Quarter Notes Blog 11/13/2022

This week,the Quarter Notes began their Monday morning with placing cheerios on long pieces of pasta to strengthen their fine motor skills.

This project was wonderful because our class decided to create masterpieces out of an exercise! They have also been very busy working on tape resist flower art, a collage of fruit stamping created by fresh grapefruits, oranges, grapes, lemons, and mushrooms!

Every morning, our class has also been working on our handwriting skills. Additionally. We even read some new books and learned about bees! The Quarter notes read The Buzz on Bees by Shelley Rotner and Anne Woodhill, Bumble Bees by Fran Howard, and Honey Bees by Jill Esbaum.

Outside, the Quarter Notes enjoyed free time and sunshine while they played in all the melting snow.

Spring is underway! Some of our class made "pretend” phone calls from the structure, went down the slide, gathered at the picnic table to socialize and joined friends in the sandbox!

In Mandarin class, Miss Pei-Shuan continued her introduction of colors through conversational Mandarin; the color blue is pronounced lán sé, and yellow is huáng sé.

Miss Pei-Shuan introduced us to a new game: rock, paper, and scissors! We were all in suspense, wondering who would win! We have continued to practice our song called Raining Day and act it out with our teacher and classmates.

This week in sports, we worked with rainbow strings, and continued to venture through the grass holding streamers! In Tai Chi, we worked with visualization. Our class held a pretend cookie while blowing on hot cocoa. Mr. Perry also led “freeze dance” with streamers.

In music, with Miss Lisa we rolled the ball to one another to Mozart's “Eine Kleine." This week we have been singing various Irish songs, namely "Did you ever see a Lassie," in honor of the upcoming St. Patrick's Day.

We also went over the Suzuki proper footing for performance and the bow: The Suzuki method emphasizes that it’s important for children to begin developing a comfort level with an audience.