A Week in Photos (Jan. 21-25)

Here are photos from the past week.  You can see the rest (many, many more!)  in the JANUARY PHOTO ALBUM by clicking here. 

This week, we welcomed two new students to Watermelon Class: Eric and Akane! They got used to our school and friends very quickly. And even though they didn't learn a lot of English before, they are slowly catching up. Great job this week, you two!

 

Phonics class: BB/bbb/a bear/ROARRRRR!!!!

 

Theme Class: talking about our favorite colors and seasons.

 

Art Class: stamping clouds that look like something else.

 

Art Class: Melody's cloud looks like a rabbit. Eric's cloud looks like a shark.

 

Toys Show and Tell: Eric's first time speaking English in front of a small audience. Good job!

 

Outdoor Activity: balloon "volleyball" ^^

 

Park Day:  Our group is getting bigger and bigger! More friends to play with!

 

Park Day: our new friends are having fun at the park.

 

Chinese Class: seeing what objects will float and sink in water.

 

Theme Class: Teacher Coco is helping Eric being Little Teacher for the first time during Circle Time.

 

Theme Class: reviewing seasons. Let's play a game!

 

Science Class: learning different clothes.

 

Science Class: What Should I Wear? Can you tell what season Jared and Melody are dressed for???

 

Cooking Class: we are baking cookies!

 

Theme Class: working on writing our skits.

 

Phonics Class: writing the letter K worksheet.

Teacher Micky said "when you finish writing your name, put your pencil on your head." I didn't mean it literally!! Haha you guys are so silly!

 

Music Class: FREEZE!

 

Music Class: FREEZE!

 

Math Class: we are practicing to recognize numbers and building it with cubes.

See you next week!

This Week's Science Class

Dear Parents,

For this week’s Science Class on Wednesday, January 23, we will have a fun activity related to clothes and the four seasons! I would like to ask parents to prepare and bring a few different clothes from different seasons. For the activity, we will bring all the clothes together, and I will ask students to dress themselves for different types of weather! For example, what should you wear when it is rainy? What should you wear when it is very hot?

2 or 3 clothes from each student will be enough, and more would be great! Shorts, hat, t-shirt, raincoat, and a sweater are some ideas. I will bring a few items as well.

Thank you very much!

Reading Videos: Weather and Seasons

Watermelon Class was already familiar with weather vocabulary (we talk about it everyday in Circle Time), but this month, we learned more, such as "partly cloudy" and "stormy". We also talk about yesterday's and tomorrow's weather. Everyday, our Little Teacher can introduce the weather from three days.

Yesterday was cloudy.

Today is sunny.

Tomorrow will be partly cloudy.

In this theme, we also learned about the four seasons, and what the weather is like in each season. We connect the seasons with something Watermelon Class is familiar with: the five senses. What do you see, hear, smell, eat, and touch in each season?

I see flowers in spring.

I eat ice cream in summer.

I hear a ghost in fall.

I smell hot pot in winter.

In the following videos, students read both the weather and seasons charts for Mommy and Daddy. For the seasons, students built their own sentences, so everyone is unique! Enjoy~

A Week in Photos (Jan. 14-18)

Here are photos from the past week. You can see the rest in the January Photo Album. 

Art Class: Each student picks a season and paints how a tree looks in that season. Can you guess what season everyone has?

Theme Class: Making sentences with our senses and seasons.

Phonics: We are practicing to write letters in paint-filled baggies. 

Outdoor Activity: What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?

Theme Class: Building sentences.

Park Time: Watermelon Class got together and planned to build a Watermelon House!

 Science Class: What Should I Wear?

Happy Birthday, Melody!

 Theme Class: What do you touch? What do you hear?

 Phonics Class: Listening and choosing words that begin with the letter "B".

Cooking Class: Mixed popcorn. Shake shake shake!

Theme Class: Building sentences with things we can see, smell, etc.

Storytime: We discuss what seasons we see and say why we think so.

 Math Class: We finished our Math workbooks, so we made number flashcards. Jared is so silly!

Toys Show and Tell Jan. 8

Here are some videos from last week's Toys Show and Tell! I think the toys that Watermelon Class brought were fun and interesting, so I wanted to share~ Enjoy!

A Week in Photos (Jan. 7-11)

Lyrics to "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo", "The Weather Song", and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" have been added to the Music Page!

Here are the photos from the week of January 7-11. The rest of the photos are in the January Photo Album!

 Practicing new sentence patterns. 

Art Class: painting the sun without getting our hands dirty!

Theme Class: making a weather graph to help us talk about the weather. What's the weather like yesterday? Today? What about tomorrow?

Phonics Class: B-B/b-b-b. Little Teacher Jared helps us read.

Outdoor Time: playing Follow Teacher Micky and FREEZE!

Theme Class: identifying the 4 seasons.

Theme Class: what kind of weather do you feel in each season?

Science Class: after we finished our Sun art project, we talked about how the Sun helps many things grow BIG!

Cooking Class: we made hot cocoa! Because Allen cannot drink cream, he wanted to help Jared mix his. Mix, mix, mix! Allen always wants to help out his friends!

Storytime: reading about different kinds of storms. So scary!

Music Class: row, row, row your boat

Math Class: finishing up our workbooks with more counting and writing. Well done!

And just for fun, here is the first song we sang with our ribbon sticks!