Sunday, February 10, 2013

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!!!

Saturday, February 2, 2013

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