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We want to thank Julia’s mom, Veronica, for coming to class to share information about Venezuela and the Johnston family heritage. Julia was born in the USA; however, both parents were born in Venezuela. Julia made flags showing her ties to both the USA and Venezuela. Mrs. Johnston told the students stories about growing up in Venezuela and highlighted things that students would see if they went to visit. For example: they would see colorful birds, fish, Angel Falls, tropical

The Kindergarten class finished their study of Asia with a presentation that featured Japan. Here are a few highlights. The children learned that the flag represents the “land of the rising sun” and the landform - archipelago. They had the opportunity to surround the islands of the archipelago with water and learned that the bullet train is used to connect the four major islands. A few children knew the name of the capital - Tokyo and compared it to New York. I showed picture

A big thank you to Mrs. Ricketts, Mrs. Dobbyn and Mrs. Miller for coming to our kindergarten classroom and talking about Germany, Italy and Portugal. Children had lots of fun learning about Europe! #kindergarten

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The Kindergarten class began learning about Asia. The children were treated to two celebrations on South Korea. On Wednesday, Mrs. Myers (the toddler and PM K teacher) shared the family’s Korean heritage. Her son was born in Korea. He is the cutie in the center of the poster she is holding. Mrs. Han (Abby’s mom) and younger brother Andrew came to class and shared the family’s South Korean Heritage. Abby’s mom was born in Korea. Abby and her siblings were born in NY and NJ. Th

We thank the Cvetanovic family for sharing their Serbian heritage. Vasilije's mom (Millie) came to class to talk about Serbia. Vasilije was born in the USA but, his grandparents are from Serbia. Vasilije is studying both the English and Serbian language. He shared his Serbian workbook with the class. We also saw how different the Cyrillic alphabet is. His Mom showed the Serbian flag and located the country on the map. Students saw pictures of a castle in the capitol (Belg

We thank the Gudmann family for sharing their Danish heritage. Karl’s mom (Pernille) and infant brother (Walter) came to class and talked about Denmark. Karl was born in China, yet has roots in Denmark. Soon Karl will attend a class to learn the language. The children located Denmark in the world and discovered that it has a monarchy, is part of Scandinavia and the land of the Vikings. Denmark is Europe's oldest kingdom and its flag is the oldest European flag. In a child fr

We have been very busy in Kindergarten this month! We have been learning about Europe - Norway, Ukraine (Miss Mariana's motherland) and England (a big thanks to Mrs Agatep for the presentation). Children have so much fun learning about different traditions and enjoying dish tasting of those cultures! #kindergarten #Europe

Dear Parents, We thank Tasneem Patrawala, for showing the children the amazing design possibilities of using a ruler and compass, to make a line, circle and square. She introduced Islamic geometric art and design. She used activities for learning about Islamic art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The colorful posters showed the children photos of the basic and more complicated designs and architectural examples from Spain, Egypt, India etc. She also provided a fun des