Week 21 Update and Pictures January 29 to Feb 2

Collaborating on making all 4 terminals of the Changi Airport

Working on stories to add to our classroom library. We are Authors!

"I am a Chinese New Year Snake!" (made out of recycled materials)

"These animals are all in Africa. The families stick together to protect." 

"Superman is coming to save all of the animals in all of the countries! He is going to make sure they are okay!"

Creative snake making

A preview of the amazing representations of Chinese New Year...a book in the making.

"A dragon dance for good luck. All the people have to work together."

"You can make curls like my hair in the clay. I need to show everyone this new way to do art!"

"This is an Ipad. All the apps are here, especially if you want to learn your sounds!"

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There are some new events added this week-be sure to take a look below.

Our animal project has taken many different turns, from how the environment affects the animals, where different animals live in the world, animal babies and families, camouflage protecting animals, shadows that animals make…much documentation in progress right now!

The children have been inspired by the celebration of Chinese New Year, and have busily been decorating. They want to make a book for our library with their drawings and thoughts so they are working hard on that. Also, we have figured out which students are snakes and which are dragons and they have been using the Maker Space to create these animals for our hallway.  Be sure to look though the pictures to see a few of the other explorations in action…

REMINDERS

*Please return the BLUE BAG and RED LIBRARY BAG on Monday.

*We are really low on fruit, granola bars and crackers. (We have VERY hungry children first thing in the morning!) Please feel free to send in some things for the class.

*Tuesday, February 13^th: Empty Bowls- A wonderful and amazing collaboration with high school art students for a good cause. See letter I sent with the Friday e-mail.

*Wednesday, February 14^th:  Valentine’s Day- We are going to keep this low key. We are not having a party, but if parents would like to send in some festive snacks with your children to share, that would be great! No need to do Valentine’s cards (unless this is something your family does anyway) as it is a lot for these young learners! We will be doing some fun things with them as a group. The children are welcome to wear pink, red, white!

*Thursday, February 15^th: School Chinese New Year Celebration- Students can wear Chinese New Year clothes or colors. We will see a lion dance in the morning and attend an ES show.

*February 16^th to 19^th: No School-Chinese New Year Holiday

*February 20^th: No School for Students-Teacher Inservice Day

*March 22^nd and 23^rd: STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES- The ELC will be participating in student led conferences this year (your child will lead you through some learning and you will have a conference with me.) You will get all of the details and how to sign up soon, but please do save the date for these days. If not done on one of these days, there will only be a traditional parent-teacher conference, as the student led conferences involve a lot of set up in the classroom. A note: Student-led conferences are an AMAZING thing to be a part of!

Week 21 January 29 to February 2

51 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt