Amarillo-yellow was the color we worked on this week through a game and a worksheet. We read Thomas the Tank Engine Colors and half of the "Skippyjon Jones" story while practicing gato-cat and perro-dog vocabulary. Can't wait until next week to read the end! We colored a pyramid from Mexico to add to their passports.

Amarillo-yellow was the color we worked on this week through a guessing game and a worksheet. We read Thomas the Tank Engine Colors.

                        Warmly,

Your PEAKE Academy Teaching Staff 

In Social Studies, we explored the 7 continents and different ways to say hello to our friends in their language.

We also learned in science about all the different animals and habitats around the world, panda bears from Asia, kangaroos from Australia, Blue whales from Antarctica, and elephants from Africa.  Olive wrote the word elephant terrifically.

In math Ms. Danaye's group focused on the number one and started our fall leaf count down books. Ms. Lindsi's group focused on matching numbers with the right groupings that equal the numbers. We also practiced writing our numbers 1-10.

In writing we focused on the letter of the week, Xx and all the words that start with X and have a X in them.

In music we learned the song  "Oh do you know the continents..."  Taj and Rowan really enjoyed learning and singing this song!

And our star student this week was... drumroll please... Zoi!!!

 

We had a great time "Exploring our World" this week! 

We went to Africa to learn about some of the animals that live there. 
Zebras and lions are very popular in our class.  We went to Australia to learn about how cool Platapuses  are.  We also made our own cute little platapuses in art.  We took an adventure ride with Max in the story
Where the Wild Things Are. It was not long before we had a whole class full of wild things.  I think Mr. Wizer at Wizer's grocery store could hear our "Terrible Roars"  and I know seeing all the "wild things'"  terrible claws was very very scary!  Ellie's scary "wild thing" face was super duper scary! Yikes! 

We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and took a trip out to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Island.  It's a long trip. 
Luckily, we have great imaginations and took a car and a train and then a plane and a row boat out to the island. 
We enjoyed a little Chicka Chicka Boom Boom art as well. 

In art this week, we also made an Adventure Mural,  and did wax resist (crayon and then watercolor paint) haunted houses and painted some fall leaves.

Our letter of the week is E.  E for Ellie and elephant and eggs.  We had fun with plastic eggs in the dramatic play area. Matching up the egg halves and being
able to snap them together was a little bit tricky. Cooking with the eggs and hiding them from each other was a lot of fun.  We learned The Elephant Song.  That is such a good one.  We get to yell for the elephants to come to play.  It isn't often we get to yell in class, so that is so fun.  Dylan Kellington does it with gusto! We talked about what enormous means and so Ashton has asked several times throughout the week,  "Now, what does enormous mean?"  We also have counted to eleven lots of times this week because eleven begins with e!!!

And just a cute little story to sum it all up and I couldn't agree more... 
Wyatt asks "What day is it?" 
So Ms. Angie says "It's Wednesday.  Wednesday is your school day."  
Wyatt responds with "I like school day!"