Week 8 Highlights Oct 2 to 6

We had a lot of “animal” interactions this week, from snails, to frogs, to fish, to a giant centipede and a giant spider! This was just one part 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 8 Highlights

REMINDERS

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

*Wednesday, October 11^th: Alternate Dress Day

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

Students do not attend these conferences. NO SCHOOL for students.

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

*October 31^st: HALLOWEEN PARTY 8:00am-9:00am

-Students will arrive to school in their costume (if students do not want to dress up they are invited to wear alternate dress.)

-Our wonderful class parents Hana and Noemi will be sending you information on how you can volunteer for this even and what you can bring. It will be a fun time with snacks.

-At 9:00 the students will change out of their costumes. Please bring a change of clothes (alternate dress) If parents are at school for the party, they can take the costumes (and all of the little bits that may go with them J) home with them, if parents are not here, we will pack them into school bags.  Our kiddos will give parents who could join us a big hug and say goodbye, and then we will continue on with our day. J

*November 22^nd: 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. Our room moms have offered to organize the food so please look out for their e-mails. We look forward to seeing you here! Please let us know if you will not be able to attend.

*November 23^rd and 24^th: NO SCHOOL-Thanksgiving Holiday

*December 22^nd to January 14^th: NO SCHOOL-WINTER BREAK

*January 15^th: First Day Back at school

*Parents In the Classroom*

I am attaching a document to my week's e-mail that invites you into the classroom. I would also like to invite parents in if they want to share about a special holiday/celebration that is important for their family. (Examples, Divali, Christmas, Hannukah, Chinese New Year…). Please just contact me if there is ever a time that you would like to share something with our class, celebrate a certain holiday with us, be a guest reader, or just spend some time doing some of the activities mentioned in the attached document.

Mango and Oreo Cookie

Let me know if you would like to take our piggies home for a visit. You could take them home for a weekend or a longer break. I have instructions for you, and will give you the things you need to care for them. They don’t ride on the buses home so you would need to find a way to get them home (car or taxi.)

Week 8 Oct 2 to 6

88 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt

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