Cardinals Class 2021-22 : Weekend News, Music, Spanish, Gym, Art and Library Classes

Monday

What is weekend news? It's dictation given by each Cardinal weekly on Mondays after returning to school from the weekend. It's another way for young children to strengthen language skills, develop longer sentence structure, gain skills in recalling and retelling of information, understand sequence of events and to further develop memory skills.

As the weeks and months go by you will see your Cardinal gain skills in all of the above areas. Some weeks you will notice that your Cardinal had a lot to say while other weeks not so much or the information given maybe from your Cardinal's imagination and this is okay. The purpose of the weekend news is to help foster language development.

Welcome To Our First Edition Of Weekend News

Clarke - I was playing with my mommy and daddy and we watch a movie. I had playdate with Phoenix and Blaise and Cooper. We had ice cream and popsicle and we watch a cricket.

Tristan - I play with toys and I spend time with my dad and mom. I go the playground and play. I play with daddy in my room. I ate strawberries.

Blaise - I was playing with mommy and Tata. I rest with my pop-pop we play some toys a little bit. I ride my bike with pop-pop.

Isabelle - I went at the pool. I was catching the ball in the pool. I went on a monster truck at the farm. I play with my friend Callie and she is 8 years old. I went the arcade at the mall and I got tickets and I got prize.

Oz - I go to New York City. I go to daddy birthday. I watch movies at my house and I eat moo-moo bread. It so yummy!

Phoenix - I play with my mom. I went to Oz's house and I play with Oz and Ever. I had playdate with Blaise and Clarke. We play on playground. I made apple pie with my mom. I was sitting on couch waiting the pie cause it was so hot.

Emma - I walk with the dog. It not my dog it's someone else but I like walking the dog cause she's nice. I played with my baby.

James - My dad made banana bread and I ate it for breakfast. I couldn't play my clubhouse cause it has wasp nest and one sting my mommy so we can't play there.

Alycia - I just go to my DJ house. She had some toys that I could play with. I watch movie Elsa and Anna at DJ house downstairs in the family room. I eat apples and orange and fruit snack.

Rowan - I went to the big kids playground. It wasn't when we had school.

Reyn - I went to the waterfall. I went in my daddy's truck. I was racing outside with my daddy.

Hayden - I was having a fun day at home. I was playing lots of stuff and I play with Taylor. I got dress and I got help but I did my pants by myself. I was playing outside with Taylor and mommy and daddy but not Mackenzie cause she don't like bugs. I went for a walk and I see lots of bugs that Mackenzie don't like.

Ekin - Play mommy.

Ben - I playing soccer with my daddy. I eat pasta dinner at pop-pop house. I had a rest with my mom and dad. I play toys with my brother Jacob.

Stephen - I play inside mommy.

Melanie - I went to go apple picking and I made apple pie with mommy. Me and mommy made banana and zucchini bread. Daddy, me, EJ and mommy went to Brooke's birthday party. I eat bananas, and cantaloupe and honeydew. We play on the tennis court.

In music class with Keisha, we started with free choice in which the Cardinals explored with musical instruments. We then sang our hello song in different languages. The Cardinals are already singing along as Keisha plays her guitar! We sang hello to the trees, birds, sunshine, grass and friends. The Cardinals were very interesting in how Keisha gets the guitar to make music. Keisha took some time to explain and show friends how the guitar works such as how high and low notes happen with the pick and capo. We then sang the Cobbler song and mended our shoes, followed by Turn cinnamon turn, we did the movements such as, marching, clapping hands, twirling our arms, hopping and bouncing while Keisha played her guitar for us.

Tuesday

This morning in Spanish class Alicia began by having a momento de silencio and sang the Buenos días song.

Buenos días amigos, buenos días. Buenos días, ¿cómo están?Estoy bien, amigos estoy bien. Estoy bien y tu, y tu, y tu, y tu, y tu. Y yo, y el y ella y nosotros.

(Good morning, friends, good morning. Good morning how are you? I am good, friends, I am good. I am good and you, and you, and you, and you, and you. And I, and he and she and us.)

Alicia began to talk about how we are all the same and different, igual y diferente. Alicia and our Cardinal friend Alycia both stood up and the class looked for ways in which Alicia and Alycia are igual y diferente such as eyes, ears, hair, and both identify as girls. After, Alicia read a book called, Niñas y Niños (Boys and Girls), which celebrates the many ways we are all amazing and that what matters most is to be yourself. This week is was Ben's turn to squeeze La Vaca!

After snack time and read aloud, we went downstairs on this rainy day for some large motor movement. We also had a dance party and worked in small groups to do team building. We set up three stations in which friends worked as a team that included cooperation, turn taking, conflict resolution and fun.

Wednesday

Gym class with Josh and Lisa was a fun filled exploration of the many things one can do with a hula hoop! We held our hula hoops and stood inside them as we ran, skipped, hopped and galloped. We practiced rolling our hoops and chasing after them. Spinning our hoops was a challenge that many of us really enjoyed!

Choice Time

Thursday

Today in art class with Amanda and Emily, the Cardinals settled in by stretching in our seats and taking deep rainbow breathes. Amanda told us we were going to continue our work from last art class by painting our houses or buildings we made last week. Friends chose which colors and how they wanted to design their work. Our work was then placed on the drying rack to dry. We can't wait to see them next art class.

The Cardinals engaged in yoga with Kim. During yoga, we pretended to be different animals as we learned a few breathing techniques and poses. We breathed like lions and snakes, fluttered like a butterfly with our legs, moo like a cow and barked like a dog by arching our backs with our heads down and stretching our heads to the ceiling as we barked!

Friday

After returning our library books, Ashanti started by having the Cardinals hold their hands up and open and close them, give a clap and put them in their laps followed by reading the book called The Scarecrow. The book was about a scarecrow and crows. We also chose and checked out new books with Ashanti to bring back to our classroom.

Today we celebrated Ekin's 3rd birthday. Ekin's mom and dad sent in nut-free cupcakes for the whole class. Thank you Ekin for sharing your birthday with us!