New year, new term

Glad to see everyone back to school and I hope you all had a fun and relaxing holiday. This term we will be talking about how we express ourselves. The central idea being art, and how art inspires us. We started off this week with the question "What is art?" and "What kinds of art are there?". The goal of this term is to have the students express themselves in different ways. If they struggle with expressing themselves by speaking, perhaps they will be able to express themselves in other ways. 

Our first art project was to take card paper and make shapes out of it in order to make a picture of something using shapes. You can see the final product on the wall outside the classroom.

A few updates, we are well on our way in planning and practicing for YEP.

This week is Etta's birthday! Happy Birthday Etta!

We are planning our last field trip for the year and will have updates for you in the next week or so.

Stay tuned.

- James Barbosa

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is having a great holiday. I look forward to seeing everyone next week for the 3rd term of the year. The last 2 weeks of school before the holidays were jam-packed with things like Our final assessment of our unit, a park excursion, and of course the last day of school which we had a talent show, and winter party.

The last week of school was also the 5th birthday of 4 of the students in the class. Ayuma, Kaname, Siwoo, and Kinryo have all turned 5

To finish our unit about sharing the planet we went to a park with the Pre-K B classduring our park time and we did our part to clean up the park.

They all did well with cleaning up and finished within 10 minutes. After that they were free to enjoy their park and snack time in the park.

On the last day of the week we had our talent show and winter party. For our winter party we made cookies. Unfortunately it was difficult for Ms Hisako and I to take photos, but we did take some.

See you all in the new year! 

- James Barbosa