Friday Update Oct 5 to 9

Our gorgeous kids celebrating United Nations Day today!

It has been another amazing week of exploration and learning in the Yellow Starfish Class! We have continued to talk and share about our families and how we are the same and different.  We also learned a little bit more about this beautiful country we live in.  The cuties participated in a UN day assembly (and they were gorgeous in the clothes from their country!) and celebrated Daniel’s birthday! (HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL!)

Our explorations and learning activities this week also included…

*we learned the sounds (long and short), letter formation, and hand motion for the letter Ii.

*played with ice (in different shapes) in the sensory table.

*practiced writing and decorated our initials.  Can your child tell you his/her initials? How about the initials of a friend in class?

*learned the ways children in our class say hello in different languages.

*read Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni, and measured things with cubes, a ruler, beans….

*talked about how we are at the American School, and we live in Singapore! We are so lucky! We learned more about the symbols of America, and talked with some of our cuties from the US. Then we looked at some of the symbols of Singapore, talked about our favorite places here, and talked about the flag and merlion. 

*I introduced Canada and we talked about the countries that everyone in the class is from, then tried to point them out during the UN day parade of flags

*some of us painted flags of Singapore and America and other countries that are important to us or that we were interested in.

*continued talking about our families

*made “Potato Head Families”  (they are SERIOUSLY the most adorable things ever!)

*we had a visit from our counselor Mr. Pearson

*We learned about Australia from Jasper’s mom, and made and ate fairy bread!  (Some of us were even brave enough to try veggiemite!) We also had Malia’s mom talk to us about Japan. The cuties rolled rice and seaweed. Thank you Fiona and Mina for coming in and sharing with us!

*We have had rainbow rocks on our light table so the kiddos started experimenting with what else they could do with them so they started gluing them and making beautiful pictures!

REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES

Tuesday, October 13^th :  PUMPKIN PATCH—this is for students only, but if you want to volunteer for a time slot, our class will be through from 10:20-10:45 on that day. (This is through the PTA)

Thursday/Friday October 15^th/16^th :  Parent-Teacher Conferences (NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS on these days—Also students do not attend the conferences.)

October 19^th to 23^rd :  FALL BREAK—NO SCHOOL

Friday, October 30^th:  HALLOWEEN PARTY-There will be a short parade of costumes and a party in our class.—Details to come soon.

*Return red library bag and books on Monday.

*Let me know if you would like to share something about your home country, and what date and time you would like to come in.