March 28, 2014

Aloha P2 'Ohana! We hope everyone had a fun-filled spring break! On Monday, we took some time to share what we did over spring break. Some people shared that they went the beach, others told us that they went to the bowling alley, and some people even got to go to Oahu. Ms. Jennings shared with us that over spring break she got engaged! Congratulations to Ms. Jennings and Mr. Kawai! 

On Tuesday, we filled our marble jar all the way to the top, so we got to have a party! We had to write about what kind of party we wanted to have in the afternoon. We had to add good reasons why we wanted a certain kind of party so that we could convince Ms. Jennings that our idea was the best. 

"I would rather have a ice cream party because it's hot outside and it's cold to eat ice cream"

"Dear Ms. Jennings I would rather have a f field party because I want an extra recess."

"I would rather have a playground party because we can play together"

After reading all of our ideas and reasons, Ms. Jennings decided to pick a playground party because she liked the idea of all of us playing together. It was so much fun! We can't wait to make more good decisions, show more respect, and solve our own problems so we can add marbles to our jar again.

This week in math we started learning about classifying and sorting. We classified by shapes, colors and sizes. 

We also learned two chants that will help us remember our doubles facts and our "make 10" pairs. We really enjoy doing these chants everyday with the hand motions! This is going to help prepare us for first grade. Here are the words so you and your child can do it at home together. (Thank you Ms. Encarnacao for sharing these with us!)

This week we also started reading a book about Helen Keller. We learned from reading this book that Helen Keller was a woman who was both deaf and blind, but was still able to inspire people. We learned that to help her learn words her teacher would spell out words on the palm of her hand. We also learned that Helen Keller learned how to read Braille. While walking to the library on Friday, we found out that some of our signs on campus have Braille on them! We enjoyed getting a chance to feel  Braille and imagining what it must have been like for Helen Keller to read.

Lastly, we would like to congratulate Mahea and Jennifer for being recognized at our "perfect attendance" assembly for being at school everyday and on time during third quarter! Congratulations!

We hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled weekend! See you on Monday.