WEEK'S UP FOR THE WEEKENDING 9 SEPTEMBER 2016

HELLO,



MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

DATE: FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2016

VENUE: SCHOOL DRIVEWAY

As communicated last week, Mid-Autumn Festival will be celebrated on 
Friday, 16 September 2016, that would be the third day of this time-honoured tradition.  Please note the change from the school calendar.  The festivities, that include performances by our bian dang ban begin at 6:35p.m and you and your family are cordially invited! 

Parents of children who will perform will be notified about the suggested drop-off time. 

The Mid Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, symbolizes family togetherness. Share the stories behind this festival with your children and celebrate with some traditional activity.   Quoting from our previous 'Week'sUp'; please consider making a trip to Chinatown in the coming week to shop for a lantern (battery operated please!) to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. 

The children are invited to bring their lanterns to school (tagged with their names), so they may hang it up and add to the decorations that we intend putting up on Friday, 16 September 2016.

We look forward to your support in this cultural event that we have staged since our establishment, in 1998!  Please do come, we promise an entertaining and social evening. 

BIAN DANG BAN （便当班）

Topics:

· Mid-Autumn Festival

· Water and its various forms

Songs:

· Autumn Songs

· Mid-Autumn Festival songs:

*Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节)

*We make mooncakes ourselves

  (我们自己做月饼)

*How beautiful Autumn is! (秋天多么美),

*Heart of the stars (星星的心)

Practices for Mid-Autumn Festival performances

From the Administrator's Office

Identification Tags

While many request forms have been returned to us, we are still waiting for more to come in.  We request your attention to completing and returning these as soon as possible, so we can complete this exercise in the coming week.  Kindly remember to sign the forms and affix photographs, and these may also be scanned and emailed to us.  For clarification, please contact the school office.

We have proceeded with printing the ID tags for parents who have returned their forms and the tags will be issued to you soon.  Thank you for your co-operation.

Car Decals

We have ordered the car decals which will be delivered soon.  Once received, we will distribute these to the parents who did not receive it the first time around.  Thank you for your patience.

Lunch-time Reading

Stories - Elvis and the Feathers School of Music, Tom’s Trousers, Miss Grimble and Clifford, the Big Red Dog

Poetry - Bed in Summer and The Swing from a Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dancercise with Suhairi

The extended-day children started learning the ‘cha-cha’ this week and Suhairi will be back for more Latin dancing next week.

Sports

Soccer, it is ... dribbling and passing to your team mates.  The children will be learning more of the game next week.

Academic Update

We are pleased to convey that the teachers and our children were able to achieve productive work cycles through the week.  Yay! 

Children who joined us earlier in the term worked individually and participated in the group presentations and activities, in the Exercises of Practical Life, Sensorial and Language areas.

Introducing the sounds phonetically, to the younger children, is our focus through the

‘I Spy Games’, to move them on, with language skills. 

Continuing students increased their volume of work and we have been successful in determining the 'holiday impact' which helps us to guide them to areas that need reinforcement and, move them on to new learning.  Also commenced,  fine tuning our pre-primary children who would be leaving in December, for Grade 1. 

Note: parents are reminded to stay in communication with teachers when they have questions and even concerns about learning.  

Montessori Education in the Classes …

Exercises of Practical Life Activities

· Grace and Courtesy: Excusing oneself and apologising

· Care of Environment: Washing a Chair

Sensorial Activities

· Geometrical Cabinet Presentation Tray

· Parts of a Leaf

Mathematics

· Combination Exercises with Addition Strip Board

· Language

· Phonetic action words

Group Topic (class)

· Autumn/Fall

· Mid-Autumn Festival Story

Songs:

· Seasonal and Mid-Autumn Festival Songs

Mandarin in the Classes …

Group:
· Autumn

· Grace & courtesy - polite expressions

· Autumn songs

· Rhyme: Carrying a lantern

Extended Day

Language - Word Study and Creative writing

Mathematics - Operations with the Decimal System

The Exercises of Practical Life - Sewing within a Frame

Sensorial Activity - Name Lessons with the Constructive Triangles

Science (Experiments) - Water as seen in various forms

Songs - Mid-Autumn Festival songs

Hindi Milap

Group discussion- गणेश चतुर्थी।

Story time - बाल गणेश

Songs -

१। छोटा नाटा मकोड़ा ...

२। वक्रतुंड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभा ।

    निर्विघ्नं कुरुमे देव सर्व कार्येशु सर्वदा ॥

Cookery - मोदक

Infant Community

Presentations :

· Objects and cards: Clothes

· Matching Cards: Singing, Eating, Laughing, Crying

Songs:

· Moon Festival songs: ‘wan wan de yue liang’ 弯弯的月亮, *Making Mooncake, *Two Little Birds

Discussion: Moon Festival
Story Telling: The Little Red Hen