Our schedule/Nuestro horario

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This week, we learned about our schedule and we encourage the children to use it so they can know what is next. It is important for young children to feel secure and this is a great way to provide for them to track time through the day and know what is next. Also, we talked about other people that work in our school such as therapies, our social emotional therapist and kitchen manager. At art table, the children experimented with shapes, painted with white and blue paint on aluminum paper and the children stamped their name in playdough. At science table, we did our first experiment. The children learned about predictions and observed the walking paper cup. At the sensory table, the children played with measuring cups, funnel and rice. At science, the children experimented with the balance and explored the weight matching game.  At math table, the children sorted objects by size, persist on task by putting puzzle together and creating patterns with rubber rocks. Also, this week, the children started the program Handwriting without tears. It is a multi-sensorial program that will help children to develop and support writing skills. To finalize our week, the parents and children attended our first Family partnership day. It was excited to see the children show their parents their favorite centers, their work and played with them and also ate delicious cookies! 

 

Esta semana, aprendimos sobre nuestro horario y alentamos a los niños a usarlo para que puedan saber qué sigue. Es importante que los niños pequeños se sientan seguros y esta es una excelente manera de proporcionarles un seguimiento del tiempo a lo largo del día y saber qué sigue. Además, hablamos de otras personas que trabajan en nuestra escuela, como terapias, nuestro terapeuta socioemocional y el encargado de la cocina. En la mesa de arte, los niños experimentaron con formas, pintaron con pintura blanca y azul sobre papel de aluminio y los niños estamparon su nombre en plastilina. En la mesa de ciencias, hicimos nuestro primer experimento. Los niños aprendieron sobre predicciones y observaron el vaso de papel andante. En la mesa sensorial, los niños jugaron con tazas medidoras, embudo y arroz. En ciencias, los niños experimentaron con la balanza y exploraron el juego de igualación de pesos. En la mesa de matemáticas, los niños clasificaron objetos por tamaño, persistieron en la tarea armando rompecabezas y creando patrones con piedras de goma. Además, esta semana, los niños iniciaron el programa Letras sin lágrimas. Es un programa multi-sensorial que ayudará a los niños a desarrollar y apoyar las habilidades de escritura. Para finalizar nuestra semana, padres e hijos asistieron a nuestra primera Jornada de Colaboración Familiar. ¡Fue emocionante ver a los niños mostrar a sus padres sus centros favoritos, su trabajo y jugaron con ellos y también comieron deliciosas galletas!

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