Bamboo Garden News, May 18-22, 2009

Dear parents,

Important note:
1. Thank you for signing up for Hot Lunch and for volunteering to eat with us. If your child signed up for hot lunch with a half-day schedule, please pick him/her up at 12:00 pm, or no later than 12:15 pm. Please understand that full-time children will be ready to nap at 12:15-12:30pm.
2. If you want to share your family pet with us, please let PeiPei know. We will arrange a time for you. Thanks.

Many thanks to Sophie (Luca’s mom), Sherry (Miles’ mom), and James (Corbin’s dad) who came to the classroom to share with us about their pet. James told us how to take care of fish, so we all tried to be experts at raising fish.

Language: WOW! We see a lot family pets!
It was our pleasure to invite parents to share your experiences with all of us. We had Sophie (Luca’s mom) here to talk about their family pet, a cat named “Lulu.” Sophie and Luca told us how they take care of the cat, the cat’s habits, the cat’s favorite food and so on. Sherry (Miles’ mom) was here to share with us about a family pet, a lizard. Sherry and Miles shared how special the pet is, the daily routine of a lizard, what a lizard eats and so on. James and Corbin told us how we need to take care of our fish, what the air pump, heater, and light are for, and how important a responsibility it is to take good care of our classroom pet, fish.

Music:
We continued to practice our new song and have fun with all our previous songs.

Body movement:
We played a song without lyrics and followed PeiPei’s directions on how sea animals move in the sea.

Science:
It was sad for all of us that our first experience of having fish did not end well. However, we learned from James’ experience and we now have new fish. We are trying to make our fish friends happy every day. We will keep observing how the fish swim and eat.

What animals are flying in the sky? We talked about if penguin have wings and if they are birds. After we discussed, we watched a video and we found out the answer from the video. We will talk more about animals flying in the sky.

See the pictures of children enjoying family pets.

Thanks,
PeiPei
05.25.09