Monday, October 29, 2012

Reminder: Halloween

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all as excited as I am for HALLOWEEN on Wednesday October 31st!

We have so many fun activities lined up for Halloween, it's going to be a spooky and fun day!

Parents and grandparents, you are welcome to join us at school from 10:00-12:00 for our Halloween celebrations. If possible, please tell Teacher Cindy tomorrow if you or other family members will attend. We will have our Halloween fashion show from 10:00-10:30 and then go show off our costumes around the neighborhood and trick-or-treat at the nearby shops until 11:30! We are excited to take our new trick-or-treat bags out with us to collect candy.

Remember to wear your Halloween costumes to school or bring them so I and Teacher Cindy can help the students to dress up!

Please arrive at school on Wednesday at 9:00! 

Thank you, and keep smiling!

Teacher Jennifer

Sunday, October 28, 2012

International Food Fair

TAS International Food Fair on Saturday was a great success! I want to thank you all for joining us at this great event. I had a great time there, and I hope you did too :)







We played lots of fun games!



The bouncy castle was a lot of fun!



Melody tastes Milo - chocolate drink


Michelle is eating a yummy mini burger


Allen and Melody tried out fishing


And they caught a lot of water balloons!



We found the Canadian stall! Melody and Allen tasted the waffles.


Allen decided to buy a waffle with blueberries. Yummy!



The kids won lots of toys and prizes at the fair!

What a great time!

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Reminder: TAS International Food Fair


Tomorrow is our class trip to TAS International Food Fair! I hope you are all as excited as I am! Our schedule tomorrow is as follows:

9:30 – Leave school on shuttle bus to the Food Fair
12:00 – Leave Food Fair on shuttle bus and return to school

Please arrive before 9:30 for a timely departure. We will be going with Apple Class, Teacher Mandy and Teacher Micky. It will be our first time there and we are excited to try many yummy foods! If there is a problem or you change your plans, please phone one of us:

Teacher Jennifer - 0983144556
Teacher Mandy - 0915224787
Teacher Micky – 0981222053

See you all tomorrow morning :)

Keep smiling,
Teacher Jennifer

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Let's put on a Show!

In Watermelon Class we love the Theater!

This is great and fun for students to use their English in a creative and new way!

Including Dramatic Theater in our class schedule allows the students to benefit from a well-rounded ESL education. Practicing skits in class will allow students to further develop their English skills. They will practice reading, memorization and public speaking. The students will become more comfortable at speaking English in front of others.

The students will be given dialogues that they will learn to read, practice, memorize and finally perform in groups!

We will film all of the skits the students perform in class, and they will be put on our Watermelon Class Picassa Profile for you all to see! To view the videos please CLICK HERE

The students will bring their playbooks (where we keep all of our written skits) home to practice reading and performing with you!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Week 6


Food, food, FOOD!


The bear toasts we made in Cooking Class are so cute!


We started building our food pyramid. Michelle is helping us to learn the vegetables!


Play us a song, Jared!


We are sorting healthy and unhealthy foods together.


At the end of every week we review our sight words one by one. 
Allen had excellent memory and pronunciation!


And of course the week is not complete without Music Class! On Friday we made music shakers using dry rice.


mmm what a yummy week!
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Carrefour


On Tuesday we went grocery shopping at Carrefour! We have our shopping list and are ready to shop!



Michelle is checking what we need on the shopping list. Do we need kiwis and watermelons?


We love cereal! Another food on our shopping list.


We went to explore the Halloween section, and found some cool costumes and hats :)


The frozen meats section was COLD!


Jared found a new friend :)


Allen is checking out the many different fruits



Now it's time to go to the check-out to buy our food. Melody is ready to pay for the kiwis and candy.


Watermelon Class you found everything on the shopping list! Congratulations!!


Time for a yummy sushi lunch :)

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Little Star


Before school started today Michelle told me all about where her teachers come from :)

Reminder

This is a reminder that our monthly outing will take place tomorrow: Tuesday, October 16

We are going grocery shopping at Carrefour!

Please arrive at school on Tuesday on time by 9:00am dressed in uniforms. We will be eating lunch at Carrefour so please do not pack your lunch bags.

Watermelon Class was so great during our outing to BabyBoss, I am really looking forward to this one!

Keep Smiling,

Teacher Jennifer

Thursday, October 11, 2012

October: Family & Nutrition

October is all about Family and Nutrition!

Art Class:

Picture frames
Family collage
Giant Pizza
Jack-o-lanterns
Trick-or-treat bags



Science Class: 

Family Tree
Build-a-skeleton
Food Pyramid
Food Diary






In the Kitchen we are cooking up...

Chocolate, banana milk
Peanut butter and banana bear toasts
Halloween treats




On the Bookshelf:

Bear's Busy Family
Bee-bim bop





October Music Playlist: 

The Saints Go Marching In
I'm a Little Teapot
If you're happy and you know it
Trick-or-treat song



Vocabulary
Family members:
  • mommy
  • daddy
  • (little/big/baby) sister
  • (little/big/baby) brother
  • grandma
  • grandpa
  • aunt
  • uncle
  • cousin
Other:
  • To look like..
  • Home
  • House
  • Pet
  • Old/young
Nutrition:
  • healthy/unhealthy
  • Food groups: meat & beans, vegetables, fruits, dairy, grains, fats and sweets
Halloween
  • Trick-or-treat
  • Ghost
  • Witch
  • Monster
  • Pumpkin
  • Jack-o-lantern
  • Skeleton
  • Costume

Sentence patterns and questions:

What do you like to do with your family?
Do you look like your mommy or daddy?
What do you eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack/dessert at home?
What are you scared of?



October Events!

Birthday Party: Friday, October 5
Monthly Outing to Carrefour: Tuesday, October 16
Halloween Party: Wednesday, October 31

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Reminder: Wednesday, October 10 - No School

Good Afternoon everyone!

This is just a reminder that tomorrow we do not have school because it is a holiday!

I hope you all have a wonderful day off, and we will see you all back in Watermelon Class on Thursday morning.

Keep smiling :)

Teacher Jennifer

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Week 4

A week about family!


We all took turns talking about the different members of our families!



Happy Birthday Teacher Mandy!
We celebrated with cake and songs, and all of the students helped to make her a big, big card!



Melody brought in yummy treats and shared them with everyone!


The students had fun hunting for paper hearts in the playground with Teacher Mickey.



Everyone has been admiring the students' new art projects. We made picture frames and are very excited to fill them with beautiful pictures!



And sometimes we just like to be silly :)


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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Beautiful Day

This Wednesday was a beautiful day in the sunshine...










Check out the rest of our Park Day photos HERE!