We continued with our family theme and read the great book: El canguro tiene mamá by Eric Carle. This story provided repetition, allowing for great student participation.  This was also a great introduction to many animals and their babies.

We had a great time matching pictures of mother animals with their babies. Do you have any books at home to reinforce this concept?

Our many kangaroo / canguro projects also provided great practice in our fine motor skills with: cutting, tearing, painting, gluing, and coloring. We also worked on following step-by-step instructions. Our younger students are working on staying on task for longer periods of time, to complete their projects. While our older students are working on multi-step instructions and refining their fine motor skills to complete projects in a more timely and presentable manner.

Our kangaroo face / cara del canguo was a great activity to practice our gluing skills.  (This is not as simple or easy as it sounds!!) We talked about how many eyes, ears, and noses each face should have and where each part should be placed.

Letras y Números

This week students were introduced to the letter E.  This letter makes the same sound as the E in elephant an E in egg. Pre-K students are asked to use their fine motor skills to form the letters. This letter is formed from right to left, down, then to the right.  The pencil is then lifted and a line written from left to right in the middle.

Ee

We also worked with the number 2. All students worked on identifying the number two, putting together groups of two, specifically groups of two animals. Older students worked on writing the number, starting with the curve, a diagonal line, with a sharp turn to the right.  Do you find your kiddo counting a bunch?  Counting can be fun!  Here’s a cute video for counting in Spanish.