Dem dancing bones!

Hello parents,

Hope you had a great week. Have a look at what we got up to in RM:

Literacy
We practiced letter formation through various types of play. By doing this, the kids are repeating the letter formation over and over again.

 We went on a dinosaur hunt; by doing this the kids got to repeat the sound 'd' over and over again and associating it with the initial sound of words.

 Some of the others did an art project to make 'doughnuts' and dinosaurs - again, another way of reinforcing the initial sound.

 We did some writing practice too! These worksheets will be sent home every half term.

As an end of week revision activity, we played a game where the kids had to throw the objects into the correct box, based on its initial sound. They loved it!

 We painted letters too.

 Some of the girls walked around the class and labelled items that start with initial sounds - 'd' for door, 'a' for apple etc.

 Ploen enjoyed drawing out a great story!

Maths

We learnt how to count and write letters using lots of fun activities!

 We also did a 'find the missing number' game - by doing this, they are learning number ordering and counting.

 We had a lot of fun making pizza - the kids had to listen to my recipe and paste the correct number of ingredients. They learnt how to count and represent quantities through this game :)

 Similar to the pizza game, some of the kids had to paste the correct number of watermelon seeds in the space. By doing this, they are recognising numbers and matching quantities.

Science

We had a lot of fun singing 'dem bones' and them organsing the class skeleton 'Mr. Freddy'!!

 We then made the skeletal system using pasta, string and various other items. Ploen named her skeleton "Mr.Frenchfry because he so wet and long"

 We also talked about how to live healthy - eat, sleep, drink and exercise. Then we made a 'healthy chart'.

Art

We traced our hands by bending our 'elbow joint' and then used our sense of touch (fingertips) to add leaves to make it look like a tree. The girls loved this!

Physical

This was a very fun class because we painted with our feet! By doing this, we practiced motor control.

PSED and Free flow play

We had a great week learning how to share, tidy up and take care of our property. We also did a day of free flowing between RE and RM.

Today is Mr.Booboo's birthday, so we had a party for him!We made cards and made him lots of cakes :)

We had a great week. Please have a look at the weekly review and preview (below) for what we will be doing next week.

Thank you for your home learning support. Have a great weekend! Miss.Myshi :)

RM Weekly Update Term: 1.1              Week: 3           Dates: 05th - 09th Sept 2016

                                                                                                                                                                        

	This Week	Next Week
Literacy	For literacy, we covered our new sounds ‘s’ and ‘d’. This involved learning the sound, recognizing items around us that start with the sounds and thinking of names that started with ‘s’ and ‘d’. We also practiced writing these letters.  We also learnt how to differentiate between the sounds learnt so far.	The kids need a little more practice with writing ‘s’ as some turn it backwards. So we will revise ‘s’ and learn the new sound ‘t’, next week.
Math	We started to count past 10 and learnt how to recognize numbers 11-13.	We will focus on numbers past 13 and practice number formation next week.
Science	We had so much fun learning about the human body, the skeletal system and why we have joints in our body.	We will be introducing our new topic: Feelings and emotions. We will link the previous topic of how our faces change when we show different emotions and how our bodies change when we feel different emotions.
Art	We linked Art with Science and learnt what the sense of touch is, through finger painting.	We will look at pictures of ourselves showing different emotions and try to do self-portraits, and then we will compare the pictures to see how the facial expressions/features have changed.
PSED	We read the book ‘The mixed up chameleon’ and discussed what the book taught us. We agreed that we should love ourselves for who we are. Then we did class presentations of our favourite part about ourselves.	We will learn new emotions such as ‘disgust’, ‘shock’, ‘nervous’ and ‘excited’ through the cartoon ‘INSIDE OUT’.
Physical	We learnt a lot about our joints when we painting with our toes! We also had a lot of fun making our hair static by rubbing a balloon on our heads.	We will do a fun dance that represent different emotions. This will not only help with gross motor skills, but the kids’ listening skills, as well.
Home Learning	As a home learning activity, please practice number formation. Some of the kids are confusing ‘6’ and ‘9’ and ‘1’ and ‘7’. Number formation can be done in a fun way, in sand/salt trays or with playdough.
Notices and Events	Please ensure that the kids’ have spare clothes in their bags every day.  Thank you, Miss.Myshi J