Happy February! It’s been an exciting time in P3 during the last two weeks! We welcomed many new friends, and they truly have adjusted beautifully and acclimated well to our classroom. Because of our new additions, we have been practicing basic Grace and Courtesy skills, allowing our older children to model how we raise quiet hands, use walking feet, help clean up, how to use our work mats, and how to put things away. We have also focused on mindfulness during our large group lessons, talking about kindness and making good choices. The children may have come home talking about being “bucket fillers” or “bucket dippers”. We talk about how everybody in the world carries an invisible bucket, and every time we do an act of kindness, we fill people’s buckets. But when me make difficult choices, we dip from people’s buckets, and no one wants to be a bucket dipper!
We have begun our ocean studies and the children love to learn and sing about the different kinds of animals in the ocean. We are learning about the 5 oceans, and also begun our study on the continent of Australia.
We have also begun our ocean mural, where all the children take part in painting parts of a coral reef. Can’t wait to post it in the next blog! In the meantime, here are the children working hard on puzzle maps, math, and sounds!
We also enjoyed a sweet Valentines Day celebration in class, decorating cookies, doing crafts, and playing some Valentine Bingo! Your children were so incredibly cute in their pajamas! We are also amazed with the huge amount of online valentine grams delivered to our classroom! Thank you so much,the children were so excited!
Please take note of the following important dates:
Monday, 2/15: President’s Day NO SCHOOL
Thursday, 2/18: General PTO meeting
Please keep an eye out for our spring conference sign up sheets, we will be sending them out soon! We can’t believe it’s that time already!
Enjoy the long weekend, have a great Valentines Day, and Happy Chinese New Year!!
Primary 3