Our Hair and Bones

          We had our first earthquake drill for this school year today. We gathered in our library corner and talked about it before the drill started. Our teachers were amazed at how well we remember the things we need to do in case of an earthquake.

          Sh: Evacuate. Hide under the table.

          B: Put hands here (neck) and go under the table.

          Vieda: Why do we put our hands our head?

          B: So, your brain won’t break.

          H Hide and zip (your mouth).

          Vieda: Should we pack away our things first?

          B: No, we can buy lunchbox again. We cannot buy people.

When the alarm rang, all of us quietly walked towards the table and hid under it. We did not even say a word. We put on our emergency hats and then evacuated quietly. Well done, Flowers!

ALL ABOUT OUR HAIR

          What did we do at Liezel’s table yesterday? Ky excitedly replied, “Make the hair!”. When we discussed about our selves and our self-portraits, we noticed that not only our skin color was different, but also our hair color. As we talked about our hair, we discovered that the way our hair looks like is different, too. Some have curly and wavy hair, while some have straight hair. But do we not play with someone with different hair?

          B: D’s hair is short, and I play with D.

          Au: I love playing with everyone.

          Hi: I like everyone!

          B: I still like everyone’s hair.

We looked around our circle and noticed that Sh and A have the same hair color, although they are not family!

 Our two storybooks for story time today were, I Love My Hair (written by Francis Chow, illustrated by Anathelika Ismagilova) and Hair Love (written by Matthew Cherry, illustrated by Vashti Harrison). We enjoyed both books so much and found them interesting. Do we like our own hair?

          Ky: I like it so-so. I want to do my hair color green.

          Sh: You can dye.

          A: You can go to “Asabu Buchi” in Gifu and change your hair. There’s a boy and a girl and we can color your hair.

          D: I don’t like my hair. I want the same as Au

Thanks to Au and Sh for suggesting that we can change our hair color by dyeing it and going to a place called “Asabu Buchi”!

 The other book about hair talked about how sometimes mom and dad get tired. We wondered what could make our moms and dads tired.

          Be Running and jumping

          K: Mommy works and takes care of the babies.

          R: Mommy is working.

          D: My mommy don’t get tired but my daddy get tired because he works and takes me to the park. Mommy works a lot to get money.

 MORNING ACTIVITIES

          We continued to work on our hair craft with Liezel. We enjoyed the challenge of putting the yarn through the holes to make the person’s hair. We picked the colors for the hair and truly delighted to see our person with varied hair color!

          On another table, we put our arm and hand on a black paper. Vieda told us to be still and while she sprayed white paint over our arm and hand. We felt cold and a little bit ticklish and we liked it a lot😊 Our teachers said that we needed to wait until the paint dried up before we could make this craft. In fact, we were not quite sure what this craft would be. Vieda said we would discover what it would be when we moved to the table with a light table on it.

          At first, we put different shapes of blocks on top of the light table. We enjoyed building houses and seeing its reflection. Sometimes we put the blocks over our eyes and see our surroundings, even our friends with the same color as the blocks! Then, Vieda asked us to put the blocks away for the meantime and put some images that looked like plastic to us. We learned that these special images are called x-rays. Beatrice shared with us that “x-ray is something when someone breaks a bone so other people know so they can ice it. We learned that x-rays help doctors and nurses to see what are inside our body. We had an exciting time trying to guess which body part the images were.

          B: I think this part is where we pee and poo (pelvic bone).

          Ky: This one is our heart right here (rib cage).

          D But I think our heart is not in the middle of that one. It’s up here (neck).

          B I don’t think this one is the bone for the belly because when I press my belly, it’s soft. So, there’s no bone in my belly, I think!

QUESTION OF THE DAY (Do bones help you?)

          Thanks to Br for reading today’s question. We had 3 friends who answered no and shared why they did.

          Di: Because the food don’t go in the bone.

          Hi: Because food don’t go in the hands.

How about those who said yes?

          An: It’s hard and it doesn’t break.

          Ka: If I don’t have my bones, I will be soft.

          A: I’m eating so much healthy food and then my bones help me. It’s helping you, too!
         Be: So, I don’t fall. So, I can run.

          K: No bones, you’re gonna die.

 Amazing ideas! In addition to these, we think that we could look like puppets who couldn’t stand on their own! We had fun pretending how it would be like if we were puppets! We all fell on the ground😊 Then, Ky said, “How about do it with bones in our body!”, which we did! Please check our photos on Class Dojo to see our great poses!

 We had so much fun exchanging ideas about our hair and bones in our body. As we were closing our discussion, D said, “Can we imagine that we don’t have bones?”. Indeed! We could not imagine having no bones in our body. Welcome to a beginning of learning journey about our bones!

 See you all tomorrow! Please remember to wear your Ohana t-shirts.

 Love,

Flowers XOXO