Bamboo Garden News, April 20-24, 2009

Important date:
May 14th: Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons at Julia Morgan Theater (Pre-K children, please be at Shu Ren by 8:45am)

Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school after a short break. To continue our theme, how we express ourselves, we have come to the last inquiry, how to make a good friend and what should we say when we meet a new friend? We choose a different friend every day who we want to be with and do an activity with. In addition to friends around us, one of our important friends, “the earth,” needs our help. What happened to our friend, the earth? How can we care for it? How we can help it?

Language: 地球生病了- The earth is sick
Our important friend, the earth, has gotten sick. Why has it gotten sick? The environment has been destroyed by many of us. The sea animals are eating trash. The animals need to find their new houses. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. How can we help our friend to give it back it’s original health? The biggest and easiest thing to do is to keep our environment clean which means recycling, 塑料瓶(plastic bottle), 罐头 (cans), 玻璃瓶(glasses bottles), 纸类 (paper).

Music:
We continued having fun with our previous songs. Here are two new songs:
找朋友zhao peng you- (一二三四五六七yi er san si wu liu qi，我的朋友在哪里wo di peng you zai na li? 在这里zai zhe li，在这里zai zhe li，我的朋友在这里wo di peng you zai zhe li。)
哈啰 ha luo- (哈啰 ha luo，哈啰 ha luo，哈啰 ha luo，哈啰 ha luo，你是我的好朋友 ni shi wo di hao peng you，敬个礼呀 jing ge li ya，握握手 wo wo shou。牵牵手一起玩 qian qian shou yi qi wan。)

Body movement:
We had body movement every morning related to our current theme. We also had two activities:
找朋友- (一二三四五六七，我的朋友在哪里? 在这里，在这里，我的朋友在这里。) While we are singing the song, we need to find our friend.
哈啰- (哈啰，哈啰，哈啰，哈啰，你是我的好朋友，敬个礼呀，握握手。牵牵手一起玩。) After we found our friends, we will try to say hi to them.

Math:
Children had 3 or 4 in a group with their friends. They tried to sort all the different trash in the right recycling boxes after we introduce 塑料瓶(plastic bottle), 罐头 (cans), 玻璃瓶 (glasses bottles), 纸类 (paper).

Social studies:
How do we make a good friend by saying proper words and showing a proper attitude? How we can help our important friend, the earth, to make it happy? How do we care for the earth? How important recycling is.

Next week, we will talk about how we can be a better problem solver when we meet problems with friends. How we can work together to finish a project?

If your child has books about friendship, making friends, please ask your child if he/she would feel like sharing it with all of us.

Thanks,
PeiPei
April 26, 09