This week the children loved learning all about the Chinese New Year! They enjoyed all the different crafts and activities and parading through the halls. They loved showing off their dragon masks and lanterns! At the beginning of the week Christina (Amelia’s mom) came in and read them about the history of Chinese New Year and why it is celebrated. She then played a game with the children where they were divided into two teams in a straight line holding hands. Each child got a turn to run and try to break through the opposite teams line. The game was very similar to red rover. When they were done with the game they moved on to making dragon masks. The children had to color the dragon face, cut out the mask, and glue streamers to it. The multi step directions could have been confusing for the children but they all followed the steps in the correct order. They really enjoyed this craft and all worked very hard to make their masks perfect.
A couple days later Jessica (olivia’s mom) came in to talk about the zodiac. She gave the children a brief summary of the origin and story of how each of the animals got their position in the zodiac. The children loved finding out if they were a pig, dog, or rat. The children also each got to try out the clothing the children wear during the Chinese New Year. When they were done with that they worked on making paper lanterns. Each child was given a piece of paper that they had to decorate and cut slits in. When all stapled together they turned out really neat!
On Wednesday we took all the crafts we made and had a parade with the Half-notes at the end of the day. The children loved wearing their dragon masks and carrying their lanterns up and down the halls yelling out “Gong Xi Fa Cai" to all the parents. After the parade the children came in and ate dumplings while receiving gift envelops called lai see. Inside the lai see was special money (a quarter) for each child. Thank you to all the parents who helped out! The children learned so much and had a great time.
This week we started reading the Magic Tree House series book Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osbourne. The children have enjoyed all the Magic Tree House books but seem to really be excited about this one in particular. Following their interest, we got Egypt books from the library for the children to look at and will be slowly transforming our classroom into Ancient Egypt. We also found where Egypt was on the map and placed a picture of Jack and Annie (the characters of the book) in that spot. In the next week we will be doing a lot more crafts and have-to jobs with a Egyptian theme. Keep an eye out!
Here are some other jobs that the children have been hard at work with:
*Handwriting Without Tears letters
*Making flowers with Tissue paper and pipe wire
*Train tracks and trains
*Pictures at the easels
*Letter/Shape stamps
*Lincoln Logs
*Lincoln Logs
Reminders:
* We are having a Scholastic Book Fair in the hall next week 1/31-2/4. It will be running from 9am-5pm. Check it out!
* February vacation is just around the corner. Sign up now to save a spot for your child!
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