We began our holiday unit by learning about Christmas, Hanukkah, and Krampus. If you celebrate a different holiday please let us know, so we can celebrate your holiday as well.
We had lots of fun this week preparing for our holidays.
This week our focus was on Christmas. We introduced our holiday unit by doing an excellent fine motor activity. First the children cut out stockings and then sewed them together with a needle and yarn. They glued cotton balls on top of the stocking (representing fur). The children then created a fireplace by sponge painting "bricks" and then hanging their stockings on top of it.
Finally we painted a menorah, which we placed on top of the fireplace. The children marble painted the candlesticks. On Friday, we ended our week by making delicious gingerbread cookies.
We continue to work on learning our alphabet letters. This week we learned the letter "Q." The children brainstormed a list of words that begin with the letter such as: Queen, quick, quit, quiet, and quilt. So far the letters we have learned are: L, E, F, H, T, I U, C, O, and Q. The children have done amazing job learning the letters and their sounds. They have also been learning how to sound simple words.
We celebrated Siddharth's 4th birthday on Friday. Thank you to his family for the delicious cupcakes.
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| Happy 4th Birthday Siddharth! |
Notes from Yuting:
This Wednesday we used an abacus to count from 1 to 20 in Mandarin. We also learned about hands and fingers and read a book about the amazing things they can do! Then we learned the Chinese version of the finger play "Open, Shut Them.
Yuting
Other areas of fun in the classroom:
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In music this week the children have been practicing some holiday songs - "Jingle Bells," "The Dreidel Song", "O Hanukkah" and "We Wish you a Merry Christmas."
Love,
Ms. Bonne and Ms. Barbara
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