Cousins & Aliens

Happy Wednesday everyone! We started our day by dancing with Maryna. She played music and we danced to a song as we acted out different motions like “peeling a banana” and “eating an orange”. Then we all stretched our bodies to prepare for more dances. We stretched our arms, legs, and backs and found out how flexible we are. We paired up with a partner for a fun stretching song and finished off with a requested dance from Hi., which was “Tooty Ta”.

QUESTION OF THE DAY (Do you have a cousin?)

Hi started our discussion by asking the question…

            Hi: Do you have a cousin?

Five friends said yes, and seven friends said no.

Cameron asked us if we knew what a cousin is.

            Au: cousin is a brother

            Da: No! Is grandpa and grandma

            Au: about family, grandma and mommy and daddy, boys

Cameron asked us if we remembered yesterday’s question of the day.

            Da: Kids

            Ky: Aunt

            Au: but almost the same with ant

We talked about how our mommy or daddy’s sister is called our aunt and that mommy or daddy’s brother is called our uncle. Cameron asked us what our aunt or uncle’s children are called.

            Hi: Cousin

            Da: No!

            Iz: Yeah!

            Hi: Cousins

Cameron asked us if our cousins are a part of our family.

            Co: Yes!

How many cousins do you have?

            Hi: Four! Ri, Ko, Te

            Da: Yeah!

How old is your cousin?

            Br: Four.

            Cameron: What is their name?

            Br: I don’t know

            Cameron: Are they a boy or a girl?

            Br: A boy

            Cameron: What do you like to do with your cousin?

            Br: Play at the party

Then we looked at our family picture books to see if we could find any of our cousins. We looked at Co’s book and she showed us a picture of her, Yu, and Ha. We asked her to tell us about the picture.

            Co: Drawing on the iPad with Yu and Ha. I like to play. I go to Yu’s house.

We are still learning about our families and discovering who our cousins are. For our homework tonight, Cameron asked us to ask our parents if we have any cousins and who they are.

            Da: I can ask mom and dad, “do you have brother/sister?”

STORY TIME (Don't Let the Aliens Get My Marvellous Mum! By Gillian Shields & Liz Pichon)

After going to the park, we were super tired, so we decided to read some books before eating lunch. We read a book about aliens and Cameron asked us what we thought would happen in the book.

            Ky: Alien lives in space

            Da: The aliens gonna take the mommy to the moon

The book was about what would happen if aliens abducted our mom. It said that if we didn’t have a mom, there would be no one to wake us up in the morning and we’d be late for school.

            Da: My sister wakes me up

            Hi: My brother wake up first and my daddy because he go to work

After all of this we were really hungry because it was time for lunch!

Please enjoy the rest of your day and have a great night! See you all tomorrow!

Love,

Flowers XOXO