Last week we all had fun painting and decorating our dragons for Chinese New Year.
This week we will read Against the Odds, a story about Pandas. We will also paint a Chinese flag and learn about schools, homelife, animals, sports, and games in China. Mrs. Workman is planning to visit our class and teach us a game called "Zhao Pengyou". We have been working on the song all week, and the children are doing a great job with the Chinese words. Mrs. Workman lived and taught in China for 12 years. We will also play a game called Dancing Dragon. We will decorate a big Dragon for our parade. We will also make Mandarin hats, dance to Chinese music with scarves, and sample Chinese food at our celebration on Thursday.
We will plant Pansies into a pot for our atrium and observe and draw a pansy for our Nature Journal this week.
We will continue to work with liquid measurement in our Math books.
In Phonics/Language the children are reciting "How Would You Like to Go Up in a Swing." We are also practicing our beginning sounds for Q and R with letter tubs and identifying rhyming words in circle.
Thanks to all who attended our Open House. It was great. There were several new families who visited.
Please send a change of clothes and socks in your child's bag each day. We often go outside when it is damp.
