January 14-18

One of our crafts this week: Watermelons!

Dear Parents,

This week we finished up our Cheeky unit about houses and the things in them.

The children have learned house, roof, door, knock on the door, please come in, living room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, garden, sofa, TV, bed, toilet, bathtub, stove, table, chair and flowers.

We finished studying and practicing the number 17, as well as learning about and making rainbows, learning that rain and sun make them, and and also putting into practice their knowledge of colors, along with the vocabulary clouds, rain and sun.

I've sent home Unit 3 from our Cheeky books. The students learned the vocabulary: tiger, elephant, crocodile, snake, lion, noisy versus quiet, the animal sounds and verbs: squawk, tweet, snap, run, hiss, stomp, and "be careful!" Have a great weekend and please practice English together!

                

We are adding rainbows to our wall decorations, soon we will add raindrops and a sun. More pictures to come!

A Very Wintery Week

Dear Parents,

This week we had fun learning about and making snowmen and snowflakes.  We also kept studying houses and the things in them like the different rooms and vocabulary.

These are: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, garden and living room. Also bed, toilet, bathtub, stove, table, chair, sofa and TV.

We also reviewed roof, door and house which they already knew from their PYP lessons.

I sent home Unit 1 from the Cheeky book and am sending home Unit 2 as well. This is what we learned:


Unit 1: What's the matter?

-Colors: Red, blue, yellow, green.
-The doctor

-Body parts: Feet, legs, arms, hands, fingers, toes.
-Up and down.
-"What's the matter? , My _____ hurts. Let me see your..."


Unit 2: The snowman

-Snowman
-Winter clothing: Hat, scarf, boots, coat. vs Summer clothing: t-shirt, shoes, shorts.
-"Put on your _______."  "It's snowing. Put on your hat/scarf/coat/boots." versus "It's sunny, put on your t-shirt/shoes/shorts."

-Weather: It's sunny/snowy/windy/rainy.


Have a great weekend and don't forget to practice your English together!

Serra and the first snowman we made with Kamile Teacher on the first day it snowed.

Working on our second snowman that we made on Monday.
We tore up pieces of paper and glued it to the snowman outline.

Our finished snowman that is now decorating our walls.



Next we decided to paint snowflakes to add to our winter wall around our snowman.

Finished! Here is our winter wall with our snowmen and snowflakes. Soon we will add more to it.

Last, but not least...snow globes!

Updated Picture Dictionary

Here is an updated version of the picture dictionary you got at our Parent-Teacher conferences. I'm sorry that the formatting is a little weird. I had some trouble getting it from a word document to here.

Verbs: stand up, sit down,                 
go, stop, walk, run, march, jump,      
hop, skate, gallop, tiptoe, skate      
put on/take off
(your coat/scarf/boots)

face, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes

Weather:   it’s sunny/rainy/snowy/windy                   

Colors: blue, yellow, green,pink, orange, red, purple,  black, dark blue, grey       

 Clothes: boots, coat, scarf, hat, t-shirt, sneakers

                                          

  Big & Small 

Routines: wash your hands ,
May I go to the toilet?, go to school,
get out/put away your books/markers/etc,
stand up, sit down              

Tree & Leaves

              

                         

               

   Table Manners: please & thank you

Food: cheese, water, bread, tea, chocolate,

olives, milk, jelly, meat, chicken, rice,

soup, yogurt, potatoes, sausages, bananas,
tomatoes, eggs, milkshakes, cupcakes, cake,
apples, cherries, juice, strawberries

                        

Shapes: triangle, square, circle,  
rectangle, heart, diamond 

          

House: Roof, window, door, bedroom, bed, kitchen, stove,  table,  
living room, tv, sofa, fridge, chair, bathroom, toilet, bathtub   

    
                                              
                                                                                                               


The Very Hungry Caterpillar: caterpillar, butterfly, apple, pears, plums, oranges, chocolate cake, ice cream, pickle, swiss cheese, salami, lollipop, cherry pie, sausage, cupcake, watermelon and the days of the week.



Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Friday, January 4th

Dear Parents,

This week we started a new Cheeky unit about houses, their specific rooms and what goes in those specific rooms. We also learned and practiced the number 15 and 16. We have also been learning the days of the week and reading "The Hungry Caterpillar". This book is about a caterpillar and what he eats all week. Since we have studied food and the kids really enjoyed learning about it, I decided we should make our own laminated copies of caterpillars and food so that we can follow along with the book and also learn the days of the week better by having a fun activity that goes along with it. The kids have been having lots of fun with it. Here are some of the kids' caterpillars and food. I have added the links to the videos of the book being read and a days of the week song in case you want to watch them together at home. Those links are in the post of the songs and videos.

Here are they are too:

The Hungry Caterpillar  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdQvON7XIoQ

The Days of the Week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzIbbvoiMA

The kids love octopi, as you can see in these pictures:

Today we had a lot of fun making an octopus craft and they look really nice hung up in our room with the fish craft that Kamile did with them the other day.

If you want you can sing the "Slippery Fish" song with your child. You can find the link to that song in the list of songs post earlier in the blog. Or just type in "Slippery Fish" into youtube and it should be easy to find.

Have a great weekend, and please don't forget to practice English together! :)

December Board Game

Here is a board game that I made for you guys to play together at home. It will be printed out and sent home with your children. Feel free to play as you wish. A fun way to play could be by using dice and moving along each square and quizzing each other on what each picture is.

Songs and Videos

Here are some of our favorite videos that you can find on Youtube and watch together! Click on the links to open them.

Shapes by Pancake Manor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsR0h50BiFQ&feature=colike

Numbers 1 to 10: Meet the Numbers 1 to 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxAIBFsRpqU

Muffin Songs: Hello Nursery Rhyme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqx2phxn_cM

Ten in the Bed from Super Simple Songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqx2phxn_cM

The Eensy Weensy Spider

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiXmqoESD9I

Classic Sesame Street: Number Song 1-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UL8geCdrk

Pinball Number 12 Reanimated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLmQ-J_tn8o

Slippery Fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g67pk7gXJLo

Sesame Street: Feist sings 1,2,3,4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA

Square House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Lv9mqJMH4

Counting Trucks 15 and 17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDgl1Pr7fw

The Hungry Caterpillar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdQvON7XIoQ 

The Days of the Week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzIbbvoiMA

Hello Parents!  Follow this blog so that you can know what we're doing in class. I'll put up some ideas of things you can do with your child to practice English at home. If you have any questions or comments about your child, you can email me at kgulinoperez@gmail.com. Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Kat Teacher