WEEK'S UP FOR WEEKENDING 30 SEPTEMBER 2016

FROM THE ADMINISTRATION

THE 'MFC TRAFFIC CO-ORDINATORS’ SAY ...

We are happy to report that the dismissal systems are almost in place on all fronts, except one: For the ‘Pick and Go’ option, it would be helpful if you could arrive not earlier 11:20a.m. if possible.  We do appreciate your support and cooperation.  We now have a secured, safe dismissal system in place, which is largely thanks to you.

VOLUNTEERS’ MEETING UPDATE

Thank you to the parents who came for the volunteers’ meeting.  You may continue to sign up to help us at the various events, the checklists are located in the Administrator’s Office on the first level.  We will be thankful for all the help that we can get.

ALUMNI NEWS - We welcome news about achievements of our alumni which we would like to publish in our weekly updates.

FROM THE CLASSES ...

MONTESSORI

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Exercises of Practical Life: Cutting Vegetables: this activity introduces the child to the culinary art. They get to cut vegetables in this activity an initiation to the preparation of food and simple household chores.

Sensorial: Geometric Cabinet – Polygons: A polygon is a plane shape bound only by straight lines. We begin with general polygons (pentagon to decagon) and go on to examine specific polygons starting with the triangle, the polygon with the least number of sides.

Mathematics: Tens Board: To teach the names twenty, thirty, forty, etc.…and to show the child that twenty is two tens and so until ninety.

Language: Preposition: Learning about the Parts of Speech with the Montessori apparatus. 

A preposition is a word that indicates the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.

Topic: Great Migrations

The seasonal movement of a complete population of animals from one area to another. Migration is usually a response to changes in temperature, food supply, or the amount of daylight, and is often undertaken for the purpose of breeding. Mammals, insects, fish, and birds migrate.  Our topics are generally introduced through multi media and the screening of this topic was well-received by the children.

MANDARIN

Topics: 

Learnt names of some modes of transportation

Learnt the terminology for migration of: birds, fish, insects and mammals.

Songs: Autumn Baby Wrote Letters (the children learnt about the changes in weather and the migration of birds.

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

EXTENDED-DAY

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Exercise of Practical Life - Grating - The children grated carrots which helps to develop their large and small motor movements. This also serves as a preparation for writing and develops concentration.  The grated carrots have been frozen to be used for a cookery project in the future.

Language - Introduced the upper case letters and punctuation marks, which would help the children construct a sentence by using punctuation appropriately.

Mathematics -  On a sensory level, the children performed addition using two materials - the Decimal System and the Stamp Game: association of place values within a thousand.

Outdoor activity - Relay - running in a figure of eight, passing through obstacles.

Songs - We practiced the Diwali song - "It's Diwali That We're Celebrating".  We invite you access our pre-recorded songs and we hope you will learn the lyrics and sing along with us at our Diwali celebration.  The link is: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1-1aIZ8u93tTldNalBDcHg3RFU?usp=sharing 

You may also accessed our pre-recorded Autumn songs by following this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1-1aIZ8u93tOWFOaGVYbnQ4aDg 

BIAN DANG BAN

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Topic:

Continued talking about China - learning more about the country, colouring the flag, etc.

Talked about migration in detail: Why and how migration happens

Rhyme: The Autumn leaf

Cookery: Chinese food - steamed buns with chocolate chips

HINDI

Group Time:  नवरात्रि / दशहरा - Presentation on Navratri, a detailed description of the celebration in India.

Story time:

१   गानेवाला गधा ।

     शिक्षा - अपने शुभचिंतको की सलाह को नजरांदाज नहीं करना चाहिए।

२  महिषासुर का वध।

     शिक्षा - वरदान का दुरुपयोग हानिकारक हैं।

Word Study: 

 तरबूज़, सियार, खुश, घूमते, भोजन, धोबी, गाँव, गधा, गानेवाला, खेत

Shlokas

 श्री वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्य कोटी समप्रभा निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव

 सर्व-कार्येशु सर्वदा॥

गुरु ब्रम्हा गुरु विष्णू

गुरुः देवो महेश्वरा

गुरु शाक्षात परब्रम्हा

तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नमः

INFANT COMMUNITY

1. Dressing Frames - Velcro Frame:
    (a) Cultivate children's self-care ability
    (b) Promote the development of fine motor skills

2. Objects and Pictures - Learning Names of Insects
    The bee, ant, spider and ladybug

3. Songs: The Leaves are Falling Down, (树叶掉 下来 shu ye diao xia lai), Little Bees (小蜜
蜂)

4. Story: Little Gingerbread Man