Self Portraits, Picnic Lunch, Outside Fun and more...

 Monday 

The Cardinals engaging in morning choice time after completing their morning jobs of helping to put away their lunch boxes and water bottles. Followed by washing hands, signing in and answering the question of the day! 

After morning meeting and snack time it was time for gym class with Josh and Lisa. Today we did many fun explorations with hola hoops. Josh demonstrated how to shimmy the hola hoop without letting it get stuck on our bodies, how to roll the hola hoops across the gym, how to spin the hola hoops in one place and how to walk the hola hoops from one end of the gym to the other with our feet. After Josh demonstrate each objective with the hola hoops, the Cardinals got a chance to explore the skill! It takes practice, focus, eye hand coordination, patiences and balance to try to performed each task. Great work Cardinals!!

The Cardinals enjoying the beautiful weather while having a picnic lunch on this warm September day!! We hope you got to spend sometime outside today as well!!

Friends having a conversation about their family collage!!

                     

Tuesday

 This morning in Spanish class, Alicia began by having a momento de silencio and sang the Buenos días song. 

Buenos días amigos, buenos días. Buenos días, ¿cómo están?Estoy bien, amigos estoy bien. Estoy bien y tu, y tu, y tu, y tu, y tu. Y yo, y el y ella y nosotros.

(Good morning, friends, good morning. Good morning how are you? I am good, friends, I am good. I am good and you, and you, and you, and you, and you. And I, and he and she and us.) Then we  repeated after Alicia while counting the numbers on the calendar up to 20 ( uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, dieciséis, diecisiete, diciocho, diecinueve, and veinte). We then started learning the words in Spanish to the song head shoulders, knees and toes. Today it was Angeline's turn to squeezed la vaca!

We told the Cardinals that after snack time. We will began working on their September self-portraits. What are self-portraits - Each month the Cardinals work in small groups and individually draw their own self-portraits. Friends look in mirrors to take a closer look at the details that make up their features such as hair, lips and eye color and how many ears they have. Friends learned where these details are located on their bodies and how to translate these important details on to paper. As the school year progresses, it is truly amazing to see how these drawings evolve from simple stick drawings to faces and bodies filled with color and details. Friends also gain insight as to the beauty of themselves and do not need to rely on a mirror.

                                           

                             

                   

Wednesday

Choice Time

In art class, Amanda to us that we were going to be artists creating tiny art. She showed us a small piece of square white paper that we are going to cover with very tiny materials such as butterflies, see through paper, sparkly paper and different shapes color tissue papers. Friends used glue sticks to designed their work.  Amanda explained that sometimes artist make layers and use see through paper. She then showed the Cardinals how see through paper and layering works. The Cardinals were amazing artists as they worked to complete their work.

Ask your Cardinal how they created their work?

                                      Outdoor Fun!!

Thursday

Music class with Keisha began with the Cardinals dancing to the song Getting your body moving. Friends dipped, pushed, bouncing, reached and pulled as they get warmed up for music and movement class! We continued by singing Jambo (our hello song). We sang hello in a languages such as Spanish (hola), French (Bon jour Mes amies) and Jambo (Swahili). Friends then sang and did the movement for the song They is a Cobbler Down the Street. Keisha got her guitar and the Cardinals stood up and clapped, rolled our hands, marched in placed, fly around while moving arms, twirling, and jumped as they sing and dance with Keisha. What a fun time the Cardinals had in music class!! Ask your Cardinal what they liked about music class?

Large motor and social skills outside on this grey windy day before the rain! Friends run, played chasing games such as tag and duck duck goose. We also played with the parachute and balls (popping popcorn). Ask you Cardinal what they liked about playing outside today? 

Friday

This morning after friends saw the surprise their parents left for them, doing our morning jobs, choice time, clean up, read aloud, morning meeting, snack time and outdoor exploration. Oz's grand-doc came in to read a book to the Cardinals. The book Oz brought in was called Spidey and his Amazing Friends. Thank you, Oz for sharing your grand-doc with us! Thank you grand-doc for spending time with the Cardinals!!

Afternoon outside dance party with most of the lower school students! what a fun time!! 

Brother and sister were at the dance party as well!

Have a nice Weekend!