Transportation and Vehicles / Transportes y vehículos

In May we learned all about transportes y vehículos or transportation and vehicles. The children really enjoyed this unit of study because we imagined that we were riding on a car/carro, a train/tren, a motorcycle/motocicleta, a bycicle/bicicleta, a boat/bote, a...

Animales/Animals

In April our unit of study was animals/animales. We talked a lot about Spanish vocabulary related to animales. We repeated the names of animales in Spanish with flashcards, we put stickers on sticker pages and repeated the names of animals, we glued pictures of...

Plants and Spring / Plantas y Primavera

In March we learned about what happens in spring/primavera and how plants/plantas develop and grow. We pretended to be seeds/semillas of flowers/flores, trees/árboles or plants/plantas by making ourselves into balls sitting on the floor. Then as our pretend plants...

Shapes, Formas or Figuras

In February our unit of study was shapes or formas. We talked about how many sides or lados and angles or ángulos shapes have. We learned about círculo, rectángulo, triángulo, estrella, óvalo, rombo, cuadrado, corazón and others. We repeated the names of shapes while...

Clothing/ropa

This January we learned all about different clothing/ropa we use at different times of the year and for different occasions. We learned lots of vocabulary such as falda, blusa, pantalones, pantalones cortos, camisa, calcetines, medias, chaqueta, bufanda, botas y m​ás....

The Winter Season and Holidays

In December we learned about different holidays that people celebrate: Christmas, Hannukah, Divali, Kwanzaa, New Year’s. The children enjoyed listening to the descriptions of the holidays and observing objects related to the holidays. We also made some ornaments...

Colores Preschool: HIJKLMN​ñO

In November we learned about fall celebrations, fall weather, leaves, acorns, pumpkins, apples and all things related to the season of fall or estaci​ón de otoño. We talked about the traditions around Thanksgiving day that we call D​ía de acci​ón de gracias in...

La Familia

In October we learned about different people that make up families: hermana, hermano, beb​é, mam​á, pap​á, abuela, abuelo, t​ía, t​ío, prima, primo, etc. We practiced and learned songs and poems about families too. We found pictures of different kinds of families in...

Feliz Halloween!

 At Colores Preschool, we all sang The family/La familia together at our fun Halloween party – students, teachers, parents and friends – with Ms Faby and her...

All About Ourselves & Back to School Celebration

We had an awesome back to school time with lots of learning and fun celebrations. In September we learned about our bodies including our faces, arms, legs and more. We sang a song with vocabulary about our faces and another song with vocabulary about our bodies. We...