CHINESE NEW YEAR - FRIDAY 8TH FEBRUARY

 We will be celebrating the New Chinese New Year next Friday 8th February. Please come to school dressed in red or Chinese costume and join in with the celebrations. Parents are welcome in the morning to participate in the whole school assembly with Reception or the Dragon Dance with Nursery and Kindergarten in the Early Years Playground.

parachute fun!

Today we had a lot of fun playing outside with the parachute. The children were great at listening and following directions. We were able to make large and small waves. They even got to make tent and sit under the parachute. What great fun we had!

Food!

This week we are learning all about 'food.'
Math focus: sorting objects by size, shape and colour as well as recognsing different sizes.

We enjoyed reading a story called 'Handas surprise' talking about what kind of fruit she put in her basket. We talked about which fruit we like and dislike.

Today we had fun making up different textures for our fruits such as painting with a fork, dot painting for our strawberries or sponge painting for a green apple.

Our space project

This week everyone has been enjoying a new space song. The children have done great learning all the actions and words. You can find it on youtube.com  called 'space song' by Peter Weatherall. 

We have also been working very hard on our space art project. Take a look at the beautiful work the children have done!

A little story about space

This week we have been having a lot of fun talking about space and all the things that we saw. 

As a class we have made our own story book about going into outer space. Each child got to say what they saw in space or what they were doing and then draw a picture of it. Here you can see some amazing drawings that the children have come up with so far lets take a look and see what we can find.

I saw a rabbit and a bear dancing on the moon!

I saw a mommy and baby alien under a rainbow.

I went on a rocket ship to the moon with my family. 

I saw an alien playing with a toy dinosaur!

Violin saw an airplane and left to go to disneyland.

Nokyoong went on a rocket ship with her family to the moon.

Kao-mun saw the sun and the moon. 

Thammy saw 5 airplanes flying through the stars. 

Rain drop counting

The children have been practicing how to count up to 5 and some children can already count up to 10! Great job counting out your rain drops!

Welcome Back! How's the weather...

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday break and got lots of rest. I know the children were happy and excited to be back at school with all their friends. We had a great first week back talking about weather. Here you can see the children were enjoying making clouds. After reading the story 'clouds' we each used some shaving cream to explore the texture of a cloud and create our own cloud design. 

We also explored rainbows and why and when we see them in the sky. Here you can see the children making their beautiful colorful rainbows that now hang in the classroom!

The children did so great at learning a new song called "How's the weather?" Ask your children to sing the song as the often will sing it to their friends every morning!