We are entering into the theme of 'Under The Sea'. This theme has been brought forward as the school will be celebrating the 1 week school holidays(applicable for the primary school children) in Phyllis' Riccia School.
Over the past 1 month, we are proud of all the students' achievements in establishing a good foundation for concepts of 1 more and sequencing. On top of that, they have also acquired other physical skills such as aiming, throwing towards the estimated distance.
In terms of writing skills, children are practising how to form sentences using their newly acquired vocabulary. There are tremendous amount of learning involved during the process. Not only will the children learn about punctuation and grammar, they will put their thoughts into a flow of logical text. Mom and dad out there, this is not a simple task for beginners-young writers!
Following last month concept on sequencing, the children will be introduced to money and its value. Please allow your child to collect coins of all denomination and to bring to school by 15th March 2010.
We will also be experimenting with concepts of sink and float.
Enjoy this theme with your child! Hope that your child could also join the celebration on the 13th & 14th March 2010 as they can showcase their percaussion skills as well as speech & drama performance.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
1 more than 1 is 2 and so on...We've got it!
This is really not so easy as you thought.Our teacher has used many ways and strategies to help us deal with coordinating our prior knowledge on numeral & counting to seeing the sequence of numerals as 1 more than the previous number. Wow!
We have been dealing with lots of problem solving on the 'How many more' concept over the past 1 month. Luckily, we are beginning to fall in love with it especially now that we are getting the concept right and applying it well. Its fun!
We have been dealing with lots of problem solving on the 'How many more' concept over the past 1 month. Luckily, we are beginning to fall in love with it especially now that we are getting the concept right and applying it well. Its fun!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Watch me grow
Dear Parents, I'm sure that you have gone through your child's documentation on the sequencing of their growth since birth to their 'resolution' for this year. Sequencing is also further reinforced through the activity of 'My calendar 2010'. Through that activity, children learnt what is next such as after Sunday is Monday and the cycle repeats.We have no doubt at all that our children know Monday to Sunday at their finger-tips. You will be surprised that when another attribute is introduced, children at this age will need a lot of guidance to crunch the sequence correctly and some still need more exposure that there is no 32nd of Jan, eg. if 31st Jan is a Friday, which day is 1st Feb (a few who are all set to think will answer Monday bcos beginning of new month means new day:-Good try, bcos they are thinking!Others who gave a wild guess couldn't explain for their choice bcos they have not notice that 31st Jan is the last day of that month).During your parental involvement at home, you may make use of your calendar to go through with your child. Please emphasize on sequence instead of focusing on memorising the names of month or the number of days in that month. Other than sequencing indoor, we sequence outdoor too! It took a while for some of the children to pass the baton to the correct person or to move to the next position!But after the 3rd practise session outdoor plus the many indoor activities on the concept of sequencing, they succeeded.Hippee! Hooray!The activity may be chaotic.If your child could find the sequence out of chaos,you should celebrate! Seat back and enjoy the pictures and the video!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Witness the Partial Solar Eclipse in Singapore from 3:30-5pm
All K2 & After School Care students will be witnessing the partial solar eclipse:
Date : 15th Jan 2010.
Time : 3:30 to 5pm
Venue: Science Centre
Cost : $5 (Transport)
Departure from school: 2:30pm
Return to school:5:30pm
*half-day children are invited to join the excursion
Cost : $30 (transport,extended programme and care)
If participating,we advice that the child stay in the school after 1pm.
School bus children will leave with the evening school bus @5:30pm
All students must be in uniform.
Things to bring: water bottle
Objectives :
1.team building through activities. Eg.making pinhole eclipse viewer & sundial
2.experience leadership roles from student care mentor
3.exposure to phenomenon of astronomy
The above objectives can be achieved to its optimal if the child is fully engaged in the environment/setting and interacting actively among the team and exercise independent skills. Hence, we advice against parents peeking or presence throughout the excursion.
Date : 15th Jan 2010.
Time : 3:30 to 5pm
Venue: Science Centre
Cost : $5 (Transport)
Departure from school: 2:30pm
Return to school:5:30pm
*half-day children are invited to join the excursion
Cost : $30 (transport,extended programme and care)
If participating,we advice that the child stay in the school after 1pm.
School bus children will leave with the evening school bus @5:30pm
All students must be in uniform.
Things to bring: water bottle
Objectives :
1.team building through activities. Eg.making pinhole eclipse viewer & sundial
2.experience leadership roles from student care mentor
3.exposure to phenomenon of astronomy
The above objectives can be achieved to its optimal if the child is fully engaged in the environment/setting and interacting actively among the team and exercise independent skills. Hence, we advice against parents peeking or presence throughout the excursion.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Daily essentials
Dear Parents, as you're aware, your child has already started their learning journey in K2 standard. I'm sure your child has also been sharing with you what they have learnt in school.
At this junction, I hope to get your full support in ensuring that your child arrives in school punctually by 8:45am as lesson begin then for K2. On top of that, your child's pencil case is required to contain the following : ruler,eraser and 2 sharpened pencils. The pencil case, communication book,exercise books have to be readily available at all times except on weekends. This week, we discuss about Stars,Sun,Earth,days, months,year as the New Year is approaching.
I have noticed that the concept of 'how many more' needs to be re-established when I posed the question of how many more days to New Year day. Please refer to your child's documentation in their Math exercise book on how I will guide your child into grasping this very important foundation and ensuring that they are crystal clear about quantity.
At this junction, I hope to get your full support in ensuring that your child arrives in school punctually by 8:45am as lesson begin then for K2. On top of that, your child's pencil case is required to contain the following : ruler,eraser and 2 sharpened pencils. The pencil case, communication book,exercise books have to be readily available at all times except on weekends. This week, we discuss about Stars,Sun,Earth,days, months,year as the New Year is approaching.
I have noticed that the concept of 'how many more' needs to be re-established when I posed the question of how many more days to New Year day. Please refer to your child's documentation in their Math exercise book on how I will guide your child into grasping this very important foundation and ensuring that they are crystal clear about quantity.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
1st day in K2
The 1st welcome gift when we stepped into the K2 class was an activity where our teacher allowed us to feel that all of us (children,parents,teachers) are in control of how fun we want our learning to be. All of us participated enthusiastically in the class activities.
1st: we turned 10 fast rounds with arms up, then we felt the classroom spinning around us, we learnt how to stop the classroom from spinning around.
The teacher said:"If you want to have fun learning, you need to know why and what you are doing. To know why and what you are doing, you need to question yourself and question others, participate actively, take initiative,try your best instead of waiting for others to feed you, take responsible control and be resilient....!" So much more she has said, we cannot remember all, but she said that she will remind us all. Yeh!
2nd: we saw how funny the teacher was when she dramatized a passage to check our listening skill. From the passage, we learned the word: blazing, and the correct usage of the word: flames. Active listening and eyeball contact are all that she requested from us when she is in action. She gets really mad when we give attention to our toes instead of her! Some of us took turn to dramatize the passage too, its silly but we use the words 'flames and blazing' very well in our lines with actions.
3rd: for those who didn't have the chance or who are shy to dramatize, the teacher won't let them off 'NO MATTER WHAT'. She wrote the lyrics of a song on the white board, as she writes, she sound out every syllable and periodically check whether our eyeballs are following the letters. You bet it right, she took a while to finish writing that 22 words song because she constantly stop to remind those whose eyes wondered off from the board. She is really quite calculative, as she really only gave 3 chances to those who disturbed the class with unnecessary noise or are not attentive within that 15 minutes lecture/activity. But she is very tolerant with some of the children who could not pronounce 'blazing' clearly or keep forgetting the meaning of that word.
This is how we were reminded by our K2 teacher of our fun and exciting learning journey ahead of us.
Dear Parents,
The above is my journal of my observations on the children, my teaching strategies, class learning objectives, classroom rules and most importantly the skills of learning. I hope that you will enjoy reading despite that it is very wordy.
How well your child will benefit and learn, nurture and grow will be fully determined by how well you support your child's skills of learning, respond and interact with them attentively if they are sharing with you their newly acquired thoughts or knowledge and skills. Please do not equate learning to academic knowledge!
Similarly, how well the teacher can teach your child also depends on how well you follow up with your child's work and how generous are you in giving constructive feedback to the teacher. Please don't wait for several months to feedback a concern or problem. I hope to work closely with you in ensuring that your child benefits and gets the most out of his/her learning.
Cheers
Phyllis
1st: we turned 10 fast rounds with arms up, then we felt the classroom spinning around us, we learnt how to stop the classroom from spinning around.
The teacher said:"If you want to have fun learning, you need to know why and what you are doing. To know why and what you are doing, you need to question yourself and question others, participate actively, take initiative,try your best instead of waiting for others to feed you, take responsible control and be resilient....!" So much more she has said, we cannot remember all, but she said that she will remind us all. Yeh!
2nd: we saw how funny the teacher was when she dramatized a passage to check our listening skill. From the passage, we learned the word: blazing, and the correct usage of the word: flames. Active listening and eyeball contact are all that she requested from us when she is in action. She gets really mad when we give attention to our toes instead of her! Some of us took turn to dramatize the passage too, its silly but we use the words 'flames and blazing' very well in our lines with actions.
3rd: for those who didn't have the chance or who are shy to dramatize, the teacher won't let them off 'NO MATTER WHAT'. She wrote the lyrics of a song on the white board, as she writes, she sound out every syllable and periodically check whether our eyeballs are following the letters. You bet it right, she took a while to finish writing that 22 words song because she constantly stop to remind those whose eyes wondered off from the board. She is really quite calculative, as she really only gave 3 chances to those who disturbed the class with unnecessary noise or are not attentive within that 15 minutes lecture/activity. But she is very tolerant with some of the children who could not pronounce 'blazing' clearly or keep forgetting the meaning of that word.
This is how we were reminded by our K2 teacher of our fun and exciting learning journey ahead of us.
Dear Parents,
The above is my journal of my observations on the children, my teaching strategies, class learning objectives, classroom rules and most importantly the skills of learning. I hope that you will enjoy reading despite that it is very wordy.
How well your child will benefit and learn, nurture and grow will be fully determined by how well you support your child's skills of learning, respond and interact with them attentively if they are sharing with you their newly acquired thoughts or knowledge and skills. Please do not equate learning to academic knowledge!
Similarly, how well the teacher can teach your child also depends on how well you follow up with your child's work and how generous are you in giving constructive feedback to the teacher. Please don't wait for several months to feedback a concern or problem. I hope to work closely with you in ensuring that your child benefits and gets the most out of his/her learning.
Cheers
Phyllis
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