Treats no Tricks! This week, our creative Shooting Star students have been hard at work adding to their Halloween accessories. Using their fine motor and crafting skills, they folded and assembled special origami baskets. But they didn’t stop there, each student brought their basket to life with frightfully fun decorations! We have everything from green zombies to vampires, witches and beyond. Every basket turned out unique and full of character. Shooting Stars are officially ready to collect trick-or-treat goodies in true style! Creating these baskets naturally led into wonderful classroom discussions about different holidays, traditions, and celebrations. The students have been bubbling over with excitement, eagerly sharing which costumes they plan to wear with their custom bags.
Cherry Blossoms and Crafty Treats! As our students take a closer look at some of their favorite holidays and celebrations around the world, comparing traditions, festive dress and decorations. This week, the Shooting Stars explored Hanami, and discovered how the beautiful Japanese cherry blossom festival is celebrated both in Japan and around the world. Delicious food is Shooting Star’s favorite part! To kick off the lesson, the class shared what they know about Hanami, and the seasonal treats that they like, and don’t like! After learning about popular festival treats like dango, sweet sakura mochi, and tamagoyaki, Shooting Stars put their creativity to work, using colorful flower paper to make their very own adorable Hanami feast for an ongoing project! Please, bring in any Hanami pictures to add to Show and Tell!
Despite the spots of rain this week, Shooting Star had a lot of long playtime this week and enjoyed lots of soccer, swinging and nature hunting in the school yard and the park! And, everyone safely reflected on Earthquake readiness and evacuated quickly to Sanyo Jr. High School!
Winter Show is also approaching quickly, and Shooting Star got the opportunity to learn by example. An inspirational community theater group “Cocoro No Furusato” came to share some comedy and a cute, funny puppet show!
Everyone also celebrated a few birthdays with a school-wide Birthday Party and a sweet cake for snack!
They were also excited to give parents the opportunity to see one of the Halloween dances in Dance Class and share the music to enjoy at home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UWR4aTdMbzw&ra=m
