Chinese New Year

We have had a very busy few weeks in LE! To celebrate the Chinese New Year, we had Kai, Rebecca, Chloe, and Paige’s mothers all come in and share their stories and traditions for celebrating in their families. This year is the Year of the Dragon. They brought some traditional craft projects for the students including a dragon face mask, a dragon puppet, traditional Chinese characters on red squares, special cookies, and also red envelopes with a token gift. In the spirit of paper, we also tried our hand at paper-cutting. Using Exacto knives, red paper and cutting mats, students had to carefully cut around an outline of a red lantern. It took a lot of patience and precise cutting which was not easy. We will practice this art another time as well.

Recent Book Clubs

We have had three concurrent book clubs going and have had some fun projects that most students participated in. Ms. Jen’s second group of Daniel’s Duck are finishing up their wooden ducks. There has been a lot of laughter and careful use of many tools in order to procure the just right duck! Another group made paper-bag puppies after reading a book about a dog called “Sam” who helped save a tug in the fog. And, Ms. Lisa’s book group finally made Creme Brulee! This was the favorite dessert of the dragon named “Grahame,” like the cracker and with and “e” from the book “Kenny and the Dragon!”

We hope that you all have a wonderful, safe, somewhat restful, and healthy February break! We will look forward to hearing about all the adventures you and your families have when we get back.

Warm regards,

Ms. Jen and Ms. Lisa