This is how we feel!

Here is a glimpse of our week!

For literacy, we practiced our new sound 't' and revised all the other sounds learnt so far. Here we are learning how to write the letter 't'. 

 In RM, we can look after our own work. All the kids have folders and they know that they have to store it in there when they are finished. Well done Porsche!

For maths, we had a lot of fun finding hidden numbers in the class. The kids can recognise numbers all the way up to 20! We then practiced forming numbers '2', '3', '4' and '5'.

We then talked about our topic for the next two weeks - feelings and emotions. Here we are discussing emotions and what kind of things make us happy, sad, etc. As you can see, RM is really good at circle time. They are very aware of the class rules and daily routines.

Then, we did a fun art/science activity of drawing 'many emotions'. 

We ended the lesson by looking at our own faces and our 'many emotions'! It was a lot of fun!!

We also learnt how to associate emotions with colour. 

 We learnt about different emotions through the cartoon 'Inside Out' and made characters out of junk. 

Our highlight of the week was the opening of a 'HOSPITAL' in our role-play corner. This was a great way of linking body parts and feelings. It's also a fantastic tool to learn about feelings associated with being ill and it got the shy kids of the class talking and engaging more. 

As we are getting older, we're learning how to share and work together in groups. 

We also have a great end of the day circle time routine where we talk about what we did that day. The kids love singing our 'goodbye song' to each other at the end of the day!

We love dancing in RM too! Here we are doing our 'feelings dance'. 

We sure know how to show our feelings here at RM!

Happy RM!

Grumpy RM!

Sad RM!

Excited RM!

Goodbye for now! :) 

RM Weekly Update Term: 1.1              Week: 4           Dates: 12th - 16th Sept 2016

	This Week	Next Week
Literacy	For literacy, we covered our new sounds ‘t’ and revised all the sounds learnt so far. This involved learning the sound and recognizing items around us that start with the sounds. We also practiced writing these letters. Additionally, we learnt how to differentiate between the sounds learnt so far through fun games.	Next week, we will cover our new sounds ‘c’ and ‘p’.   We will learn these sounds through fun games and then practice writing too. We will also make art and crafts that will help the kids to remember the sounds of the week.
Math	This week, we kept counting from 1-20. We also focused on number formation from 1-5.	We will focus on number formation of ‘6’ and ‘7, next week. We will also do counting, number recognition and matching quantities from 1-10. We will continue to practice reciting from 1-20.
Science	We did so well covering our new topic ‘feelings and emotions’. This was linked to PSED and we talked about what makes us feel certain emotions. We linked it to our previous topic and observed how our facial features change when we feel happiness, sadness, anger and when we’re tired.	We will focus on how our bodies are affected with different emotions. And we will link emotions to the weather and places – how does the rain make you feel, why are you happy when you go to the beach, etc.
Art	We explored colours associated with feelings. We also looked at pictures of ourselves and how our faces look different when we feel these emotions.	We will do some fun weather crafts and practice self-portraits. We will also talk about the painter Mark Rothko and how he liked to express emotion through colour. We will try to do a similar painting ourselves.
PSED (Book Day)	We watched small clips of ‘Inside out’ and learnt about the different feelings. And we talked about how to help ourselves when we feel out of control.	Our book for the day will be   ‘Pout Pout Fish’. We will link this to an art project and how to stay positive.
Physical	We had so much fun doing the ‘feelings’ dance!	Our physical lesson will be linked to writing – we will learn how to negotiate and share space when we are writing stories on the carpet or on the whiteboard. This will be linked to making meaning through pictures.
Home Learning	As a home activity, please remind the kids of the sounds we have learnt so far – ‘a’, ‘m’, ‘s’, ‘d’ and ‘t’. Make it fun by trying to spot things around you that start with these sounds. Make sure the kids do not confuse initial sounds with sounds inside the word. Always make the initial sound first, for example: ‘t’ ‘t’ ‘train’, ‘m’ m’ ‘mop’… etc.
Notices and Events	We have house colours day next Friday (Week 5). Please make sure the kids are wearing their house colours t-shirt.  Thank you, Miss.Myshi :)