SINGAPORE WEEKS UP FOR WEEK ENDING 30TH MAY 2014 MID-TERM HOLIDAYS The schools will be on holiday from 2nd to 6th June 2014. All classes, including the Infant Community and extended-day sessions will resume school on 9th June 2014. UPDATES FROM THE CLASSES Topics of Discussion: Culture: Dragon Boat Festival Insects: Praying Mantis 2. Songs about the Praying Mantis and for Father’s Day 3. EPL Activities - ‘Walking on the Line’ and ‘Folding Napkins’ 4. Craft: Father’s Day craft 5. HHIB - Mind Map of insects (Broadrick) 6. Primary 1 Simulation - We conducted Primary 1 Simulation sessions this week for our July 2014 graduands. These sessions aim at introducing and helping the children adapt to what will be their new environment. MANDARIN (NEWTON) Group Presentation: Dragon Boat Festival Rhymes: ‘Number Song’ Song: ‘Row your boat’ Mathematics: Identifying numbers from 15 to 20 Language: Identifying items in the classroom including scissors, pencil, glue and rug MANDARIN (BROADRICK) Topics of discussion: Insect: Praying Mantis Talked about the Dragon Boat festival Songs about insects Introduction to names of some vegetables: mushroom, corn EXTENDED-DAY Presentation: Bees How do bees help the environment How and why do bees collect nectar Language: Phonograms - Non-phonetic speech sounds using the black and red letter boxes Mathematics: Combinations of 10 using the number rods and addition strip board Presentation: Dragon Boat Festival Cookery Project: Making dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival BIAN DANG BAN (NEWTON) HAN YU PIN YIN: ‘un’, ‘ang’ Language: Opposites - Tall - Short, Soft - Hard Presentation: Fruits - Kiwi, Plum and Lychee Presentation: Identifying items including clock, towel, bowl and wardrobe Cookery Project - We made rice dumplings with raisins Song: Fruit BIAN DANG BAN (BROADRICK) Continued our topic on insects Talked about the Dragon Boat Festival Cookery Project: Making dumplings Continued singing songs about insects HINDI Group time – We continued to work with the topic on insects. The children learnt to name a few insects in Hindi with the help of the picture cards. Story time – The Ant and The Pigeon Craft - Preparation of ‘Book Marks’ using the flowers they have pressed previously. Games – We played a relay race and ‘Pairing of Cards (insects)’ Songs – We continued to sing the previous week’s songs INFANT COMMUNITY (NEWTON) Topic for the week: Nature - Learned about day and night, flowers, coconuts and mangoes Songs: ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ and ’Are you sleeping?’ Stories: ’Brave Little Polar Bear’ Group Presentation: Arranging Flowers and Threading Exercise Craft: Stamping stars with a star fruit. INFANT COMMUNITY (BROADRICK) Group topics - Nature: - Night time: Moon, Star; Day time: Sun - Cloud, Wind, Rain, Rainbow Songs: *Are you Sleeping?; *Golden Sun; *Wind blow; *Rain, Rain, go away Do have a great weekend, everyone!
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 13:07:13 +0000
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