Friday Update November 4

Although it has been a short week, it has been a great one!  We celebrated another new 5 year old -HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVIA!!!!!  We welcomed a new cutie, Sanaa, who is a wonderful addition to our amazing class.

This week some of our learning included…

*celebrating Diwali! Arunika’s mom Manaswi came in to read us a Diwali story and then helped the students create a beautiful Diya out of paper and glitter glue. Thank you Manaswi!

*planting our pumpkin seeds. We have read some books on how seeds grow, so the students wanted to see it in real life! They were especially excited after some brave kiddos tried out yummy baked pumpkin seeds and decided they wanted to grow their own plant! We are thinking of trying it out in the back garden too, despite the humidity and heat that might make growing a new pumpkin difficult. We can only try! J

*drawing and writing up a storm! Ideas were flowing this week! Pictures, books, stories…wow!

*practicing our numbers, one to one correspondence and writing them.

*sorting items (the students started doing this in the dramatic play area, so we tried it with math manipulatives. The students came up with ideas of sorting by color, shape, “thing” (veggie, insect etc,) size…

*comparing weights—little kittens, cats, dogs and puppies, blocks, actual weights…the students used the scales to weigh these things and then moved to weighing other things around the classroom.

*talked about Halloween and Divali celebrations they participated in. Many wanted to share!

*..and much, much more!

REMINDERS / UPCOMING DATES

*November 23^rd: Thanksgiving Celebration- 12:15-1:15.  We invite all parents, siblings, relatives that may be here in Singapore to a celebration in our back courtyard. We have been talking about appreciating how we are the same and different, and how we may celebrate similar or different holidays and participate in various amazing celebrations. Let’s do this together! Please bring a dish (main, snack or dessert) from a country that is special to you (passport country, a place you have lived or called home…) so we can celebrate each other, and our amazing classroom community. We will eat together and have a great time. Students are invited to wear clothes/dress from a country that is special to them.  Manaswi has offered to organize the details so please look out for her e-mail. We look forward to seeing you here!

*November 24^th and 25^th: NO SCHOOL-Thanksgiving Holiday

*December 17^th to January 8^th: NO SCHOOL-WINTER BREAK

*January 9^th: Late Start—10:00am start for school Week 12 November 2 to 4