Dear Families,
We had a shorter week this week as we remembered and celebrated Dr. King's birthday on Monday. We learned more about his life through his son, Marty as we read the book, My Daddy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, with Laura during Ethics.
If you would like to practice at home, click here as we have added more cards from last week.
Do you know who Felix Adler is? This would be a great question to ask your child as you ask them how he is connected to our bird curriculum. :) This week, we learned about our founder Felix Adler as we also learned facts about the bald eagle! We will soon be showing off our knowledge on our bulletin board upstairs on the first floor.
We read a book called, The Eagles Are Back, which was about how the use of DDT threatened the bald eagle population to near extinction. Then magically on Friday, we were visited by a Bald Eagle while we were out on the playground!!!!We felt so very lucky !
We had some very special visitors in our classroom this week. A few animals from The Greenburgh Nature Center came to share interesting facts about themselves. Ask your child what the difference between poisonous and venomous is and see if they remember. We even got to touch/pet all four of our visitors!
We also finished reading Charlotte's web this week. We sat together as we read about the wonderful friendship between Charlotte and Wilber. We cheered, wondered, learned what cliff hangers are and listened quietly to see what would happen next. It was a wonderful journey we went on together and we look forward to continuing our conversations.
On Friday, we had a very special playdate with 1L as Min Young led us in celebrating the Lunar New Year. We learned all about the traditions of the New Year celebration in Korea and even made our own dumplings!
We each got an envelope with some fake Korean Money and a bookmark with each child's name written both in Korean and English. As we wished all the children on Friday, we wish everyone a very happy Lunar New Year this weekend! In case you were wondering, it is the year of the rat/mouse. :)
Best,
MY and Amanda
