Panda Bear Newsletter March 1-March 12

No.9 Panda Bear Newsletter (March 1-March 12)

Language:
1. What is “it” on the poster? What do you think “that” is? What do you think “it” looks like? When do you see “it”? Is “it” food? Can we eat “it” if you think “it” is food? By looking at the pictures, we discussed the “mushroom” which is an umbrella in our garden. We also had real mushrooms that are big, small, long, short and different colored.
2. What is that other thing that looks like an umbrella? Which can save people’s lives? A parachute! By looking at a book and pictures, we discussed why people hang on the parachute. What is a parachute for? We discovered the need for a parachute and why is it important for people on airplanes.

Art:
We made our mushroom garden. We also made an umbrella garden with the food we usually see.

Social study: 蝴蝶伞 (butterfly umbrella)
By sharing the story of 蝴蝶伞, we fostered our imagination about umbrellas and how umbrellas work to protect us. Also, how important is a parachute? Which kinds of people need the parachute the most? Why?

Music & PE:
We continued our discussion of umbrellas. We imagined and acted out how to open the umbrella, close the umbrella, spin the umbrella fast and slow, how parachutes go up and down when it gets down to the floor how it looks. Following music, we had a group activity together.

Science:
We have been taking care of “Rufus” and “Crab”. We also took this opportunity to talk to the children about how the hermit crab might die. Therefore, providing the best environment for land hermit crabs is very important and what we feed them and providing shelter.

Cooking class:
From what we have learned, we made mushroom salad to wrap up our theme. We had baby carrots, iceberg lettuce, corn, tomato, cucumber, and mushroom. We prepared the ingredients together and cut or tore them into small pieces. We mixed all the food together with our thousand island dressing.

Third theme:
We will talk about our next theme, trees, from next week. The first inquiry we will talk about is “What does the tree look like? What are parts of a tree? ” If your child would like to share books about “trees”, you are welcome to bring books on Tuesdays.