Bamboo Garden News, June 8-12 2009

Dear parents,

We took our photo in the end of year. Children were doing great trying to be patient and showing the best face in front of camera. They all did a great job. During this week, we took two days to evaluate all children for our end-year student report ready. Thank to all children for their cooperation. This week, we talked about farm animals. What farm animals eat, what farm animals benefit us and how the different animals sound.

Language: story: farm animals
Have you been to little farm? What do you see there? We shared a story having pictures. We saw hours, cow, goat, sheep, goose, duck, dog, cat, pig and so on. We discussed what they eat and how the benefit people? We could see it clearly from the pictures. We also create different sounds of animals.

Music: 我家有个小农场
We had a new song about the farm animals. We created a lyrics by making a sound of animals.
一二三四五六七，一哎一哎唷，我有一个小农场呀，一哎一哎唷，我有 xx(animal- we changed everyday), xxx (the sound of the animal). 我有 xx(animal- we changed everyday), xxx (the sound of the animal). 我有 xx(animal- we changed everyday), xxx (the sound of the animal). 这是我的小动物呀，一哎一哎唷。

Body movement:
We follow the music and whatever farm animals they try to be, we make sound of it.

Science: 变大?变小? Bigger and bigger or smaller and smaller
We had our growing toys in the water which were a shark and a castle. We have been observing what is changing. Children discovered that it was growing up and become bigger and bigger for about a week. This week, we took two of them out from water. We tried to touch it and felt it. Was it hard or soft? We took a picture and we will compare when the toys were out of water for another week, what will happen? What might be different from the picture? It has become more interesting.

Next week,
We will focus on how farm animals having babies and how they take care of babies and will have a two-day art project.

Thanks,
PeiPei
06.14.09