March 2-6, 2015

This is it. We have just finished trimester 2 and ready to welcome trimester 3. Report card will be sent home on Monday, March 16, 2015 and Student Led Conference will follow that on Thursday, March 19, 2015. With a very limited time left till the end of school year, we are as busy as bees. Loads of activities are lined up nicely till the beginning of June.

This week we discussed 5 books from Dr. Seuss which are The Lorax, The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, The Foot Book, Hop on Pop, and one of his famous one, Green Eggs and Ham. Some activities were prepared to match the books being discussed this week.

'I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.'

Inspired by the Lorax with his famous truffula trees and his absolute mustache, the kids walked around the Ridge to take pictures of different trees, trained their fine motor skills by ripping paper to create their own truffula trees, showed off their cutting skills by cutting around the mustaches, and had fun rolling play dough as their friends or their own mustaches.

'No shapes are ever quite alike.'

The kids wondered why they were only allowed to paint using black paint at the painting easel. It was a very unusual situation in Pre-K 3 colorful class. After a short explanation of shadow, the kids knew that just by observing the shadow and the shape of a thing, they might know what that thing is. Using their creative imagination, they started painting things that they could think of. Butterfly, paintbrush, car, chair, grass, tornado, etc. came up as brilliant ideas. At one of our activity table they matched pictures with their shadows effortlessly.

'Back feet. Front Feet. Feet, feet, feet. How many feet different feet you meet?'

How many different feet you meet? Daddy's feet, mommy's feet, brother's feet, sister's feet, and my own feet. Using cubes, the kids tried to figure out how many cubes they needed to measure their family members' feet. Most of them were amazed finding out that their daddies got big feet which gave them a good opportunity to start counting in teens.

Most of the kids in Pre-K 3 know the uppercase letters in the alphabets. Doing the missing alphabet fill in worksheet, some didn't need any help at all, some needed to sing along the ABC song to identify the missing letters, some needed the alphabet list to do it. 

'Up. Pup. Pup is up."

What will be the best activity to represent Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop? Yep, you're right. Hopscotch will the best fit. Not only training their gross motor skills, they also practiced taking turns.

'Do you like green eggs and ham?'

We love green eggs cookies even better. We worked hard for two days to make them. We measured all the ingredients, mixed them, shaped them, baked them in the oven, sorted only the green candies to go on top and finally decorated our green egg cookies. We made about 60 cookies and shared them with our fellow ECC residents and some teachers. All of them love our green eggs and ham cookies too. Our cookies taste just as sweet as we are :)

That Sam I am, that Sam I am has inspired us to practice writing and recognizing our names. We had fun trying to find our name at the soccer field. It's an easy game for us.

Look who came to our class last Thursday? Mrs. Chastity Richardson kindly read us the famous The Cat in the Hat book. We have never get bored of Cat in the Hat. He has too many games and tricks to play. Thank you for coming Mrs. Chas!