workers,
Estilistas/stylist,
Reportero/reporter,
Reportero/reporter,
Panadero/baker.
In addition, to close the week, since Mother Day is coming this Sunday 14 Mother’s Day, and is the time of the year when we take time to show appreciation and express love for our mothers. The kids celebrated their mothers with a beautiful poem:Brillas como una Estrella/ you shine as a star
Hueles como una flor/ you smell as a flower
Por eso te quiero yo/ for that I love you
Con todo mi Corazon…Felicidades Mama! / with all my hearth…. Happy Mother’s Day!
Then they did a flowers art project using mommy and kiddo’s hands, and to finalize, kids showed their mothers that they can sing in Spanish “La arana pequenita”. I hope mothers enjoyed their celebration…Thank you moms who came in to celebrate with your awesome kids!
LETRAThis week we continued reviewing 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, handwriting the letter Zz, letters games and letters recognition.
NúmerosThis week we started working with number 13. We had a fun time playing and using some items sorted and counted. Sorting helps children see differences and similarities. We did activities such as counting thirteen/trece legos. As well, we traced the number 13 (numero trece).
La Figura y Color
We reviewed all shapes that kids are learning; circle/circulo, square/cuadrado, triangle/triangulo, rectangle/rectangulo, oval/ovalo, heart/corazon, and star/Estrella and diamond/diamante. also, the kids colored sheets of police officers and police cars too. They used different colors, 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, white/blanco and gray/gris.
Happy mother’s day and have a good weekend!