Take a peek inside to see what vibrant lessons happening inside of TCS classrooms this week!
Blue Room created little snow people by rolling different sized balls of playdough and stacking them. They also created melting snowman art in which a hat, scarf, eyes, carrot nose and buttons were floating in a puddle of melted snow.
Yellow Room watched a video of a Lunar New Year celebration, in which they saw a dragon dance. Jan also read Grace Lin's Bringing in the New Year. The class also made beautiful fans, working on their fine motor skills. In cooking, they read Ying Chang Compestine's The Story of Noodles, about the Kang brothers' new invention "mian tiao," or noodles. In math, they played shapes and color bingo, and did color sorting, number puzzles, and number-counting, using magnetic boards.
Kindergarten were able to set up an imaginative play office, thanks to our parents donations. The kids loved it! Students played Tic Tac Time and learned about concepts of time. They sorted things that took one second, one minute, and one hour. Luckily they all knew that teeth brushing and hand washing SHOULD take longer than one second.
First Grade began discussing the Chinese Lunar New Year, which is January 25 - February 8. They learned how the Lunar New Year got started with the myth of the Great Race and how it occurs on the first New Moon is the year.
Third Grade had another special guest reader this week! A big thank you to Cynthia Heimbold for reading the great book, What Should Danny Do? by Ganit and Adir Levy. This book had the students cracking up as they were in charge of deciding what choices Danny should make. Through the use of our smartboard, students brushed up on learning that adjectives are words that describe nouns.
The seventh grade students have been working diligently to write their own conclusion to our class focus novel, "The Giver". The students wrote either a final chapter or epilogue to the novel and then turned their creation into a hand-crafted novel, picture book, or comic-book.
In Eighth grade English, the students engaged in lively discussion about the ending of our class novel, "The Outsiders". The students shared incredibly insightful thoughts and reflections about the text.
