For the past month, Maile and her classmates have been doing a unit at school about their Personal History. The unit concluded this Friday with a presentation of family trees that each child made. Christine and I went for the presentation. Maile and her classmates sang a song in Mandarin – that I gather was about all the different members of the family and then they had their family trees posted around the school science fair-style. So you could walk around and each child would tell you about their family.
Maile and her classmates singing
Maile with her family tree and her book about herself
A close-up of the family tree
They also made books about themselves. Each page had a photo of them at a certain age (0 – 5) and a drawing and writing (in Chinese) of something they were able to do at that age. So at 0, Maile could drink a bottle and cry. At 1, she could talk. Etc.
(Dad note: The whole project reminded me of something I did with a preschool teacher when my Grandma Judy passed away. She worked with me to make a picture of my whole family. I have a vague recollection of the picture – maybe Grandma Jill can dig it up and we can show Maile over Thanksgiving!)
