Just a reminder that next week is Valentine's Day. We ask that if you want to bring in cards for the 27 students you keep the recipient nameless as to make it easier for your child to pass it out at circle. We also ask that food treats are save for home and not something friends pass out in class, as we have many food allergies and concerns not just nuts and coconut. Cards are safe and simple.
This week started off exciting with our 100th day celebration. We also had two birthday walks and a snow day. Pizza day was early (Thursday) and Friday we had the entire school to ourselves.
Monday: This is a 100th day of school. We celebrated by marking the blue ten groups of ten sticks with a big red ribbon to represent the hundred family. Then we jumped into N's 5th Birthday walk. Happy Birthday N! A few new works are out on the shelf: a new Russian Doll and Coffee Bean Crush. The Russian Doll is unique because of its size and that it has ten dolls in total. It can be a hard twisting work getting the pieces apart and back together. Other popular works include POA bird, POA frog, POA turtle, Asian Country Names, Asian Map, geometric shapes, geometric cabinet.
Tuesday:At morning circle we went over the calendar and date. It was still impressive to the kids that we don't have to count the groups of ten anymore, now that they are bound together in a hundredth group. After circle, we had had a fun work cycle. Sra. Rosa was out sick today so we had a little long work cycle and then got to enjoy the warm and wet playground. (As you can tell the kids really enjoy the melting snow and the muddy field!) Popular works include: sound association, the letter on the back game, writing works, stamp game, North America and Asian Maps, USA puzzle map, and bead math.
Wednesday: Snow Day. I hope everyone enjoyed the afternoon snowstorm and made some snow people!
Thursday: Today we review the weather and calendar. It is exciting for the children today, since its pizza day and at midday recess they are the first kids to make tracks in the playground yard. At midday recess we had many conversations about the shapes the ice made (Can you find another triangle shape? This has six side. It has a hexagon shape. ect..) Other popular works include sound association, spelling books, 6 cube chain, coffee bean grind, measured sand, cat and fish sand, and heart lacing. We ended the day with a reading from Max Celebrates Chinese New Year, by Adria Klien.
Friday: Today was C's 4th Birthday Walk. We enjoyed hearing about your chickens, and horses and farm animals. Thank you for celebrating with us. We also had a guest Mr. O in our class, demonstrating some lower elementary math. We were happy to teach him some of our practical life works, such as coffee grinding. Popular works included sandpaper letters, geometric shapes, stamp game, bead math, art, and name tag tracing and bank game. We ended the day reading Elephants Cannot Dance and I Really Like Slop, by Mo Williams.
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