We learned Rosa is pink and began to practice family vocabulary: mama (mom), papa (dad), familia (family).

                        Warmly,

Your PEAKE Academy Teaching Staff 

Our letters of the week were "Nn" and "Aa."  We learned how to write these letters and talked about what words start with them.  We even found all of the capital and lower case "Nn"s and "Aa" in the words Native Americans. Our class focused on the number 9 this week because nine starts with "n"! We learned how to write the word "nine", number "9"s, and drew 9 jellybeans in a jar!   

In art we made totem poles, Native American feather headbands, decorated horses with tribal symbols, colored and glued together Native American people, and designed our Native American symbols.  Our art projects went along with the stories we read this week.  We read Star Boy, Sacagawea and the Bravest Deed, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Arrow to the Sun, The Story of Raven and the Moon, and Quillworker: A Cheyenne Legend.

Our star student this week was Logan and he rocked!

 

This week in Preschool, we learned about Native Americans and a bit about their heritage and culture.  It's important to know that many of the things we made in art and learned about in class are examples of things that may be from the past or ceremonial.  For example the feather headdresses we made in art are not something you would see a Native American child wearing around the house, but something they might wear for special activities.  We read some great stories including Giving Thanks, A Native American Message, and Ten Little Bunnies.  In art, we made tee pees.  We decorated the tee pees and then used tea (a great natural dye-and Ellie thought it smells good too) to paint them light brown so they would look like buffalo skin.  We also made wigwams, native symbols collages, Native American children (L.J. decided she would make a baby and it wouldn't need hair) and we worked together to make a great big totem pole.  We are so proud of our totem pole!  Kristin was very excited that she can pick it up.  "Because I'm SO strong!" is how she does it.  We feather sorted and counted in math.  We did some fancy shawl dancing during our pow-wow.  These preschoolers have some moves! 

Our letter this week is J!  J is for Josie!  J is for jump!  We jumped and jumped and jumped!  We played a letter recognition game and every time a J or j card was drawn, we had to get up, jump and sing the "J is for jumping" song!  After all of the dancing and jumping in a day of preschool, no wonder Ms. Angie and Ms. Catherine sleep so well!