~Happy Thanksgiving Day~

Dear parents,

We had a big feast for Thanksgiving lunch on Tuesday with all the kindergarten students. We had a giant roast turkey, salad, deviled eggs, dinner rolls, mashed potatoes, and delicious corn soup. Thanks again to T. Paul and all the other staff members who prepared such a great lunch for us.

For phonics class, I introduced the letter “R”, and the related words including: R-r-railing, rabbit, ring, roof and rocket.

For math class, we worked on the number sequencing, first, second, third and last. We used a variety of picture cards. For instance, the snowman cards; the first card has one small circle and one big circle. The second card has eyes and a mouth. The third card has the bottom of its body. In the last one, the snowman has arms and a hat on.

For motor skills, we practiced on shoe lacing boards and lacing a pink pig. The kids had to try to get the yarn through the hole by doing up and down motions. This was the second time that we tried this activity, and they improved so much.

For social studies this week, we switched to a new theme/topic: “Thanksgiving”. I told the kids about the origins of the Thanksgiving story between the pilgrims and Indians. We also made a turkey hat for this special holiday for this month.

For story time, we read a book that is related to Thanksgiving. It was called “The Thankful Book”. The kids learned they should be thankful for all the nice things, good food, cozy homes and so many more things. They should always be thankful to their parents, family members and teachers.

Individual comments:

Jae was the first one to finish her Thanksgiving lunch. She seemed to enjoy the roast turkey the most. She even asked for a second helping after she had a big slice of turkey.

Theresa had a few time outs this week along with Christine; they thought it was funny to speak Chinese during class time.


Casper speaks so much English now. He didn’t come to school on Wednesday because he had serious diarrhea. I hope he recovers soon.

August is thankful to his grandma and his aunty for taking care of him while mommy isn’t around. He is also thankful to the MRT conductors as well.

Christine had some difficulties while we were learning our number sequencing. She gets confused between second and third.



Jason didn’t follow the directions while we were making turkey hats. He cut two turkey pictures apart instead of keeping them together. Jason improved so much on the shoes lacing activity we did on Wednesday.