We did a color review with rojo-azul-amarillo-verde (red-blue-yellow-green) and naranja (orange) was introduced. We read "Los Numeros" (numbers) to practice counting 1-10 in Spanish and "Tiso, the Peruvian Condor" to learn about a Spanish speaking country, Peru.

We continue working on our colors rojo-azul-amarillo-verde (red-blue-yellow-green) and naranja (orange) was introduced to our vocabulary this week. We practiced counting 1-5 in Spanish and read "Tiso, the Peruvian Condor" to learn about a Spanish speaking country, Peru.

                        Warmly,

Your PEAKE Academy Teaching Staff 

Our letters of the week were "Ee" and "Oo" and we really practiced hard to write our "Ee"s (because most of us can already make circles!) Leah and Arianna worked so hard, their papers were put on the "Best Work of the Week" Board! In math we continued to practice writing our numbers.  Miss Lindsi's math group started working on subtraction, while Miss Danaye's math group focused on the number 9.  Both math groups did an apple tree project, and Alex and Logan did such a great job on theirs that they were also featured on the "Best Work of the Week" Board!

In art we made 4 seasons "Trees" books and did tree collages for each season.  We also painted autumn leaves yellow, orange, and brown to show how a leaf turns colors as it goes through its own life cycle.  We also learned that leaves change colors because they lose chlorophyll, which makes them green, as the season changes and it gets colder outside because there is less sun.

We read the books Leaves, Big Red Apple, The Biggest Leaf Pile, From Acorn to Oak Tree, Colorful Leaves, & A Day at the Apple Orchard.  Aidan was the Star Student this week and he did a super job at being a great leader and role model for his friends!

 

This week in Preschool, we talked about the seasons changing from summer to fall and all of the wonderful changes happening in the world around us.  We read fall books including When the Leaf Blew In (Aaren especially enjoyed this one), Fall is for Friends, It's Fall! and The Leaf Man. Kristin and Ashton always remembers where the leaf man goes.  We also read all of our Halloween books one last time and said "bye, see you next year."  Dylan M. used such a sweet voice saying bye to the haunted house book.  I know that is his favorite.  We talked about fall also being called Autumn. We discussed what people do in the fall like wearing warmer clothing and what some animals are doing now like squirrels gathering and eating lots of nuts.  We learned a new song called "Autumn leaves are falling down" (We become the leaves and fall down at the end of the song- Neil falls with gusto!)  We sang that a lot.  I think it will be a favorite all season.  We've been really working on counting this week.  We counted leaves, blocks, kids and acorns. Soliel is 9 acorns tall!   We expecially enjoyed talking about leaves this week and all of the beautiful colors we are seeing on the trees (and the ground too).  We sorted leaves. We counted leaves.  We painted leaves.  We glued leaves.  We even jumped in, stomped on and threw leaves in the air!  What a fabulous fall activity! 
 
Happy Birthday L.J.  We are so excited your 4!!!  Thanks for bringing in a special 4 year old snack and having your mom read a wonderful Dancing Dora story!