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In exciting news, some of us were able to write words all by ourselves just by trying to write the sounds on the page! For those who aren't there yet, Mr. McCullough wrote some of the words and then had us fill in blanks with our sight words!
Red Rabbit Lanterns
Using construction paper sheets and strips, along with markers and scissors, we created Red Rabbit Lanterns for our Lunar New Year Parade!
2D Shapes Buildings
We used our 2D magnet shapes and our building straws to create larger 2D shapes by combining smaller 2D shapes.
Zodiac Pointalism
Q-Tips, paint and pictures of animals from the Chinese Zodiac, we first decided what animal we were most like (not what animal we like most) and then used the Q-Tips to dot paint onto the pictures.Other Things We Did
We adopted a Pine Seed Bug that we found crawling in our classroom. We talked about what we could do to keep him happy, what kind of things we would need to put in his house, what kind of food he might eat, and why we shouldn't be scared of most bugs...
...unfortunately, our bug didn't last too long, so we had a talk about how tough it must be for a Pine Seed Bug to survive in a class where there weren't any pine seeds. Everybody took the loss of the little guy pretty well, though.
We learned how to say "Happy New Year" in Chinese, and also talked about how we should always respect other languages, even if the sounds they have are a little different than the sounds we have.
Our Reading Buddies helped us with our first attempt at RAZ-Kids! We were able to go online, read some books with them on the computer, and then try out the fun things in our RAZ-Rocket!
On Friday, we had a "Lantern Parade" around the school, showing everybody our Red Rabbit lanterns while singing about Dragons, Horses and Lanterns!
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