Enjoying the team atmosphere in Pre K B!

This week Pre K B has had fun playing at the park and team games like tunnel ball and 'over and under'. We learnt that if one person in the team is not concentrating or working as part of the team, the game doesn't really work! This is part of our IB unit of inquiry on teamwork and communication. 

Many students have shown this week that they can be excellent teacher helpers and help their friends with work or when they are having trouble doing something tricky. The teamwork atmosphere is really growing!

In maths, we did more addition and number bonds (Friends of 10) as well as our usual counting up to 40, counting back from 0-20 and counting in 2s and 5s. 

Pre K B practised writing letters U, V, W, X and Z this week in their Phonics Workbook and next week we will go back to the start and do letter A etc. The new sight words are 'for, you, can, in' and 'a'. Next week I will be doing more phonics as well, revising sounds that letters make by themselves and as dipthongs. For e.g., /th/ or /ph/.

What makes a good friend?

This week we started our first Unit of Inquiry about 'Who We Are: Communication with others impacts stronger relationships".

So we learned about ways we can communicate with words and our body to tell our friends things. For example, if someone is hurting you, you can say, "no, thank you, I don't like it."
You could also put your hand out to say stop.

We talked about how we can be good friends such as inviting our friends to play, or when they are hurt or sad, asking them "Are you okay?"
We then did a cut and paste activity where we looked at pictures of friends who are being caring or not being caring to others.

In Pre K B we also looked at members of our family because they are part of 'Who We Are". The children drew the members of their family on a family tree picture, and they used green paint to make leaves in the shape of their hands to make a family tree next week.
So we would like each student to bring a photo (*photocopy please) that we can glue to the hand they made.
Have a great weekend and please send the homework sheet back on Monday so we can check it.
Ms Rachael and Ms Yui