Week of February 22-26, 2016

This week we wrapped up the language thematic unit on Community Workers and Places. In language centers we focus on recognizing sight words and applying it in reading. Watching students making connections between oral and written language is magical but truly not something that happens overnight. You can look up the sight words we are working on in Kindergarten here. 

Independent Reading 

Chopsticks Writing Center

Word Sort

Celebrating Lantern Festival by Making Cards

Magnetic Center - Building Phrases and Sentences

Building Sentences by recognizing sight words and making connections between oral and written language

In Math we continue to explore the concept of Subtraction. The students are making sense of what Take Away means. They are also making number sentences by understanding the pictures. 

In Science we talked about Sink and Float and did an experiment after making hypothesis. 

Mrs. Huber paid us a visit! The students were VERY excited! 

Week of February 8-12 and 17-19, 2016

Lots of festivities happened last week. The students brought in creative and beautiful homemade lion heads for Chinese New Year. They sang songs and watched professional lion dancers perform to celebrate the holiday. We had a chef visit the class, and a dentist came to demonstrate proper way of cleaning teeth. Then we wrapped the fun week off with Sock Hop.

lion heads

Awesome Lion Heads - a fun Kindergarten Mandarin tradition! 

in our festive outfits

Happy Chinese New Year!

Loving the lion dance!

 Despite a string of events outside of the classroom, we make centers as relevant as possible. Lots of cultural related centers planned for the week! The children love the calligraphy center the best.

Calligraphy - You can purchase these at China Town. Write them with a brush and water, once it dries off you can start over again and again!

To honor the year of Monkey

Chinese Restaurant Center

We continue to investigate and become fluent and efficient in addition and subtraction. Next week, we will be moving into ways to make a 10 as well as solving word problems. In language, word problems are delivered orally, while in English, the students will solve simple word problems by reading them with support. An example of a simple word problem: Amy went to the birthday party, she ate three lollipops. Her brother Aiden ate two. How many lollipops do they eat in all?

Below is a video of the children acting it out after a Read Aloud. Read aloud is a way to peak children's interest in literature as well as introducing vocabulary. Reading aloud in an early age is vital and exciting. The students get to make fun noises and learn new phrases. In the video you will hear, "Hey! Little pig! Where are you going?" Which is a very relevant phrase in any language.

Teachers dressed for Sock Hop!