Friday Update Jan 24

January 24, 2014 

                                                

Dear Parents,

We have had another exciting and fun week of learning in the yellow starfish classroom!  We have also celebrated a lot of January Birthdays! (and one that happened over our Winter break J)  Happy Birthday Anderson, Suze and Addie! Mango and Jelly are on a big adventure to Ronan’s house this weekend!  They loved staying with Daniel and Jacob, and will celebrate Chinese New Year with Henry.  They love going home with their cuties!!! J

Here are some things that happened this week. We…

*learned the name, sound, and formation for the letter Oo.

*brainstormed/ listed/cut out words that begin with Oo and wrote them in our alphabet journals.

*added ovals to our feely letter Oo.  Please remember to add this to your feely letter ring and review all of the letters.

*had a visit from Dr. Landau and he sang Nursery Rhymes with us! We sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Hickory Dickory Dock, and the Humpty Dumpty blues.

*painted a picture of cherry blossoms

*made chinese lanterns and decorated happy new year symbols for good luck

*learned about the zodiac animals, and watched a lion dance on youtube from New York so we will be prepared for our real one next week in the ECC

*Read Chinese New Year books (including a favorite called Two of Everything) as well as Nursery Rhyme books (the favorite—the Humpty Dumpty story—it is so cute!)

*practiced our Nursery Rhymes and acted them out

*participated in activities involved Ovals and Opposites

*painted a “still life” of our Orange tree

*weighed the oranges off of our real orange tree and decided how many cubes they weighed.  Then we counted the sections of our oranges and our friends oranges and decided if our orange had more sections or less

VIP CALENDAR

It is now updated on the top tab of my blog.  J

NEXT WEEK

Next week we will review the letters we have learned, and continue with Chinese New activities and Nursery Rhymes.

REMINDERS/INFORMATION

*Return library books on Monday.

*We are in need of large cereal type boxes to make Valentine mailboxes.  Please send in any donations. (Just a heads up J)

*Check the blog for pictures from this week!

*Wednesday, January 29:  Have your child wear Chinese dress or red/gold.  We will be watching a lion dance, participating in a parade through the ECC and singing our CNY songs.

* Thursday, January 30^th and Friday, January 31^st:  NO SCHOOL for students—Chinese New Year Holiday.

Thank you!!!  Have a wonderful weekend!!!!  Lynsey and Aidah