Valentine's Week

Valentine's week was pretty busy for us. Even though Valentine's Day was on Thursday, we had our class party on Wednesday, the day that the kindergarteners join us. It was fun to hand out Valentines, eat candy and cupcakes and play games.
At the beginning of February students had decided to once again put on a Valentine's banquet for their parents. During art time they created place- mats and other decorations. Here's a picture of Michelle standing by one of the well decorated tables.




On Thursday and Friday afternoon they prepared the food. Our menu was as follows:
Drinks (water or grapefruit crystal light)
Salad
Stromboli (choice of ham or sausage)
Dipping sauce
Dessert (cookies and chocolate milkshakes)

Here is a picture of the students busily at work making and decorating cookies.

The students also prepared poems and short stories about how their parents had met. Afterwards they played recorders and bells and sang several songs they'd been working on including one song in Japanese that they'd learned from a guest speaker who taught them about Korea and Japan in January. Needless to say the parents had a great time.