Thursday, October 10, 2013

Spanish vowels crafts project

Here is our Spanish version of the letter crafts.

Spanish vowels crafts project

For this project you will need a couple of days. It’s better if you make a letter each day..like a week project!

Pinky liked it a lot! I am thinking about setting up a Spanish binder to keep all our future Spanish learning projects. Will see…

Spanish vowel letters craft pattern

These are the pattern we used (click over each letter to follow the link to the 4shared website where I stored them). I have hand drawn everything and then cut over construction paper. For some we got creative and used felt, cotton and feathers. Sorry, but each vowel part is written in Spanish, just follow the next pictures in order to get an idea.

Letter A is for:

Angel- angel

Abeja- bee

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Letter E is for:

Edificio- building

Elefante- elephant

Spanish vowel E letter craft

 

Letter I is for:

Iguana- Iguana

Isla- island

Spanish vowel I letter craft

Letter O is for:

Oso- bear

Oveja- sheep

Spanish vowel o letter craft

 

Letter U is for:

Unicornio- unicorn

Urraca- Magpie

Spanish vowel u letter craft

I hope you and your kiddoes have fun learning Spanish!

 

Friday, October 4, 2013

Chapter books for preschoolers: Charlotte’s web

A few months ago, we finished reading our first chapter book ever!!! It was Charlotte’s web by E.B. White and Illustrated by Garth Williams.

Charlotte's web Montessori-inspired activities

Her past Montessori class was reading the book, so she got back home very excited wanting to get it at the book store. I didn’t know about this book before (shame on me….or shame on my old Puerto Rican traditional school system). It was great to read the book together every night and finally watch the movies. We found two movies: one an animation, and another with persons. This helped us to compared the movies and the book. This seems an activity for older kids but I got amazed by all the details a young kid can remember.

Charlotte's web Montessori-inspired activities

Then we added a few hands-on-activities or Montessori-inspired lessons to go with our beloved book.

Characters spelling activity

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Charlotte's web Montessori-inspired activities

Charlotte’s web small world

(She played with these for ages….sometimes reciting parts from the book or movie and others just using her imagination. Great way to bring a book to life!)

Charlotte's web Montessori-inspired activities

Characters:

Pigs: Wilbur and Uncle

Spiders: Charlotte and daughters (Joy, Aranea and Nelly)

Rat: Templeton

Girl with eggs basket: Fern Arable

Boy with fish: Avery Arable

Woman and man next to boy: Mr. and Mrs. Arable

Man with calf: Lurvy

Geese and Gander

Sheep (not pictured) and lamb

Horse and colt

Cow and flies

Man driving the tractor: Mr. Zuckerman

Woman next to tractor: Mrs. Zuckerman

 

Origami farm

(From Michael’s but I recently saw it at the Dollar Tree Store)

Charlotte's web Montessori-inspired activities

 

Books to complement

(These books are from our own home library)

Charlotte's web and books to complement

Books about The farm.

 

Charlotte's web and books to complement

Books about farm animals.

 

Charlotte's web and books to complement

Books about spiders.

 

Charlotte's web and books to complement

Books about pigs.

 

We did a few more activities that will share later on!

Have a great weekend!!

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