February: Let's Play!

Happy Chinese New Year! I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday and having fun with the family. For those who are travelling, stay safe! Here is what we are doing in the month of February.I will see you after the holiday! Photos update are below in the next post.

- Teacher Micky

Storybooks

Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo,

Snowmen at Night

Jolly Farmer

Vocabulary

Play: play, toys, slide, swing, bars, playground, park, circus, amusement park, zoo

Science: whale, shark, fish, seal, ocean, wave

Sight Words

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Sentence Patterns & Questions

How many kites do you have?

I have three kites.

What do you want to play with?

I want to play with cubes.

Where do you want to go?

I want to go to the circus.

Phonics

Review and practice blends

Focus: Ll and Hh

Introduce long vowels

Skit

Puppet show

Science

Reader: Oceans

Activity: oil and water ocean waves

What Doesn't Belong in the Ocean?

Music

Down by the Station

Choo Choo Train is Coming

Frosty the Snowman

Art

Paper lanterns

Fish puppet

Puppet characters

Cooking

Chinese New Year Hot Pot

Strawberry & Banana Year of the Snake

Special Events

2/9-2/17: Chinese New Year Holiday – No School

2/27: Tentative outing

2/28: Peace Day – No School

A Week in Photos (Feb. 4-8)

Here are photos from the past week.  You can see the rest (many, many more!)  in the  FEBRUARY PHOTO ALBUM. Because of the holiday, I made collages of the week. They can be viewed and downloaded from the COLLAGES PHOTO ALBUMS. 

Theme Class: Practicing sentence patterns and reading number words

Phonics Class:  Focus on the letter Ll

Art Class: Chinese New Year red envelopes and paper lanterns

Toys Show and Tell

Park Day

Chinese New Year Hot Pot

Sending our farewell cards to Eric and Akane. We will miss you!

Music Class and just having FUN!!!

Video: Weather Skits!

Here are videos of our Weather Skits! We rehearsed so many times, I think our final show was very fun! Allen and Michelle were great friends, and helped Eric and Akane by sharing their skits with them. Excellent!

Photo Update (Jan. 28-Feb. 1)

Here are photos from the past week.  You can see the rest (many, many more!)  in the JANUARY PHOTO ALBUM by clicking here.  Friday and February pictures can be viewed in the FEBRUARY PHOTO ALBUM. 

Finishing up our Weather Unit with reviews all week. Goodbye, Weather!

January 29 was Allen's 6th birthday!

He hand delivered donuts to his friends in Watermelon and Apple classes, as well as teachers. Great job, Allen! You are a very nice boy ^_^

Art Class: Hanging Rainclouds

Watermelon Class likes to help each other ^^

It's raining!

 Toys Show and Tell

Monthly Outing: police station & YanPing elementary school

Police Station: we asked questions to police officers, hold up protective gear, and sat in police cars. It was so cool!

Yan Ping Elementary School: we had so much fun playing in the playground! We like new environments ^^

Science Class: colorful rain cloud experiment

Science Class can also be Art Class! ^^

Theme Class: building sentences. Allen wants to help Eric!

 Theme Class: rehearsing our skits for the final show

Cooking Class: Oreo and raisins mix

Music Class: FREEZE! We always come up with new poses to impress Teacher Micky with!

Math Class: practicing number recognition and counting to 20 with cubes