Can You Tell Where Your Bones Are?
Happy Friday! We have been singing about the days of the week and learning to say “weekends”, which we always find special because we get to spend it with our families. When we could not remember to say “weekends”, we always call them “Family Time”! And that’s what makes us extremely happy on Fridays. After park time, we showed (and requested Li to take our photo) our teachers our Happy Friday faces. Please check the photos for today to see these faces😊
STORY TIME (Wait! It’s Friday! by Chris Barash, Illustrated by Christine Grove)
Just before we had story time, we talked about that we were going to say Goodbye to September and hello to October. Recently, we have been feeling the cold breeze in the morning and this could be because summer is over! Ky said, I know in Japanese. It’s called AKI!”. Da laughed and said, “Oh like your mommy, A! I like A!”. Ka told us that the season’s name is fall or autumn. Do you know why it’s called fall?
Sh: Time for us like sick? Like when we fall.
Di: Leaves turn red and green.
As: The leaves turn orange. All leaves turn to orange.
Hi: Leaves…(become) rainbow.
Ka: When it’s raining, then after the rain it becomes sunny. Sometimes we see a rainbow.
D: October is Halloween!
Then came our story time. This is a beautiful story of how a family waits for Friday and does things that make the day so special. We enjoyed looking and talking about each page as they have the people in our family that we have been learning. We had a wonderful talking about our family and what they usually do at home.
*We saw a picture of dad cooking.
Ka: My daddy cooks fried chicken.
H: Daddy …(bakes) cookies.
Ky: My daddy makes pepperoncino.
Da: My mommy cooks all the time not my daddy. Mommy makes sandwich.
A: My daddy cooks yummy pancakes.
So: My mom cook strawberry.
Hi: Daddy makes pancakes.
Sh: I have batic for challah for Shabbat.
*We saw a picture of daddy doing the laundry using washing machines.
Au: Mommy and daddy do the laundry.
Sh: Mommy do it with a little bit of soap and lots of bubbles.
Da: My mommy do the laundry.
R and Hi Mommy and daddy do it.
Ky: My busy, busy, busy mommy do our laundry.
Ka: My mommy and daddy.
Hi: Mommy
K: I actually help my mommy with hanging the clothes.
*We saw a picture of family members doing the groceries.
Ky I go to Costco with my whole family.
Hi: Ariake with mommy and daddy.
Ky: Did you see my daddy’s picture in Ariake?
Hi: No. I eat restaurant.
H: My daddy and mommy do it.
D: My mommy does shop work all the time with me, but not with my daddy.
C: My mommy and C do grocery.
Sh raised his hand to share similar things that he does with his family on Friday afternoons, which he calls Shabbat. He said, “My mommy makes challah. I put coins in my tzedakah box, too”.
Sh: My house is very big. You can eat all bread.
Au: Sh’s house is so big, and my house is so small. Do you have lots of food in your big house?
Ky: You eat Sh, lots of bread…. You gonna have big tummy.
D My house is this much (stretched his arms). My mommy made a big bread.
H My home is like my daddy’s can almost hit the top (ceiling).
Sh: The challah is for Shabbat. The matzah is ….
We learned several new words from our book, which Sh knows so well. He said he is from Israel. We heard him asked Vieda, “Can I say it in Hebrew?”. He told us that the special hat that he wears is called a “kippah”, and the fringes that he wears around his waist are called “tzitzit”. When asked why he wears them, Sh replied, “Because I am so, so special!”.
It was a great opportunity for us to learn some special things that Sh does at home with his family, as well as what he wears because he is a very special person. We can be alike with our body parts, and different on outside and it’s okay! It’s okay to be different. And, we enjoy spending time with our friends no matter how different or similar they are with us😊 Thank you so much for sharing, Sh!
CIRCLE TIME
There are so many things we can learn about the bones in our body. Our group art gave us lots of thinking time and shared our ideas with our group mates. We are still working on discussing about our ideas with our friends and then coming on a conclusion. Our group art was a combination of all our ideas, which might be in contrast with the others. We chose one friend to lie down on a huge paper. Some friends traced the body, while the others cut it along the lines. Then, we glued some white art materials on the body parts that we thought had bones in it.
GROUP 1 (Au’ group)
Hi: Bones in our tummy, legs, arm, head and back, and bottom
Au: This is the heart, and these are the eyes and the ears. We have a bone in our heart.
Ky: I think bones in our arm, the face, and our leg.
H: Legs, knees, shoulders
Ra: (pointed at) feet and leg
GROUP 2 (Sh’s group)
C: Head, hands, feet, shoulders
D: Leg, chest, tummy, upper leg, eyebrows
K: Legs, chest, arms, shoulders
How many bones do you think we have in our body?
H: 21 Sh: 5
D: 68 Ri: 1
Ky: 100 C: 10
H: 21 K: 10
Au: 12
Our discussion was sparked by the question, “when do bones break?”.
Ka: When we fall down like on paper on the floor.
Ky: On tree. Tree is hard, yeah? Bump arm on the tree, ouch!
Au: When the wall shakes, and the tree falls.
V: What if our bones break?
D: Go to hospital!
C: Not every time go to hospital. Yesterday, I bumped and ouchie but I don’t go to hospital.
Ky: I go to hospital, and I get chusha (shot).
C: Shot is just on skin. (Not in our bone)
H: Tomorrow, I’m going to do shot. I’m going to just cry.
C: Tomorrow, I’m going to go shot, too. I don’t want to do band-aid because it’s no ouchie.
Da The shot does not go in my bone; it just hurts my feelings!
Previously, we talked about how hard bones are and another “wonder” came in our circle time discussion. We can feel that we have bones in our arms, and we can feel that they are hard. We wonder now what happens when we get our shot from the doctor. Does the needle go through our bone? Hopefully, we can find out about these soon! Please feel free to share your thoughts next week!
Have a lovely Friday evening and a wonderful weekend😊
Love,
Flowers XOXO