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!

January: Whatever the Weather

January Theme: Whatever the Weather

Storybooks
What will the weather be like today?
When a storm comes up
Winter lullaby
Bear snores on

Vocabulary
Weather: storm, snow, lightening, tornado
Seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall
Weather forecast: very rainy, cloudy, windy, stormy, sunny, snowy
Clothing (science): pants, jacket, vest, socks, gloves, scarf, boots, hat, shorts, sandals, skirt, dress, sunglasses, helmet

Sight words
want to, like to, have to, should, look, in, go, see, eat, hear, touch, smell

Sentence patterns & questions

I want to run! I have to read a book.
What do you see in Spring? What do you see in Winter?
I see purple in Spring. I see white in Winter.

In summer, I eat ice cream. In spring, I run.

I think tomorrow will be sunny and windy.

What are you wearing today? I am wearing a dress.

What do you have to wear in the fall? In fall, I have to wear a jacket.

Phonics

Review and practice blends (3 and 4 letter blends)

Finish phonics readers
Focus: Bb, Kk, and Oo

Drama
Skit - each student picks a season, creates sentences about the season and acts out.

Music & Songs
Row, row, row your boat
The Weather Song
The weather outside is ___ today.
Youtube: 4 Seasons in a Year

Making rain instruments

Science

Our Sun

What Should I Wear?

Raincloud experiment

Art

Sun painting

Hanging Rainclouds

Four Seasons Trees

Snowstorm

Cooking Class

Hot cocoa

Mixed popcorn

Chocolate cookies

Mixed chocolate bar

Special Events

1/3: birthday party

1/16: Melody’s birthday

1/29 Allen’s birthday

1/30: tentative outing

Photo Update (Dec. 24-Jan. 4)

Happy New Year! Here are many photo and video updates from the past two weeks. You can check out December's photo album CLICK HERE, and the new January photo album CLICK HERE.

Teacher Coco loves to play games with Watermelon Class. 

 Art Class: making wreaths for Christmas

On Skype to say "Merry Christmas!" with Teacher Jennifer!

Outdoor time: listen for the music and then FREEZE!

Phonics Class: reviewing the consonants Dd, Ff, Gg, and Pp, and using our phonics skills to spell out words

The first Park Day of 2013.

Science Class: matching animals with their tails.

We missed Allen at Cherry's birthday party! Here is a video of our performance. We had just learned "Five Little Ducks" so we cannot remember how to sing all the lyrics yet. But everyone in Watermelon Class really wanted to sing this song for Cherry! I even joined in for support~

Our trip to Taipei Zoo!!! Watermelon Class was so well-behaved, and we all had to much fun!

The girls really love animals~

Everyone cannot take their eyes off the different animals. They did not even want to turn around to take a picture!! ^^

Goodbye, Taipei Zoo! See you next time!

Drawing ourselves as animals, and presenting them to the class. Melody really loves horses. She drew a beautiful horse with rainbow hair. Michelle is really great at speaking, and her presentation about a goose was no exception. 

 Our last On The Farm theme class: What are you? Melody is a horse! Allen is a cow!

Building sentences and asking questions with Teacher Coco.

Music Class: FREEZE!!! Expression dancing with scarves and ribbon sticks are FUN!!

We celebrated Melody and Allen's birthday! They were great hosts and passed out cake to many teachers. Great job, you two!