Hello Parents! Let me apologize for not getting an update out last week. Time flew by and before I knew it, it was time for this week’s update!
Last week we explored floating and sinking. We looked at driftwood art and made some art of our own. We learned about sea turtles and their journey as babies from the sand to the sea. We said Goodbye to Ms Jasmine who has taken her childcare leave to care for her son and said Hello to Ms Luna who will be with our class till the end of the year.
Before we move on to this week’s news, let me tell you about an exciting opportunity for cultural exchange that our class, as representatives of HFS, will be involved in. Starting Monday, we will have a weekly visit and exchange with a class of children from a nearby Korean kindergarten called Happy Boat. On Monday we will visit Happy Boat for our first visit. We will meet our new friends and spend some time playing with them. The kindergarten is just up the road and this is an excellent opportunity to learn more about Korean culture and teach the local children about our respective cultures while helping them learn some fun English words and phrases. A big thanks to Mr. Kim for getting this program started! I’m sure it will be an exciting opportunity for everyone involved.
Now, to talk about this week. We began by saying Hello to a new friend called Naka from Indonesia. It’s so wonderful having him in our class.
We’ve gotten up to a lot of exciting learning this week. We read the book The Rainbow Fish and learned that we can be happier when sharing. We also made a beautiful fish for our Ocean Treasures display.
We learned about schools of fish and how they work together, like our core value of Teamwork to keep themselves safe from predators. We also learned about other creatures in the ocean like jellyfish. In PE we played a game like we were fish swimming away from predators.
Of course, we went on our trip to the Big Tree Playground. It was an amazing space and the students had an exciting day.
We read Eric Carle’s A House for Hermit Crab and made wonderful art with paper plates, paint, and our own handprint.
In Phonics we revisited the digraphs SH, TH, and CH. The students are really beginning to get it, thanks in no small part to a wonderful song on YouTube by educator Jack Hartmann. (We are not working on PH or WH at this stage but it doesn’t hurt to learn it in the song).
And of course we had wonderful opportunities for play.
That’s it for this week. As promised in the homework paper, I will try to send pins for the fish markets in a following update. Keep your eye on this page.
Have a great weekend and we’ll see you rested and ready to learn in our second to last week from Monday!