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Teaching First Steps in English: Food, Fruits, and Vegetables!

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Teaching First Steps in English: Food, Fruits, and Vegetables!

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Welcome to the world of food, where every lesson is a delicious journey! In this exciting lower primary English class, students dived into vibrant fruits, crunchy vegetables, and mouthwatering dishes from around the globe. They explored as we learnt how to order food like pros!

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Day 1 - Our Lower Primary students explored science through a "Walking Rainbow" experiment, observing how water moves colors using paper towels. They set up cups with colored water and connected them with paper strips. Over time, capillary action drew the water upward, blending colors to form a rainbow (orange, green, purple).

The activity taught capillary action (water climbing against gravity) and color mixing, while reinforcing prediction and observation skills. Students compared it to rainbows in nature and plant water absorption. The experiment sparked curiosity, teamwork, and excitement as they watched their rainbows grow.

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Explore Foods Around the World: Create Your Colorful Plate!

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Explore Foods Around the World: Create Your Colorful Plate!

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In this vibrant lesson, students embarked on a culinary journey to discover foods from different cultures around the world. They then unleashed their creativity by designing their own colorful plates of food they wanted to explore!

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We had an exciting Week 2 as little fantasy explorers! The children dove into new vocabulary from a variety of storybooks and created wonderful crafts. We emphasized boosting their confidence in speaking English by practicing self-introductions in front of their classmates. We also enjoyed singing songs and moving around for some fun engagement, while enhancing gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination through cutting activities and sentence mimicking.

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Fairy Tale STEM enjoyed a week designing sturdy bridges and houses, making simple machines, and collaborating as a team

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The students enjoyed exploring the theme 'Food'. They learnt to classify, describe, buy and sell food in their class group shops. They used role plays, games and activities. They were eager to role play restaurant scenarios. They tried hand writing shopping lists, menus and recipes, and were keenly interested in learning about healthy diets, designing their own healthy eating poster.

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Day 2 - Our primary students worked in pairs to create exciting paper cup volcanoes today! Each team filled their cup with baking soda, then carefully poured in vinegar. Immediately, their volcanoes erupted with fizzy, bubbling "lava" as the chemical reaction produced carbon dioxide gas.

Working collaboratively, partners observed how the mixture of this acid and base created an impressive foaming reaction. Some pairs experimented by adding more vinegar to create bigger eruptions, while others tried adding a drop of food coloring for colorful lava effects.

Through this hands-on activity, students not only learned about basic chemical reactions but also developed teamwork and communication skills as they conducted their experiments together. The classroom was filled with cheers of delight as each pair's volcano erupted successfully!

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Week 2 is all about food. Students were invited to make their own fruit baskets. They were introduced uncommon fruit names in English such as durian and avocado. Students also exercised their English adjectives to describe fruit. We played many games including “Guess the fruit” where students had to guess the name of the fruit only by given adjectives such as “smelly, spiky, creamy, soft, sour.”

Furthermore, students in First Steps in English were also invited to create their own restaurant menu. The children learned what the menu should compose of and what it should look like including restaurant name, sub-heading, unique menu items, and pricing of each individual item.

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We learned about how airplanes fly and the class designed their own paper planes and had a competition as to whose flew the furthest.

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Our little designers were super excited to create their own costumes for their characters in our play. Each one made a different one to better understand and resonate with their roles.

Check them out!

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🌟 This week in Primary Preparation, we focused on building key skills for a confident start to primary school! The children practiced phonics, explored group reading, and worked on following simple schedules and instructions. They also had fun making new friends and building a sense of classroom community through engaging activities. It’s been a fantastic week of learning, growing, and preparing for the exciting journey ahead!

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On the first day of Planet Guardian, the children were busy coming up with different adjectives to describe the characters and the settings in the story.

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Our children transform into Fantasy Explorers, visiting royal families, knights, and dragons. Through their imagination, they create new ideas, weave stories, and think creatively. This imaginative play helps them learn problem-solving skills and encourages out-of-the-box thinking.

As children collaborate, they engage in teamwork, learning to take turns and communicate effectively. Imagining various characters leads to plenty of running, jumping, dancing, and pretending to fly, offering a fun and natural way for them to stay active.

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Such a fun and exciting week, learning all about food! Students from week 1 were happy to see their friends again, and we welcomed new students by doing “Find someone who”. The highlight of this week was making miniature clay food. Students were so creative and engaged in making all kinds of fruits, vegetables and drinks. They even opened a supermarket to sell them. By the end of the market activity, students promoted their business with “buy one get one free”, which was so fun. We also had some movement during break time. Kids loved “sharks in the water” from Danny go.

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We had a wonderful week exploring drama with our theme of Shrek this week! We spent the week refining some of the skills necessary for performance, such as projection, characterisation, and improvisation. The students showed advanced levels of creativity.

We also worked collaboratively towards preparing for our performance. We made costumes, created two sets of backdrops to set the scene, and of course practiced for our show! Our show included lots of ensemble work, great jokes, and even a dance at the end!

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Our students embarked on an exciting journey of Spanish language and culture. They learned key vocabulary, including greetings, colors, and family members, all while following the adventurous voyage of Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus) to the Americas, and participating in interactive activities, games, and storytelling.

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Today we experimented with different sizes, weights and thickness of gyrocopters to see which ones rotate faster and glide to the floor faster

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Our Planet Guardians have been very busy learning about castles and dragons today. We started with a story about a dragon, then created our own dragons. We wrote some facts about the dragons we made. We continued with our 3D castles from yesterday and explored how to build our icy castles.

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Day 3 -After reading Hansel & Gretel, our students designed paper cylinder "messages" that Hansel might have used. Working in pairs with just paper and tape, they engineered different cylinder shapes, then raced them to test speed and distance. The room buzzed with excitement as students observed how design affected flight - some cylinders spun wildly while others soared straight! This activity blended story comprehension with STEM skills such as problem-solving and physics concepts. Children cheered as they refined their designs through trial and error, discovering how shape influences motion. A perfect fusion of literature and hands-on science that brought the classic tale to life!

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Flying paper cylinders 😊😊✈️

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The students experimented with adding different variables to their Hoop Flyers and testing to see how far they fly as they adjust the variables. 

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The students experimented with adding different variables to their Hoop Flyers and testing to see how far they fly as they adjust the variables. 

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We made balloon rockets to test out Newton's Third Law of Motion. Every action will create an opposite reaction.

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Today, we explored the fascinating world of emotions, learning that it's perfectly fine to feel a variety of ways. By connecting colors to our feelings and using the Zones of Regulation, we discovered effective strategies to understand and manage our emotions, empowering us to express ourselves positively!

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Circle time is a wonderful opportunity for students to build confidence in their speaking skills while fostering connections with their peers. By sharing feelings and relating them to colors, we create a vibrant and supportive environment that encourages self-expression and understanding.

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Today in phonics, we explored the exciting world of long and short vowels, with a special focus on the long "a" sound. This engaging lesson helps students strengthen their reading skills while boosting their confidence in recognizing and using different vowel sounds!

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Daily Date Practice
Every day, we've been practicing how to say and write the date in both short and long forms, helping students develop essential habits and routines. This fun and consistent practice not only reinforces their understanding of dates but also builds confidence in their writing skills!

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Today, we planned stories using story cubes and story mountains. The children suggested ideas for the Kennings about our pet dragons. We also created and decorated our magical dragon eggs. We continued to add more details to our castles. Our castles are looking amazing!

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Our young innovators are using 3D printing pens to design and create their own unique eyeglasses. From sketching to crafting, every pair is a masterpiece!

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Day 4 - Students engineered simple pulley systems and zip lines using paper bowls and string. Working in teams, they designed transport baskets and tested how string slope gradients affected movement. The activity demonstrated how pulleys reduce effort when lifting loads, with students adjusting designs for optimal performance. Through hands-on experimentation, children discovered real-world applications of simple machines while developing problem-solving skills. The classroom buzzed with excitement as teams raced their creations, learning physics concepts through play.

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This week, we explored the theme of Fantasy Explorers, focusing on the royal family.

Students imagined themselves as kings, queens, princes, and princesses living in a castle, with knights to protect them. We read fun storybooks like The Little Castle, The Dragon Eggs, and Little Dragon, which sparked our creativity.

We also practiced holding our pencils correctly to improve our writing skills. To make our experience even better, we sang cheerful songs like "Happy Dragon" and the "Castle Song". This fun exploration helped us connect with the theme and share our ideas in exciting ways.

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In class, we had a fantastic time exploring CVC words, boosting our reading skills in an engaging way! By mastering these foundational words together, we enhanced our phonics understanding and built confidence for lifelong literacy success.

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After looking through the story and scenes. We started looking at the characters' costumes and how they would like to design for their performance.

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After completing their costumes, the students start to look at the two scenes and how they would like their background to be during the performance.

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Here we have the students familiarising their lines and stage blocking (where actors know where to stand within the performing area). This will allow students to make a connection to the audience and can be different to how they usually communicate to not just their fellow peers, but making a connection to the audience as well.

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Today the class made bottle cars powered by air released from a balloon

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Testing our catapult! Let's see who can go the furthest!

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Come check out our dragon scale slime! We measured, poured, and mixed all the ingredients, strengthening the small muscles in our hands and fingers. The children were able to stay focused and follow the instructions to create their dragon scale slime.

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They were very serious and focused when creating them!

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We learnt how to warm-up our bodies every day to help us energise, get in full swing and ready for our class!

We are always encouraged to make big body movements and to really shake it out!

Let’s shake-out! 📸

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Guess the Emotions - facial expressions! 

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Guess the Emotions - facial expressions! 

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We learnt that we don’t always need to use our voices to express ourselves and that we can use our facial expressions to convey our feelings. We also learned about understanding other people’s feelings :)

Try and guess their emotions!

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We were listening to instructions and worked on becoming these fun characters, using our voice and our bodies. The children also had to come up with some of their own movements to help them memorise their own lines which tested their creativity!

We had lots of opportunities to speak out loud in front of the whole group, we took turns and tried to build great confidence too!

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We continued to learn to be more confident in projecting our voices, playing around with our facial expressions and body movements.

We were really looking forward to welcoming you to show you what we have learnt so far in our Open Session however, we are glad that we are all safe and well :)