Last Week!

Dear Class,

Can you believe that is has been 8 weeks since I last saw you? Wow! The time has really flown by!

This is my last week teaching at New Century Foreign Language School.

While here, I have taught over 640 different students!! That is a lot of kids!

Here is one of my 1st grade classes:

 These are second grade classes. Can you tell that the classrooms have no heat?

I can't wait to see you all in the New Year! 

Happy Holidays!!!

Love,

Mrs. Heflin

Mrs. Heflin, Thank you for sharing your pictures with us. We love learning about your time in China! We can't believe you only have 2 full weeks left in China. We really hope you can come visit us this spring...We miss you! It has been so cold here this week. Today with the wind chill it was -19 degrees. We had to have recess inside...Yikes! We stayed busy with watching Frosty the Snowman and doing some movement songs. We won "Teacher vs. Class" again and this time we got a board game party. We all brought games to school and spent about 45 minutes playing our games. We LOVED it!!! We have been crazy busy with Christmas activities. We did our trains and Christmas trees for our monthly writing. Thanks again for prepping all our materials. We wrote about what we do on Christmas. We also made giant sized elves with our heads on top~they are super funny looking. :) Today we wrote letters to Santa. Our classroom is all decorated for Christmas and our favorite part is our new friend Jasper. He is an elf on the shelf and he has had us in the giggles with his crazy new locations. We first found him on the magic board~he was climbing up it. Later he was tucked into Santa Claus' belt. He even used the draw string from the shades to pretend like he was hang-gliding. Today he picked Xavier Fox to play tic-tac-toe with. The funny thing is that they used marshmellows! We will try to keep in touch and Mrs. Salisbury will even take a little video of our Christmas program next Thursday. It is also the day we have art and we are doing our Christmas party after the program. It should be fun! Love, The Bury Bunch

Sightseeing in Hangzhou

Hello Class!

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Last weekend, I went sightseeing around Hangzhou.

What shape do this bridge and its reflection make?

Willow Trees

I saw a KFC!

This woman is weaving a scarf.

This is a forest of bamboo! Did you know that bamboo is a grass, not a tree?

This is another pagoda.

Here you can see the pagoda with Hangzhou in the background.

A small pagoda

Beautiful pathway

Love,
Mrs. Heflin

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear Class,

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! What are you thankful for?

This week, I have been telling the children here all about Thanksgiving.

We played "Pin the Bow Tie on the Turkey."

 We made turkeys by tracing our hands!

Love,

Mrs. Heflin

A Song for You...

Hello Class,

Two students in my class asked if they could sing a song for you. They have been learning this song for about a week now and have gotten pretty good at it.

The words in the song are:

My football team wears black and blue,

black and blue.

My football team wears black and blue, 

black and blue.

See them play. Hear me cheer.

We will get first place this year.

My football team wears black and blue.

Love,

Mrs. Heflin

The West Lake

Hello Class,

Last weekend, I went to see the West Lake with my friend, Vicki.

We saw a large dragon boat!

We climbed the stairs of a pagoda! A pagoda is a tall tower. It has a roof at each floor level that curves up at the edges. There were A LOT of stairs!

We saw beautiful and very detailed wood carvings. The carvings told a traditional Chinese story.

From the top of the pagoda, we could see all of Hangzhou!

When the sun set on West Lake, it was very beautiful. 

For dinner, we had wonton soup and dumplings! Yummy!

Love,

Mrs. Heflin

Home, Home on the Range

Hello class,

Last week, I taught a sixth grade class to sing "Home, Home on the Range." Do you know that song? There were 87 students in this class. I thought you might like to see a video of the class singing the song.

Here are the students learning the movement for the word "home."

After singing, the class worked in groups and played a game of charades. They are fantastic actors!

Love,

Mrs. Heflin