Do you need your skin?

Thursday 3/7

Hello everybody and welcome back to another funny day in Flowers Class. We did a lot of activities today and we can’t wait to share them with you! Thank you for reading our journal!

MORNING ACTIVITIES

To start our day, we worked on our faces! “How?”, you would ask. Our teachers prepared pictures of our faces for us to decorate. As we are learning about our physical features and our differences, we look at each other’s pictures while decorating ours. We used a lot of collage materials to decorate our cheeks, chins and forehead while trying not to touch our eyes, noses, and mouths. We even added a flower on the top of our head and hairs to the picture! It was fun!

Some other friends also worked on their restaurant roleplay, the pizza-pasta group spent time making more pasta for Monday, as we will be serving 21 Flowers friends. They used wool and fabric that they torsade into “butterfly pastas”. Some of them were also painting paper balls with brown paint to make them look like meatballs.

We also played a lot with K’nex toys and made some machines. T. made one that was bigger than him while K. made another fishing rod to go fishing. Some other friends were also threading strings into little wooding plates. It’s a bit tricky for our little fingers but we did great.

INTERNATIONAL MONTHS: UKRAINE

After our snacks, we were surprised to see Maryna, dressed in traditional Ukrainian clothes, coming into our classroom. Today, she came to present the country she is from: Ukraine. She told us a lot about the food, the customs, the weather, and the clothes that people wear there. She also asked us about the other countries that we learnt about:

“What countries do you know now?”

H.: Ukraine, and Chinese New Year and Singapore.

O.: Singapore is good!

T.: Which one is Ukraine flag?

B. (pointing at the flag): This one!

E.: China is the red one!

Then she asked us “Why do you think we have blue on the flag?”

E.: Because of the sky!

“And what about the Yellow”

H.: Sun!

T.: Sunflowers!

T.: I always know Ukraine because there is a crane on the map.

G.: No that’s America!

After Maryna’s nice presentation we played a couple of games that she prepared for us. For the first one, we had to take off our indoor shoes and line them up, then Maryna would take one and ask Cameron (who wasn’t looking) “who’s shoe is this one?” and he would have to guess randomly. The person he would call would have to wear the shoe even if it is not his. Eventually, nobody had the same shoes and the same pairs! It was super funny. O. could put his two feet into Axel’s shoe.

The second game was the string game. We had to jump over two strings that our teachers were holding. After each turn, the string would be higher and higher, making it difficult to jump over! Even our teachers tried! Then, she asked us “What did you like about Ukraine.”

H.: Bread!

C.: The flag.

R.: The blanket.

E.: Sunflowers.

T.: The second game.

M.: The shoes game.

R.: I like the jumping game.

After the games, we thanked Maryna for sharing her nice presentation, games, and the love she has for her country, and we started our circle time.

CIRCLE TIME

We gathered in a circle and started our daily discussion by having our teacher asking us about our homework from yesterday: “How much UV light do we need?”

R.:” Skin color and how much we playing. If it’s dark, then 15mins and lights it’s 5!

E.: How long you can stay in the sun?

Then Axel showed us a page of the science book where they talk about the UV index. He taught us that they measure the strength of the UV emitted by the sun in numbers going from 1 to 11, 1 being the weakest and 11 the strongest. The strongest the UVs are, the more dangerous it becomes for our skin.

T.: Is 11 the strongest?

E.: If it’s too hot we can stay in cold water.

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Following our discussion, our teacher asked us to read the question of the day: “Do you need your skin?”

A.: Yes, because you need it to eat.

V.: My mommy said my heart.

H.: Yes, because your blood will come out.

C.: I think we cannot wear clothes because blood would make them dirty.

B.: The skin has three layers and protects you from water.

M.: And the sun is really stronger that our skin. So, we need sunscreen, hat and jacket to keep our skin alive.

R.: We will just be bone if no skin!

T.: Hypodermis, that’s the favorite part of my skin!

For our homework of today, our teacher asked us: “Do you think that your skin helps in another way?”

SHARE AND TELL

We finished our circle time with some Flowers friends that wanted to share some things that they brought from home.

T.: My mommy buy this to me. Trains library book! I go with M.

M.: I go together with him and read a book so many!

T.: There can train go under the water.

B.: Why is the train under the water?

T.: If you go to Hokkaido the train needs to go under the water. Actually, you cannot see a fish!

G.: Where did you get that book?

T.: I get from Azabu juban.

T.: Is there a special train track under the water?

T.: Yes!

T.: Whoa!

Then S. presented us something too. It was a small hand fan:

S.: It’s not a real one, this one is not just paper.

B.: Can you fan yourself?

K.: Are you buy?

S.: No, I have a bag in my home, and I took it.

Y.: My mommy has one like that one.

O. also wanted to share but he was unsure about how to tell us in English, so he told us in Japanese and C. explained what he said to us:

O. via C.: He has that squid and he bought it with his mom and ate ice cream!

And that’s it for today. We decided that it was time for us to get to our lunches.

Thank you for following our daily adventures,

Lots of Love,

Children from the Flowers Class.