Panda Bear Newsletter – Nov 2nd – 13th

No.5 Panda Bear Newsletter

Nov. 2nd-Nov.13th

Dear parents,

You are also able to review biweekly newsletters on the classroom blog through the Shu Ren school website once a month. In the near future, we will be able to have activity pictures on the blog.

Inquiries: How I express myself with emotions. What do I do with my friends?

Language:

After introducing our five unique features, we talked about how we usually use our facial expressions. When we see people are happy, how do our facial features work together? When we see people are sad, how do our facial features work together? What about angry, and sad, and all the other emotions that we can think of? We shared when and what makes you happy, angry, and sad. For example, children are happy when eating ice cream, having birthday parties, and playing with parents.

If we see our friends feeling sad, what would you do for them? Giving friends a hug, apologizing to our friends if it is because of me, and helping our friends. We had a special way to make our friends happy: sign language- I love you. 我爱你。We can always show our love to our friends.

Math: We continued our last inquiry of knowing the birthdays of others and ourselves. We collected the data and made a graph to show how many of us were born in each month. By playing “friend train”, we had opportunities to find 2 friends in a group, 3 friends in a group, and 4 friends in a group to be on the “friend train”.

Music & Rhythm: “我的心”- 天空生气的时后是黑色，海洋温柔的时后是蓝色，冬天掉眼泪的时后是白色，我的心高兴的时后是彩色。

“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

“好朋友，行个礼”-好朋友我们行个礼，握握手呀转个圈，一二三四五六七，我的朋友在这里。

Art: Which colors help you express emotions? We made our “heart ornaments” with different colors.

Social study: “快小姐，乐先生”

By sharing the story, 快小姐，乐先生(Mr. and Ms. Happy), we realized that people have a lot of emotions that occur during our daily life. How can we make people around us happy? After the story, we introduced our “happy heart pillow”. If we and whoever around us is not feeling happy, we try to provide them the happy heart pillow. It will make people happy. It is one of the ways to release our unhappy feelings.

Science:

We discovered why our elbows are wrinkly. How does it work? Does it work just like a flexible drinking straw? Why? What do you think? We all tried a flexible drinking straw to see how it works.