This week we are reading and doing activities related to The Gingerbread Man. Here is the YouTube adaptation we have watched in class. You can help at home by having your child help you bake cookies or by role playing the story in a game of tag. The gingerbread man is chased by a number of different animals including a horse, dog, cow, rooster and-most importantly- a fox!
Please note that Term 1 reports will be send home and emailed out this week. These reports are a way to get a bigger picture of your child's development across the curriculum this Term and to summarize your child's interests and achievements so far. I have come across a great storybook and English vocabulary app that I encourage you to take a look at for home learning over the holidays. The app is called, Adventures for Kids and can be downloaded at the iTunes store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adventures-for-kids/id364528016?mt=8
Here are some photo highlights from last week!
This week we reviewed positional language like, "over", "under", "next to", "in" and "out".
Our class used sponges and paint to make a stencil Christmas tree card
We made puzzles out of photos of ourselves and had fun solving them!
We made paper helicopters that we took to the playground
Thank you, parents for participating in ASCOT's Loy Krathong celebration on Monday. The children really enjoyed watching the concert and helping float the krathong in the EY pool and I really enjoyed seeing everyone dressed up!
This week we have been exploring spatial relationships by doing lots of puzzles and playing matching games. Our learning goals include, to be able to successfully fit shapes into spaces on jigsaw puzzles and to be able to match parts of objects that fit together. Our class made puzzles by painting blank wooden puzzle boards and stamping cookie cutters and black paint on top.
Forty, Angie and Taj working on their puzzles
Cooper and Forty working on their puzzles
I-Aun and Cooper working on their puzzles
Our class has also been learning about the celebration of Christmas in time for our Early Years Christmas concert. We have been watching videos from last year's concert to get a better idea of what it will look like performing on a stage in front of our friends and families. We have read about the tradition of having a Christmas tree with lights and a star, and made one for out class. Thank you to all parents who have sent in a wrapped book as a gift to your child from "Santa" this year. I know they will enjoy opening them.
This week we covered a variety of topics including animal habitats and diet, and learning about color mixing. The children have been very interested in animal dress up and construction, which led us to building all kinds of zoos and farms for animals (and students dressed as animals!) to live in. The class has become very interested in dinosaurs, so we have been talking about the environments they lived in, their size, and what kinds of things that ate. We know that some dinosaurs eat plants, some dinosaurs eat eggs, and some dinosaurs eat other dinosaurs! We have been working with this chart and are getting quite good at matching the small world dinosaurs we have in class to the chart.
Please note that Loy Krathong will be celebrated at school on Monday November 30th at 9 AM. You are more than welcome to come and join us in the playground for this special occasion. Children may wear their traditional Thai dress for Loy Krathong day. Additionally, thank you to those who have brought in a red outfit and any color scarf for the Christmas concert. Aim to have all clothes in by Tuesday, December 8.
Thank you, parents for your enthusiastic participation in ASCOT's Book Week. I hope you all had a chance to attend the book fair and do some extra reading at home.Our focus book for the week was, The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. In learning about The Hungry Caterpillar, we talked about feeling hungry, feeling full, some of our favorite foods and how some foods are healthier than others. We also talked about the life cycle of a caterpillar to a butterfly as we went on nature walks outside and watched some awesome nature videos. We will learn more about bugs in our upcoming, minibeasts theme. Here are some photo highlights for the week:
Nine helping with a food counting activity while reading The Hungry Caterpillar
Forty helping with a food counting activity while reading The Hungry Caterpillar
Angie helping with a food counting activity while reading The Hungry Caterpillar
Taj making a caterpillar
Peach making a caterpillar
Angie making a caterpillar
Cooper making a caterpillar
Nine making a caterpillar
Nine and Cooper watching a caterpillar to butterfly time lapse video
Our class really likes dinosaurs, so we went on a nature walk to collect some dinosaur food
We explored a new part of the school, behind the secondary building
Nine with a bag full of nature!
Cooper taking in the scenery
Taj showing off his finds
Forty brought a dinosaur along for the hunt
I-Aun looking for flowers
Peach spotted a butterfly
Some of us had fun dressing up for book week!
All of Early Years has been hard at work preparing for the Christmas Concert, which will take place on December 10 at 9 AM in the secondary gym. Please note that nursery has been asked to wear red trousers/skirt and a red t-shirt/long-sleeved top, or a red dress. Our teacher and TAs are hard at work making props for our performances. You can help at home by singing along with our two songs!
