Dear parents:

First, I would like to welcome Daniel back to the Belugas class this week. Daniel was very shy the first week of school. The next day, he enjoyed playing with the other kids at school like a wild animal returning to the jungle. He ran around back and forth, and chased his friends in the front yard. Throughout this week, he tried eating on his own, brushed his teeth, and put his shoes on / off without asking for help. Surprisingly, he didn’t really cry much.

Tuesday, we went to see a lantern parade at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. There were tons of different lanterns on display. The kids really liked a few of the special ones like Sponge Bob and his friends; Robots made of CDs; a pirate ship with a ferris wheel.

For phonics class, we started again with the letter “C”, “c”, and the related words that begin with that sound like cat, carrot, caterpillar, comb, and cup. The kids had to cross out the words whose beginning sounds were not “c” such as “astronaut” and “butterfly”.

In math class, we worked more on the opposites “many” and “a few”. The kids had to circle the happy monkey with many bananas, and draw more bananas for the sad monkey who had a few bananas. We also did more sample activities on the white board with Sponge bob and his friends.

For arts and crafts this week, we made “Glass”. The material we needed for this craft were only 3 items. They are color glassy paper, cardboard paper, and glue. They had to glue color glassy paper, one by one, on the frame of the fish on the cardboard paper. For some kids, those who followed directions and paid attention by watching me, made samples on the tail of the fish... they didn’t have problems finishing their fish properly. For the others whose didn’t pay attention, they ended up gluing the pieces on the wrong side of the cardboard paper.