FRUIT

The craft for playschool last time was a giant fruit basket.

Have a look, isn't it AWESOME?

Each kid picked a couple of fruits and colored them in.

Then we cut them out and stuck them on the basket poster.

January 26th is Australia Day!!

This week in playschool we are celebrating Australia Day! It is celebrated annually on January 26th to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet of ships that sailed from Great Britain to establish the first European colony in Australia.

Below is a famous nursery rhyme that comes from Australia.
It is about the Kookaburra (an Australian Kingfisher).

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
That's not a monkey that's me.

*This is a slower version of the song.

RRRRAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Last Saturday in playschool we had a DINOSAUR theme

and we made some dinosaur feet.

Look at our scary monsters!

STOMP, ROAR, SCREECH, CHOMP !!!

Photo of the week!!

Last week we celebrated Thanksgiving in Playschool class! Here is an awesome photo of our Turkey hats!!

This week in playschool...

...we are celebrating Thanksgiving.

We will be making funny turkey crafts.
Unfortunately we will not be eating turkey :(

Last week in playschool class...

...we learned about transportation!! Phil had a great craft idea to make boats out of random household products and see if it would float. We had a lot of fun playing in the tub of water after too :p Take a look at our boats in the photo below! My boat was freaking awesome!!

This week in playschool...

..we wore costumes and made Halloween masks!!

It was really fun! Great masks girls!!

PIRATES

Here be PIRATES ye land lubbin' scallywags!

Today was PIRATES DAY in PLAYSCHOOL.

We had a great time making our costumes

and hunting for treasure!

Last week in Playschool!!

Last Saturday morning in Playschool, Phil and I watched an amazing animal puppet show!! The kids put on a great show with singing and dancing and small conversations between the animals!

Great work everyone!! :)

Just a reminder that the Kids Summer Carnival is this Monday, August 31st and the sign up deadline is tomorrow!!! Please call us to sign your kid up for the super awesome afternoon of activities!!!

FRUIT!! I love fruit!

This week in playschool we are talking about fruit!
Here is an awesome fruit rap by Bert from Sesame Street!
Enjoy!!

Playschool Fantasy!

Last Saturday we had a fairy-tale playschool class!
In class we listened to famous princess stories; during snack time we watched princess video clips; and for our craft we made our own princess hats!
Here are a few photos from our magical day.
Everyone had a really good time. :)

Hinamatsuri

Happy Girls' Day! The translation literally means 'Doll Festival'. As you can probably guess I am not really sure what Girls' Day means. If you could please comment and teach me a bit of your culture it would be really appreciated :)


This week in our playschool class we are having a fun and games day. We will also be making a Girls' Day craft and talking about what the day means in Japan. Thanks for all your help.

Christmas Parties!

We had some great Christmas parties last Saturday!!! Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun. Below is a photo from our We Can2 class Christmas party and our all ages big Christmas party. In the photos the students are making Christmas cards for mom and dad as well as decorating Christmas cookies!!

If you were at the adult's Christmas party and have some great photos, please send them to us!!!

Last week in Playschool

Below you can see a great photo of the playschool class' story time books. Each student got to color the pages of their new mini-story and read it together with Ms. Kristen! We have some great artists in our class. Good job everybody :)

This week in playschool.

Can you guess my job?

This week we are learning about occupations in our playschool class. We will be pretending to work as firemen, policemen, nurses, construction workers, bakers and much more. Call us to reserve your child's spot in class today!

Playschool Halloween Class!

We had a great time dressing up for our Halloween Class! In our class we had a mouse, a witch, a sorcerer, Alice in Wonder Land, a Pirate (not shown in the photo) and a pumpkin.


We played lots of fun Halloween games like what time is it old witch, Halloween bingo, Old witch ''trump'' game, and pin the wort on the witch's nose (being played in the photo).



Of course we also went trick-or-treating around the school for some candy!!

Shiver Me Timbers!!!

In celebration of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, that we missed by a month (September 19th), today was pirate day!! In playschool we dressed like pirates who sail the seven seas with our eye patch, pirate hat and dagger! We also learned some new pirate words such as: ''Ahoy'' and ''Aarrrr me maties''!!!

The best part of the day was finding the pirate treasure map and following the golden coins to the pirate treasure!!! Coins, rubies, and dimonds, ''Oh My''!! Below are photos of the pirates finding their treasure!!

Happy Birthday

Today we had a small party in playschool for one of our students. She was the lucky teacher's helper today too so she got to go home with two special sticker tags!

Fall is coming!

As you have probably noticed it is much cooler now and slowly but surely the leaves are starting to change color. This week in playschool we are going to discuss fall and changing seasons. Besides making leaves for our playschool classroom tree and a fall mobile to take home, we will also play a super awesome falling, falling game to see what's falling!?! It is very exciting.