Practicando Sonidos y Números

 

As I am lying on the sofá, letting my poor foot heal, I had to “invent” things to do with Sofía to keep her entertained-and off my leg!

Really, this is easy as she loves to help out.  In addition, give her a task and she will bounce all around the house to accomplish it!
We played for just a little bit, but it was divertido and educational of course!

First, I printed out a few letters and números in a light color so that Sofía could trace them.
I let her choose a letter or número.  After she traced it, we talked about it.  The números were easy.  Sofía gathered objects to represent each número. 
When we did a letter, we discussed objects that began with each letter. She then went around the house gathering objects that began with each letter and sound in Español.  She got creative with the S.  She cut out a foto of herself to represent the S of Sofía!

¡Querida Mami!

Sofía wrote me a letter yesterday.  Since I can’t read very well sometimes, I asked her to read it to me. ;)  (I then transcribed it because I loved it so much!)

This is what it says verbatim:

¡Querida Mami!

Gracias, gracias, gracias que Natalia (the babysitter) venga a jugar conmigo.

Gracias por ayudarme y por dejarme ayudarte.
Te amo mucho.com

 Sofía

Pica Pica: A Rainy Día Actividad

 

¡Gúacala! We hate rainy días, but luckily we had a fun actividad to save the día! Our Pica Pica de Colores (confetti  or Pica Pica as we like to call it) cutting is something Sofía really enjoys doing,asks for it ALL THE TIME, and is really simple to prepare.  Since Sofía is only three-years-old, she isjust learning how to use preschool tijeras.  I give her a variety of paper with differenttextures to cut such as tissue paper, construction paper, laminated strips, Xeroxpaper, and textured thin paper.  When shehas a pile cut-up, she puts the Pica Picain one of the containers, a tub or a an empty water bottle.  All are great actividades for developing fine motor skills and hand-eyecoordination.  I have found that the Pica Pica actividad also leads to muchcreative and imaginative play as well. Although I MUST sit next to Sofía while she uses her tijeras, this open actividad really allows her to be theboss and make decisions of how and where the actividad will go—something three-year-olds really, really, REALLYlike to do!

 

Rainbow Actividades

The Rainbow torta inspired me to create some other rainbow actividades (other than eating).  Here is the first in what may be a series of Rainbow Actividades.

Copycat Arcoíris.

I gave Sofía a paper with a completed arcoíris on it and one with an outline.  She had to use her markers to color her arcoíris identical to the completed one.  It is a simple actividad, but one that helps strengthen many skills in the many areas, some of them being:  prewriting, prereading and science!