JAMES WARD ELEMENTARY JANUARY 20, 2017

Preschool Room 107

Bi-weekly newsletter from Ms. Hung

Happy New Year Parent volunteers

are the best!
Weve been exploring many aspects of clothing. We used our scientific We always
investigation minds to help us look into and notice different color, textures, appreciate all the
and patterns of the materials on different clothing. Weve also used our help the parent
mathematical minds to help us sort and graph people and clothes of volunteers have
different characteristics. We talked about our favorite clothing and listened been willing to
to stories about characters that had favorite clothing. These characters had provide throughout
pieces of clothes that they loved but had to change it into something else as the year. We had
they grow up and become too big for their clothing. We are learning about some parents step
up to help during
sewing, knitting and weaving as ways to make clothing or change the
the holiday season
clothing we already have. The students are becoming more conversive on
in the classroom.
the clothing topic. Remember to ask them about their own clothing and how
theyve changed which made the clothing too small for them. Thank you to
Nathan's mom,
Chinese New Year Chloe's mom and
IMPORTANT DATES: Victorias mom for
In the next couple of weeks we will helping out in the
January 28- Chinese New Year
be infusing Chinese New Years classroom the week
celebration with our clothing unit. In before winter break!
Feb 5th- Chinese new year parade
10:30 Chinese tradition, you wear new
clothes and have lucky pockets to Thank you to
bring you luck in the new year. We Haileys Mom and
February 3rd- No School
Lailas mom for
will be making new clothes for our
coming into the
February 10th- Clothing Expo AM paper dolls and sewing our own lucky
classroom to teach
Class 10:15 PM Class 2:15 pockets! us about washing
clothing and
February 19th - Chinese New Year
sewing!
Luncheon

February 22nd -
Museum of Science
and Industry Field
Trip

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