Kari Janetzke
week 31 Sentinel

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Chinese Math

For our first Chinese Math lesson, we played a traditional Chinese game called throwing fists.  It's a hand game, similar to rock/paper/scissors, but also involves some quick thinking math facts, with a little strategic thinking!  Ask your child to teach you how to play the game!  We also learned how to write numbers using Chinese characters, and even practiced some basic facts, which were completely written in Chinese. 

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Gong xi fa cai!

Happy Chinese New Year!  The students were very excited to discover what we inside the red envelopes I left on their desks this morning!  We learned that it's customary for children to get lucky red envelopes, filled with money, on Chinese New Year day.  We also got very excited to learn that the celebration lasts 15 days!

Valentine's Day party

For our Valentine's Day party, we enjoyed decorating bags for our valentines, decorating (and eating!) a cookie, making a heart caterpillar, and passing out and reading our valentines.  Earlier in the day we looked at the figurative language and homophones that make the valentine sayings funny, so we had fun reading all our special messages!

Fossils exploration

We enjoyed several activities to end our unit on fossils and dinosaurs.  We imagined what like might be like if dinosaurs were still alive today, we played a computer game to construct a dinosaur and see how it might survive in the wild, we made instant imprint fossils in clay and tried figuring out what dinosaurs made what prints, we looked at some real fossils, and practiced our paleontology puzzle skills.

THE MISSION OF BETHANY LUTHERAN SCHOOL IS TO PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND TO INSPIRE CONFIDENT LEARNERS WHO ARE ABLE TO DISCERN BIBLICAL TRUTH, THINK CRITICALLY, AND LIVE A LIFE OF SERVICE TO GOD AND NEIGHBOR.