Plum Garden / 梅园书栈

梅园报晓 Plum Garden News—No.20
March 2 – March 6
Kindergarten / First grade

Greeting Parents,

The children enjoyed playing in their new house. We have used the living room and bedroom for our story time. I have enjoyed watching them to pretend a family character during their play. They are imaged themselves as working adult, a sister, a brother, a Mom, and a Dad. Their favourite game is taking Bart to work. The house is still under construction (the bathroom still needs more detail) and we will need a few of home appliances. I have a wish list and would like to ask parents could help me find them in your garage. Therefore, the children can use them for their play. If you have some old appliances that have sat in your garage for long time or you have some things that you don’t need them anymore. We would love to use them for our new house.
Here is our wish list:
•    Old phones
•    Cushions
•    Table lamp or floor lamp
•    Clothes (I have many girl clothes that donate from my daughter, but we need some boy’s clothes. Do you have old clothes to donate or clothes that doesn’t fit your child anymore? Such as t-shirt, short pants and long pants. I would like to use old clothes to teach children how to sort their clothes at home because “家庭好帮手 / A good helper” is one of our inquiries.)

Our inquiries for this week are 不同的材料盖不同的家 / Different houses are built from different materials and 我家里面的人和他们的职业？ /  The members in my family/what are their occupations?

Thank you Oscar for showing and sharing his family pictures with us today. We will continue to introduce everyone’s families to class and use it as part of our inquiry reference. Just a reminder, Julian is next week of family.

Here is a list for the family projects:
•    Oscar—The project will be sent home with Oscar on Friday, 2/27 and it will be due on Monday, 3/2.
•    Julian—The project will be sent home with Julian on Friday, 3/6 and it will be due on Monday, 3/9.
•    Maya—The project will be sent home with Maya on Friday, 3/13 and it will be due on Monday, 3/16.
•    Ethan—The project will be sent home with Ethan on Friday, 3/20 and it will be due on Monday, 3/23.
Please let me know if you have any questions about this project.

The Plum Garden weekly subject planners are listed below.

Language: We will get into a new lesson this week—Lesson 5, 悄悄话 / Whispering. Children will learn new words, 子 (child), 也 (also, and, too), 雨 (rain), 悄 (quiet, sad, silent), 里 (inside), 话 (word, language, saying, speech), 说 (said). The children will also learn new vocabularies from our weekly inquiry: “不同的材料盖不同的家 / Different houses are built from different materials and 我家里面的人和他们的职业? / The members in my family/what are their occupations?”

Math: We will continue to learn “排顺序, 比多少 / Number order and compare the numbers.” Tuesday, March 10 will be our 100th day in school. Teacher Lisa Jean has sent home with children their English 100 days in school math projects. We were starting to count backwards on March 10 (last Friday). Starting this week, we are preparing for the 100 school days math in Chinese. We will also learn how to compare more and less in math.

Science and Life Science: We will continue to introduce how and why people using different materials to build their home?
We will inquiry about
•    Why is easy for people to use their local building materials to build their own home?
•    How the materials relate to people living environment?

Art: We will continue our painting project—Where do I live? This art project is dividing into three parts. The children will learn how to draw their own home, garden, and neighborhood. They will learn how to combine their three paintings into one complete painting. We will also make picture frames to frame our pictures.

Maya and Julian's daily temperature observations

Social Studies and PSE: We will continue to learn where we live and what different houses are built in different places—some people live by the ocean, some people live in the mountains, and some people live in flat lands or cities. What do their houses look like? We will also learn how to call our family members in Chinese. Who they are? How do you call them?

Singing: We will sing “盖房子 / Build a house” and “家 / Home.”

谢谢! Thank you! ☺
Kai