Last week of the Term Jan 25

We have been continuing our work in Unit 5 of Cheeky Monkey, called "I'm Hungry."  We can say I'm hungry.  We can also identify foods-- sandwich, cake, ice cream, biscuit, banana, apple.  We are learning to sing Happy Birthday and adding birthday cake to our foods.  Students seem to enjoy this unit.

We are also working on the Very Hungry Caterpillar.  We have read the story and practiced the fruit names from the story- apple, orange, plum, strawberry, pear.  We made caterpillars and acted out the story.  You can watch a version of the story here Very Hungry Caterpillar Story.



We have also been working on learning the names of dishes- plate, bowl, cup, spoon, fork.


This week, we are sending home Unit 4 from the Cheeky book, Good Morning.  

In this Unit, we learned about animals.  We learned duck, cow, horse, sheep, cat, dog.  We also learned about when things are clean and dirty.  We also learned mouse, fish.

We have also been learning shapes.  We learned Square House on Youtube to go with the shapes, square, triangle, circle and rectangle.  We also watched the Pancake Manor Shapes video.  We also learned heart and star.  We sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Have a great break!!

I Can Sing a Rainbow

Colors, emotions and food! Jan 18

This week, we started Unit 5 in our Cheeky book, called I'm hungry!  So far, we have learned to say I'm hungry and I'm thirsty.  We also learned sandwich, cake, ice cream, and biscuit.  Students like to pretend to eat these items.

We are also learning about dishes- plate, bowl, cup, spoon, and fork.

 
We have been continuing to work on emotions.  We know all of the emotions in this video Emotions video  Students can answer the question, How are you?  using I am happy (and other emotions).










This week, we have also been learning about colors.  We now know red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.  We made watermelon men when we learned pink.



We painted rainbows so we could practice talking about the colors.


This weekend, I am sending home Unit 3 from Cheeky Monkey, called I'm cold!  In this Unit, we learned about clothes.  We also learned hot and cold.  The cold-weather clothes we learned are scarf, hat, jumper, and coat.  The hot-weather clothes we learned are Tshirt and shorts.  We also talked about snow, snowflakes, and snowmen.

During this unit, we also learned the colors, red and green.  We watched this video.

Blue Car Color Song for Kids

We learned to count to 10 and sing this song

Numbers Song Let’s Count 1-10 New Version

Snowy week! Jan 11

This week, we finished Cheeky Unit 4, Good Morning!  We know cow, horse, sheep, duck, dog, cat.  We also know the sounds each of these animals make.  We played some fun games about these animals where we had to take turns.  We also learned clean and dirty.  We played Red Light Green Light.  Next week, we will start Unit 5, which is about food.  Since we had two snow days, we reviewed our Winter story, I See Winter.  We also made more snowflakes.  We put them together to make one big snowflake.  We also learned the color orange by mixing red and yellow.  We had a trip to the library where we read The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear in English.

This week, you will be receiving Unit 2 of the Cheeky Monkey book, called Baby is sad.  We learned happy and sad and sang If You´re Happy and You Know It.  We also learned family members: mommy, daddy, sister, brother, baby, granny.  We sang Daddy Finger.  You can sing along at home too Daddy Finger Video.  We also learned counting with these videos:

Let's count 123 song for kids

Sesame Street: Feist sings 1234
Sesame Street 12345

We also learned the colors red, blue and yellow in this unit.

Updated picture dictionary

 Here are the concepts we've been learning so far....

Happy New Year!

We've been celebrating Winter and the New Year. We colored and cut out snowmen.  We put Winter clothes on them to practice the vocabulary-- gloves, hat, scarf, jumper.  You can practice these words with your student.  You can also review body parts with this picture- eyes, nose, mouth, etc.  They should know snow, snowman, sun, rabbit and maybe even trees too.

Here's a picture of our class on New Year's Eve.  We made festive hats with wreaths and stickers.     Happy 2013!!

Weekend homework Jan 4

This week, you'll be receiving a board game that you can play with your student.  You can use anything as a place marker, even your finger.  You can flip a coin to see how many spaces to move ahead-- heads is one, tails is two, for example.  When you land on a square say aloud what you see in the picture (it's also labeled).

Also, this week, I will be sending home the first unit from the Cheeky Monkey book, Cheeky's Town.  This Unit introduced Cheeky, Rory and the other characters of the book.  Cheeky is a monkey.  Rory is a lion.  Tom and Ellie are a boy and a girl.  During this unit, we learned to say hello, good morning and goodbye.  We also learned to answer the question, What’s Your Name?  We learned the color blue.  We also learned some words about the body—fingers, nose, tummy, toes, eyes, ears, mouth.  We learned to count to 3 too!  We also learned big and small.  We learned to sing and move along with these videos on Youtube.  Big and Small Song  And Big and Small Song   

You can watch the videos with your student.  Also, you can look through the unit with them and see what they remember from each picture.  They should be able to identify the characters and the vocabulary.  You can also listen to songs from the unit on your home CD with your student.

I will send home the other units we have completed in the coming weeks.

In class this week, we’re working on Unit 4 in Cheeky, called Good Morning.  We know dog, cat, cow, horse, sheep, duck, fish, and mouse.  If you know the song, you can practice singing Old MacDonald with your students.  We are also working on learning clean and dirty.  We are learning to play Red Light Green Light.  Red means stop, Yellow means slow, Green means go!  We learned up and down this week.  We sang along with this song Up and Down Song Also, we are still practicing emotions.  We are working on answering the question “How are you” with “I’m happy” (or sad, angry, surprised, scared, sleepy, hot, cold).  We’re also learning a new song, called Open, Shut.  Here are the lyrics...

Open, shut them

Open, shut them

Give a little clap

Open, shut them

Open, shut them

Pat them on your lap

Creep them

Creep them

Creep them

Creep them

Right up to your chin

Open up your little mouth

But do not put them in!