Happy Birthday Liam! Liam turned 4 and we celebrated with some yummy pirate cupcakes! Thank you to Liam's mum and dad and sister Stella for sharing some photos of Liam growing up and celebrating with us. UWC DayPreschool O joined with Kindergarten L to move around the various activities together. They started off by talking about 5 things that were special about themselves, and then drawing around each others hands and writing their special things in each finger. Then they sung some songs with Kru Jessica. These were recorded and will be shared to the retirement home that some secondary students visit each week. The children also made muffins, cards, a plant pot and planted seeds to give to the old people. They had a fun day and learnt through these fun activities about the UWC commitment to service and helping others. Our letter sound of the week - Ii This week we practiced writing 'i's on the whiteboard, we used our fine motor skills to thread around a capital i, we made insect collages, ice blocks/icy pops and froze some ocean animals in water. Then we had great fun trying to get the animals out of the ice! We are the Preschool Orchids! Using our data collecting skills, we had a class vote to choose what living thing we would like for our class name. We could choose from Octopus, Ostrich, Orangutan, Oryx, Oak tree, Otter, Orchid or Owl. We agreed to choose the name which had the most votes. It was very close, but, with 4 votes, orchid was the favourite. Today (Monday), Kru Zone, the primary school art teacher, came to help us make an artwork of an orchid. We helped draw the outline and then paint it. We also painted our own small orchids too. What beautiful orchids! ECC Family Picnic and International Cuisine Day What a wonderful morning we shared on Friday, trying many different dishes. Thank you for coming along and sharing your culture with us! We are happy to Welcome Back Dea to our class! Water Play and Swimming with Kru Lyndsey Music with Kru Frederick Time In Everyday after lunch, we have a quiet time when we focus on our breathing and relax. This term, we are doing yoga as our mindfulness practice. The children love to stretch their body in their favourite asanas such as downward dog, cat pose, tree and aeroplane. How We Express Ourselves
We are continuing to explore what play is. This week, we went to our Grade 3 buddies' class to see what they like to play with. We also continued our imaginative use of everyday materials creating and playing with boxes. Classroom Activities Kru Bowling was sick this week and we were lucky to have many people helping us! Thank you to Kru Nok, Kru Pla, and the Nursery TA's. We have been making lots of things - from playdough, threading beads and other craft materials. Not A Box As part of our Unit of Inquiry, one of our lines of inquiry is 'imaginative use of everyday materials'. We introduced some cardboard boxes to our classroom for the children to explore. A wide variety of imaginative activites ensued, boxes became boats, planes, jack-in-the-box and were decorated with paint and other materials. Our sound of the week was 'Aa'. We thought of lots of words with the 'a' sound - many of our names have a's in them, as well as apple, ants, avocado, alligator and ape. We made apple prints and dot Aa's. Wai Kru We celebrated Wai Kru in Thai class. Wai Kru means paying respect to the teachers. The children helped by preparing the flowers. Big thanks to Kru Ying and Kru Boom for organising such a special day for the teachers. Happy Birthday Yaya! It was Yaya's birthday a few weeks ago but she was sick, so now we were able to celebrate her birthday. Her parents came in and shared some lovely photos of Yaya when she was younger. Then we gave her a card we had made and shared a delicious birthday cake. Have fun being 3 in Preschool Yaya! Essential Agreements We have talked about what we need from each other to have a happy time in Preschool. The children came up with these agreements:
We began our phonics program this week with the letter sound 'Ss'. The children coloured in a letter s to look like something starting with the 'ss' sound, such as a snake. We also made 'seascape' paper plates with sharks, shells, starfish and seahorses. Family photos As part of our 'who we are' unit, we are displaying our family photos. We have made photo frames for them to go in. Please send me a photo of your family if you haven't yet! How We Express Ourselves Through Play
In order to explore the question, "What is Play?", we took the children to some different areas of the school and observed what they did there. It was fascinating to see how their play developed, or whether they even saw it as play! |
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