Animals and their Habitats
This week we started work with the animal’s habitat, with this topic we are introducing preschoolers to natural animal habitats and animal homes. We learned how animals need homes much the same way people need homes. I was surprised how my little ones have a curiosity about animals and their habitat. I Explained why certain animals can only live in certain habitats. This week we specially worked with aquatic animals, animals that live in freshwater, and marine animals. We did some nice projects with different kinds of aquatic animals, for instance, we made a paper bag jelly fish, nice bright rainbow fish craft, and we created our own octopus out of a construction paper. Adding the Cheerios to the legs turned out to be great fine motor practice for the kiddos! This is one of my favorite activities so far 🙂. They enjoyed doing these projects.
Letter
We incorporate our touch investigation with the letter/letra Qq. The kids practiced handwriting with paper and pencil. We also used corn flour and our finger to draw the Q. We sang songs, read a book of the letter Qq, and identified the letter in our daily reading. The English letter Qq, can be pronounced (kiu../pi:/). While the Spanish pronunciation is (coo, always followed by “u”). As example
queso/cheese
quetzal/quezal
quitasol/parasol
Numbers
This week we continued work with the number 16. We had a fun time playing “counting fishes.” Be sure your child is touching the objects as they count! This makes for more one-to-one correspondence rather than the numbers just being a recitation.