February, the month of love and friendship!! Our new theme for this month is: “The Past and Present” We will learn that the world has not always been as it is today by discovering things they use in everyday life that were not available long ago. They’ll use reasoning and imagination to think of ways to live without those items and experiment with pioneer life.
The goal of this unit is that the children will understand that many things they take for granted have not always existed. This prepares them for future cultural history lessons. We looked at a variety of pictures to represent old items. Typical items that I showed them: a candle, the way that people used to have night light; a horse, old schools, houses, television, the ways to deliver the mail, and transportation ways. Also, I showed them pictures of items in our present lives such as streets with asphalt, modern houses, airplanes, trains, communication ways, etc.
In our circle time before of our activity I taught kids that before they were born, before their parents were born, before their grandma and grandpa were born…the world was very different. So, I gave them some pictures to show them. Then, they did and activity to guess if children who lived long ago, even before their grandma and grandpa were born, might have had those things (wagon, ink, and old things). They did a great job for our short week of school. I am so glad to see kids participate with this activity.
Letras
This week we went over to the letter B/ letra B. Be sure to point out the letter that we practice when you are reading. The Spanish and English pronunciation of this letter sound are the same.
Bolsa – bag or sack,
Bandera – flag,
Bicicleta – bicycle,
Ballena – whale,
Barco- boat.
Número
This week we co
ntinued working with the number 10(diez) doing different activities, as counting and sorting 10 ten/diez little manipulatives. As well, they worked tracing the number 10/número diez on the classroom blackboard.
La Figura y Color
This month we started working with the corazon/heart shape, a perfect time to see this shape! The kids were playing with the shape, tracing the heart with their fingers. Also, the kids were passing the shape to examine it up close. Also, the kids continued reinforcing the colors names that they learned as rojo/red, azul/blue, verde/green, and amarillo/yellow, cafe/brown, and the new color to learn this month pink/rosado.
Have a good and warm weekend!