Weeks of January 21-February 3, 2017

Chinese New Year celebration, 100th day of school, Community Worker Culminating Event, and Shakespeare for Kids filled lots of laughters and memories for our students these two weeks. Because of the age of our students, we did not get into the history of Chinese New Year. They enjoyed Chinese Calligraphy, looking and creating crafts through Pictures from "All About China", writing words using chopsticks, and watching older kids flourish. 

Shakespeare for Kids

George Dressed as Mr. Gay

Chinese Calligraphy 

100th Day of School

100th Day of School

Gong Xi Gong Xi

Thank you Rebekah for teaching yet another dance for our kids, what a talent we have. Thank you!
Parents, please allow your kids to be familiarized with the dance/music before February 2.

Week of January 9-13,2016

Students have been measuring using nonstandard measurements this week. 

Mandarin word study centers

Climbing a Ladder by rolling the dice and write the the corresponding word

One "teacher" calling out the thematic unit word and the students slap it!

Highlighting words I know!

Community Workers (Language Thematic Unit)

Students acting out different community workers (Doctor, Chef, Teacher, Soldier, Vet, Police Officer, Fire Fighter, Mailman, and Baker) today. We have some future Oscar recipients!

健康歌

Students will be putting on a show for the Chinese New Year celebration on February 2!
Encourage your child to watch the video at home and be familiarized with the rhythm and the lyrics.

{UPDATE}
Due to time constraint, the students will be singing "Finger Exercise" instead. Here is the link to the iTunes store if anyone is interested in purchasing the song. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/xing-fu-de-hai-zi-ai-chang-ge/id1143464022

5. Finger Exercise 

Learning Measurement through Limbo!

Happy new year! This week consists of a full day plus a little snowstorm freakout in the South. Nonetheless, we make learning fun! The students were briefly introduced the concept of measurement in Math. We played Limbo, and the students had to use the phrase "a little higher" and "a little lower" during the game.

Week of November 28-December 2, 2016

Thanks Keesa for graciously cutting out more than a hundred shapes on contact paper and for Lacey for peeling and sticking them on paper. The final product turned out amazing. Students peeled the contact paper off after it's been painted and dried, and used their imagination to create a story. 

We had an exciting week. The students were introduced to fruit words in language, three dimensional shapes, and day/night in Science. 

Searching for familiar sight words in Mandarin on Chinese newspaper

Following stroke orders by writing with chopsticks

Coming up with phrases using words he already knew! 

(Hello! My older brother!) 

Following along the story using the Any Book Reader!