La Lectura

This week we continued working to learn how to categorize objects, animals, persons and places. For example: Children would group the animals by the number of legs they use for walking: dogs (perros), cats(gatos), cows(vacas), horses(caballos) and pigs(cerdos). All use four legs. Chickens (pollitos), ducks (patos), and birds (pájaros) use two legs. All children practiced grouping animals such as pets, wild animals and farm animals.

The little ones identified and did rhymes with images shown to them, for example: gato-pato (cat-duck), Ana-rana (Ana-frog) espinaca-vaca(spinach-cow).

 

We continued practicing writing letters and learning the names as well as the sound of m, p, s and l.

 

We read the book “Boomer va a la escuela” (Boomer goes to school) where the students saw the activities of school through the eyes of Boomer, a dog. This book describes a day in Kindergarten with a twist, it shares one important feature with most kindergartners, he doesn’t know much about school. What better role model for apprehensive beginners! Key concepts to be explored were:

• School can be fun, even though it is sometimes confusing.

• School has a unique set of routines that we need to learn.

 

The students enthusiastically participated in telling some things that they have learned during our time in school and how that relates to Boomer the dog. Likewise, through this story, the children got to know new words: bus (autobús), hallway (pasillo), desk (mesa), leash (correa), backpack (mochila), breakfast (desayuno), lunch (almuerzo), classroom (salón de clases).

 

The little ones were very excited when it was time to talk about their family. For this activity they showed their family photos and using some words in Spanish, they presented their families to their classmates. Dad (Papá), Mom (Mamá), Brother (Hermano), Sister (Hermana), Baby (Bebé).

It was a very fun and good time for them.

We had some parents asking about Spanish letter sounds. Here is the link for the Youtube video to help you study Spanish initial sounds of letters with your children. https://youtu.be/LYeM6u18ucQ

Las matemáticas

This week the students learned to recognize numbers from 7 to 13, they practiced strokes to learn how to write these numbers, the amount they represent and whether the number is even or odd. We practiced with tallies and dominoes, making fun games where children learn to recognize the amount that each number represents.

The children had a great time and get excited to learn Math in this fun way.

 

Science

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend Curriculum Night.  It was so nice to see you all there and to share some of the special things that your kiddos are doing in class.

We continued our science domain on Farms. This week we finished cows, learned about pigs, sheep, and began crops.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• explain what a farm is
• describe the farmers job
• Identify some animals on a farm and the sounds they make
• describe how some food comes from farms as crops

History & Geography

We continued on with our nursery rhymes this week. The class had fun with with a grab bag of items that they could use to identify which nursery rhyme they related to. They also made stick puppets in order to act out different rhymes and made Little Bo Peep’s flock of sheep.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• listen to and understand  Star Light Star Bright, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Hickory Dickory Dock, and Little Bo Peep
• identify rhyming pairs when listening to poems
• find and circle word wall words in copies of the rhymes.
• retell the events of the nursery rhyme

English Sight Words of the Week

green, is, you, are, one, up, my, on, little

Just a reminder Robot Binders come home on Friday and should return on Monday. Book bags come home on Monday and should return on the following Monday.  Occasionally your child will bring home a class made book, this to share with you for the night and should return the next day.  Thank you for your assistance with all of this!

Character Education

Practicing some Mindfulness activities by calming ourselves with some deep breathing.  Thank you Dr. Torres!!