Reminder

Tomorrow, November 29th, is our big monthly outing!

We are going to the Science Museum!

Please remember to arrive at school on time at 9:00am. We will have morning snack at school and leave right after. Please remember to bring water bottles, wear school uniforms and jackets. We will have lunch at the Science Museum so please do not pack lunch bags.

Looking forward to our big day!

Keep smiling,

Teacher Jennifer

Little Star

Melody finished her snack early! While she was waiting on the carpet for Circle Time she decided to practice her flashcards and test Allen :)

Video Update: Skits

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Today we filmed our Thanksgiving skits!

Everyone practiced a lot and did a great job :)

To see the new videos, please CLICK HERE!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

Readers

Dear Parents,

The students now bring their readers home with them! Please practice reading with your child at home.

We read our readers during Phonics Class on Mondays and Thursdays. Please remember to bring the readers to school on these days. At the end of the day on Mondays and Thursdays, we will send the readers home again.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to ask!

Keep smiling,

Teacher Jennifer

Week 9 & 10

We are off to a great start this month!

To see all of the updated photos, CLICK HERE!

We have had 2 cooking classes with Teacher Micky!

First we made orange and grape jelly.

And this week we made cute sandwich sushi!

In art class we are working together as a class on some great projects:

We made a big and beautiful hand-print rainbow for Watermelon Class!

We are also working together to make a class quilt.

We had science class OUTSIDE so that we could observe nature! We took magnifying glasses and did a fun activity with Teacher Cindy.

We also collected leaves to observe and made leaf rubbings!

We played some fun new games in the playground.

Here we are playing Doggy, doggy, who stole your ball? 

Ask your child how to play!

The students really enjoy the games we play each week to review vocabulary. 

Now sometimes they want to play Teacher and run the whole game themselves!

Teacher Cindy and I can watch as the students take turns leading the game on their own :)

We are seeing such great developments in Watermelon Class!

Video Update

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New videos have been added to our Picasa Profile!

You can now watch the videos of Skit #3: Halloween Night. 

Please CLICK HERE to watch. Enjoy!

Little Star

Last week Allen created a new game using Halloween vocabulary! He was very excited to play it with Watermelon Class. He explained in English how to play the game and everyone had lots of fun :)

November: Friends at School & The Natural World

 Art Class

Class Rainbow

Class Quilt

Dream catchers

Hand-print turkeys 

Science Class

Living and nonliving things

How do plants grow?

Leaf rubbings and observations

In the kitchen we are cooking up...

Orange and grape jelly
Fruit Salad
Sandwich sushi
Thanksgiving celebration!

November Music Playlist 

The Wheels on the Bus
The More we Get Together

Rhythm and rhymes

On the Bookshelf

The Little School Bus 

I Love School

Vocabulary

Sight Words

• for
• do
• can
• not
• go
• yes
• no
• like
• there
• here
• that
• this

School

• desk
• table
• clock
• window
• garbage
• whiteboard
• light switch
• shelves
• cupboard
• toothbrush
• carpet

Thanksgiving

• Turkey
• Feast
• Tradition
• Holiday

Science

• living
• nonliving
• grow
• seed
• root
• leaf (leaves)

Sentence Patterns and Questions

(Thanksgiving) I am thankful for...

November Events!

Birthday party: November 1st, 2012

Science Museum: November 28th, 2012

Video Update

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We have so many new videos now online!

For Jade's birthday party Watermelon Class sang I'm a Little Teapot in front of everyone! Great performance Watermelon Class :)

We have also been filming some of our classes like art class and cooking class! 

Please check out all the new videos: HERE!

Week 7 & 8

All of the albums have been updated! Check them out HERE!

This week we did lots of preparation for Halloween!

In art class we made our trick-or-treat bags!

In cooking class we made yummy cookie spiders!

Michelle is showing us her best model poses

Jared is walking down the runway

Melody too!

Everyone is practicing their walks and poses for the big fashion show!

This Friday I brought a special storybook to share with Watermelon Class!

I brought one of my old books from when I was a little girl.

Cinderella!

Jared and Allen are making music

Happy Birthday Jade!!

Allen is trying to find a butterfly

Having fun at the park :)

We made jack-o-lanterns with Apple Class!

They look great!

And we finished our food pyramid! YAY!!

Now we have finished our work on Family and nutrition. Good job Watermelon Class!

What will we do next?!

Halloween

We all had so much fun on Halloween!

All lined up for the big show!

Michelle is such a great model!

Look! It's Bumble bee! Oh wait, is that Allen under there?

Superman to the rescue!

And last but not least our beautiful Princess Melody!

Melody and Michelle sing Trick-or-treat!

After we sing, we get candy!

Melody and Michelle show me their princess spinning

Such a happy day :)

Two beautiful princesses!

Counting all of our candy after trick-or-treating!

Thank you families for coming to celebrate Halloween with us!

We are so happy you could come :)

See the rest of the photos: CLICK HERE!

October Vocabulary Review

Sight words:

• you
• she
• he
• they
• we
• I
• me
• my
• am
• are
• is
• in
• at
• as
• to
• of
• on

Family members:

• mommy
• daddy
• (little/big/baby) sister
• (little/big/baby) brother
• grandma
• grandpa
• auntie
• uncle
• cousin

Other:

• To look like..
• Home
• House
• Pet
• Old/young

Nutrition:

• healthy/unhealthy
• Food groups
• Shopping List
• Grains: cereal, bread, toast, porridge/congee, rice, noodles, pancakes, popcorn
• Vegetables: pumpkin, broccoli, pepper, cucumber, tomato, eggplant, sweet potato, onion, mushroom, lettuce, carrot, corn, salad
• Fruits: apple, orange, banana, grapes, blueberries, lemon, peach, pear, strawberry, orange juice, pineapple, watermelon, kiwi, cherry dried fruit
• Meats and beans: tofu, pork, fish, chicken, shrimp, nuts, peanuts, egg, beans
• Milk: yogurt, cheese, milk, ice cream
• Fats and sweets: butter, cookies, potato chips, hamburger, french fries, chocolate, pizza, cake

Halloween

• Trick-or-treat
• Ghost
• Witch
• Clown
• Monster
• Pumpkin
• Jack-o-lantern
• Skeleton
• Costume
• Mask
• Bat
• Mummy