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!

What If - Beach Day!

This week the children learned vocabulary related to / S / (sun, spider, snake, sand, socks, and seed) They learned to identify the different parts of the body and name them in English. We went "fishing" and sorted out the fish according to their color and made groups of 5. 

In What If?  we went to the "beach" and  the children explored with some of their senses (touch, smell and see) .

Juan David and Christian Andres are "floating" on the sea.

 Nicole is getting a very nice sun tan.

Felipe is making sand angels.

The students are getting ready to go the the "beach".

Two friends classifying fish according to their color (orange)

"I caught a big purple one!"

Sebastian is swimming in the sea.

S - Spider

Jose Jerónimo was very excited because the two spiders were in love!

This week the students learned vocabulary related to the letter /S/: sun, sand, snake, spider, socks, seeds, six, seven, seal. They learned songs like "School, School" and worked with their "knees and shoulders".  

Estefanía working hard on the spiders legs



Felipe and his loving spiders



Calendar Time

This is our  "Calendar Time" board. With the help of this wonderful educational tool the children are learning songs, the months of the year, the days of the week, the weather, new vocabulary and reinforcing mathematical concepts such as sequences, patterns, addition and subtraction.

What If - Scouts

What If  we became Scouts? 

During this week, the students learned vocabulary related to the letter  /F/ (fox, family, farmer, feather, fish, fence, flower, fingers, feet, and friends), and exercised mathematical concepts like counting and  making sets with pictures of these words. They explored their senses when they became "scouts" and went in the search of the lost fox and its friends.

"I caught an /F/!"

During this What If the children got organized by groups according to each of the vocabulary words. They had to use their sense of sight to look for their particular picture group. All the pictures they found started with the letter F. 

Azul found many farmers!

This team found all the Foxes that where distroying the flowers and the fence!