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Apr

My Classroom

I thought I’d post a few pictures of my classroom. Note the obsessively arranged books. Yup, classic Kathryn.

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Feb

On Tuesday, the Kindergarten celebrated Korean New Year. All the students came in their 한복 (hanbok). In the morning, they made their 복주머니 (lucky pouches) for the school’s New Year’s day celebration. They then practiced their 세배 (saebae, New Year’s Bow). After the traditional New Year’s meal of 떡국 (TteokGuk, rice cake soup) and some free time, the kids played 윷놀이 (yutnori). Then they went home. Enjoy the pictures of the kids in their hanbok.

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Dec

Old Downtown

A few weekends ago, I took a trip to Old Downtown (Eunheng-dong). It’s a neat area with good shopping and good food. If you wander over there, I definitely recommend “The Flying Pan” (yes, flying, not frying) an awesome Italian restaurant with pretty good prices. I got soup, risotto and a soda for 22,000 ₩, which I think is pretty darn good. I can definitely say the food is almost as good as what I used to eat in Little Italy in Cleveland. Enjoy the pics.

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Dec

Merry Christmas from Maple Kinder

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Dec

Snowman Sock Puppet

Sorry folks, life has been hectic.

It’s December, thus the snow on the blog and the snowman puppets. I post this only because I feel so proud of Spring Class. OK, I really feel proud of myself. When I started in July, one of my first art classes with Spring was the snail sock puppet. It left me in tears and questioning my ability to teach at MapleSquare. I swear, they looked liked lumpy socks with eyes. Not so with the snowmen. Granted, I’ve learned a thing or two over the last few months (like always make a sample so you know how to do it).

So I proudly present Spring Class and their sock snowmen.

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Oct

Apple Print Shirts

Last week’s minitheme for Summer Class was apples. We looked at the parts of the apple in science. They learned about Johnny Appleseed in social studies. They made puffy apple pancakes in cooking. And finally, we made apple print tee-shirts in arts & crafts. I had a lot of fun with this one. The kids enjoyed it too. It’s one of those crafts that is super easy, but super stunning when done. Some fabric paint and fabric markers and a few apples later, we had awesome shirts. I hope they’ll wear them to school.

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Sep

Pre-Chuseok Party

Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) is next week. Since we’re on vacation next week, we had our party today. Yay for parties!

The kids wore their hanbok (traditonal Korean clothing). We made songpyong (rice cakes stuffed with sesame seeds). We played yootnori (a game played with four sticks) and jaegi (kind of like hackysack). The kids did the ganggangsullae (a traditional dance).

The kids looked wonderful in their hanbok. The songpyong were delicious. I think a good time was had by all.