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

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~