What If we build a recycled city!

"Este building va a ser Red"

"Voy a pintar este BUILDING RED!"

"Todos los parqueaderos van a ser YELLOW"

"Esta botellita es mia y la voy a transformar en una obra de ARTE!"

All the kids working together as a team!

Our City

What If we became Painters!

During this What If we arranged the classrooms so that they looked like a professional art class. As you can see in this picture, these 4 and 5 year olds look like university students! Very concentrated with the classical music playing on the background.

Peace and concentration is the key!

What If we go shopping in a CANDY STORE!

The kids of the right are selling the candy, and the kids on the right are buying the candy with fake money that they created on their own. They wrote down the numbers and counted their own money.

The kids explored the concepts of HEAVY and LIGHT with these balances and they had the chance to weigh their candy!

"hmm como hago para que me queden igual de pesados?"

The student then had to classify all the candy that they brought according to categories that they created!

What If we went on a Scavenger Hunt!!!

Here all the kids are looking for their specific vocabulary picture! The teachers gave them a particular letter and they had to search for the matching picture that they created! This way the students are actively building their knowledge, and they are participating in every step of the process. They created their own flashcards with the vocabulary of the project and related those pictures with the letters that we were studying.

After they gathered their flashcards they had to organize them inside the shapes that had the big letter drawn on top. This triangle had the letter /C/, so the students had to place the flashcards of the carrots, cakes and cookies inside this shape!

"Carrot empieza por la /C/ verdad?"

This square had all the flashcards with the letter /P/.

At the end of the scavanger hunt the students gathered the flashcards together and organized the pictures according to where they belonged in this enormous mural!

What If we became cavemen!?

The kids played with the smart boards and brainstormed about where they thought the cavemen lived!

Many rough cavemen took over our school that day!

Some of them were nice, but some of them were very angry!

The kids created a big stone wall with the typical cavemen drawings!

The entrance of our classrooms were just like walking inside caves!

"ARGG"

What If we became Gardeners!

Many students brought Gardeners props to play the part!

They all made their own name tags so that they could recognize their own plant!

Pipe is placing his name tag on the bean that he just planted!

Our beautiful baby beans!

What If we became Scientists?

"Te veo grandototoe teacher!"

"Wow...los cientificos hacen cosas muy cheveres!"

"Eso es la pata del insecto?"

"Soy el cientifico loco!"

Añadir leyenda

What If we discover animal habitats?

"Encontre muchos animales en esta página!"

All the kids working together to gather as many pictures of animals as they can!

"Quiero cortar este frog para ponerlo en el river"

Botanical Garden

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!