On Monday, we are having fun watching and singing our favorite Spanish vowels videos!

This is the way Pinky learns; smiling!

Love that little face!

• Las vocales
  

  Video Educativo de las Vocales from El elegido mano de piedra

 

• With this video you can learn each vowel sound.
  

  Las vocales from Cantando aprendo a hablar

 

• This video shows examples for each vowel
  

  Las vocales nino de papel

 

• La marcha de las vocales. I love this song!
  

  La marcha de las vocales

 

• This song has English captions.
  

  Video Las vocales from OnlinefreeSpanish

 

• This is a special one: With the vowels you can praise Jesus!
  

  Las vocales: Canto Nino

 

Have a fun Monday singing the Spanish vowels!!!

 

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During our summer vacation, we got the tiny opportunity to learn a bit about our body. Pinky has been asking to do activities about this topic for quite a time now. However, it seems that something always got in our way.

 

Not wanting to keep it longer, here are a few things we did.

 

First, we put this skeleton puzzle together. I am not sure where’s from because I bought it at Goodwill a couple of years ago.

The next activity was to write the bones names on index cards and match to the correct bone.

Meet your bones!

 

So cute together!

These are other puzzles we got to use. The brain is from Staples, and I think the others are from a dollar store. I know for sure they were $1 each!!!

 

Then, I made some organs using felt. I used an Anatomy book as a reference and draw the organs by sight.

I used cheap felt (busted!) so I had to fold it in half and glue the sides together with a hot glue gun. As a result, the felted organs are stronger which I think is good if small and busy hands are the ones using them.

The stomach. As you can see, the felt sheet is folded in half.

 

Here they are!!!

(Brain, lungs, heart, liver, gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, urinary bladder, small and long intestines)

 

Another activity was to use doctor’s related stickers from Michaels to create art.

Isn’t that so cute?

 

We also watched a few videos from YouTube and the Magic school bus on Netflix (The Human body).

 

Finally, we read lots of books!

These books are ours. I mostly got them for 0.39 cents up to $1 at a Thrifty store nearby.

So far she just looked at the pictures and we read anything that called her attention at the moment.

We read the magic school bus (Spanish) and then watched the movie on Netflix.

 

Finally, no unit can’t be completed without some dramatic play time or field trip.

Actually, we have 3 physicians at home!

 

 

Visit our Pinterest board: Anatomy for more amazing ideas!

 

 

I believe it wasn’t a short unit after all!

Pinky is getting really good with her Spanish since my super duper idea of just letting her to play all day long with her “we just speak Spanish” little cousins. We spent two weeks last summer in Puerto Rico where she just: played!

5 cute cousins sitting on a couch….there’s comes….

 

No lessons, no frustrations, no mommy interventions……just free time to play with other Spanish speaking kids.

Now that we are back home, she is speaking in English again!!! Arrrggg! Therefore, I am trying to start short lessons with her to keep practicing Spanish while we get to visit our family again.

We are sharing today our first lesson as a follow up of this post about the Spanish Vowels.

Montessori-inspired Spanish alphabet boxes

 

Since Pinky is reading pretty good in English, we are not using her Alphabet boxes anymore. Therefore, I decided to change them into Spanish Alphabet boxes just by changing the objects from their initial sound box in English into the initial sound name in Spanish. Easy!

 

First, we looked around the house and inside our English alphabet boxes for objects that started with each vowels sound. Then we made a pile. 

 

Later we matched the objects with their vowel initial sound.

If you will like to try this activity with your kids, here is a better look of each one of the vowels and their objects.

I bet you can find most of them right now at home!!

 

Letter a is for:

• ambulancia= ambulance
• almohada= pillow
• ave= bird
• abeja= bee
• arbol- tree
• avion- airplane
• aceituna= olive
• arana= spider
• azul= color blue
• auto= car
• alfombra= rug
• anillo= ring
• anaranjado= color orange
• abanico= fan
• arcoiris= rainbow
• amarillo= color yellow
• agua= water
• ardilla= squirrel
• angel= angel
• alce= elk

Letter e is for:

• Elmo= Elmo
• elefante= elephant
• espejo= mirror
• escalera= stairs (vowels)
• elastico= elastic band
• emparedado= sandwich
• estrella= star
• espada= sword
• escoba= broom
• escritorio= desk

 

Letter I is for:

• iman= magnet
• iguana= iguana
• insecto= insect
• indio= indian
• iglu= igloo

 

Letter o is for:

• Olivia= Olivia
• oso= bear
• oveja= sheep
• orca= killer whale
• octagono= octagon
• ojos= eyes
• olla= pot
• ovalo= oval
• ocho= number eight
• orangutan= orangutan
• oreja= ear
• oruga= caterpillar

 

Letter u is for:

• unicornio= unicorn
• uvas= grapes
• uno= number one
• uniciclo= unicycle
• Urraca= magpie (not pictured)

 

Do you have any hands-on-activity to learn a new language?

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Thanks to Pinterest, I got excited about making some wonderful and beautiful Bento lunches for Pinky. Well, that didn’t go well! One day she came back from school….I asked her why she didn’t eat her lunch….and then she said it! Mommy I don’t like when you do faces and stuff with my food.

Oh no!!!! I thought she would love it!!!….  

Well, the thing is that I wanted to do small things for her to remember how much I love her and think about her….

Then, I decided to make a few drawing on afternoon snack paper bag…..just a few!

The thing is that afternoon she came back home with such a huge smile……She definitely L.O.V.E   I.T!!!

Ever since then, I am getting crazy having fun making sweet designs on her paper bag.

The result: no more boring brown paper bags for snack and a huge smile on Pinky’s face when she comes back home!

BTW, the teachers love it, too!

 

Some of the paper bags in the pictures are wrinkle because she brought them home because she loved them. THE biggest photo are the bags for this week!

Here are a few other ideas over the internet which I am going to try for sure! Sorry, no more Bento at this house!

1. Printed paper bags- here from Perfectly Imperfect. Cute!
2. I am thinking about doing something fun like this for Halloween using construction paper cut out or Stickers from the Dollar store. Here.
3. For Christmas time; drawing Christmas lights….so cute. from Red ted art.
4. For Thanksgiving…I can do this turkey! 

 

What else can I do for making lunch/snack time fun? Ideas,please!

 

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Well, I am kind of late with this post, as always! lol

Here are our Favorite Five Practical life activities. Since Pinky is an only child and she expends most of her time with me, we don’t do trays for practical life.

Instead, we do everyday tasks as they come. Here are a few examples:

• Table setting. Here is our post.

• Laundry time. Here is the first time we started to help.

• Cook. Here and Here and the posts.

Around 2 years old making pancakes! That’s her proud face!

Oh…my baby!!!

2.5 years old helping to sauté the vegetables.

At 4 years old using an electric chopper. She is fascinated!

Preparing her own chocolate milk! (4.5 years old)

Here she is preparing lunch for both of us: Peanut butter sandwich!

And that’s our cheap Montessori-inspired stool version; a 2 step metal folding ladder.

I think she learned how to use it around 2 years old.

• Organizing around the house. Grocery shopping. Here is the post.

Saving the grocery shopping!

Look at her tiny fat hands!!!

 

There is a place for her shoes!

 

• Cleaning dishes, emptying the dishwasher, cleaning her bathroom

Here is a post about the dishwasher.

Helping to clean the Kitchen cabinets during our moving.

Disclaimer: Don’t try this with younger kids and always watch big kids while helping with this task.

 

Pinky’s very own bathroom which comes with responsibilities, too!

I will try to share later on!

That’s it! Simply activities that include your child at home and don’t get mommy all stress out preparing practical life trays and then looking for a spot to display them and never get touch again.

My very own experience!

Now is your turn to visit MONTESSRI MOMents for more Friday fives!