What If Integration Madness!



 During this What If we enjoyed a fun day outside of our classes and rotated with our Pre-Kinder teachers through four different stations:
 
1. Vocabulary station
2. Body and Senses station
3. Spatial orientation station
4. Categories and Sets station



Teacher Laura helped us understand how our bodies work!



Here the students are trying to together the pieces!

 

Dianita and Leyla played with us in the math station. We had to organize the cars, the bears and the fruits by different group.



Fernando review spatial concepts as outside, inside, up and down.

 

Teacher Caro was reviewing numbers, colors, letters and vocabulary with us
with a fun dice game of Tingo Tingo Tango!



What If we went to the Farmer's Market?

This week we continued with the rooms of the house. We learned about the dining room and practiced vocabulary with the letter A. We also learned about the importance of a good and healthy nutrition full of  fruits and vegetables. In this amazing activity of What If each student brought fruits and vegetables to our unique farmer's market.  They first acted like buyers and then like sellers!! They practiced Math with pretend money that they made, reeinfocing simple addintion and subtraction operations! After this busy day at the Farmer´s Market the students enjoyed a healthy snack.

"Cuanto cuestan los pepinos?"

"Tengo 8 pesos, me das un apple?"

"Te doy 3 y  tu me das una ciruela!"

"Quién quiere una zanahoria?"

"Compré un carrot y un apple!"

"Quién quiere esta fruta! Se ve deliciosa!"

What If we became Chefs!

 During this What If the students dressed up as Chefs and enjoyed many "kitchen" activities:

• Cooking (healthy, balanced meals)
• Observing a fruit art show 
• Discovering the school´s industrial kitchen
• Playing with their kitchen utensils 

Andres Felipe is chopping up many vegetables for his healthy, delicious soup!

Lets Cook!

This week the students learned new vocabulary related to food, cooking and their immediate environment: their homes. They learned the importance of a healthy nutrition and remembered not to eat a lot of candy this halloween! They learned the song "Rooms in a home" and experienced many fun activities, where they integrated what they learned with awareness of their bodies!

"Mmm....Dónde estará la A de apple para marcarla con purple"

Look at our tongues! They can taste all the flavours!

This is the group in charge of cooking the protein of the meal; 

they picked fish!

"oops, se me olvidaba lo que se usa para cook!"

"Algunas personas estan en silla de ruedas, como mi muñeca"

What If: Pijama Party!

During the week the students were very excited to welcome the month of Halloween! We asked them to brainstorm about what they thought this month is about. They mentioned scary stories, haunted houses, and, of course,  candy! That's why for this What If we enjoyed an activity that joined together many of the ideas that the kids proposed. We did a Pijama Party where each student got the chance to tell a scary story, they watched a small part of the movie Mouse Hunt, they ate nice treats and Marshmellos, they searched for the haunted clues inside the house (there was a hidden moon, stars, many mice and masks), and they played games letter integration games.

"Los marshmellos me saben dulce!"
"El dorito es un triangle!"
"Los doritos me saben a Umami!"
"El platano es dulce!"
"Las papas me sabieron acido"
"Los marshmellos me sabieron masmelo"
"Si regamos la comida vienen los mouse!"

"Encontré la de Sun!"

"Tengo la de Sock y la de Sun"

The Students are listening to a scary story!

F, M, S Integration!

 This week the students had the chance to integrate knowledge and experiences learned during the previous weeks. They reviewed vocabulary related to the letters F, M, and S and made fun activities about the senses, they categorized letters according to their initial sound, they categorized pictures according to the letter of correspondence, and many more fun experiences.

"All the blue go together!"
" Orange has more fish than pink!" 
"I found a  /M/ of Mouse!"
"This /S/ goes here, with all the /S/"
"Teacher, is this the /S/ of Sock?"

"Say Mouse Mask!"

Hands and Fingers

In this exciting activity we painted and printed our hands and fingers!! The students were exposed to a sticky paint texture to experience tactile sensibility; they also named the color they choose in English, and the part of the body that they were painting.

This is my hand and fingers!!!

Jerónimo choose green for his right hand!

I like my red and green hand prints!!

The paint is sticky, and the brush tickles me!

Manuela likes red and blue

All the hand prints in many colors!!

Breath Awareness

My lungs are expanding like balloons!

All weeks, we take a moment to close our eyes, feel our bodies and be aware of our breathing!!

Fer: "Take a deep breath!!! and be aware of your body, feel your lungs inflate!"

Ohh!! I felt Matias' lungs expand!!

We use our breath to stay calm and feel our bodies.

What If - Picnic

In this What If the students experimented with their tongues and with their sense of taste. All the 5 taste groups where introduced: salty, sour, bitter, sweet and umami. Each student brought food that corresponded to one of the five taste groups and we shared them in a wonderful picnic. Some students agreed to be blind-folded in order to guess the secret taste!


 

Maria Victoria is loving the umami taste! 

 

                                 Each Pre Kinder course arranged a cozy spot for the activity.                                

Collective reading of the book "Mouse Mess" to start off the picnic activity



Too Acid Sebastian?

M - Mouse

This week the students learned the vocabulary related to the letter M : mouse, monkey, moon, milk, mother, mask and muffin. They experimented with the sense of touch and taste and worked with their arms and fingers to feel different textures! They developed fun counting activities where they made sets of 5. They also reinforced the vocabulary about emotions.

Mariangela is feeling the rough texture of the gray mouse skin.

Teacher Laura introducing the letter /M/ vocabulary

Alejandro is feeling happy because he made the two mice fall in love!