Week 21: Crafting the New Year

We will attempt to start "live updates" when it isn't report card and IEP week.  =0)

Books We Read
Bringing in the New Year
This Next New Year
Gung Hei Fat Choi

Song of the Week
Lunar New Year (sung to the tune of Frere Jacques, with repeating lines)
Chinese Dragon.
Breathing Fire.
Happy Happy New Year.
Gung Hei Fat Choi!

Here's our snake.
It's his year!
Watch him slide and slither.
Gung Hei Fat Choi!

Weekly Centres
Writing
We are working on our letter Y and our letter Z!

Pointalism Art - Our REAL Animals
We are continuing our pointalism art from last week, only this time, we're creating the two "animals" that make up this class.  Can you guess what they are?  We use a variety of shapes to make the faces before dotting them with paint and q-tips.

Number Snake Making
Using contstruction paper, crayons, markers and butterfly fasteners, we're making number snakes for our class Lunar Festival Parade!

Lantern Making
We'll be cutting our own lanterns using construction paper, coloured pencils and markers. 

Building Boxes

With all of our centres being very guided this week, the building boxes will be a free play centre.

Other Things We Did
We talked about how Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year are the same thing, and it's not just people from China who celebrate it!

We got very close to 100 on our day count - only one day away!

We talked about how Rats (18 of our students) are intelligent, quick-witted and creative, and how Pigs (2 of our students) are noble, kind and honest.  We also learned that Pigs are best friends with Horses, and Rats are considered the enemy of the Horse.... and Mr. McCullough is a Horse!!!

So we also talked about how these things aren't always true or accurate. 

We started "Jolly Phonics Roulette" near the end of snack time, where we would randomly go over phonics we've learned before, as well as introduce new phonics. 

We practiced walking and singing at the same time so we could do our parade on Monday.