Again, the children drew beautiful letter story pictures ("G" for golden goose) .
Monday afternoon's storm did not scare us a bit! When the tornado warning was issued, we were having music. We quietly evacuated to the bathroom, where there are no windows. Thanks to our calm and talented music teacher, Ms. Tyndall, we continued to have music in the bathroom! We practiced the song for our Winter Lights Festival. This week our main lessons focused on reading, writing and responding to poems. We played addition/subtraction games (1 more/less, 2 more/less, 10 more/less) and wrote subtraction math stories singing a song, "Little Turkeys." Again, the children drew beautiful letter story pictures ("G" for golden goose) .
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We had a short week with only three school days. However, we had very productive three days. Our main lessons focused on how we could create a quiet environment for writing (and any activities) in order to produce high quality work. They then wrote short stories using sight words. We have been reading a book, "Dear Juno" by Soyung Pak for the Text Talk (vocabulary study). This story is about a young American-Korean boy, Juno, who creates his own way to communicate with his grandmother. She lives in a little town near Seoul, South Korea and has a persimmon garden. When I first read aloud the story to the children, most children said that they had no idea what persimmons were. Although one of the illustrations has beautiful, delicious-looking persimmons, they did not realize they were persimmons. So I had them make predictions. Some said that persimmons were as big as watermelons, soft, hard, orange like pumpkins, had bumpy skins, etc. We were grateful that our handwork teacher, Mrs. Sloan shared some of her organically grown persimmons Friday morning. The children enjoyed making observations. For most children, it was their first time to see persimmons! By the way, persimmons are my favorite fall fruit. When I came to America for the first time as a student years ago, I was disappointed that persimmons were not common and hard to find. Like Juno, I have a childhood memory of my grandmother and persimmons. The children were kind enough to let me share my story. :)
First I would like to thank you for meeting with me for our parent-teacher conferences this week. I hope that our conferences provided some valuable insight into your child's progress. I would also like to thank you for your kind, warm words and delicious dishes we (SCCS teachers) received during the conferences. THANK YOU! The letters of the week were V and Y. The children drew beautiful letter story pictures (a valley and a Y-shaped tree). For math, we continued to practice addition/subtraction problems and started finding out the unknown number in an equation using ruler number line. Much thanks to Mrs. Auten, who contributed her time to put strings and triangular beads to the rulers. Our fall surfing lessons are over so watercolor painting resumed Friday afternoon. It was the first time for our new students, Jayden and Daisy, to paint on wet papers. We were so glad that they enjoyed it. It was so nice to end the week with a quiet, peaceful activity. I really missed admiring the children's beautiful work Friday afternoons! Enjoy the long weekend!
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