“Far up in the deep blue sky, great white clouds are floating by; all the world is dressed in green; many happy birds are seen, roses bright and sunshine clear show that lovely June is here.” F. G. Sanders.
This week we finished La Unidad de Servicios Publicos y/o Ayudantes de mi Comunidad /Community Helpers Unit. We had a lot of fun with this unit as the little ones enjoyed learning about different public service helpers/servidores publicos. The students are able to differentiate between the jobs of farmers, doctors, nurses, veternarians, firefighters, construction workers, teachers, bakers, cooks, police, stylists or hairdressers, mailmen, and librarians. Throughout this month the kiddos had the amazing opportunity to enjoy playing and pretending to be servidores publicos/ community helpers. They sang songs and did hand activities using their motor skills while working on different projects. During this unit it was interesting to hear the kids say what they want to be when they grow up. Some of them want to be a vet, a police officer, firefighter, teachers, doctors, and nurses. So, I think they have a fantastic future in front of them, based on all those great ideas that they shared with us!
Finally, we hit the road with our field trip. Thank you to all parents that were able to take the kids to our field trip. I believe they had a good time visiting the Firefighter Station, the Camas Library, the quick stop by the Post Office, and finally….Dairy Queen!
This week we reviewed the letters they have learned in the past weeks (A,E,I,O,U,L, V, B, K, R, C, G, H, J, Q, W,X, Y, Z, Ch). We played games to find letters in the books and traced the letters on the board. Also, before they left the classroom each day, we reviewed the letters placed in our letters tree.
This week we worked with number 16 (dieciseis). We had a fun time playing and using items for sorting and counting. Sorting helps children see differences and similarities. We used these sorts to count fish, beans, and Legos. They also traced the number to work on correct number formation and pencil grip.
La Figura y El 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 could draw and color sheets of paper using 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. As well, when we were counting fishes they reviewed the colors too.