Dear parents:

We are starting our first week of the semester on Monday. This semester is going to be so awesome. We have new classrooms, gym area, green house, aquarium, snack bar, and many more new facilities. I'm sure the kids are also looking forward to welcoming this new semester as well.

For phonics class, we started again with the letter “A”, “a” , and the related words that begin with that sound like alligator, astronaut, ambulance, and ax. The kids had to cross out the words whose beginning sound were not “a” such as “fish “and “boat”.

For social studies class, our first unit was “Valentine’s Day”. We talked about the origin of Valentine's Day, Valentine's cards, cupid, roses, candies, chocolate, hugs, kisses, love, and much more.

In math class, we worked on the opposites “ high “ & “ low” and “ top “ & “ bottom”. We also did many classroom activities related to this concept.

For arts and crafts this week, we made “Wild Caterpillars”. The materials we needed were styrofoam balls, pipe cleaners, markers, and cardboard papers. We decorated the styrofoam balls with markers. Then , we glued them side by side as a caterpillar's body. Next, we glued the pipe cleaner as their antennas. Lastly, we drew grass and soil as ground.

Individual comments:

Sherri was so cute. She mentioned her grandpa during social studies. Then, she started saying childish things likes: “My house has…..” Later on, I corrected with her “Guess what?” Less than two minutes later, she repeated “T. Angel, guess what? We have ……at home.”

Alex learned a hard lesson this week to share with the others. When he tried to grab tools from Dora, Dora wouldn’t let go either. I took him aside and told him that he has to ask Dora first before he takes it from her. They both got a lesson from it.

Henry was on time almost all week long. I told him that coming to school on time is also part of his responsibility, just like Mom or Dad going to work.

Madi likes to use several colors to color her objects now. I remember she colored her “ambulance” with orange, red, and blue. It actually looked very nice.

Dora hugged Alex when I showed them flashcards for Valentine's Day. I'm guess that Dora sees him as her little brother Arthur. The funniest thing is that Dora is just few months older than him.

Mia kept saying “ I will pee pee out ”, instead of “ I can't wait to go the bathroom” when she is in a hurry to go for number 1.

Ellie answered that she will give flowers and candies to Joyce, when I asked her who is she going to give the flowers to? I told them that Valentine's Day is not only for Mom and Dad, but also for friends, grandpa, grandma, aunties, uncles and/or teachers.

Chloe was so sweet when gave me a big hug and told me that she missed me so much on Monday.