Every week we work in the garden with Mr. Gado. Our first job in the garden was to prepare the beds for planting. Then we planted corn and pea seeds. We had to reseed the corn as our first batch...
December was a busy month with preparations for the annual Winter Concert and calendar art mania.K/1 joined Pre-K to practice and sing "This Little Light of Mine" for the concert. Everyone did a stellar...
We watched traditional Wadabi dancers, made fresh bread and butter, and listened to Mr. Sanders folktales. We saw a mama giraffe and her baby. Then we had a fascinating tour of the Niger Lait factory...
K/1 practiced using some cool vocabulary including: vertebrate, invertebrate, carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. Students talked with the parrots and they actually said “hello” back to us. We saw...
Educational Websites Here are some website recommendations for K/1 students to use to practice reading and writing skills, play educational games and explore the world. I have successfully tested the links. Hopefully, they will work for you. Enjoy. Reading: http://www.starfall.com/ http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page Math: http://www.ixl.com/ http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/studentlinks/mathfacts.html Geography, Science and Art: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com...
We had a great Halloween Parade that started with the Pr-K class and picked up each grade while trick-or-treating along the way. The finale was in the embassy courtyard. Upon returning to school...
The week leading up to the Halloween parade was busy. K/1 was in charge of counting pumpkin seeds from three large pumpkins. They separated the seeds into piles of ten to make the counting eaiser...