November 2015

In November, it started getting cold - so we spent a little more time inside practicing our handwriting, phonics and Montessori Jobs.

 

 

This month, we studied dinosaurs. It was really fun to learn the names of our favorites and to discover which ones were meat-eating or plant-eating. We found out that fossils deeper in the ground are older, and dinosaurs lived during different times: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. But they don't live in 2015 with us!

We visited Herb Land in Gyeongju to see the dinosaur park there. We saw many different dinosaurs that we studied and shared what we leaned about them.

  

   

There was a sandbox where we had fun pretending to be paleontologists uncovering some fossils.

On the 6th we had our Garage Sale, where everyone brought toys they wanted to exchange for something new. It was really fun to trade toys with our friends!

November 11th was a special day for two reasons: it was Peppero Day and Austin's birthday! He turned six years old this year. We had a party for him and ate some birthday cake and peppero sticks.

   

   

The 26th was an American holiday, Thanksgiving. We learned about the history of pilgrims coming to North America and about Native American culture. Then we celebrated by eating a big, delicious lunch! We had lots of good food, like chicken, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, corn, beans and sweet potatoes. We also made turkey pictures with Miss Maura.

  

We hope that everyone has a happy and healthy holiday season!

October 2015

There were lots of thrills at SEM this October! But the month started out a little sad, because we had to say goodbye to two of our friends, Jin and Jun who were moving away to Seoul.

We went to Kids Cafe to have a farewell party for them. It was really fun to spend time together there, playing with all the fun toys and riding the toy train. There was a great sand pit, a room for jumping with a big trampoline and a ball pit. We had a good time, but it was hard to say goodbye after. We will really miss Jin and Jun a lot!

This month we were learning about our bodies, so we made a special project by tracing our bodies and then coloring and labeling all the body parts that we learned.

We learned about fall with our art teacher, Miss Sunny. She showed us how to make leaf rubbings - they were really colorful!

Then we went on a little trip to the park to see the chrysanthemum display. It was really beautiful! We saw many different colors in the park and took some photos.

At the end of the month was our big Halloween party! The decorations at school were very spooky, but we weren't scared - not even when we did trick or treating in the Haunted House. Miss Stephanie wore a scary vampire costume and Miss Maura was a monster from the children's book, Where the Wild Things Are. We all wore our costumes to school, too, we looked great!

Happy Halloween!