Goodbye! See you in April!

It was a sudden decision but I think it was a good one. Unfortunately we didn't get to perform our YEP in front of an audience because of the corona virus. But we did get dressed in our costumes and do a performance today.

Please remember we have still just only started learning the steps to the second half of the dance this week. So it wasn't easy for the kids to remember today. Today the children cleaned out their tubs and the toy tubs and we did one last literacy lesson on rhyming words.

Some of the homework I sent is related to rhyming words and I also sent home a bit of handwriting, math and Japanese from Ms Yui. If you have the time, it would be great if the children could finish it all. If not, that's OK.

Recently, the sight words we covered in class were: house, people, time and when.

If your child is still struggling with the Pre Primer and Primer Words, I have included a photo of the lists that you could print for them to practise. As Taz and Azuhisa's birthdays are in March, we had a party for them today.

Next week I will assign some books on RAZ at your child's level so you can also log them in and they can listen to the voice and then read themselves.

Ms Yui and I had a fantastic time with all the Pre K B students and thank you for all the presents over this year! As a new teacher at Abroad I was really impressed with the parents AND students. Have a great break and I hope your child loves kinder!
😍

Warmer days and warmth on Valentine's Day.

This week was a busy week for inquiry with our dance practise for the YEP starting. The children have practised the first 30 seconds of the song and are getting better at the actions. After painting their beautiful swirly paintings last Friday, we looked at them together and told our table partners one thing we liked about their painting. For example, "it was so colourful" and "I liked the shapes." We read a nice story about a girl who was curious, but as she got older she lost her imagination and curiosity. The book is called "Heart in a bottle" by Oliver Jeffers. 

In phonics, we practised our sight words with the fishing game and by building words from cards with starting and ending sounds, such as /sh/ and /ip/. The new sight words this week were: at and day. We revised got.

In math, we did counting up to 100 and down from 100-0 as well as designing and making our own 3D shapes. The children are learning that 2D and 3D shapes are different because 2D shapes are flat, whereas 3 D shapes are not. 

Learning about 3 D shapes

Well after the field trip to Kids Plaza this week we were all very tired on Friday. The children had a lot of fun playing with the music instruments, costumes, interactive games and science activities. 

This week we started learning about 3 D shapes and made some with paper. The main ones that were introduced were: cube, cuboid (rectangular prism), square and triangle based pyramids, cone, sphere, cyclinder and triangular prism. I showed the children posters of these shapes and then they went around the class to find toys or objects that match those shapes. We also did a picture sort in groups in which they had to glue the picture into the correct category. 

In literacy, I listened to the children read and the sight words for this week were: I'm (I am), got, don't (do not) and we revised same again.

For inquiry, I wanted the children to be risk-takers and try to come up with an idea for an painting by themselves. The only thing I helped them with was a squiggly line through the middle of the page. After, I told them we would join all the paintings together to make a big group painting. Everyone did a great job of letting the art inspire them.