La Lectura

This week we read the book “El invierno” (The Winter) where it talks about how much fun winter can be and all activities that can be done. It is a book that motivated children a lot to talk about what they do in winter, from the clothes they wear, how they play with the snow, to the Christmas parties and gifts they are so excited to expect.

In order to reinforce the knowledge for the children of reading and writing, we continued with the dictation of letters and words. We did several  blending (a, e, i, o ) activities that the children enjoy very much.

Also ,we practiced with the projector on the board so that the children took turns identifying the word that is read aloud.

The words of the week were “Menos” (less) and “Día” (day. The children did a great job making sentences using these words like :” 5 es menos que ocho “(5 is less than 8) or “Este es un dia de escuela”(This is a school day).

For our craft of the week we wanted to do something a little more challenging for the kiddos. The goal of this activity was to develop their fine motor skills even further. Our little ones made a christmas tree using paper strips of different sizes and colors, they had to pay more attention to instructions as they also pasted small strips of paper to assemble the tree, which required them to do precise manipulation of the materials in order to succeed in creating the craft.

Las matemáticas

This week we worked on the strokes that form the numbers and the quantities that are associated with each number. The numbers of the week were 63 to 66. We also practiced units (ones) and tens as well as less than and more than concepts. We used number bonds to practice our sums, and we continued practicing with the abacus.

Science

This week in The Five Senses science domain we finished up our sense of taste and began learning about the sense of touch.  We tasted food that represented the four types of taste: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• identify the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
• identify each of the body parts associated with the five senses
• demonstrate understanding of the sense of touch and taste
• identify the parts of the skin and their functions
• provide simple explanations about how we touch

History & Geography

This week in our Columbus and the Pilgrims unit we learned about Columbus’s first expedition.  The class had fun smelling spices and painting a picture of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria ships with spice paint.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• recall the year of Columbus’s first voyage to America: 1492
• recall the names of Columbus’s three: ships: Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria
• describe the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus

English Sight Words of the Week

very, as, took

In addition to our regular curriculum we had fun with different versions of the Gingerbread Man story