Names, names, names
Morning Free Play
We spent our time playing with cars, painting the moon with Sayaka, reading and coming up with games. We also sat around and chit chatted with our friends.
Before we braked for snack we were reminded how we can save water in order to save the Earth.
Circle Time
We made our scarecrow yesterday but he doesn’t have a name yet. What can we call him? Kai read the book The Name Jar to us. The story was about a little girl who just arrived in American from Korea. Her name is Unhei, it was hard for people to pronounce, she was sadden by it and wanted to change her name. Unhei means “grace” in Korean and she eventually was proud of her name and kept her name. Along the way her classmates helped her by suggesting other names she could us by putting names in a jar. In the end she reminded who gave her the name Unhei and realized how special it was. After the story we talked about our own names but who gave us our name and what does it mean? S said he gave himself his name. Z and L said their mom gave them their names. K said daddy name him. One thing we didn’t know was the meaning for our name. We can ask our parents what our name means when we go home.
For now we have more important matters at hand. What is the name for our scarecrow? We decided to use a bowl instead of a jar. Z suggested Sanja, K requested Manju and S said Monkey. Then we put our notes in the bowl. We thought about what name we wanted and voted. We can only raise our hand one time. The verdict was… Manju! K wanted Manju because he said the head looks like manju a Japanese dessert. Can you see the resemblance?
Listen to the Drum
We danced to the beat of the drum. When the drum was soft we tipped toed around and when it was loud we stopped our feet. When the drum was slow we walked and when the beat was fast we ran in our spots. That was just the warm up for the freeze dance. During freeze dance it was our chance to show our moves.