Field Trip to Morehead Planetarium

Has your family ever been to Morehead Planetarium?  All Kindergarten students from Glenwood went on a field trip in early April and learned about many fascinating science topics!

First, students saw a planetarium show called "One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure."  Students learned about different parts of the night sky like the moon, stars, and constellation.  A special feature of the show was that Big Bird's friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, taught about ways China and the night sky as seen from China are similar to and different from the United States.  Our students especially enjoyed singing along with "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in Chinese!

After the planetarium show, we visited the Science Live stage to learn about Magnificent Matter.  Students learned about air pressure, chemicals with unusual properties, and energy.  Check out the slideshow below to see our students enjoying Science Live!

March Birthday Celebration

Mr. Mead and Mrs. Freeman came in to help us celebrate our March birthdays in true spring fashion.  Mrs. Freeman taught us how to make special spring eggs - with shaving cream and paint!  Students had a great time swirling the paint into the shaving cream and making designs on their special eggs.  This was an excellent tactile experience for our students!

Huge thanks to Mrs. Freeman and Mr. Mead for this wonderful celebration!

Famous Book Characters visit Glenwood!

Many famous book characters came to Glenwood today!  Fancy Nancy from "Fancy Nancy, Bonjour Butterfly" and The Number Devil substitute taught the class for Mrs. Jiang and Ms Gondek.  Even Ms. Tsai had a famous substitute - Totoro from "My Neighbor, Totoro"!  Among our students we had:

• Brother Bear from the Berenstain Bears
• Snow White
• Merida
• Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh
• Dora and Diego
• Tinkerbell
• Amelia Bedelia
• Annie from the Magic Tree House series
• Fancy Nancy
• Raggedy Ann
• Ramona

We also were lucky enough to have guests from a wide range of Dr. Seuss books like

• Max from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
• The main character from Wacky Wednesday, and 
• Fox in Socks

We had a great day of reading and sharing our favorite books.  Kindergartners also LOVED seeing the other "substitutes" around the school, and the famous book characters in all grades!  Check out the Glenwood facebook page for some great candid shots of both Fancy Nancy, The Number Devil, Merida, and many more famous book characters!

100th Day Festivities

Kindergarten and First Grade students celebrated the 100th day of school in February.  Students worked in pairs as they rotated through reading, writing, and math centers focused on numbers to 100.  Students practiced reading, writing, and counting to 100 in both English and Chinese.  Watch the slideshow to see some of the activities students enjoyed on the 100th day! 

Dr. Seuss week begins!

Dr.Seuss' birthday was on March 2nd! We will be celebrating this famous author's contributions to children's literature all week. Today was Cat in the Hat day. We read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, listened for rhymes, and discussed the surprising events in the book. What rhymes can you make?


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Celebrating Chinese New Year

Kindergartners enjoyed our New Year festivities last Friday!  

Thanks to everyone who was able to come to our celebration yesterday!  I'd like to give a HUGE thanks (and 谢谢) to the parents who helped organize the celebration: Nasha, Meng, Ardra, Sharon, and many others worked hard to put together a presentation, a snake craft, and fun hongbao for all students to enjoy the New Year. 

Also, all of Glenwood was blown away by the amazing Chinese gate that Minfu Cheng (Alicia's mom) and TingTing Chu (2nd grader Bo Chi's mom) made by hand last week. 

Check out the photos below for great candid shots of our kindergartners celebrating Chinese New Year!

Are you ready to learn about Chinese New Year?

Our kindergartners sure have learned a lot about Chinese New Year...so this week we decided it was time for the students to become the teachers!  Students worked with Mrs. Jiang to plan a class book about Chinese New Year.  Students chose topics to write about, illustrated their topics, and then wrote about their topics in teams. We then decided to present their book using VoiceThread, a digital presentation tool.  This project helped our students study a wide range of Common Core and North Carolina Essential Standards.  Students practiced the following skills (and more!):

Research: learning new facts from text and other sources, synthesizing facts with background knowledge
Informative writing: Stating facts about a topic
Public speaking
Using technology as a communication tool
Cooperating in a team

Now that we've finished, its time to celebrate!  We will be sharing our kindergatrners' presentation with the other kindergarten and first grade classes so they can learn about Chinese New Year too.  And there was one group of people the kindergartners ESPECIALLY hoped could learn about Chinese New Year from them: their parents!

So, without further ado, here is All About Chinese New Year, by your kindergartners!

All About Chinese New Year