How We Express Ourselves - Celebrations!

We have been digging into How We Express Ourselves through celebrations in Preschool.  We celebrated the 100th day of school, setsubun (Japanese bean throwing festival), learned about Chinese New Year, and planned and threw our own Valentine's Day celebration with students from Canadian Academy!

Thank you to the parents who have offered to share a celebration with our classroom! Our Show & Tell theme for the next few weeks will be home celebration traditions. Our families all have their personal ways to celebrate different holidays and I would like for the students to share one family celebration tradition. The next time they bring the Show & Tell bag home, please help your student share this by sending photos, a video, games, a recipe, decorations - anything to tell us about this celebration and tradition. Even better, come share this tradition with your child in our classroom! If you are not able to do this, please include some written or videoed explanation of the tradition to share to help your child. Thank you for thinking about and being ready for this when your child's turn comes!

Call for materials!
In the last week of February Carnival will be celebrated around the world: Mardi Gras in America, Fastnacht (Karneval) in Germany, etc. We will have a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) challenge in Preschool to design a colorful float for the parade! To do this, students will work with partners and design, then build their own float that they can move by pushing or pulling (without touching the float itself).

To do this, we will need your help collecting materials next week. Please send any of the
items on this list to help us complete our project:
 Cardboard
 Cardboard Boxes (Kleenex box, cereal box, shoe boxes, etc.)
 Tape
 Paper Plates
 Index Cards
 Balloons
 Construction paper
 Pipe cleaners
 Toilet paper tube s
 Craft sticks
 Straws
 Paper Cups
 Glue
 Yarn
 Paper Towel Tubes
THANK YOU!

Announcement - Schedule Change!
Our library day will be on Wednesday from this week.

Upcoming:
March 2nd              (AM) Hina Matsuri at Shohei Kindergarten
                                (PM) DSKI School Photo