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Friday, 16 September 2016

Weekly Update Week 5

RE Weekly Update: September 12^th to September 16th, 2016

	This Week	Next Week
Phonics/ writing	This week, we practiced writing, reading and played games and fun activities around the letter sound a,m,s,d,t. We sang phonic songs, played games and practiced writing the letters ‘s’ and ‘d’.	Next week, We will be reviewing the sounds a,m,s,t and we will be introduced to the sound ‘c’ and ‘g’. We will be looking at the letter sounds through books, letter formation activities and phonic activities.
Math	We reviewed numbers from 0-20, by singing songs, playing counting games and number recognition games.	We will continue looking at number recognition and counting from 0-20.
PSD	We read a book about being gentle to others and had discussions about how we can be kind to others and respect each others’ feelings.	Next week, we discuss feelings and emotions and how certain actions can affect others.
Science	This week we talked about feelings and emotions. Why we feel the way we do? What makes us feel a certain way?	Next week, we will be looking at emotions and feelings and discus how places makes us feel.
Art	In Art we used colors to express a feeling or an emotion. We explored different texture and material and explored how certain thinks makes us feel happy, sad etc.	Next week, we will play around color mixing and textures. How certain colors make us feel. And how we can make different landscapes using only colors texture.
Physical	We kept on practicing cutting, writing and tracing. We also went outside to draw with chalk and practice writing and drawing.	Next week, we will keep working on pencil control and fine motor skills through various activities. We will keep on cutting, tracing, writing and having activities using playdough.
Notices and Events	Reading workshop, week 6 Book week, week 6 House color, Friday, week 5

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Feelings and emotions through color...

What color makes me happy? or sad? or angry?

Feelings Tree .....

This week we talked about feelings and emotions. Through role play children learn how to understand emotions and feelings. What makes us feel a certain way? why? what makes us feel happy? sad? hurt?
By playing the doctor, the nurse of the patient children can role play and think about certain feelings and emotions. Asking question such as: Where does it hurt? Does your head hurt? your hand? How do you feel when you feel sick? sad? tired? upset?

ECA Song and dance !

Friday, 9 September 2016

Weekly Review / Preview

RE Weekly Update: September 5^th to September 9th, 2016

	This Week	Next Week
Phonics/ writing	This week, we practiced writing, reading and played games and fun activities around the letter sound ‘m’ and ‘s’. We sang our jolly phonic songs from a-z and worked on letter formation using a variety of hands on activities.	Next week, We will be reviewing the sounds ‘a’, ‘m’ and ‘s’ and we will be introduced to the sound ’d’ and ‘t’. We will be looking at the letter sounds through books, letter formation activities and phonic activities.
Math	We reviewed numbers from 0-20, by singing songs, playing counting games and number recognition games.	We will continue looking at number recognition and counting from 0-20.
PSD	We read a book about Ms Beanie’s classroom and talked about the importance of respecting our classroom properties and putting things back where they belong.	Next week, we will keep on talking about respecting our classroom property and how to put things back where they belong.
Science	This week we went on a second sensory walk with our cameras and pretended to take pictures. We took notes of our discoveries along the way. We looked at the skeleton and learned about body parts and body movements.	Next week, we will be looking at emotions and feelings and discuss our summer holidays.
Art	In Art we cut and glue a skeleton with our partner. For our second lesson everyone participated and we made a puzzle of a full human body. Everyone drew a body part and we assembled each body part together to make a person.	Next week, we will play around color mixing and feelings. How certain colors make us feel. Perhaps we will look Artists such as the painter Rothko who paints to express feelings and emotions through the use of color and composition.
Physical	We kept on practicing cutting, writing and tracing. We also played the game ‘ Walking in the jungle’ and discussed the different movements and actions we can do with our body, jumping, walking, hopping, skipping etc.	Next week, we will keep working on pencil control and fine motor skills through various activities. We will keep on cutting, tracing, writing and having activities using playdough.
Notices and Events	No hat no play policy Please ensure that your child has a hat sent it. In accordance with our new policy, if your child does not have a hat, we cannot let them go out to play. This is for your child's protection and we would like to keep them safe from the sun. Golden time Please remember to bring a toy for golden time on Fridays. Thank you.