January was a very exciting month! We enjoyed talking about “Happy New Year” and “Chinese New Year” and receiving red envelopes. The Lion Dance was so much fun! The children made red lanterns; some were pink and some were green. We also made spring symbols, bright colored fish and had a wonderful potluck! “Happy New Year” to everyone!
The friends also talked about spring time and made yellow blossoms on a tree. We glued a blue bird, sang a blue bird song and colored with bright colors.
At the end of the month, we talked about space and made a circle planet solar system with many colors. What is the biggest planet in the solar system as well as the smallest? What are the small bodies in the sky? The children call them specks (stars). We sang a song about going to the moon with a count down from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 blast off!
February: “Love and Friendship” and “Dental Health”.
We will talk a lot about sharing, work on our “please” and “thank you’s”, talk about best friends and help others in the classroom using team work; encouraging all of the children to participate. We will be singing “I Love You” in both Mandarin and English. A lot of red and pink will be seen throughout our classroom. Heart shaped projects will most certainly be one of our highlights!
If you would like to bring in Valentine cards for the friends, please just have your child’s name on the cards. The friends will hand them out to each other during our activity time. We have 14 children total in our classroom.
For our dental area, we will sing “Are Your Teeth Clean and White?” We will count our teeth, make a collage of teeth, color a big mouth and use a tooth brush and tooth paste pattern. We will talk about the dentist and read two special books on visiting the dentist. We will enjoy seeing all the big smiles this month as we talk about our teeth and things that make us smile.
Color: Pink Numbers: 3 and 4
Shape: Heart Letters: C and D
“Thank you” to all of our families who were able to come and enjoy our “Chinese New Year Potluck” with us! We had a very enjoyable time with this special celebration!
“Welcome” to: Eaton and Andre who will be joining our Blue Room at the end of February! They are coming to us from the Rainbow Room!
Aiden: The teacher asked, “What’s on your shirt?” (It was a red car.) Aiden said, “Kachow! In the Disney movie, Lightning McQueen says that!”
Cooper: While sitting on the carpet, Cooper sat on the teacher’s lap. The teacher said, “I’m not a chair”! Cooper said, “No, you are not. You are my teacher!” |
