Happy Lunar New Year! and thanks for stopping by the blog. We have been busy in class learning about the Lunar New Year, making Lunar New Year crafts and preparing for Literacy Day next Tuesday.
We had a special treat today when one of our classmates brought in their traditional Korean New Years outfit for all of us to see. It was quite stunning with beautiful embroidery. The student also taught our class how to bow and to wish each other a Happy New Year in Korean. Everyone enjoyed our mini language lesson and we all had an opportunity to experience what it is like to learn phrases in a language that is new to us.
Literacy Day is coming up next Tuesday (Jan 31st) and we were given the task of designing our door to look like a book cover. The students voted on which cover they wanted to create and the decision was to do “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister. We listened to a narrated version of the story produced by the Screen Actors Guild and then as a group we painting the background of the poster and then individually designed sparkly scales for the Rainbow Fish. The door art looks amazing and I hope that you will have a chance to see it the next time you stop by the class.
– Ms. Pasqualetto 🙂