In My Neighborhood~~

Dear parents,

This week was a busy week for the kangaroos. We had to prep for an art exhibition due at the end of this month. We are kindly inviting all of you to join this event on Friday, November the 21st, at 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

For phonics class, I introduced the letter “p”, and the related words including: P-p-pencil, pig, pumpkin, puppy and puzzle.


For math class, we worked on different directions and sizes. In this stage, they are only learning left, right, up and down. Left and right seem more challenging for some of the kids.


For arts and crafts this week, we worked on the pieces for the Tree House Art Exhibition. We made “Crabs on the Beach”. The steps were almost the same as the bird painting we did last week, except that we used crayons to color the backgrounds. We had to limit them not to use certain colors for the sky and the sand. Lastly, they had to tear out the shape of their boats with newspaper.


For social studies this week, we continued with “In My Neighborhood”. We talked about how people help us in our community. “How does a doctor help us?” and “How does a mail carrier help us? … and so on. We also learned more places in town such as hospital, bakery, clothing shop, and pet shop.













For story time, we read a story called “City Storm”. This story is based on the nursery song “The Wheels on the Bus”. The author used the same sentence pattern as the original song: “The rain on the window goes, tap, tap, and tap.” “The wind down the alley goes whoo, whoo, whoo.” “The thunder in the clouds goes boom, boom, and boom.” “The boots in the puddles go splash, splash, and splash all over town.”

For song and rhymes this week, we learned a few songs: “In the Pond”, “Rabbit Ain’t got no Tail”, and “The Little Skunk’s Hole”


Individual comments:

Casper replied, “May I use blue?” when I asked him to color something green. I was so shocked that he spoke in a complete sentence in an eloquent way.

Jae, Christine, and Jason wanted to share their toys with my son: Theo. Jae keeps saying “I can’t see him! When will he come out to play with us?”

Leetrue answered “elephants” when I asked them “What kind of animals go to a pet shop?” Then, I asked again “Can elephants go to pet shops by themselves? “ He was confused for a few seconds.

August recognized the sounds of “pumpkin “and “pencil” first when we were playing a phonic game.

Theresa was a little moody due to her allergic reaction with her nose. She whined about not getting enough sleep, and she was exhausted.

Christine likes to pretend to be a baby. She was eating very slowly the other day; I asked her if she wants me to feed her like a baby. She nodded her head and smiled. She currently works more patiently on the assignments we do in class.

Jason wasn’t sitting properly in his seat while he was drinking water on Wednesday morning. He fell off from his chair and bumped his upper lip. Afterwards, I quickly cleaned up and comforted him. I hugged him and reminded him again to sit properly when he is sitting in his chair.