Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy Year of the Tiger, everyone!
We have had a fun-filled week of celebration. We finished our dragons on Monday and on Tuesday we rung in the new year by bringing our school good luck. Staff hung lettuce in doorways, inviting our dragons to dance and eat the lettuce as we paraded down the hallway. We used music to make lots of noise and had a good time. Everyone was very impressed with our multi-medium dragons.
We continued to celebrate the New Year with a number of activities this week. We read ‘The Great Race’ to learn about the Chinese Zodiac and retold the story in a couple different ways. We made banners to decorate the class and hong bao with Mrs Lee. We did New Year Yoga for gym. We had a good time and our year is sure to be filled with good fortune!
We also worked to finish our stories. The students really worked SO hard on them and I am very proud. On Friday we celebrated with a tea party and story reading. Shifu even brought us timbits.
In Science we learned about the phases of the moon and how the New Year begins on the New Moon.
In math we learned a bit of a tricky concept– near doubles (also called neighbour facts). We practised getting faster at our doubles facts and also did a challenge activity- toothpick puzzles.
Next week I would like to have a more….low key week and we will return to some of our routines… word play, journal writing, etc. 🙂 There is just so much fun stuff to do together!
Please remember:
-Library is always on Tuesdays
-To ensure your child has a spare set of clothes (2 pairs of socks, one pair of pants, one pair of underwear) labelled and in a bag.
-To try to keep toys at home and if kids do bring toys, please ask them to put them in their backpacks upon entering the class
Take good care and be well!