Nursery Room December 2014 Newsletter

J Work Time is a great time of the day when children can explore and play with each other in the classroom.  The children make friends and have lots of fun.  Every day during  work time something special happens.  This month Neo and Joris took turns giving each other hugs.  Shiloh and LinLin read books with Ms. Tian.  Michael and Hanna played peekaboo in the play house by opening and closing the windows.  Mayu and Helen hid in the tent and laughed when I opened the door and found them.  After work time we all help each other clean up the room and then look forward to the next time.

November was a great month the children really enjoyed learning the songs for the Christmas concert and digging for pictures in a box of rice for the Exploration Lesson.

It will be getting cold soon don’t forget to send mittens for little cold hands. I will be gone the last two weeks of December for Christmas, but there will still be school as usual.

Jingle Bells

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh!  Hey!

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

Over the fields we go!

Laughing all the way! Hahaha!

Bells on bobtails ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight

Important Dates

Christmas Concert December 8

Located at the Four Seasons Hotel.  There will be normal bus schedule to school, but no bus after the concert.

Please have your children at the hotel by 9:30

It will start at 10:30

It will end around 12:30-1:00

Please take your child home after the concert.

    No school January 1

Toddler Room December 2014 Newsletter

2014 is already coming to an end!  We have had a productive and exciting 3 months of school.  Our trip to the zoo last month was a lot of fun! We saw many animals and enjoyed exploring with our friends!

The children have been working extremely hard to perfect their Christmas concert song and dance.  We are excited for our family and friends to watch us perform!

The most popular areas in the Toddler Room this month were the art area and the house area.  Joan, Ashlee, and Emilu have been perfecting their cutting skills.  They enjoy coloring pictures and then using the scissors to cut them out.  The music area has become popular with Katie and Quasar.  The girls put on the jewelry and dance around the room.  Koki and Chio are the chefs of our classroom.   Alexander, Christopher, and Vincent have been scary pirates!  The pirates chase each other around the classroom and wrestle on the carpet.  Our classroom "clean team," is composed of Winnie, Candy, and Chloe.  The girls make sure the toys are put away and that their friends are helping clean as well.  All of our Toddler friends enjoy their time outside riding bicycles and running from the dinosaur (Mr. Morgan)! :)

Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow,
in a one-horse open sleigh.
Over the fields we go, laughing all the way.
Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright.
What fun it is to ride and sing,
a sleighing song tonight!

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open
sleigh! HEY!
    Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
      Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse
         open sleigh! HEY!

Important Dates

December 8 - MRA Annual Christmas Concert!
December 12 - Katie's Birthday!
Dec. 19 - Dec. 28 - Ms. Stacie is in America!

Preschool 1 December 2014 Newsletter

Well we have started our Dinosaur project and so far it is going great!  Daniel has picked the Stegosaurus as his favourite dinosaur and Shodai, Emily, Finnegan, Kai and Daniel have done an amazing job learning so many dinosaur names!  Sara does an amazing job singing our Christmas song!  Rino, Emily, and ShaSha have taken to playing house with the magnetic dinosaurs.  Anagha and Neo have been having Anna and Elsa birthday parties in the house.  Gabrie, Kail and Daniel have come up with a bunch of outstanding questions about dinosaurs!

 

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells. Jingle Bells.

Jingle all the way!

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh! (x 2)

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

Over the hills we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bobtail ring’

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing song tonight!

Important Dates:

December 8: Christmas Concert

December 8: Kai's Birthday

December 22-26: Ms. Caitlyn will be gone.

December 25: Christmas

December 31: New Year’s Eve

Toddler Room November 2014 Newsletter

I can't believe we have made it through another month of school! It seems like the year is flying by!  Friendships are blossoming in the Toddler Room and I hope it continues throughout the year!

We have recently started our songs for the Christmas concert!  I have included the lyrics here and would be happy to give you the music as well! Practice! Practice! Practice!

CLASSROOM UPDATE
Well, the Toddler Room has been quite busy as usual!  We have missed our friend Winnie this month! The entire class is awaiting her return to school! The most popular area in our classroom is the kitchen and house area.  Joan, Chio, Chloe, and Koki bring food from the kitchen into the house.  They sit and enjoy lunch together. Alexander, Christopher, and Vincent make great lions! They crawl around the floor roaring and chasing the girls.  Recently, they revealed they were nice lions.  Katie and Quasar bring food from the kitchen to feed the nice lions.  Candy, Ashlee, and Emily keep our art area messy! They enjoy coloring with the markers, cutting with the scissors and using the glue to put the paper back together!  The friendships that have formed are spectacular! All of the children are excellent sharers and get along great!

O CHRISTMAS TREE
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Your leaves are so unchanging!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Your leaves are so unchanging!
Not only green, when summer's here,
But also when it's cold and drear.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Your leaves are so unchanging!
From top to bottom, you're so bright!
There's only splendor for the sight.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Your lights are shining brightly!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree

IMPORTANT DATES

Nov. 12 & 13 - Parent-Teacher Conferences
**Please, if you haven't already done so, let us know what day works best for your conference! We have many times still available!

Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving

Preschool Room 2 November 2014 Newsletter

The school year is flying by and it is hard to believe we are in our third month of the school year! Exciting things are happening this month such as practicing for the Christmas concert, a field trip to the zoo, and learning about animals under the sea. The Preschool 2 students are always busy working and playing together, exploring new concepts, and of course having fun. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me on We Chat at laurenolan or by emailing me at nolan1lr@gmail.com. I love to hear from you and work to create the best experience for your child!

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, just my two front teeth,

Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth than I could wish you Merry Christmas!

It seems so long since I could say, “Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!”

Gosh, oh gee, how happy I’d be

If I could only whistle!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, just my two front teeth,

Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth than I could wish you Merry Christmas!

IMPORTANT DATES

November 5^th: Field Trip to the Shanghai Zoo

Preschool 1 November 2014 Newsletter

October was a busy month! We started Christmas concert rehearsal, celebrated Halloween, and said good bye to Daniel Hu.  This month we will begin to learn about Dinosaurs!

Kai, ShaSha, and Emily have done a wonderful job quickly learning the words to our concert song. Anagha has made our top writer board every single week for six weeks in a row now!  Daniel, Finnegan, and Gabriel are doing a great job reading the Guided Reading books without help on the second day!  Shodai predicted all the sink and float items correctly! Sara, Anagha, and Rino are enjoying the Frozen costumes in the house area and Neo likes to style hair so it looks like Elsa!  Eden and Emily made some interesting predictions about pumpkin seeds.  Eden was so close to being correct and Emily used the word infinity!

UP ON THE HOUSETOP

Parents, this is our Christmas Concert song! If you would like our version to practice at home, please send me your email address.

Up on the housetop reindeer paws,

Out jumps good old Santa Claus!

Down through the Chimney with lots of toys,

All for the little ones Christmas joys.

First comes the stocking of little Nell,

Oh dear Santa fill it well!

Give her a doll that laughs & cries!

One that will open & shut her eyes!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Who wouldn’t go?

Ho! Ho! Ho! Who wouldn’t go?

Up on the housetop Click! Click! Click!
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick!

IMPORTANT DATES

November 5- Field Trip

November 7- First Concert Practice

November 10 & 11- Conference

November 21- Concert Practice

November 26- Rino’s Birthday

November 27- Thanksgiving

November 28- Third Concert Practice

Kindergarten November 2014 Newsletter

It is crazy to think we have been in school for 2 months!  I am so excited for each day where we learn something new about each other in the classroom.  I am also excited to say we have started learning our Christmas Concert songs and can’t wait to sing them for you!

If you have any questions  through out the school year feel free to contact me. My phone number is 137-7441-2701. I am also on WeChat. And my email is Toriemariesmith@gmail.com

KINDERGARTEN NEWS

I am excited to announce we have a new friend in our class! Golden has joined us and we are very happy to have him! He is learning all our songs and is having a great time making new friends. Everyone is so helpful when it comes to new students. Jeffrey, Jerry, and Ryan have been active building with our blocks. Jules and Lucas can always be found with the train tracks. They make tracks going all over! Lisa, Jennifer, Ann, and Florentina have been very busy making me homework to do! They love to keep me busy! Angela, Apple, Emily, and Nanding make sure I always have new artwork to hang up! Our classroom is so colorful thanks to them! Riku and Kai are always exploring the classroom, never playing in the same area. They love to tell me what everyone is up to. We never have a dull moment in the kindergarten classroom.

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul

With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say
He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day

There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
he began to dance around
Oh Frosty the snowman was alive as he could be
And the children say he could laugh
and play just the same as you and me

IMPORTANT DATES

November 10: Ann’s Birthday

November 17: Jules’ Birthday

November 18 & 19: Kindergarten Conferences

November 27: Emily’s Birthday