Bamboo Garden News, May 25-29 2009

Dear parents,

1. Thank you for coming to pick up your half-time child on time.

2. As the head of school already announced, if you are interested in enrolling in the Mandarin immersion summer camp, please contact Ping or Jie.

3. Full-day children can bring animal-related books to share with us in the afternoon.

This week, we talked about all animals in the bird category, including those which do not fly.

Language: Are they birds?
After we watched a video about the penguin, we discussed what animals are birds? There are “老鹰- eagle，猫头鹰-owl，鹦鹉-parrot，孔雀-peacock，天鹅-swan，啄木鸟-woodpecker”。What are their special characteristics, what do they usually eat and how do they usually move?

Music: 飞呀飞呀
We have a new song about all the animals we learned about:
“我是只小企鹅，飞呀飞，碰碰碰，自由自在，啄木鸟，咚咚咚，猫头鹰有大眼睛，飞呀飞呀，大老鹰来了。”

Body movement:
We sang our new song with our body movements. We also do morning exercise to imitate how animals move.

Art:
We imagine the color of the sky. The sky’s color changes in the morning, in the afternoon and at night. What are the different colors of the sky? We talked and made the sky color as a background. We also used a lot of different beautiful colors to make birds. Peipei posted them on the board, please come and take a look.

Social studies: How do we take care of our fish?
The children and I are learning how to create a better environment for the fish. We didn’t want to see the bad situation again and again. We decided to leave the water in the tank and have everything work for a week without any fish. After a week, we will see if we will get new fish. I am very proud of all the children for trying to learn and help how we should take care of the fish. We are learning together. I believe we will have fish with us soon.

Next week, We will talk about why and how do birds fly? Are airplanes just like birds?

Thanks,
PeiPei,
5/31/09