Dear parents:

First, I would like to introduce you to the newest member of the Belugas; his name is Guancheng. He’s as small as Sherri and he is only 2.5 years old. He did so well in his first week of school. The first couple of days he observed the kids when they were singing, working, and playing.

For phonics class, I introduced the letter “R”, “r”, and the related words such as rail, rabbit, ring, roof, and rocket.

For math class, we continued working on exercises with more color patterns such as blue fish, red fish, blue fish …What comes next, blue fish or red fish?

For arts and crafts class, we made mosaic penguins. Every kid got a picture with an outline of a penguin. They had to fill in

the gaps with pieces of color tissue paper. Then, they added funny eyes and cotton as a tummy.

Individual comments:

Ellie is the new student's older sister. He follows her where ever she sits. He wants to be next to Ellie during lunch. He obviously likes being next to Ellie.

Mia had to stay in the office on Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday for a time out. She always likes to cry at home and purposely disobeys her mom’s words.

Sherri seemed very interested about our new friend when she first met him. There were times when I caught her checking out the new boy during class time.

Chloe was very slow and wandering around for lunch one day. I said to her, “ Chloe, you are too slow, you are even slower than the new baby boy.” She nodded her head, then starting chewing food fast.

Henry felt a little embarrassed after I read them a story about being punctual. I reminded him that it's not a good idea to be late; then he will miss out the fun we have at school.

Madi's small muscles are developing and have gradually improved in the past few weeks. I looked at the coloring that she made lately, and I said to her, “ Madi, your drawing is so pretty. I'm so proud of you.”

Reno went to the South of Taiwan with his family for a vacation this week. He will be returning to school on Monday.