Important Dates: Father’s Day Sunday June 16. Wishing all the fathers: Happy Father’s Day! Summer solstice: Thursday June 20, 2024! Gratitude:

Thank you to all the families for sending delicious dishes for the International Food Festival and for making it a huge success! Children were so excited and all of them tasted new foods. In July: School closed Thursday and Friday, July 4-July 5 in observance of Independence Day. Birthday Wishes to Arzu, Oliver and Sonali on turning three years old in June. Warm Welcome to Siara Jayaram, Cecilia Park, Zebastan Chen and Artin Tavakoli and their families on joining MIA!

Curriculum: The children saw the life cycle of the Lady Bug, and the Butterfly and learnt about their body parts and later released them in nature. In the month of June, we will continue to enhance our curriculum on the farm unit. The children will be learning about the Horse’s body parts and singing songs. They will learn about many facts about the farm animals and their “animal Kingdom- mammals”, their characteristics. We will introduce the Food Unit with emphasizes on the Food Pyramid and the food chain( 4-6 year old’s). We will tie this study with the Continent study. The children are showing immense interest in foods from many cultures. We are starting to taste foods from all categories: Grains, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and fats etc. Children are playing games with these vocabulary terms to become familiar with them. They are practicing the letter sounds with food names from A-Z. Children are also doing many other activities with food items like, counting with fruits, making fractions, scrubbing them clean, squeezing and making lemonade, cutting, and painting them. We will sprout moong beans in class to taste. The older children will journal their daily observations to record how many days it would take for the moong beans to sprout. Children have planted flower seeds and are watering them daily to see how many days they take to sprout. In Math, they are learning about “odd and even numbers” and they are practicing using the new learnt facts in their everyday activities. In Language: The letter family “c, i, r, p” have been reintroduced. Thank you for entrusting your beautiful children in our care.