Thursday, 3 April 2014
Friday Update April 4
April 4, 2014
Dear Parents,
It was so great to be back
this week with our cuties!!! I heard all about your break, and whether you were
on a trip or stayed here in Singapore, the cuties were excited to tell the
class about their activities! We are a lucky group! Please pay special attention to the dates at
the end of this newsletter—we have A LOT of things coming up in this last
quarter of Prek, it is hard to keep it all straight!
This week we…
*reviewed and ended our
Fairy Tales unit, and began our last big unit on insects! The insect
unit is always a favorite with students.
It is something they can really relate to, especially in
Singapore!!! Our cute entomologists
began their introduction this week, answering the question “What are insects
and how are they the same/different from other living things?” Ask your child if he/she can tell you about
it! If you see any cool insects about town, take a picture and send it in J We would love to see
what you find. J
*learned the letter, sound
and hand motion for Zz.
*added zig zags to our
feely letter ZZ.
*drew pictures of words
that start with Zz in our alphabet journals, and cut out Zz pictures.
*had a visit from “Mr. Z”
(Ava’s dad in Ms. Kiran’s class) and he sang insect songs with us.
*built amazing structures
in the block room (we were inspired by pictures we found.)
*practiced counting by 10
(Zero the Hero). Can your child count to 100 by 10’s?
*learned the
characteristics of an insect and what makes them different from other animals
(Have your child tell you some of the differences. i.e.: insects hatch from
eggs, insects have 3 body parts, insects have 6 legs)
*learned the songs Head
Thorax Abdomen and I’m an Entomologist. Please have your child sing them
to you! J
*played an insect memory
game using different insects found in Singapore. Can your child tell you
the name of some of the insects?
*pretended to be
entomologists and collected, sorted and tallied different insects (plastic onesJ) in the sensory table.
*Talked about the idea of
publishing a class book about insects.
We are compiling information we know about insets to put in the book and
are “researching” insects.
*Read a lot of insect
books!
*Painted insects we know,
did bug puzzles and a bee matching game!
*Began learning a little
more about bees, and starting making a bee habitat and bee puppets
*Made a buzzing bumblebees
book
*In the science center,
predicted if certain classroom things would SINK or FLOAT and then tested it
out J
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK
We will introduce the
letter Qq do some activities with quilts and continue with insects, focusing on
bees.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week!
*SONG BOOKS ARE GOING HOME THIS WEEK! Please sing some songs with your child as
they “point” to the words with their magic pointer and return the song books on
Monday.
Some dates to keep in
mind for the rest of the year…. More
details to follow on many of them, but mark your calendars!
*Wednesday, April 9th: LATE START—School starts at 10:00am (and
Alternate Dress Day)
*Friday, April 18th: Good
Friday—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, April 24th: FIELD TRIP to see Rapunzel
*Thursday, May 1st: Labor Day—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, May 8th: FIELD TRIP to Sungei Buloh
*Tuesday, May 13th: Vesak
Day—NO SCHOOL
*Friday, May 16th: PORTFOLIO SHARE 8:15-9:15
*Friday, May 23rd: Parent
Tea and Sing a Long
*Thursday, June 5th: Last Day of School!—11:30 dismissal
Thank you!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!!! Lynsey and Aidah
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Picture from March 17 to 19
It was a short week because of parent teacher conferences, but here are pictures from our visit with author Peter Brown, and saying goodbye to our dear wonderful Adam!
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Friday Update Week 27 March 10 to 14
March 14, 2014
Dear Parents,
A NOTE ABOUT CONFERENCES: If you haven’t signed up for
your child’s conference, they are closing the site today, so please go and do
that.
We had another fun week of
learning! J We continued with our unit on fairytales and
added Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Kittens to
our repertoire. The students are doing
an amazing job in our dramatic play area with the costumes as well as with
puppets and props of retelling the fairy tales.
We also…
*made patterns using the
characters of Three Little Pigs.
*learned the letter, sound
and hand motion for Jj.
*added jewels to our feely
letter Jj.
*drew pictures of words
that start with Jj in our alphabet journals, and cut out Jj words.
*learned the song John
Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt and added it to our Poems and Songs folders.
*made 3 flavors of jiggly
Jello and mixed them in our bowls like rainbows and ate the jello!
*practiced identifying and
counting numbers through 20 while playing Jellybean Bingo.
*read several versions of
Jack and the Beanstalk.
*observed the inside of a
bean.
*reviewed ordinal numbers
and learned the steps to draw a bunny.
*made Jack climbing a curvy
beanstalk to practice our cutting skills.
*painted rainbows
*learned all about St.
Patrick’s Day (on Monday) and about those tricky little leprechauns!
*read St. Patrick’s Day
Stories
NEXT
WEEK
Next week we will be learning
doing a review of the letters we have learned so far this year and concluding
our Fairy Tales unit.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday. (Also if you
haven’t returned the menu for this coming week, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send it
back to us! J The cafeteria needs to know how many meals to
prepare.)
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week! (And for info from Ma Laoshi and Mr. Geoff—their
updates are on their blogs—the links for them are on the side of my blog.)
Just a heads up for
upcoming dates as we head into the last part of the year…
*
Thursday, March 20th and Friday, March 21st: Parent Teacher Conferences---I look forward to sharing your child’s strengths and goals with
you! J
*March 22 to March 30:
SPRING BREAK—NO SCHOOL
*Wednesday, April 9th: LATE START—School starts at 10:00am
*Friday, April 18th: Good
Friday—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, May 1st: Labor Day—NO SCHOOL
*Tuesday, May 13th: Vesak
Day—NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Friday Update March 3 to 7
March 7, 2014
Dear Parents,
It was another fun week of
learning in the yellow starfish preK class!!!
We continued with learning about Fairy Tales, and really worked with The
Three Billy Goats Gruff!! Our classroom
was filled with laughter and awesome storytelling as the cuties retold their
versions of The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The
Three Billy Goats Gruff. This week the
teachers did their final performance of the Goats Gruff. The fairytale Unit is all about language,
vocabulary, details and sequencing, so we wanted to show the kiddos how it
works. We have been making puppets and
props, acting out the stories, and using materials to retell. Ask your child to retell one of our fairy
tales to you—Remind him/her to add lots of details to make the story more
interesting! Good oral language,
vocabulary, complete sentences, details and sequencing makes for great writers
and readers later on! (And don’t forget to ask them what 3 things fairy tales
have! J)
In other news…our
Gingerbreak Man is in NEW YORK!!!!!! J
Some details from this
week- We…
*learned the sound, letter
formation and hand motion for the letter Gg.
*wrote Gg words, drew Gg
pictures and cut out Gg pictures in our journals.
*added gold glitter to our
feely letter Gg. Please add it to your ring and have your child review
all of the letters.
*read many versions of the
Three Billy Goats Gruff
*reviewed that fairy tales
need Once Upon a Time, a good guy/”bad” guy, and a happy ending
*were introduced to other
fairy tales such as The Ugly Duckling, The Three Little Kittens and The Little
Red Hen, among others J
*practiced sequencing
pictures (we put them in order)
*organized some very fun
items into small, medium and large
*made a TROLL and described
parts of its body
*participated in Garden
math
*made troll and billy goat
puppets and a river, hill and bridge for them so we could act out the fairy
tale
*Made a pattern of small,
medium, and large goats
*tallied how many Guys and
Girls there are in our class compared to the other PreK classes
*painted a Three Billy
Goats Gruff watercolor
*we sorted things in our
classroom to help clean up. We
remembered that we are BIG boys and girls and clean up the things we play with
(this is what they are supposed to tell you at home, and encourage them to pick
up their own toys J)
NEXT
WEEK
Next week we will be learning
the letter Jj and learning about Jack and The Beanstalk.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday. (Also if you
haven’t returned the menu for this coming week, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send it
back to us! J The cafeteria needs to know how many meals to
prepare.)
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week! (And for info from Ma Laoshi and Mr. Geoff—their
updates are on their blogs—the links for them are on the side of my blog.)
Just a heads up for
upcoming dates as we head into the last part of the year…
*
Thursday, March 20th and Friday, March 21st: Parent Teacher Conferences---you will be getting a letter from the office telling you when
and where you can sign up J
*March 22 to March 30:
SPRING BREAK—NO SCHOOL
*Wednesday, April 9th: LATE START—School starts at 10:00am
*Friday, April 18th: Good
Friday—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, May 1st: Labor Day—NO SCHOOL
*Tuesday, May 13th: Vesak
Day—NO SCHOOL
Thank you!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!!! Lynsey and Aidah
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