Exercise/El ejercicio

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This week we continued learning about exercise and our body. We learned that our heart is a muscle and gets stronger when we exercise. Also, we learned that we have lungs and that ribs protect our lungs and that our lungs work hard during exercise and that our skull protect our brain and that our brain is connected to our muscle. At dramatic play we set up a hospital, the children pretended be a doctor listen to their patient’s heart, applied bandages and talked about their bones. At blocks center, the children continued building amazing structures and we added it to the blocks bones so the children can put the skeleton together. At sensory table, the children used magnetic pieces to make a body. At science, the children learned about bones, we used playdough and straw to talk about the importance of bones. The children exercise their lungs by blowing balloons and using a stethoscope. At art table, the children used Q-tips to make their representation of a skeleton. Also, we celebrated the week of the young children and the children danced like birds, painted a bird house, planted flowers in our sensory garden and our families help us to decorate our tree. We had some fun this week!

 

Esta semana seguimos aprendiendo sobre el ejercicio y nuestro cuerpo. Aprendimos que nuestro corazón es un músculo y se fortalece cuando hacemos ejercicio. Además, aprendimos que tenemos pulmones y que las costillas protegen nuestros pulmones y que nuestros pulmones trabajan duro durante el ejercicio y que nuestro cráneo protege nuestro cerebro y que nuestro cerebro está conectado a nuestro músculo. En el juego dramático montamos un hospital, los niños se hacían pasar por médicos, escuchaban el corazón de sus pacientes, les aplicaban vendas y hablaban de sus huesos. En el centro de bloques, los niños continuaron construyendo estructuras asombrosas y las agregamos a los huesos de los bloques para que los niños puedan armar el esqueleto. En la mesa sensorial, los niños utilizaron piezas magnéticas para formar un cuerpo. En ciencias, los niños aprendieron sobre los huesos, usamos plastilina y paja para hablar sobre la importancia de los huesos. Los niños ejercitan sus pulmones inflando globos y usando un estetoscopio. En la mesa de arte, los niños usaron hisopos para hacer su representación de un esqueleto. Además, celebramos la semana de los niños pequeños y los niños bailaron como pájaros, pintaron una casa para pájaros, plantaron flores en nuestro jardín sensorial y nuestras familias nos ayudan a decorar nuestro árbol. ¡Nos divertimos un poco esta semana!









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