We wrapped our unit on Antarctica. The children especially enjoyed learning about penguins. There are 17 kinds of penguins. The largest is the emperor which is 4 feet tall and the smallest is the fairy which is 1 foot.

This week we are learning about woodland animals. Yesterday we had a story about Little Red the fox. Today the children heard about deer. Tomorrow we will do skunks.

The peace festival is February 18th.

Finally the weather has warmed up enough to play outside! We have been out in the snow every day this week and the children have been very excited. It also gives them a chance to burn off some energy. Thank you for sending their snow gear each day. Just a reminder that it helps to have an extra set of socks in the backpack.

We began learning about Antarctica this week Yesterday we learned that Antarctica is the coldest, driest, highest and windiest continent. We also found out that in the winter it can be
-100 degrees Farenheit or colder. That means if you dumped a cup of boiling water, it would freeze before hitting the ground. We also learn about penguins.

The children were very happy to see each other on Monday. We also welcomed a new student to our class--Luke Xu. We started the week learning about snow. We found out that snowflakes have six sides and no two are alike. We also learned that snow can be good and bad. Ask your child about some of the good things about snow.

We also have been learning some snowman rhymes and songs. I will share a couple with you.

I'm a little snowman short and fat
Here are my buttons, here is my hat
When the sun comes out I cannot play
Slowly I just melt away (Tune: I'm a little teapot)


There was a chubby snowman who had a carrot nose
Along came a bunny and what do you suppose
That hungry little bunny ate that snowman's nose
Nibble, nibble, crunch!