September 22-25, 2014

'One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and-pop!-out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.'

-The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

That was how we began this week. We were so excited to start our World of Eric Carle unit this week and we will keep exploring it for the other two weeks. The tiny and very hungry caterpillar accompanied us doing most of our class activities this week. We recycled egg cartons to make cute caterpillars; we counted how many fruits the caterpillar ate from Monday to Friday; we sequenced the food that the caterpillar ate on Saturday; we made fresh fruit salad; we punched holes on the leaves using hole punches; and we colored the caterpillar body to complete the pattern. Voila! By the end of this week, the kids are able to 'read' The Very Hungry Caterpillar book by themselves.

The caterpillar has a red head.

Six very hungry caterpillars.

On Thursday, he ate through four strawberries,
but he was still hungry.

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of
chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one ...

The caterpillar ate through so much food.

We have apples, pears, plums, strawberries,
and oranges.

First, we need to wash the fruits.

Then, we need to cut the fruits into small pieces.

The freshest fruit salad in town.

It was not so easy to use hole punches.

Yellow - Purple - Yellow - ...
Hmm... What comes next?

We introduced iPad using in our class starting from this week. The kids learned some iPad rules in our school like washing hands before using iPad, how we need to hold iPad, etc. They also learned where to find the power and home buttons to be able to turn on and off the iPad independently. The main purpose of introducing the iPad to the kids this week was to start doing our 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?' project. In order to do that, the kids learned how to take pictures using the iPad. We started by taking pictures of objects and people in our classroom. The next day, we walked around the ridge to take pictures and objects we saw along the road.

Baby Anna was the model of the day.

Say cheese...

Joining our student council's event - Pajama Day, this morning these three boys came to our classroom together with their moms. We had milk and cookies then read some of our favorite Eric Carle books. I wish we could have Pajama Day at least once a week!