Let's go Shopping

One of my daughter's favorite things to do is to go shopping. She enjoys browsing, getting a little something, and paying. 

We give her a dollar or so that she can use and pay the cashier. She also says thank you when she gets the receipt. 

She's been asking what all the different coins and bills are so I made a lesson out of it. 

Materials: 

play money
price tags
toys
paper and pencil

Focus Questions:

• Cuanto cuesta? 
• How much is it?

Lesson:

We first talked about the difference between coins - monedas and bills - billetes.  

I told her the value of each bill which she repeated. 

I placed some toys with price tags on the carpet where we could pretend to go shopping. 

We took turns being the cashier and the buyer.

She had to use the question "Cuanto cuesta el / la ____________ ? - "How much is.....? " for each item. 

Then she looked for the correct bill to pay for her item. 
She bought plates and food for her 'kids' (stuffed animals).  Such a good little mommy! 


~Happy Shopping! 

preschool teaching books

I have been using LeapFrog's Kindergarten Skills and Beginning Reading Skills with my four year old. She has been doing real well with them and even sounded out a word (c-a-t) and knew what it said on her own today. I was very proud of her!

I'd recommend giving these books a try, even if you don't plan to homeschool but you still have preschoolers at home with you. I use them during nap time so she and I can sit down and work on the books together. 

I'll post the links here so they can be easier to find through Amazon. I tried to find them through Toys r Us website, which is where I got them, but couldn't find them there. 

Anyways, here they are:

Beginning Reading Skills

Kindergarten Skills: 

Hope you find them useful!

~ Fabi 

Book Review: Te Quiero

*Note: This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are my own. This is one of our favorite books at home and I just want to share it with you. Hope you like it! 

The book Te Quiero de Scholastic  has 4 short stories with love being the common theme. My older kids ages 4 and 2 really like this book and ask me to read it all the time. There have been a couple of times when my daughter has asked me to read the entire book to her. 

It's very easy to read, full of colorful pictures, and very heart warming. It's one of those books that will have you hugging your child and receiving hugs from beginning to end. 

Image Source

The book is also available in English. It's called I love You: A Keepsake Storybook Collection by Scholastic. 

Happy Reading Time!

~ Fabi

Flour Sensory Play

They usually pretend they are cooking fun dishes for guests. Most of the dishes they make are the same ones we eat home, their favorites. Sometimes they come up with such fun combinations and we talk about how it would taste. For example, noodles with chocolate. 

This week, though, we used flour for sensory play inside our apartment. 

Setting up:

I put flour on two plates (one for each kid) and told them that would be their 'work station.' They enjoyed that name so much! My daughter said "now I'm at work like Papá!" 

We discussed the following questions: 

• what color is it - qué color es?
• how the flour feels - cómo se siente la harina?
• what color is it - qué color es?
• que te parece la harina? - What do you think about the flour?  {my daughter said it's powdery}

Then they poured water on the dough and began using their hands to mix it all together. 

My two year old liked playing with the flour until he noticed it was sticking to his fingers.  My four year old said she was going to cook something for us.  

Then she began kneading - amasando the dough - la masa and making dough balls for cookies.  

Then she wanted to count how many dough balls had she been able to make. 

So we counted in English and Spanish. 

I showed her how using one finger, the pointer, helps us point to one object at a time and it helps us keep track of what we're counting. 

She chose to do this several times. 

Later we got cookie cutters and a rolling pin.

(excuse the quality of this picture)

Extension Ideas:

arrange dough balls by size

What other ideas do you have?

~ Fabi

Weekly Bible Verse

If you would like the original file to print the picture with the verse, send me an email at bilingualmami@gmail.com . I'll send you the file. 

La version en Español:

La version en Ingles:

~ Fabi