WEEK&#39;S UP FOR THE WEEKENDING 23 SEPTEMBER 2016

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY!

Volunteer’s Meeting:

Tuesday, 27 September 2016 between 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

Ruby Room (Ms Kamakshi’s and Laoshi Xiao Rong’s class) - please come, we need you!

Mid-term Break:

10th to 14th October 2016

Diwali Celebration:
21 October 2016

Quiet Reading Time:

We are proud that our 'lunch bunch' has acquired the routine of reading quietly in our 'library' after lunch. They enjoy this restful time, with the older children taking turns to be 'librarians', collecting books that are read and inspecting these for damage and restoration.

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Lost and Found:

These are the items that are found within the school premises and we would like to restore these to their rightful owner. Please contact the school office if you have lost any item from the photograph.

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Birthdays:

We encourage parents to celebrate their children's birthday in school. Kindly refer to our handbook for more information. While we discourage sugary and salty treats, the occasional birthday cake is acceptable; however do be mindful of our 'no-nut' and the 'no nut by-product' policies, in consideration of children who have nut allergies. As regards to the size of drinks offered at parties, please bring along a beverage of the smallest possible to avoid wastage. If you are unable to provide one, we are quite happy to assist with potable water. Do let us know in advance. For further information, please call or email us.

Here are recent birthdays celebrated in school:

Grace Isaac (Missy Grace to some!), daughter of Ms Preeti Ephrem from our staff, celebrated her sixth birthday on Thursday,
22 September 2016. Here is a photograph of her taken at school on ‘Her Day’, striking a ballet curtsey! Please feel free to share your child's birthday photos with us if you would like for them to be posted on our WUp!

Following closely, is the birthday of our very own, Dennis dela Cruz. He said that he feels like he is two, so we honoured that!

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FROM THE CLASSES ...

As depicted in the gallery above, here are some highlights from the work done in the classes:

MONTESSORI EDUCATION

Exercises of Practical Life: Arranging flowers, which involves the small and large motor skills and guides the child to appreciate the aesthetic aspect of the work done. This is an activity that we invite you to do at home and any of our Montessori teachers will be happy to provide you with the steps in carrying out this exercise.

Sensorial: Activities involving the Coloured Cylinders and Cylinder Blocks. These activities help develop the child’s visual discrimination of graduations of size in a series, as well as helping to strengthen fine muscle coordination and extending concentration through comparisons of a series of graded cylinders.

Mathematics: Short Bead Chain. This activity helps to present the order of numbers. As the child progresses, the material aids with skip counting.

Language: Article Game - Learning grammar in a sustainable way, through various games, such as this.

Songs: Seasonal songs: *Autumn Leaves are Falling, *Autumn is the Season. These song describes autumn and the changes that happen during this time of the year. *We go to School in September which is about children going back to school in autumn, and the Mid-Autumn Festival songs.

Note to parents: We are building a library of pre-recorded songs. We are quite willing to share them with you, so you may sing along with your child. Please contact us for a link to the folder, that the files are stored.

Topics:

Ozone Layer - We discussed the layer that surrounds the Earth that is known as the Ozone Layer.
Northern and Southern Hemispheres - Spoke about the Equator and the northern and the southern parts of Earth.
Climatic Zones through multimedia - temperate (cold winters and mild summers), arid (dry, hot all year), tropical (hot and wet all year) and mediterranean (mild winters, dry hot summers).

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MANDARIN

Topics: The children learnt the words for the Northern, Southern Hemispheres and Equator. The older children drew a picture of the Map of the World, naming the Northern, Southern Hemispheres and the Equator, while the younger children repeated the names after the teacher. They also learnt the names of farm animals.

Songs: Autumn (the children learnt about the changes in the weather and the falling leaves) and Autumn Leaves (about colours of Autumn)

Poem: jing ye si 床前明月光，疑是地上霜。举头望明月，低头思故乡
Through this poem the children learnt the words for frost, full moon and hometown

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THE EXTENDED-DAY

Exercises of Practical Life: Braiding - We invite you to practice braiding at home with your children. This involves concentration and helps refine the small motor skills. Above all, it is an activity that the children enjoy!

Language: Referring to a Dictionary – The activity helps the child look up meanings of new words, and by doing so, he/she gets a sense of independence. Their writing skills and spelling ability also improve.

Mathematics: Subtraction using the Decimal System - The child performs this mathematical operation on a sensory level. The Decimal System also presents units, tens, hundreds, thousands, sensorially.

Sensorial: Botany Cabinet with Cards - Learning about the shapes of leaves.

Experiment: Magnetism - The children worked with various materials to see what is attracted to a magnet.

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BIAN DANG BAN

During group, the children were introduced to China and learnt the to say the names for national flag, the capital city (北京), the names of the different ethnic groups (广州人, 福建人, 客家人, etc), the national flower (牡丹) and well-known cuisines (著名美食).

Writing: The children practised counting strokes in a character and learnt the rules of writing a Chinese character.

Songs: Autumn, Autumn leaves, Autumn Baby Writing Letters (the children learnt about the changes in the weather, the migration of birds during Autumn)

Craft: Autumn Tree - with an arm and hand print.

HINDI

Story: Natkhat Bandar - The story was about not touching possessions that belong to others or one can get hurt. The children were asked for responses to questions based on the story (listening comprehension)
Continued to work with Matra Ki Peti, forming words learnt from the story, using the Matra Ki Peti (reading words)
Tracing Hindi letters
Children read with a volunteer reading parent
Songs and Poems:

१. दीपों का त्योहार दीवाली।
  खुशियों का त्योहार दीवाली॥

वनवास पूरा कर आये श्रीराम।
  अयोध्या के मन भाये श्रीराम।।

  घर-घर सजे , सजे हैं आँगन।
  जलते पटाखे, फ़ुलझड़ियाँ बम।।

लक्ष्मी गणेश का पूजन करें लोग।
लड्डुओं का लगता है भोग॥

पहनें नये कपड़े, खिलाते है मिठाई ।
देखो देखो दीपावली आई॥