Ask Me about tuesday and wednesday, January 30 & 31, 2024

Our week started with an exciting assembly for the Lunar New Year.  The children enjoyed seeing the lion and learning about the meaning behind certain traditions of the Lunar New Year.  Master Chua and his team were amazing in their performance and presentation of information.  A huge thank-you to the PTA for bringing this program to us!  Ask me to tell you about the assembly!

We talked Tuesday about the Kindergarten Sock Drive.  I shared with the students about people and families who may be going through a rough time and need extra help.  We listened to a beautiful story called The Tooth, by Avi Slodovnick.  This is a story of a little girl who observes a man who is homeless and is empathetic about his situation.  Ask me to tell you what she does to help the man.  I will put the link to Storyline so you can enjoy this story too.
Today we continued our discussion and looked at a wordless picture book about helping others.  This story is called A Circle of Friends, by Giora Carmi.  This is the story of a little boy who buys a muffin and shares it with others.  I have also linked this below if you would like to enjoy this beautiful wordless book too.

This week, and throughout the quarter, we will be learning about good nutrition.  We learned about the food groups and My Plate.  We will do more with My Plate, but it is a visual for children to use to understand how much of each food group is necessary for good nutrition.  We focused primarily on the vegetable group yesterday, which gave me to the opportunity to share with them one of my favorite Sesame Street clips ever!  Enjoy meeting Captain Vegetable!

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Today we met this intesting guy.  We studied the painting then learned a little more about the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.  Ask me to tell you what I noticed about this painting.  Would like to hang a painting like this in your home?  The children sketched this picture in their Doodle Journals today.  They did a great job!  Friday they will be creating their own portaits using only food so we were getting in some practice.  Using shapes to help sketch, then adding details to our pictures will help us in our writing too!