This Week in the Maple Room

The children in the Maple room have been busy in the past weeks.

We have enjoyed learning about the Asian continent. Thank you to all of you that sent in souvenirs from Asia for show and tell. We had a wonderful presentation on Russia with Maryla (Sasha’s Mom). The children enjoyed the dolls, beautiful painted decorative trays and teapot , and other items from Russia. Story telling by Pratyush and his brother Arhan was much fun. Ms. Jama and Sarah presented Japan. We got to see real pictures of homes, Mt. Fuji and money from Japan. Sarah taught us how to use chopsticks to taste the sticky rice. The children are enjoying making flags of countries from Asia.

The children have also been introduced to clocks and money. Hopefully you will be hearing about the bank game and telling time.

They built a bird feeder and painted it with Ms. Jama. Danny brought in some bird seed for the birds. We hope to see birds soon as we look out our windows!

We look forward to celebrating Chinese new year after Valentine’s day.

Children are welcome to bring in Valentines for their classmates for Valentine’s Day. Please help your child to write his/her name on the valentine cards. The children who can read their peer’s name may write their classmates’ name. The class list can be found here. There are 25 children in the Maple room.

Our newest addition to the Maple room is Aanya Srivastava. She is four and has moved from Minneapolis Minnesota where she was attending a Montessori school.