Graduation Rehearsals

Here are some videos from our graduation rehearsals! I took these videos so Michelle can still watch them at home for practicing. But I also want to show Mommy and Daddy how great everyone is doing. In the song videos, I am standing very far away and encouraged students to sing loudly so the audience can hear. I think Watermelon Class did a very good job!!! Everyone is singing so loudly!!!!! ^___^

Graduation Song

If You're Happy and You Know It

Skit

You've Got a Friend in Me

July: Summer Camping Fun

Vocabulary words

Summer Camp: camping, picnic, campfire, tent,  cabin, fire, wood, guitar, campfire songs, horse back riding, swimming, archery, pottery, guitar playing, rock climbing,  surfing,  cooking,  hiking, forest animals, rafting

4^th of July: fireworks, picnic, American flag, three-legged race

Past Tense Verbs: went, did, made, was

Sentence Patterns

At summer camp, we sleep in a cabin.

We play with our friends.

Let’s go camping outside.

What activity do you want to do?

I want to do archery.

What is your favorite activity?

My favorite activity is swimming.

We sleep in a tent.  We hike to a waterfall. We swim in the river.

Summer camp is so fun!

I made pottery. I did archery. 

Art Class

Leaf prints

Sun catcher

Paper fan

Fuzzy caterpillar

Pinwheel

Science Class
Fossils
Hand Ornaments

Special Events

July 1: New friend Yumi

July 4:  America’s Independence Day

July 4:  Birthday Party

July 17: Outing

July 18: Dress Rehearsal

July 28: Graduation

A Week in Photos (July 1-5)

Here are the photos from last week. You can see the rest in the JULY PHOTO ALBUM.

New Friend

This week, we welcomed a new friend to Watermelon Class: Yumi! 

 She was able to learn "If You're Happy and You Know It" very quickly, and can perform graduation with us  ^_^

 Yumi likes to play games with us  ^___^

Theme Class

 This week, we began our new theme for this month: Summer Camping! We spent a lot of time talking about picnics.

What we have to do first is lay out the picnic mat so we have a clean place to sit outside. 

And then we can share our picnic foods. What food do you like to eat?

 Because it is cold outside, we learned how to build a campfire to stay warm!

Here is another creative campfire. We used donuts to represent the stones that we put around to protect ourselves from the fire.

 And our favorite part of camping is EATING MARSHMALLOWS!!! Yummy!!

Art Class

 We used leaves to make stamps! First, you paint on the leaf. And then you turn it around and put it on the paper to see the beautiful colors and patterns from the leaf. Wonderful!

Toys Show and Tell

4th of  July

 Teacher Coco performed a wonderful and funny puppet show! She taught us some things we can eat or see on America's birthday ^____^

 We played a fun game called "Pin the Stripe on the Flag". Students had to wear blindfold and can not see!!

Birthday Party

 Happy birthday Teacher Micky and Teacher Coco!

 We all celebrated, sang songs, and ate yummy cake together ^__^

A Week in Photos (June 24-28)

Here are the photos from last week. You can see the rest in the JUNE PHOTO ALBUM.

Theme Class

 Close your eyes, Teacher Coco has a surprise for you...

Itt's our explorer telescopes!!!

 We are writing our Explorer skits. Allen is a pirate. Michelle is a  mermaid.

 Wonderful drawings!

 Students read their skits, and asked a question to the audience in the end. You can see the videos here!

Art Class
 We made yellow submarines that travel in the ocean1

 First, we had to paint he blue ocean water.

 Then, we used white paint and circle things to stamp bubbles.
 

Melody used different circle-shaped toys, and swirled them in the white paint!

Everyone swirled!

 

Next, we cut out the yellow submarines, and added colorful windows so you can see outside the beautiful ocean fish!

 It's time to put our submarines in the ocean.

Watermelon Class looks happy!

Science Class

What shape sailboat will travel on the water better? Square sails or triangle sails?

 We all first made our predictions. Teacher Micky and Melody thought square is better. Allen and Michelle thought triangle is better. Let's find out!

We blew like the wind!!!  Watch the square sailboat GO!!!

Allen takes a DEEP BREATH.

Yay, square sailboat wins!

Then we tried to fan the sails because we got tired from blowing so much >_<

Cooking Class

This week, we  made banana sago. Watermelon Class was actually excited to eat sago! But....

 Well, first we cut banana slices.

And  then we poured coconut  milk into the sago. Allen tasted it and said "not yummy" >_<

 

 Michelle tasted it and said "not yummy". Melody tasted it and said "not yummy". Oh no! At least we tried ^___^'....

Practicing for Graduation

Students are getting better memorizing their speeches. 

 I brought in more props this week to practice with. 

 Allen and Michelle also practiced the graduation ceremony, and receiving their certificates and flowers.

We also practiced to sing and speak LOUDLY!!

 We even got to change into our costumes for rehearsals!!  ^___^

Michelle's Goodbye Party

We made a special card for Michelle. Melody is coloring beautifully, a special card for her good friend.

Allen brought yummy candies to share. Thank you Allen!

Michelle says she feels sad to leave Watermelon Class.. We will miss her a lot!

It's  a good thing Michelle was the Little Teacher on her last day!!  ^_^

Looking through her card brings back many happy memories. Michelle, see you at graduation!