Hello All,
Happy Lunar New Year. Today is the start of the Chinese New Year. We had a small celebration at school yesterday. We painted some Chinese characters to make scrolls. Each student made a certain amount of characters so that we would have a total of 100 characters to also celebrate the 100th day of school. We also made red envelops and gave each child a coin to give to someone who they thought could use good luck and fortune this year. We also had a small 100th day celebration. We stamped our shirts with poster paint stamps. The goal was for each child to get 100 stamps on their shirt. This was to reinforce counting for the students who can use the practice, and also let the students see what 100 of something looks like. Not all of the kids got 100 stamps on their shirt, but from my observation, they all enjoyed doing it. Thank you to everyone who were able to donate a shirt and thank you for allowing us to paint the shirts.
Due to our late start day last Tuesday, we did not have our class pictures. We will have our class pictures this coming Thursday, February 2, at 9:00 a.m. Please make sure your child is there is possible. Otherwise, they will not be part of our whole class picture.
Home project book reports are due this week. We have already had some presented and also had some brought in that we are excited to have presented.
Here are some presentations we have seen. One was fold out cards in an Altoids tin, one was a pop-up book, one was a sandwich book report, and another was a puppet show. They were all very well done and very cute.
Parent teacher conferences are coming up in two weeks. I will have the sign-ups ready by mid week.
Have a great weekend.
Jalee