August 2016

We started August with a long holiday for our summer vacation, so the school was closed during the first week. I hope that everyone had lots of fun! We came back to school on August 8th.

Our theme for August was action words and physical education. We learned many useful verbs, like read, write, run, play, drink, eat, etc. We practiced reading and writing these words during handwriting time, and during circle time we tried out some new things like stretching, rolling, somersaulting and throwing. 

    

We even did some martial arts classes with Miss Maura!

On one of the hot days in August, we had a special art class with our teacher Miss Sunny. She brought us some ice and orange juice which we put into bags and shook up to make a yummy shaved ice treat. It was really fun and really tasty!

     

And during our Musical English classes with Miss Ashley this month, we got to do lots of fun songs, games and even some dress up!

  

 

We took a little field trip to see the tanks and army trucks outside city hall. The soldiers were very friendly and let us climb up on some of the tanks. We got to see inside, too!

   

   

We planned to take a trip to Haemachi Park on the 26th, but unfortunately the weather was really rainy and windy that day. So instead we went to Kids Cafe. Everyone had fun playing together with the cars, dress-up costumes, pretend store and jumping room. 

   

  

  

 

We had a yummy picnic at the cafe, with lots of good food from our families!

We welcomed a new student this month, Miss Angela. She is Hans' little sister and will be joining our Dream Class.

   

And we had a special surprise this month- our old teacher, Miss Lisa, came back to visit us! It was so nice to see her after two years. We had a lot of fun catching up with her!

July 2016

It's getting very hot now! We tried to ignore the heat this month by having a funny party each week. Our first one was Wacky Wednesday on the 6th. We all dressed up in mixed up, crazy outfits that made everyone laugh, and had a silly fashion show. 

Next was Pajama Day on the 15th. We came to school in our favorite nightgowns and P.J.'s, and some of us even brought our teddy bears (or bunnies). We even took a little nap in the afternoon!

   

On the 22nd we had Crazy Hair Day! Some of us put our hair in lots of pigtails, some had spiky Mohawks and Miss Maura's hair was blue! We also made some funny bouncy eyes and flowers to tie on. It was really fun!

Finally, the 29th was our Water Day. Everyone put on a swim suit and got wet outside, to cool off from the heat! It was the best way to spend a hot summer day. We ate ice cream and had a great time.

     

This July we studied the alphabet, phonics and sight words. Dream Class focused on learning the names and phonetic sounds of the alphabet, and learned a few common sight words, like "big", "and", "can", etc. Love Class learned many new sight words and reviewed phonics with Miss Stephanie.

   

We did a few sight word and ABC crafts too, like writing our favorite word with glitter and finger painting the alphabet and words we like. We played a few games too, like "ABC Bingo".

July 18th was the beginning of summer according to Korean traditions, so we celebrated by eating some yummy home made chicken soup (Samgetang). It was so good!

We were also able to pick some of the tomatoes we've been growing outside and some of the potatoes that we planted. It was really exciting to see how big they grew.

   

   

This month there were two birthdays. First was Junon's 6th birthday on July 26th. He showed us some cute baby pictures and blew out the candles on his yummy chocolate cake. 

  

Next was Pete's 5th birthday on the 29th (also our Water Day!). He showed us some really cute photos! We all wished him a happy birthday and gave him some presents. Then it was time to have cake!

    

    

Unfortunately we also have some sad news this month. Miss Maura will be saying goodbye to us in September, as she has decided that after many years of teaching overseas it's time to go spend some time with her family in the U.S. She had so much fun playing, learning with and teaching the students this year. She loved getting to know all of them and meeting their families. They are such special kids! She hopes to return to Korea in 2017 and would love to come visit everyone again next year. Her last day will be September 7th. She says that she isn't saying "goodbye", just "see you soon!"