7 More Days.............

Dear parents,

For phonics class, I introduced the letter “M”, and the related words including: “M-m-monkey, map, mouse, mittens, moon, and McDonald’s”. This letter was more challenging for the kids to write the first few times. Most of them drew pictures of an arch or a door. I couldn’t help myself, so I took some pictures to share with you.

For math class, we reviewed all four shapes. I asked them to color certain shapes on the page, and then cross out the others. We also practiced shape patterns such as square-circle-square-circle or triangle-circle-retangle-triangel……and so on.

For arts and crafts this week, we made “Stuffed Pumpkins”. We spent some extra time on this craft. First, we had to paint brown paper bags into orange paper bags. Then, the kids decorated its eyes, nose, and mouth. Finally, we had the funniest part: “tearing new papers” into any shapes they wanted to. After ten minutes of “war time”, they stuffed new ripped papers into their orange bags.

For motor skill class, we worked on the scissors skills. They had to cut the bears’ body parts and then glue them onto the colored construction paper as a background.


For story time this week, we read “Greedy Spiders” and “A Cake All for Me”. These two stories both have the same moral lesson. They teach us that we should be generous and not greedy toward others.


Individual comments:


Christine has been on vacation in Japan with her parents since Tuesday. I’m sure she has been having a good time there.


August repeatedly screamed or ignored the teachers when he was misbehaving. I reminded him that he is not an animal; he didn’t have to scream. On a better note, I would like to thank Augusts’ parents for bringing him to school early these couples of weeks.

Theresa sneezed a lot yesterday. It makes me think that she has an allergic reaction due to the weather. Maybe it’s hay fever.

Leetrue has sharp logic with shapes and compositions. He can easily place a bear’s body parts on his own.

Casper asked me “No Christine!” “Christine?” many times this week. He must have noticed her absence quite a lot. I realized that he’s used to our routine at school. He never asks me, “What time is it? “. Or “When will grandma come to pick me up?” anymore.

Jason improved so much with his scissor skills; he cut the bear’s body parts all by himself. It wasn’t perfectly done but he tried his best. He doesn’t any concrete ideas about how to do compositions yet. He glued its body next to the face.



Jae recognizes the sound of “map” from the cartoon “Dora”. She also told me that Dora has a map in her backpack. She had a “big bowl” of food; (larger portion) twice this week.


Joyce is still a little shy, so I purposely force her to repeat things out loud until I can hear her. I try my best to make her feel more secure and comfortable in our classroom environment.


Rain was playing with Teresa on Monday during nap time for a while. They both had a time out for ten minutes in the office. Rain is bright and very talkative. He always gives me input regardless of the subject.