May 4th, 2018
“It’s Cinco de Mayo today. Clap your hands and shout Ole!”
What fun, singing and dancing the Mexican Hat Dance! Judging by the volume, I think shouting Ole was their favourite part!
We learned where Cinco de May his celebrated. They are always so interested in looking at maps and comparing where we are to where ever we are researching. We also looked at the Mexican flag and talked about when Cinco de Mayo takes place. We counted to 5 in Spanish, to help us understand why the name of this day. To celebrate, we made maracas using plastic egg shells, a variety of beans and spoons to hold them. we experimented with the different sounds our maracas could make when using beans of different sizes and quantities. We also painted cacti using forks.
A celebration is not complete without food! We looked at tacos, burritos and fajitas. We made name tacos, the kids rolled each other up into blanket burritos, and we made fajitas for lunch one day. Watching some of them try to eat their over stuffed fajitas was pretty entertaining.
Our letter this week was Z. We learned a new musical instrument that starts with Z, the Zither. We also sang and danced to “What do the letters say?” to practice all of our letter sounds.
After listening to and singing Old MacDonald Had Some Vowels, the kids grouped into two teams to sort through uppercase and lowercase letters to find the vowels, and double checked each others vowels to see if they got them all.
Some other things we did this week include playing mud puddles, going on an adventure and having a picnic, baking, name writing and journals.
“It’s Cinco de Mayo today. Clap your hands and shout Ole!”
What fun, singing and dancing the Mexican Hat Dance! Judging by the volume, I think shouting Ole was their favourite part!
We learned where Cinco de May his celebrated. They are always so interested in looking at maps and comparing where we are to where ever we are researching. We also looked at the Mexican flag and talked about when Cinco de Mayo takes place. We counted to 5 in Spanish, to help us understand why the name of this day. To celebrate, we made maracas using plastic egg shells, a variety of beans and spoons to hold them. we experimented with the different sounds our maracas could make when using beans of different sizes and quantities. We also painted cacti using forks.
A celebration is not complete without food! We looked at tacos, burritos and fajitas. We made name tacos, the kids rolled each other up into blanket burritos, and we made fajitas for lunch one day. Watching some of them try to eat their over stuffed fajitas was pretty entertaining.
Our letter this week was Z. We learned a new musical instrument that starts with Z, the Zither. We also sang and danced to “What do the letters say?” to practice all of our letter sounds.
After listening to and singing Old MacDonald Had Some Vowels, the kids grouped into two teams to sort through uppercase and lowercase letters to find the vowels, and double checked each others vowels to see if they got them all.
Some other things we did this week include playing mud puddles, going on an adventure and having a picnic, baking, name writing and journals.
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