Our kindergarten friends had many opportunities in a day to work with their partners. We have different partnerships in reading, writing, math, and project time. One of our classroom goals is to hear and value everyone’s voice in the room. Therefore, a few ways we tried in November and December, we asked our friends toContinue reading “Partnerships in Kindergarten”
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First Grade Project Time
In months of November and December, our first grade friends enjoyed so much about autumn. We celebrated Halloween, we talked about how pumpkins grow, different kinds of pumpkin/squash, parts of a pumpkin, and food made with a pumpkin. First graders raised a bunch interesting questions, such as 1) why does pumpkins grow on the ground?Continue reading “First Grade Project Time”
Week of October 17th in Kindergarten
This week our kindergarten friends continued learning about important places, people, and rules in our school. Our friends wrote, built, made, and painted our school staff, places, and represented some rules they need to follow in our school community to keep all of our friends safe and have fun together!
Week of October 17th in First Grade
This week our first graders learned four radicals (日字旁、女字旁、单人旁（亻）和心字底）. We created our personal Radical Dictionary and scavenged hunt the words with those four radicals in our books. At home, families could help our friends to look for those radicals when we walk on the streets and read the signs and so forth.
Week of September 12th in First Grade
This week our first-grade friends reviewed 4 tones in Pinyin, and we scavenger hunted the words “a” in four tones.