Nov 23rd

Holiday Rotations

During the six school days starting Dec 12th, kindergarten will be hosting holiday rotations. Each classroom will specialize in presenting holiday traditions from a country or culture. The six kindergarten classes will rotate, spending one morning in each classroom learning about the holiday traditions. Our class will start in our own classroom on Dec. 12th learning about China and the tradition of Chinese New Year tradition. For the next 5 days our class will rotate through the other five kindergarten classrooms.

Each class will need to provide 5-6 volunteers each day to assist in the classroom that hosts their class. Centers will be from 8:45-10:30 each day. It would help if volunteers can be in place by 8:30 to get instructions from the teachers. Many volunteers are needed to make this learning activity a success. We can use all adult family members. Moms, dads, grandparents can all sign up on different days to help give us the volunteer coverage needed.

Our class is responsible to provide the supplies needed to present Chinese New Years rotation. We have 132 students in the six kindergarten classes. In this rotation we will: act out a story called "Buddha called the animals", make a lion dancer mask, make a New Year's zodiac calendar hat, taste lomein noodles for long life, read a guided reading book on New Years, get a fortune cookie, get a lucky red envelope with a chocolate coin, get a pair of chop sticks, get a chinese placemat with the zodiac calendar animals on it, learn some things about China from our bulletin board and see some Chinese decorations and signs and hear them read in Chinese.

Please sign up for volunteering and helping with supplies on the sign up lists. We appreciate all your help!