Thursday, 12 February 2015

Friday Update February 13

HAPPY 100 DAY!  HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!



February 13, 2015
                                                
Dear Parents,
This week could not have been busier than it was!!! J  We celebrated 100 days of school on Monday, and Valentine’s day today, continued with our Fairy Tale unit, and did some more with Chinese New Year! WOW!  Since the four day Chinese New Year holiday is next week, please let me know if you and your cutie would like to take home Mango and Jelly for a visit! J  They have a little traveling cage and I can give you their food and hay.  Just let me know.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!  I hope you have had a wonderful day of love and friendship—we have had a whole week of it!  We do have amazing cuties! They were so happy to give out their valentines today!  And we had a VERY KIND day 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.
*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
*Counted out 10 of each treat for our 100 day snack using our 100 board.
*Had a visit from ZERO THE HERO and did 100 exercises!
*counted 100 decorations for our 100 day cake.
*read The Three Billy Goats Gruff and talked about this fairy tale.
*learned a little 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 100 day books and Valentine’s Day ones!
*made valentine bags and handed out valentines to our class friends (such good practice reading our friends names, taking turns and using our manners to say thank you!)  Thank you parents for helping the cuties with this activity!  It was worth it!  Such love in our class today!!! J

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

REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*Check the blog for pictures from this week!
*we have had a lot of sick kiddos this week—thank you for keeping your little one at home when they have green noses or are not feeling well.

Upcoming Dates and Things to Remember:
*Thursday, February 19th/Friday, February 20th:  CHINESE NEW YEAR—NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
*Monday, February 23rd:  LATE START 10:00am
*Thursday, March 19th/Friday, March 20th:  Parent Teacher Conferences  (the office of learning will be sending e-mails to inform you of these.)
*Monday, March 23rd to Friday March 27th: SPRING BREAK—No School for Students

Elementary School Important Announcements:
~Active Parenting workshop information went home earlier this week. We highly recommend attendance of this. Parenting begins to get very interesting at the 4-5year old stage and as a teacher, I receive MANY questions about parenting small children. Please consider this lovely opportunity. To RSVP: Please submit your interest via online form here.
~County Fair needs your help to volunteer!  With only 3 Saturdays until County Fair (February 28th), the event still needs over 150 Volunteers. County Fair would not be possible without everyone volunteering in the community. Please go to the Sign Up Genius link to volunteer. 

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

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