Happy Mother’s Day

Not what you expected, was it? As we will all be quite busy tomorrow, I’d like to take this time to wish all the mommies a very happy mother’s day, with kisses and foot massages to breakfast in bed J

We are moving into the last stretch of this semester and our Reading Street focus is on community. We started with “A Big Fish for Max’ and will continue with ‘The Farmer in the Hat’. The children will find out that sometimes we argue about who wants what and we can’t always get what we want. We will work on helping each other and problem solving skills in the classroom.

I’ve been working on a concept for Reading Street, that the kids will be able to use at home. I haven’t been able to embed the material into the blog for some reason and will provide an external link in the meantime. This will enable you to access the activities we will do in the class. The link will be active on Monday afternoon.

On another note, during the test period we covered a story called “Little Rabbit’. The genre of this story is the Folk Tale. The children enjoyed this new story as it taught us a lesson, namely, ‘Look before you run!’

This coming Wednesday we hope to go to the zoo. This will round off the previous lessons we’ve had on animals in Reading Street Unit 1. We want to know why animals are extinct, which animals are endangered and what nature conservation is. We will also try to empathize with the animals and ask ourselves, what they would say to us, if we could understand their language. The children will also have a chance to see some prehistoric animals in the Education Center, our last stop before we go back to school.

Some questions to reflect on at the end of the day are,

1. How can we give animals a voice?

2. Would you like to be an animal in a zoo? Why or why not?

3. Do you think animals have feelings? Why or why not?