Week 7 Highlights Sept 22 to 29

We celebrated another birthday this week!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JINQIAO!!!!

Sharing family stories, drawing pictures of our families, building, counting, one to one correspondence, interest in the letters of the alphabet and writing them, and continuing to explore through loose parts and a variety of different materials…just some of our explorations this week. Click on the highlights below, and don’t forget to check out the pictures from the week!

Highlights from this week-Click on link to see the slideshow:

Week 7 Highlights

REMINDERS

*Please return the BLUE BAG and RED LIBRARY BAG on Monday.

*Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13: Parent Teacher Conferences

Students do not attend these conferences.

*October 16^th to 20^th: Fall Break—No School

*Please send in a baby story if you haven’t yet—the students are VERY excited about sharing! J

*Thank you to everyone sending in extra fruit, granola bars, crackers and snacks—the kiddos have been enjoying them, especially first thing in the morning!  Healthy snacks help our brains work better during the day, so thank you very much. J

**Check out all of the pictures from the week below**

Week 7 Sept 25 to 29

100 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt

Week 6 Update Sept 18 to 22

We celebrated a birthday this week!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ARSH!!!!

We also had our counselor, Mr. Pearson come by our classroom to introduce himself and talk about friends. “Would you like to play with me?” and “Can I play with you?” are two questions students can ask each other on the playground. We can be kind, helpful and respectful friends to each other.

Exploring clay, working on our guinea pig playground, investigating numbers through birthday play, ant cakes and sand, making banana bread, baby stories…just some of our explorations this week. Click on the highlights below, and don’t forget to check out the pictures from the week!

Highlights from this week:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sV346dl6racLQHC5WDAOZn0XSc386YQVd9E71PbWJ4A/edit?usp=sharing

REMINDERS

*Please check in your child’s Friday Folder (the BLUE BAG) take everything out and return bag back to school on Monday.  We keep certain projects/activities here at school to put in your child’s learning journey (in case your child was talking about something you didn’t see.)  If the blue bag did not come home, they have either kept some things at school or did not make a lot of products to take home—they may have been exploring in other ways than painting, drawing, etc.

*Pleas return Library books and RED LIBRARY BAG on Monday.

*Wednesday, September 27^th: Alternate Dress Day

*Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13: Parent Teacher Conferences

The e-mail from the school should be sent to you soon, so look out for that. It will have instructions on how to sign up for a time to meet with me. Students do not attend these conferences.

*October 16^th to 20^th: Fall Break—No School

*Please send in a baby story if your haven’t yet—the students are VERY excited about sharing! J

*Thank you to everyone sending in extra fruit, granola bars, crackers and snacks—the kiddos have been enjoying them, especially first thing in the morning!  Healthy snacks help our brains work better during the day, so thank you very much. J

-Information about parents coming into the classroom will be sent home soon, so be sure to look out for that to see how you can be involved in our classroom family J Also, Mango and Oreo are feeling more settled and secure with the kiddos so let me know if you would like to take them home for a weekend, a long weekend, or the October Fall break. I already have a couple of interested families! J

Week 6 Sept 18 to 22

106 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt

Week 5 Update September 11 to 15

Our amazing learners and explorers dove deep this week into counting, patterns, color and experimenting. Please click on the links below for documentation. (Please let me know if you have any issues viewing them—they are google slides and can be quirky sometimes!) 

Highlights from this week

Exploring Color

REMINDERS

*Friday, September 22^nd: Early Release Day—11:30 am Dismissal

*Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13: Parent Teacher Conferences

*October 16^th to 20^th: Fall Break—No School

*Please send in a family photo and a baby story. J

*Thank you to everyone sending in extra fruit, granola bars, crackers and snacks—the kiddos have been enjoying them, especially first thing in the morning!  Healthy snacks help our brains work better during the day, so thank you very much. 

Please see all of the photos from this week by click on the slideshow below:

Week 5 Sept 11 to 15

79 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt

Weekly Update September 5 to 8

We have had another amazing week! Our learners are settled, comfortable, and happy! They were sad to end the day Friday, even they were so completely exhausted, so I am excited to start back with them tomorrow!

There were a lot of things happening in the hub this week, but a few main ideas seemed to come through as the students were interacting…

Building:

-airplanes, airports, zoos and spaceships

Animals-safety and belonging:

-making enclosures, safe homes, animal families, friend groups

Colors:

-the friendship of color, colors with a variety of different materials, how colors match each other

Ideas Jumping:

-from one person to another, from one material to another, from one space to another

The Joy of Exploring:

-the absolute fun of finding out new things with new materials with new friends!

I will send some of the documentation from these interests very soon.

REMINDERS

**A note about ice-cream. Aidah is still a little confused about which students should be allowed to have ice-cream on Fridays (some conflicting notes on lunch menus.)  Can you please either write a little note and put it in your child’s zippy pouch or send Aidah an e-mail at zuraidah@sas.edu.sg) In the note you can say something like

1)   My child can always have ice cream on Friday’s whether they have school lunch or home lunch

2)   My child can never have ice cream on Friday’s

3)   If my child has school lunch they can have it but not if they have home lunch

Then at least Aidah will know if we should use your child’s lunch card to buy them an ice cream or popsicle for a dollar.  Thank you so much for this!

*This Wednesday, September 13^th:  Alternate Dress Day/Library Day

*Friday, September 22^nd: Early Release Day—11:30 am Dismissal

*Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13: Parent Teacher Conferences

*October 16^th to 20^th: Fall Break—No School

*Please send in a family photo and a baby story. J

*Thank you to everyone sending in extra fruit, granola bars, crackers and snacks—the kiddos have been enjoying them, especially first thing in the morning!  Healthy snacks help our brains work better during the day, so thank you very much. J

Week 4 Sept 5 to 8

82 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt