Days just passed by so quickly this week. We couldn’t believe it’s already Friday. Our friends said, “After Friday, it’s two days no school and we stay with mommy and daddy”. Although we always look forward to these special family time called weekends (we are still working on to remember this name!), we also made sure our Fridays will always be FANTASTIC!
We had a wonderful dance time with Maryna. It was fun to do different kinds of stretching with happy music that go with them After dance class, we got ready for park time. We were at the balcony to put on our sunscreen and bug spray when we noticed that it was raining! Not a problem at all. We knew that even when we stay indoors, we can still have lots of fun!
CIRCLE TIME
Staying indoors mean lots of fun activities and games! Yay! First, we marched around while singing our My Friends are Marching and enjoyed listening to letter sounds that correspond to our names. When we all sat, excitement filled the air as we tried to guess what toy item Vieda showed us. It was challenging because we could see it only for a bit. So, all eyes were focused on the Vieda’s hand as she breezed the toy item in the air. Hi was very quick in getting the correct answer! When we had all the toys out on the table, Vieda encouraged us to remember what we had on the table. We screamed, “Oh no!” when she put a cover over them. She took one item at a time and played What’s Missing. Our teachers were quite impressed that we were able to name all the missing items! Way to go, Flowers!
Now, it was the time to guess the sound. Listening to sounds alone was very tricky. We all heard the same sound, but our guesses were different from each other. We all laughed when we mistook the toilet flush sound to a train! We found the other sounds like the cutting of paper, flying jet, nose blowing easy!
Lastly, we used our hands to guess the item in the bag. We couldn’t help not to peek at first! We tried to spin the item in our hands so we could guess it correctly. We all had a good laugh when we all guessed spider for the crab!
Among the games that we played, we felt that guessing the item in the bag the most challenging. We thought that it was awesome to think that we could tell something by just touching it! How did that happen? What do our hands have that help us in identifying what the item is without looking at it? As we were surprised by this discovery, we went to a table and found a tray with lots of different things in each of its square. We touched each of them and shared how it felt on our hands. We felt some items were soft, ticklish, ouchy, rough, and bumpy. Bumpy ones were those of the bubble wrap. D said, “I like to pop this!”. We each got a piece and had fun popping the bubble wrap. After popping them, we touched the surface and said, “Oh it’s bumpy!”. We glued our bumpy bubble wrap on our painting. We will keep looking for items that have different textures to add to our painting.
We are aware that our eyes are for looking, ears for listening, nose for smelling, tongue for tasting, and teeth for biting and chewing. How about our hands? Recalling our game about guessing the item in the bag, we realized that our hands are not just for holding, eating, and playing. Our hands also help us tell what the item is by feeling the details and texture of something. What is in our hands? Let’s talk more about our sense of touch next week.
Question of the Day (Do you have grandparents?)
We started making a special hug card for our grandparents yesterday because Grandparents’ Day in Japan will be celebrated soon. Hi explained to us that grandparents mean our grandpa and grandma. We also learned that our grandparents are our mom’s and dad’s mother and father! Some of us call our grandpa, “Jiji”, or “Lolo”. Some of us call our grandma, “Baba”, “Babi”, or “Lola”. We love our grandparents, and we really miss them! We shared with our friends what we enjoy doing with them.
Ka: I like playing in the park.
Au: I go to the shop and buy ice cream for my grandma and daddy and me.
R: Kyoto, I have Mami, Jiji and Baba.
MYSTERY READER for today
Today, a mystery reader came in the afternoon. We were surprised to see R (Hi’s mom) in Flowers. Many thanks to Ri for reading a story and sharing about Otsukimi or Moon Festival which is celebrated tomorrow. She brought a pampas grass that looks like a rice plant. Au was interested about the dango (rice dumpling) that Ri mentioned Japanese people eat while watching the full moon.
Have a great weekend!
Love,
Flowers XOXO