December 17-21, 2012 (Last Week Before Winter Break!)

This is our last week of school before Winter Break. We listened to the music from and watched the story of the Nutcracker. We made presents for our parents, and we celebrated Navneeth's 4th birthday. Many of us got C.A.R.E. awards on Friday. It was a very busy week.

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

An almost-straight line in the Blue Hall

(it doesn't get much better than this)

 

Gavrusha the Construction Worker

 

Hugo being silly

 

R1 Princesses

 

More R1 Princesses

 

Principessa italiana

 

One of our lovely guest readers this week (also a princess)

 

Ms. Hogrefe's 3rd Grade read us their personally-illustrated

"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

 

Ms. Burnell from 1st Grade read us Grimms'

The Elves and the Shoemaker

 

Allegra's mom Natalia read us Der Knussknacker

(The Nutcracker), auf Deutsch

 

Alessio checks out a REAL nutcracker!

 

Joshua built a chocolate factory out of blocks.

If it was real, we could be his best customers!

 

 

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY NAVNEETH!

 

 

Navneeth's super cool birthday cake!

 

We've never seen a cake like that before!

Getting ready to life the birthday chair three times...

Navneeth shared his cake AND toys

with every Reception 1 student!

 

 

C.A.R.E. Awards

On Friday, many Reception 1 students received awards for citizenship, achievement,

responsibility or effort. All Reception 1 students try hard every day. Some students do so well every day that they almost get overlooked. These students were given Bronze awards for continuous hard work, caring for and helping fellow students, always cleaning up the classroom when asked, and leaping ahead with it comes to learning. 

 

First R1 Bronze Award Winners:

 

Lani

Joshua

Mika

Cody

 

Not pictured (sick that day): Devi

Giving the award winners a hand!

Alessio received a citizenship award for helping

so much in the classroom, and helping friends, too

Former cribmates Mika and Cody hold up their honors

Cody and her mom smile big!

Joshua and his mom are proud

Lani shows off her fantastic awards

Jacob displays his award for achievement

Gavrusha's first award for speaking German and English so often

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 10-14, 2012

This week in Reception 1, Mr. Bernard and Miss Jolian led the kids in many different activities, including discussions about kings and queens, princes and princesses, and making snowmen and Christmas trees out of circles and triangles. (Ms. Kristina was banned from the classroom by the doctor.) The children also worked on special holiday projects (TOP SECRET!). The children learned about big, bigger and biggest as well, and incorporated learning into their crafts.

First, to warm up our bodies and brains:  

YOGA with Miss Jolian

 

 

 

SHAPES

Making Christmas trees out of triangles

and making snowmen out of circles.

We also can draw rectangles and squares,

and we know the difference!

 

Miss Jolian teaches us how to make beautiful trees

with big, bigger and biggest triangles!

 

Navneeth shows his Triangle Tannenbaum

 

Cody, Joshua and Jacob display their Circle Snowmen

 

Lani shows off her Triangle Tree

 

Mika is happy with his Christmas tree

(and I see many presents around it...)

Mika has been a good boy this year!

 

Greta shows off her snowman.

Look at the colors!

 

Devi and Alessio can make beautiful snowmen.

 

Hugo assembles his picture

 

 

Finn glues the pieces on...

 

Sylvie knows what a circle is!

 

Lucie draws a rectangle

 

Gavrusha draws a square

 

Little Sylvie (sporting

fashionable native dress)

draws a rectangle

 

I bet I know who made this snowman...

 

And this snowman looks like The King! (not Elvis)

 

 

 

GUEST READERS

Every day at 3:30 p.m. for the last two weeks, we have had a guest reader come

into the Reception 1 Classroom to read to R1 and R2 children.

Thank you to these special people who have shared their time and winter and holiday

stories with us, reading their favorite books, and opening up new worlds!

 

MIS' Mr. Henderson from New Zealand reads his favorite tale

 

 

Alessandra's dad Fermin shares a story he loves

and we love to look at pictures!

Thanks, Dad! You're the B E S T!

 

 

Joshua's dad read to us

auf Deutsch.

Vielen dank, Herr Heckmann!

 

 

MAKING CHRISTMAS TREES WITH MR. BERNARD

We use our hands to make so many beautiful things!

 

This is how you put your hand down...

 

To make a nice tree!

 

Green hand, green tree

 

Painting a present under the tree

 

 

BEING CUTE IS A MANDATORY REQUIREMENT FOR R1 STUDENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DON'T LET MR. BERNARD SCARE YOU!

and try not to scare Mr. Bernard!