Lately in Spanish, when Alicia has gone around greeting friends and asking como estas?, she has been tallying friends' responses on a white board. Response choices include muy bien, asi-asi, and no muy bien. The Cardinals get a kick out of being silly with this exercise and like to answer Alicia with "no muy bien." Today, however, some friends switched up their regular responses. When we counted up the tallies, muy bien was the winner!
Alicia has been talking with the Cardinals about the word stereotype. Alicia explained it as an idea that is made up about a group of people, but that is not true. For example, all girls are ballerinas or only boys like blue. The Cardinals did not agree with these statements at all. Friends shared their ideas, stories and experiences when people say this is for boys or this is for girls.
After the conversation, Alicia read the book, Want to Play Trucks? Friends talked about the story and then shared toys and peluches (stuffed animals) they like to play with.
Ask your Cardinal what peluche they like to play with.
Today in the classroom, the Cardinals took part in a math workshop. We focused on one to one correspondence, number recognition and order, simple equations, and spatial relationships. At one table, friends worked on a 1-10 number maze where they had to start at one, where there was an apple tree, and work their way through the maze in order to 10 to put the apples in the basket.
At another center, friends worked in pairs to roll dice and make up simple addition problems. Whichever number the dice landed on, the friends added those two number together, sometimes mentally or using their fingers.
There were a few other centers for friends to work on one to one correspondence. Friends practiced identifying the number, and then placing that number of objects in the designated space.
In the building area, friends worked with large red cups to build, stack and balance.
Some friends also worked with pattern blocks. The Cardinals did a very nice job working in groups and independently. We are impressed with their skills, and are looking forward to challenging them more in these areas!
Ask your Cardinal to solve a simple math problem, or to count a certain number of objects.
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