In celebration of our  100th  day of school, activities included making headbands, decorating a cake with  100  snack items, counting  100  pennies, and  more !

These activities help our fine motor development, social development (working with peers) and cognitive development: math (numbers).

Room 6 is still exploring our community helpers lesson theme…

Valentine's Day helped us to introduce the Postal Service when we made cards for our friends and changed our Writing Center into a Post Office. The banker visit helped us to introduce the concept of money so we can match the pennies to the corresponding piggy bank labelled with numerical values. Also, our doctor visit emerged an interest in the transformation of our Pretend Play Center into a doctor's office where children can model the role of the doctor/patient/families, etc.

Lots of new vocabulary enriches our language development, different concepts continue to challenge our cognitive thinking skills, the roles in society give us a hands on learnging opportunity to explore social studies and we're having fun too!

We are learning about more community helpers.  Aunty Melanie came to share about being a banker!  She brought the class a money activity and display, read us a book for our library, talked about the different things people use money for, her role in society to help people who need money and the importance of saving money in the bank.

(cognitive development: social studies-awareness that people work to provide things; ways people get the things they need; money and how it is used; language: vocabulary,comprehension)

Christina even helped prepare for the presentation and shared it with her peers!

(social development; language and communication)

Some of Aunty Melanie's FBI friends came to talk to us about how they help to protect us just like the police do!

They had us use our fingerprints to put on our very own Junior Agent badges!

Last week, Room 6 was very busy! First, we saw the Amazing Bubble Man…

We learned about the science of the bubbles he makes..He made some over our friends, into a square and even floated them up to the ceiling.

Then we presented our Chapel song and led worship…

After chapel, Room 6 families got to spend some lovely fellowship eating some breakfast snacks and running around Atherton courtyard. Thank you families for coming to worship with us, and for donating the flowers and the snacks!

Finally, we went on our field trip to the Oahu transit station to move along our community helpers, but also introduce an upcoming topic on transportation.

We learned about bus and traffic safety, waited at the bus stop, paid the fair and asked for a transfer…

Got to ride on our own City Bus, sang the Wheels on the Bus, and took a picture with our tour guide, Ms. Lana. Thank you Room 6 parents who came to chaperone!

As we extend our construction lesson, we include talking about the architects who need to design the structures and draw out the blue prints or the plans for the building. We split up into our small groups and each group observed an area of our school to draw our own blueprint of what we see. We observed how many buildings there are, classrooms, the sanctuary, Atherton chapel, how many windows and doors, garden boxes and sandboxes, etc. We all participated in drawing a part of our school and then brought it all together to make a big blueprint of the whole school.

(cognitive development: mathematics, social studies, language; social development)

We turned the pretend play center into a construction work site and an architect workshop. The children can use rulers to measure and draw out the lines for their blueprints with pencils so that they can deliver it to the construction workers

(creative expression; social development, fine motor development)

We also got to see 7 cement trucks come to school and pour the cement for our new classrooms. The children show interest in the different construction trucks and the process of building our new school, leading our curriculum towards more exploration of this study.

(cognitive development: social studies, language)

We had a fun-filled week full of some of our favorite traditions at Central Union!

We visited Santa for classroom pictures and a Christmas story..

We got to feel what it was like to play in 'snow' with our friends and family..

And we made gingerbread houses!

** Special thanks to all of our families who participate in our activities and who help to make them such a big success! 

These activities provide opportunities for growth in all developmental domains, but it is also a fun time for us to celebrate the holiday season!