It has been a busy four-day week in the Unicorn and Butterfly rooms!
Some of the blue team boys tried to make a marble run and showed the result during Morning Circle to their friends. Everybody was very keen to see where the marble came out.
For the yearlong unit, the children chose what they like to wear in the cold season.
The children also made decorations for the Japanese festival Hinamatsuri — the girls’ festival — which will be next week on the 3rd of March.
This week was a week for exploring the alphabet in the yellow team. The children were given an opportunity to explore different areas that target different skills such as letter recognition, upper and lowercase letter matching, and sound recognition.
They also continued inquiring on the yearlong unit, Sharing the Planet, which is all about the different seasons and the difference between night and day.
One of the children’s artwork this week focused on using the sun as a tool for drawing. We used different objects to create shadows on paper, and we traced them using different colored markers. It was challenging for some of them at first, but in the end, they enjoyed it and were able to create pictures of dragons, villages, and their friends!
The children also created a series of Sun and Moon Stories where they painted a scene that includes the two elements, and what they've learned in connection with our Who We Are unit. They shared their paintings with their classmates, and they enjoyed listening to each others stories, too.
We also want to decorate the classroom to reflect the different seasons, so we’ve started creating tree branches to place on our classroom pillars, which we’ll decorate with leaves and flowers. We’ll share them with you next week once we finish creating our season trees!
On a different note, we recently bought a new sharpener to be used in class and the students have been excited to use them for their pencils. Before we knew it, we've sharpened a lot of pencils and the kids wondered, "What are we going to do with all of them? We can't write with them all at the same time." So we've tried an experiment where we can use perfectly sharpened pencils -- and it was fun! We didn't get wet at all!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.
Your Kindergarten teachers,
Pam and Azusa
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