Agradecimientos:
- Thank you to Paige’s family for sharing their homemade dried fruit. It was a very special and tasty snack that everybory enjoyed.
- Thank you to all the Live Oak families for all the appreciations during the Teacher appreciation week!
- Thank you, Jill, Arlo’s mom, for sharing flowers from their family garden.
- Thank you, Irina, Agata’s mom for sharing her calligraphy skills with our class.
- Thank you to Adeline’s parents for donating the leaf scratching craft to our class.
- Thank you, Rebecca, our director, for making a worm farm with our students.
- Friendly Reminders:
- Day at the Park: Sunday, May 19t, 2024. Codornices park 10:00 to 2:00pm.
- Memorial day: Monday, May 27, 2024. School closed, no childcare.
- 60th anniversary Garden Party: Saturday, June 01
- End of the school year celebration: Thursday, June 6th 9:15am.
- Last school day: Friday, June 7th. Half day.
Sustainability
With Rebecca’s leadership, the entirety of ECC teachers and students focused on sustainability. Teachers involved the students in activities where they re-used many sources (paper, water, leftovers, and leaves). Like every month, we watered our classroom’s plants with the dirty water from the fish tank. They recycled paper scraps and all the papel picado from Cinco de Mayo fiesta. Also, they trimmed the flower arrangements and lunch leftovers and placed them in our green compost container.
During outside time we saw children playing the recycling trucks game.
Worm farm in Live Oak
Rebecca brought some worms from her worm farm to share with Live Oak. She showed us how to fill a container with soil and sand, and how to leave food for the worms. We learned that worms help make good soil with their castings, and by mixing up the soil by making tunnels. Worms are good garden helpers!
Practical Life
A hot day was perfect for a deep cleaning. The non-napper children enthusiastically washed the easel, some tables, recycling containers, and all the paint containers and paint brushes. They did a great job, and the best of all, they had a great time scrubbing, wiping, sharing brushes, and working together.
Sensorial
Our students have been challenging themselves with the binomial and trinomial cube, pink tower, knob cylinders and knobless cylinders. These activities are from the Sensorial area, but they are also based on math.
Language
Language is approached in different ways. We work directly with letters using the moveable alphabet, creating scenes or stories, the mystery bag, jolly phonics, songs, and role-play.
Math
As in language, we have different levels in this area; counting one-to-one, regrouping, teen numbers, teen boards, memory game, and the bead stairs.
Art
With fresh flowers in our classroom, the children have been doing flower art using watercolors and oil pastels. Our dearest Julianne brought in a tiny house project. The children excitedly designed their house by adding windows, doors, stairs, and many decorations. Click the link below to see pictures! Adeline brought a leaf craft for everyone. The students had a lot of fun scratching the leaves and discovering the rainbow colors. They said the leaves were like magic!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1khW9aV6wfScMNsWDdcPBuD9r4svZFpyACjg7edZ7hIQ/edit
Geography
The students keep singing the continents song and playing with the world map puzzle. We continued learning more about land/water forms. After peninsula and gulf, we introduced archipelago and made three islands in the sand box. It was a hot day, so the children had a blast working with the wet sand and the water. They nearly had a beach party!
Traveling scholars
Our travelers these weeks were Lucas, Alex, Quinn and Ava. We hosted Kian, Leon, Mimi, and Jordan. They all had a great time performing practical life works.
Parents in Live Oak
This week Irina, Agata’s mom visited our classroom and demonstrated many different ways of writing and making letters. After her fun demonstration, she spent a few minutes with each student and wrote their names on a card, and the children loved it.
Thank you
Live Oak teachers