December is here and the holidays too!! So, this month we are going working with our “Celebration” Unit. We are going to learn about Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas celebration. This week we started working with the Januca/Hanukkah celebration. The kids will be learning about the different ways to share with others. They will learn about values and generosity by examples. Monday and Tuesday kids were working on their stocking decoration to add to our awesome preschool bulletin board. They did a great job decorating their stocking sock using their own imagination and at the same time developing their fine motricity using all the manipulative decorations. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they learned about the Hanukkah celebration. Kids learned that holidays give us a wonderful opportunity to share and learn about different traditions. The kids were really exited learning a little bit of this Januca/Hanukkah tradition. The kids did a different activity such as: kids painted their hands with a blue water paint and they print their little hands in a piece of white paper making a Menorah: candle holder with nine branches.
LETRAS
This week learned all about the letter Tt. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. This letter has pretty much the same pronunciation in English and Spanish. (Less air in the Spanish pronunciation.)
tomate/tomato
tambor/drum
tijeras/scissors
triciclo/tricycle
tortuga/ turtle
We had fun with out letter activities: find the letter Tt in our classroom, letters game, drawing, coloring and recognition of letter Tt.
NÚMEROS
We were working and reviewing the number 7/número siete. The kids did a good job counting and recognizing the number 7. They did different activities like counting dots, blocks, stickers, fishes, color and tracing the number seven too. Forming groups of a given number is an important skill and something you can continue to work on at home during play time.
La Figura y Color
The ability to accurately identify shapes is a foundational mathematical skill, and it is quite rewarding for children because their world is full of shapes. Understanding shapes will enable students to be more in tune to the world around them and see the connections between objects. So, this month we started working with rectangulo shape (rectangle). We talked about it and examined it up close. We counted and noticed that this shape has a 4 sides/cuatro lados, just like a square but two sides are longer. We also reviewed the yellow/amarillo color, coloring, and finding different yellow/ amarillo objects in our classroom.
Have a wonderful weekend