Newsletter 29.11.13

Dear Parents,

As we draw closer to the end of term, children have been showing more confidence engaging in new activities at school. We have been doing various activities in different learning areas and we are very pleased with how enthusiastic they have been.

Children have started learning about Addition through various fun ways such as 'unifix' cubes and hand prints.

Ms Gurvinder also supported them in developing their 'mouse' skills on the computer. They have been 'dragging' and 'clicking' on pictures in the ICT game.Outside, children have had the opportunity to play tennis! They all loved it so we will be doing it again next week.

Check the photos below to see how fun it was this week!

Ms Charlie (Art Teacher) came to help children make some pirate hats.

Thien used the hand print to count the number Ms Grace had shown him.

Bill used the unifix cube to answer an addition number problem.

Tina tried her best to find the answer for the number problem.

These boys have been busy water painting the wooden blocks.

Selina and Victoria are all geared up for our Pirate party next week!

Please follow the link http://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers
to try this Maths game with your child at home.

REMINDER

Next week, we are going to continue on reading the book 'Pirates love Underpants' and to ensure that the children will have fun whilst learning, we are going to have a Pirate Party. This will be on Friday 6th December 2013.

We are opening the classroom to group of parents for 3 days next week to see us and learn the regular songs we sing in class. Sign-up sheets are posted on our Notice Board and we encourage each one of you to come and have fun with us!

Christmas is just around the corner and in EYFS tradition that means music concert! Children have been practising the songs we are going to perform and we are excited to show them to you. More information will be sent to you next week.

Have a lovely weekend!

Newsletter week ending 22nd November

Dear Parents,

We continued focusing on the children's home countries and learnt more about the UK, Canada and Switzerland.  We decorated rattan plates which will go on display in the Fundino playground next week. The children have been involved in lots of messy play activities this week to encourage them not to think of their hands as being 'dirty' when they play with materials such as paint and flour but as a fun hands on experience!
We also celebrated Thien's 4th birthday today.  Happy Birthday Thien!

Please see the photos below.

Reminders:
-We would like to remind you that school starts at 7.55 a.m.  We have noticed that some children are regularly arriving at 8.30.  We would like all our children to benefit from our school day and the activities we plan.  Children who arrive late often take longer to settle in and miss out on activities.

The children practised squeezing the handle to spray the paint.

During our splash pool sessions, the children built a structure and used water to push the balls along the pipes.

The children continued to practise writing numbers this week using number patterns.

It was Colin and Selina's turn to share their photos of visits to their home countries.

The children made pizza dough to use in the malleable area.

Ms Cheska worked with the children to make hand and foot prints on rattan plates.

The children made pancakes and tasted them with Canadian maple syrup- yum!

Some children decided the cars need to be washed!

We played with cornflour and fabric softener gloop.

EYFS Blogger Session for Parents

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Newsletter 15.11.13

If you hear your children saying,"Kumusta","Xin chao","Namaste" do not be surprised. These are what we have been learning in class in celebration of the International week. We have been focusing on the countries from Asia and the Pacific that are represented in F2 unit. Please have a look below for some amazing photographs of the activities the children have been doing.

Thank you to all the parents for sending photographs and objects representing your countries and coming to the classroom to lead an activity for the children. We still have 2 countries to talk about next week and we are looking forward to share more amazing stories and information to them.

Children all came dressed in their national costume.

Children enjoying what they have made during our Vietnam day in class.

They also visited the Vietnam room where they got to ride a real 'Vietnamese boat'.

They also learnt a game called 'Conglak' (Indonesia) that is similar with 'Sungka' (Philippines)

Ms Cheska taught them how to make a Filipino dessert called 'Turon' (banana fritter)

We also had a visit from Y6 children who taught them how to make a penguin using plasticine.

Victoria got to wear a 'sari' an Indian outfit.

Children took part in the International Fair.

Children have been enjoying our International Cafe.

Below are videos of the activities we have been doing at school.

Newsletter 8th November

Dear Parents,

Thank you for all your wonderful International week contributions and ideas.  If you haven't done so already, please remember to send us some photos of places your children have visited when they have gone back to their home countries. For children of Vietnamese nationality, you are welcome to bring in photos of their holidays in other countries.  

A reminder of whole school events:

Monday 11th November- F1 and 2 will join the flag parade this year in the hall and will parade at 8.15 am. Please bring your child into school wearing their national costume.  Please also make sure your child is on time.

Wednesday 13th November- International cafe and fair.  Please buy tickets from Ms Oanh in the office if you would like your child to take part in the fair activities.

The children have expressed a wide range of interests this week.  Please see below for what we have been up to:

The children loved playing with the new water wheel in the splash pool.

We have been pleased to see a wider range of friendships developing in the unit.

Most of the children have been interested in reading shark books(fiction and non-fiction).

We celebrated Minh's 4th birthday on Tuesday.  Happy Birthday Minh!

The children have been making their national flags for the international flag parade.

We have been counting the number of beats in words and copying simple rhythms.

We now have two very big sharks in the class!

Newsletter 01.11.13

"There's a shark in the park!"

Children have been very excited saying and even shouting these words in the classroom because we have been focusing on that book for some time now. Children have been joining in at re-telling the story to their friends and teachers.

These are the highlight of our week at school:

* The children made their own telescope and used them to look for sharks around the classroom.

* Lots of beautiful costumes were taken out and made available for the children to play. We have had police officers, heroes and princesses in the classroom this week.

* They have been playing with a big block of ice and started learning and using the vocabulary 'melting', 'cold', 'smooth' and 'rough'. We are going to build up on this next week and have an experiment on how ice is made.

* We have been busy colouring in our big shark display and children have all joined in the activity.

* More children have participated in our splash pool session and we are very happy about this!

* We have been doing lots of gross motor skill activities in the playground and the soft play room. Groups of children have taken part in playing football and doing different movements (Sticky Kids) in the soft play room.

Reminders:

* Please continue on bringing your children's swimming kit at school. We have been enjoying our splash pool sessions and would like all children to regularly join in.

* All your children's personal belongings should be labelled.

* Children have shown good understanding of BISCAT. We use BISCAT reinforce positive behaviour at school all the time. This half-term we are focusing on Internationalism and you will see below the objectives that go in the Internationalism strand.
* We have been using different educational websites in the class. If you want to visit and have a go at these websites with your child, please click on the links below. These are also available and can easily be seen on the side bar of our class' blog.

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Cbeebies

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