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Week six and seven was a fun and engaging time for the children. They participated in various activities including line tracing and rainbow tracing. The children also enacted classic stories and revised different rhymes, making the learning experience enjoyable.

In a playful manner, the children identified shapes through shape jump games. To enhance their hand-eye coordination and focus, they engaged in a floor game activity where they traced different types of toy cars on line tracks, shaking and moving to the various sounds the cars made.

The week concluded with a sensory walk where the children explored stones, sand, paints, and water, describing the textures they felt. This was a fantastic activity that capped off an engaging week for the children.

We look forward to seeing everyone next week. Stay tuned!

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We've had an exciting week of learning in our classroom, filled with hands-on activities, engaging literacy exercises, imaginative role plays, and andear  enriching field trip. Here's a glimpse of what we've been up to:

Exploring Hot(chaud) and Cold (froid) Vocabulary:
We delved into the concepts of hot and cold through a fun experiment using ice and hot water. Through this sensory experience, our students not only learned the words but also felt the sensations associated with each term, enhancing their understanding.

Sound Recognition in Literacy:
In our literacy sessions, we focused on sound recognition by engaging in various activities like phonics games and sound matching exercises. By honing their auditory skills, our students are becoming more proficient in identifying and distinguishing different sounds, which is crucial for their reading and writing development.

Community Helpers Role Play:
One highlight of our week was the lively role play where our students portrayed various community helpers such as firefighters, doctors, teachers, and food vendor. Through this activity, they gained a deeper appreciation for the importance of these individuals in our community and learned about their roles and responsibilities.

Neighborhood Field Trip:
To further enrich our understanding of our local community, we embarked on a thrilling field trip to explore our neighborhood. During the trip, our students observed various landmarks, interacted with community members, and learned about the services and facilities available in our area. It was an eye-opening experience that allowed our students to connect classroom learning with the real world.

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Our sixth week of learning kicked off with sound matching activities. The children enthusiastically sang, demonstrated, and matched the sounds for "s," "a," and "t" with corresponding pictures. It was a fun and engaging way to reinforce phonetic awareness.

Adding to the excitement, we introduced a problem-solving scenario where the children identified and found solutions to everyday problems. This exercise helped them develop critical thinking and practical problem-solving skills.

We also enjoyed a fun-filled tour of our neighborhood, visiting places like the church, fire station, and school. The children met various community professionals, learned about their roles, and discovered the tools they use to help us.

To wrap up the week, we had a playful session where the children helped rescue toy animals trapped in slime. This activity not only entertained them but also enhanced their fine motor skills through slime exploration.

Looking forward to another week of adventures and learning. See you next week!

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It sounds like an exciting and educational week for the children! Exploring different places within the school and learning about the sounds "e" through songs must have been fun. The activities involving the concept of hard and soft, as well as problem-solving through role play, sound very engaging and practical. And baking banana cake as little chefs is a delicious way to learn about responsibility and solving hunger. Looking forward to hearing about more adventures from the tweenies next week!

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Bonjour tout le monde!

This week in our French class, we dove into the world of opposites, exploring the concepts of "hard" and "soft." We had an engaging time learning how to express these opposites in French and sorting out various objects based on their textures.

We began by learning the French words for "hard" and "soft" – "dur" and "mou." Through fun activities and games, we practiced using these words in sentences and identifying objects around us that fit into each category.

To reinforce our understanding, we utilized different resources to quantify objects up to the number ten. From counting marbles to pencils, we applied our newfound vocabulary to describe the texture of each item as either "dur" or "mou."

As the week progressed, we culminated our learning journey with an exciting cooking session. Putting our language skills to the test, we followed recipes and described the textures of ingredients in French, reinforcing our grasp of the concepts of "hard" and "soft" in a real-world context.

Overall, it was a week filled with discovery, learning, and delicious treats! Stay tuned for more adventures in the world of French language and culture.

À bientôt,

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We are excited for another Field Trip for Tweenies on Thursday, 16th of May in Park View Estate.

Venues to be visited: Hotel, supermarket, fire station

Timings: 9:00 am to 11:00 am

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Finding and inquiring into WHO HELPS US SOLVE problems!

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Finding and inquiring into WHO HELPS US SOLVE problems!

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It sounds like another exciting and hands-on week of learning for the children!

Exploring real tools used by community helpers and engaging in a sensory activity as builders must have been a great way for them to truly understand and appreciate the work of these individuals. The craft activity related to doctors was a wonderful way to teach children about the importance of healthcare professionals in our community.

It's fantastic to see the children actively participating and enjoying these learning experiences. Looking forward to hearing about the exciting learning activities planned for next week!

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we are thrilled to share the exciting activities that took place in our Tweenies class this week as they delved into the theme of community helpers in French class! Through engaging lessons, our students not only learned about different professions but also explored the pace of work of these essential community members.

To grasp the pace of work of various community helpers, the Tweenies engaged in a dynamic activity conducted entirely in French. They participated in timed tasks, such as arranging objects, sorting items, and completing puzzles. This activity not only improved their French language skills but also helped them understand the different demands of each profession.

SALE ET PROPRE:

we enjoyed exploring the French vocabulary for "dirty" and "clean" and reinforced the lesson by washing community helper tools to keep them clean.

In our literacy session, we introduced the letter sound "e" and its related vocabulary. To wrap up, we created a craft of a snail, known as "escargot."

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Occupations Song ♫ Community Helpers Kids Song ♫ Best Kids Songs ♫ Career Song ♫The Learning Station

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Hinelder was beaming with pride as he was chosen as the star of the week. His classmates and teachers applauded his efforts and progress in learning, recognizing his hard work and dedication. Throughout the week, Hinelder had been actively participating in class activities, asking questions, and engaging with the lessons. Kudos!!!

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The children gathered eagerly in the classroom, excited to learn about community helpers. The teacher introduced the concept and explained the important roles that different community helpers play in our society. To make the learning fun and engaging, the children played a bingo game where they had to match pictures of community helpers with their respective professions.

After becoming familiar with various community helpers, the children were given the opportunity to role-play as different professionals. They took turns pretending to be shopkeepers, buyers, cooks, farmers, and more, acting out scenarios that showcased the duties and responsibilities of each role. It was a hands-on way for the children to understand and relate themselves to the different community helpers in their own community.

Through these activities, the children not only gained a better understanding of the various professions that exist in their community, but also developed empathy and appreciation for the hard work and dedication of these essential workers. The week of learning and role-playing was not only educational but also a fun and memorable experience for all the children involved.

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This bright girl came up with smart ideas, worked as a team player and finished her tasks in the class. Kudos to Olivia for securing this week's star!! Well done!

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Welcome Parents to our first week of term 3. In this week's learning adventure, our 3-year-olds embarked on exploring the concept of "What is a Problem?" through various engaging activities. From school walk explorations where they identified and solved small problems around the premises to magnet magic sessions where they discovered the wonders of attraction and repulsion, and finally, diving into the world of numbers by understanding the concept of six through quantification activities, our little learners have been actively engaged in hands-on learning experiences. Not to miss, we celebrated our beloved JIMI's birthday with a bang! Looking forward to the next week!

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The Tweenies will be inquiring into Problem-Solving Together as a community. The Central idea of our inquiry is, Where, why and how people solve problems together.

The school will be celebrating Earth day/ World Book Day on Tuesday 23rd April.

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Au feu les Pompiers 👩🏿‍🚒 🚒 Les Comptines de Gabriel

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Creativity opens the mind. It allows one to view and solve problems more openly and with innovation. This broadens the children's perspectives this week as they show their creativity skills in all activities.

The children created their own chants on how to take care of plants and animals such as, loving the animals, giving water to plants, feeding the animals, keeping the animals and cleaning them. So cute, Well done kiddos!. Also, the children demonstrated their creativity during the silly hat day, as they paraded and showcased their creatively constructed silly hats, it was colorful and beautiful!.

Creatively the children created their dinosaur costumes, they created their shoes and spines, they got them ready for the dinosaur fun day.

Yippee!!! The dinosaur fun day was so full of different fun activities. The children introduced their dinosaur names, participated in dinosaur parade, dinosaur race, and they dug and found dinosaur bones. The fun day came to an end as the little learners stomped, roared and danced to their favorite dinosaur music.

It was Lunch time, and the class gathered together to have the dinosaur lunch together. So yummy!!

The term has been an amazing one and it was wrapped up with lots of fun from the Easter egg hunt fun day. The kiddos had fun moving from one spot of fun activities to another, from baking spot to the yoga and egg rolling, to dress up, picture and craft spot, we also went hunting for eggs and we finally bounced and jumped on the bouncing castle. Really funfilled!

The week was a beautiful week with fun activities to end the term 2.

Yes, we enjoyed every beat of the term. Thi is wishing you all a wonderful Easter celebration and a restful break .

See you next term!.

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It sounds like an exciting and educational week for the children! Exploring different places within the school and learning about the sounds "e" through songs must have been fun. The activities involving the concept of hard and soft, as well as problem-solving through role play, sound very engaging and practical. And baking banana cake as little chefs is a delicious way to learn about responsibility and solving hunger. Looking forward to hearing about more adventures from the tweenies next week!

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We celebrate our little star for the week. Gaelle adhered to all routines and instructions, she participated and got engaged in all activities. She really put in her best and so deserved to be the star. Keep it up Gaelle

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Week 10.. Engaging and Interactive Week!

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Week 10.. Engaging and Interactive Week!

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The week was full of engaging activities where the children were involved in different and interactive activities from learning and identifying a new number 6, counting from 1 to 20 and also dancing and demonstrating to the action of a new sound ck (Curlicle c as in car, cat and Kicking k as in key, keg).

Digging, planting and watering were other engaging activities that children enjoyed which promoted their level of exercise and helped them due to imagination and creativity. The children had so much fun planting their seeds in the garden and they look forward to it growing to be a big plant.

Our week was also fruitful with different fruits of vegetables for the children to search for and identify. They harvested different fruits and vegetables from a pretend tree and were super proud of themselves when they packed their favorite fruits and vegetables in their crafted basket. It looks so real and colorful!.

The children were inquisitive as they got to know what some animals give us as food. Did you know that cows give us milk , chickens give us eggs and chicken meat, sheep give us wool which is used to make our sweater and bees give us honey?. Teaching the children where their food originated instills a sense of responsibility in them. And children demonstrated milking the cow which increased their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination by milking the pretend cow udder .

It was indeed an engaging and interactive week!. See you next

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To develop useful imaginative skills and to spark curiosity this week,  the children continued to learn and explore about dinosaurs.

The children imagined dinosaur  bones and they explored the world of dinosaurs and made the different bones using flour,  salt and warm water. They did this and it really looked like bones after they were placed in the oven for two hours. Wow!  It looks so real.

We learnt about the extinction of dinosaurs, how they moved away from the planet earth and the children got so curious about the dinosaurs' departure and they concluded to name themselves in place of these dinosaurs, which are: Jimiraptor, Abigailorex, Noasaurus, Sandydours, Hinelderdoctyl, Alexrex, Gagastop.. So cute right!.

To develop spatial reasoning,  problem-solving skills and sort bases on pictures and colors, the children were engaged in a patterning activity where they sorted out dinosaurs by colors and arranged them. They look pretty well!.

Also, the children made predictions about objects that we sink or float. This also developed their understanding about how and why some  objects  float and others sink, as they made use of different manipulatives like stones, balls, spoons,  papers and water as they identified and differentiated floating objects and sinking objects.

We encourage independent learning and decision making as we help the children to explore pieces of dinosaurs and they get so amazed to fix them to make them a whole picture. They were well fixed!.

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Dinosaur Stomp - Mother Goose Club Phonics Songs

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Celebrating the triumph of black sportsmen around the world

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Celebrating the triumph of black sportsmen around the world

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Paying tribute to Jesse Owens( the Olympic gold medalist and fastest track and field athlete) and Mbappe( footballer)

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To form a better understanding and ideas about different types of objects, the “heavy and light” concept was introduced to the children and they had so much fun measuring the dinosaurs as either light or heavy using a measuring scale.

Do you know how tall you are? The children discovered how tall they are, as they measured their heights in a fun way and stuck dinosaur cut-outs. They counted the numbers of dinosaurs that matched their heights and this really amazed them. It was really an enjoyable activity.

The week was a wholesome one from the black history celebration where the children showcase their sport skills just like Jesse Owens, the children also crafted their names on modelled T.rex dinosaurs. They all loved the craft.

The week came to an end with a sensory activity on how a T-Rex dinosaur will hatch its eggs. The children inquisitively made use of manipulatives like hammer, tweezers, salt, water to break out the baby dinosaur from an iced egg. We made it so real!!

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The legendary Jesse Owens has been the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history. The children have been listening to his story and are familiar with his name now. Do ask you child more about him!

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PVIKS is celebrating the Black History Month. We, Tweenies, will be celebrating our Black sportsmen and have been exploring their lives and achievements for the past few days. The school will be holding an assembly on Thursday, 29th of February to celebrate the famous heroes. Stay tuned in for more details...

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Meet Olivia - Tweenies Star for the week.

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Meet Olivia - Tweenies Star for the week.

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We celebrate our little star for the week. Olivia adhered to all routines and instructions, participated and got engaged in all activities. She really deserved the star. Good job Olivia!.

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We welcome back our buddies into the second half term . The children settled in nicely and were happy to engage in group activities and black history month celebration.

The week was full of discovery as we explored the world of dinosaurs; the children were engaged in a fun activity to sort out living things and non living things as they made use of picture cards. They discovered and looked out for living things and nonliving things with using manipulatives such as shredded papers, plastic toys, animals, bugs, tweezers, spoons, leaves etc.. it was indeed a week where the children discovered themselves as living things.. so adorable!

We measured heights by counting how many dinosaurs tall each one was. What a way to learn quantification and the concept of tall/short by comparison.

We are looking forward to exploring more about different characteristics of the dinosaurs and the meaning of extinction.

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Kindly be informed that there will be a mid-term break from February 12th to February 16th, 2024.

We will resume with all activities on February 19th, 2024

Wishing you all a delightful break as we eagerly anticipate an exciting second half. 🌟

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Dans la forêt lointaine 🐦 Coucou hibou | Chanson bébé - HeyKids

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It has been a dynamic week filled with progress. We focused on reinforcing letter sound in French and  associating them with their respective sounds, and delving into relevant vocabulary.

To wrap up the epic adventure, we had a blast diving into the world of forest critters and even cooked up a catchy tune featuring  animal names in French!

It was amazing to see our artist perform on their tune.

Craft: we made a beautiful monkey as on of the animal we can found in the forest.

Bonne vacances!

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WINNERS OF THE MINI CUP- ORANGE TIGERS!!

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The last week of the first half-term has been so full of fun and learning.

We revised some concerts done in the past weeks and the children also participated in engaging activities from creating a nest craft  from our sound "n",  we explored number 5 with our five fingers in a colourful stamping and also we embarked on a trip to Mindscapes Children's Museum, it was a time for all round exploration.. So awesome! .In addition, the whole school gathered to celebrate Valentine' day with beautiful heart crafts, fun games and rhymes. We shared so much  love together.

Finally the children took turns in confidence to describe their book "Dear Zoo" , and they were happy taking it home to read to mummy and daddy.

We ended the week and indeed the first half term in a colourful and musical way!

Great job buddies, and have a restful break. See you soon!.

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"I want to be Star of the week"! Alex has been an obedient child and willing to take risks in terms of activities and even food choices. Kudos to our talented Alex!!

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The class picture on Tuesday 6th February 2024, we would like to clarify the dress code:

Boys: white shirt with black or dark blue trousers.

Girls: white top/shirt with black or dark blue trousers/skirt OR a white dress.

Thank you 🤩😊😊😊😊

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We started the week with imagination and exploration. The children are becoming creative and resourceful by the way, they imagined and thought of how they spent their weekend which was expressed through scribblings, drawings and making colourful strokes.

Our language development keeps getting better by the day. The children explored their own rhymes this week, it sounds so interesting right?. They bop their heads, danced and made their rhymes using their favourite picture from the mystery box. This they did without fear of being judged.  This helps the children hone their fine motor, language skills and boost their self confidence. So amazing!.In Addition, our amazing sound "n" was introduced with lots of dancing, demonstrations. The children explored the sound "n" and was able to sort out objects beginning with the sound as they play around making "nnnnnnnn" sound. Well done buddies!.

Beep, Beep, Beep!, it's Tween O'clock. Yes, this is another fun way we learn about time. They explored time as it has to do with waking up in the morning, time to snack, time for school, time for pick up and time to sleep at night. With different manipulatives such as, paper arrow, maths numbers, colourful  hula hoops, we were able to know and see the long and short hand on a real clock and also it was an opportunity for the children to identify their numbers on the clock as they dance and sang to the week's rhyme "Hickory dickory dock" round the clock. Really a fun way to learn!.

Providing a safe space for exploration. The children smell,feel , touch, build their curiosity and expand their knowledge as they squeeze to develop their fine motor skills and also identify a star shape used as  they pretend to erupt a volcano with the use of vinegar and baking soda.  Yes, it was a learning experiment!.

Watch out for more explorations next week. Bye!.

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As we developed and sharpen our grammar skills in French this week the children were engaged in an introduction line in French where the y call out their friends name and ask where they are in  French as they say :  où est Noa? and the response is : je suis là
Each of the children also introduced themselves in French saying: Je m'appelle Alex- My name is Alex. ,J'ai trois ans- I am 3 years old.  We really improved our memory!.
This week  learning atmosphere was  success oriented as the children's successfully got used to the  vocabulary of the right shapes and also sorted out  robot shapes, used right vocabulary for colours, objects, numbers(un, deux, trois,quatre, cinq) and sounds.
Additionally our new sound "I" was introduced with dancing, jumping and demonstration mood.  The children explored the big sound "I" and the small sound "i" with the use of flashcards and they identified  objects  with the sound "I". Well done smart learners!.
With full attention the children listened to the story behind the rhyme of the week( Dans la forêt Lointaine) as they identified the pictures in the  story book and also danced to the rhyme, Is something  missing?..Yes,  we searched for Coucou Hibou(Owl) in the story as we imagined  Hibou on the wood in the forest.  It's sounds and looked so real!.
The week was crowned with a beautiful craft on "Night and Day". The children explored activities and pictures they know about Night and Day while learning the vocabulary in French ( jour - nuit). The craft looks so meaningful!.
More beautiful moment next week. Stay connected!.

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Yes, this time it's Hinelder!! He has made progress in his communication skills, potty training and even the class activities. Thumbs up, boy! Well done!

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Yes, it's Abigail's turn this week. She really deserved to be the star of the week, as she kept to all her promises made at the beginning of the week to be good, to listen, to take risks and to complete activities.

Well done baby girl!, Keep it up!.

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Magic never stops and the adventure never ends. Adventure indeed never ends in tweenies French class.
This week's circle time took another beautiful dimension when the teacher (Ms. Sarah) and the children started dancing to a French rhyme. It was so pleasant to see the children demonstrate the lyrics of the rhyme and also sing the rhyme. Keep the fun of learning on kiddos.

It was another awesome learning period when the children explored the concept of prepositions. The children were made to use their favorite animals as manipulators and some manipulatives like tunnel, hulla hop, cones etc to showcase the preposition's vocabulary learnt (front- devant, back- derrière, in-Dedans , on- sur). They were able to respond to the new vocabulary in French and they had fun performing the actions.

Learning numbers qualifications was full of excitement and confidence as the children were made to draw circles to quantify numbers 1-5( un, deux, trois, quarte, cinq) on the board. They really loved it.

The children continued with the concept of house (Maison) this week as they explored different areas in the house (room- chambre, kitchen- cuisine, toilet- toilètte). They got excited to communicate one or two things about their houses as they saw a few pictures of the areas on flashcards and also identified them on the whiteboard. Additionally, the children continued with the story for the week (Boucle D'or) they identified the bedroom (chamber), bed(lit), chairs(chaise) and bowl(bol) in the story. They were amazed when they used their knowledgeable skill to stick the pictures to make a whole room from the story on a cardboard paper. Job well done friends!.

We have never had a dull week. We enjoyed learning French!. See you ne
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Titounis - Comptine bébé - Chanson enfant

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Histoire pour enfants : Boucle d'or et les 3 ours

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Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends- (George Bernard). Indeed this week was inspiring seeing the children explore what their favorite pet animals are whom they also crafted a house for. They also expressed their dislikes for some animals which they liked to keep in the zoo.

They communicated their reasons for their favorite pets and also expressed their dislikes for the zoo animals which they believe can not stay in the house with them. It's amazing to see our young ones communicate their feelings about things around them. This brought them to the completion of their own story book about animals which was inspired from the classic story book " Dear zoo". Looking forward to our little authors reading their books. Well done kiddos!.

Guess what? We also explored number 4 just the way it is this week. The children got so engaged in the number 4 activity using manipulatives such as colorful bean bags, hula hoops and number maths to identify and quantify the number. Yes we get to know our number 4 in a super fun way!.

Length is being introduced to the children as what to use to describe how long an object is. They learnt 4 different sizes of length as "short, long, longer and longest. These were well arranged from the shortest to the longest by the children as they identified this in a fun way such as...baby, sister, mama and papa. It was funny but they understood the concept. Yippee!.

To recognize the relationship between words, the children explored physical activities to showcase some preposition words like "in, on, under, below, front and back" . They enjoyed this activity with the use of colorful scarves to display these positions during circle time. Indeed our language is developing. Yes we can do more!

We explored sound waves( s, a, t, i, p). This took a form of listening to sound rhymes, to climbing robe ladder, to pick the right sound and match the same sounds in the tray. It was a lots of sounds experiments .

The inspired week ended with beautiful and surprising looks on the faces of the children when they saw the settings of a Puppet Show and they got to listen to one of their favorite stories "Lion and the mouse" Great show it was.

The children were inspired in all areas of learning this week and sure we are ready for more . See you

next week!

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It was an adorable moment when Noa was called out as the Star of the week. Guess what she did this week?. Noa walks into the class daily with a positive mindset, she will say “Ms Sarah, Bonjour”(Good morning Ms Sarah). She then will respond back again with “Ca’ va bien( am fine). She also participated actively in all the morning activities. She really deserves it. Keep it up Noa!.

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How adorable and encouraging it is to see the children communicate in french in their daily activities in school.

Learning French this week was super adorable. The children were introduced to the story book of the week “ Boucle D’or” , they got engaged in pretend play based on the story and it was all amazing to see the children use the vocabulary learnt from the story and in addition, they learnt the concept of big(grand), small(petite), and medium(moyen).

The children were able to communicate in french during the pretend play and even on the playground with their friends. It was so interesting to behold!.

We explored what a house(Maison) is as part of the theme for the term( where we are in time and place). Exploring the story of the Goldilocks and using it's house as a concept to be viewed for the children. The children got to understand the different parts of a house as roof(toit), door( la porte) window(fenetre)as they decorated a toy house and identified the parts in french and they enjoyed sticking glitters on the parts of the house as they danced around the house, say and repeat the vocabulary.

Learning shapes, colours and counting in French became more interesting and the children learnt about colour brawn- marron. they danced and sang and enjoyed listening to the story title " boucle d'or ". Learning French is really worth it again this week. See you next week!.

Next week we will...

Reinforce letter sound l

Introduce vocabulary related to preposition

learn vocabulary related to house's room

listen to story and sing rhymes.

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Big thumbs up for Richard for being the Star of the week.

He was able to settle down nicely, participated greatly in all activities and followed the new class routines. Well done Richard!.

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With immense joy and excitement , we welcome our children to a new term. This term, we will be looking at :

THEME- "WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME"

CENTRAL IDEA- Stories and Rhymes improves our knowledge and understanding of a variety of settings.

ACTION- The children will create, present and perform their own story or rhyme in front of the class audience..

This term promises to be an exciting and stimulating one. Stay tuned!

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The tweenies had a beautiful time settling down this week for the new term as they were excited to be back to school.
This week the children had a great time learning about the story behind “Galette”as one of the french tradition celebrations done days after Christmas, this was accompanied with a crown craft beautifully made by the children and at the end enjoyed the galette cake served, really yummy!.
The smart learners were engaged in activities revising their numbers 1,2,3,4(un , deux, trois, quatre, cinq), they quantified the numbers using different manipulatives. The circle time with Ms. Sarah was an adorable one to behold as the children revised their colours in french( jaune, bleu, vert, rouge) and got engaged in a colourful wall paper painting outdoor, shapes in french( circle, carre,triangle,rectangle……) were also identified by the children as they sung and danced to their favourite French rhyme.
It's just the beginning, watch out for an amazing time learning french!!!
Next week we will
introduce the vocabulary related to house
explore the book title" Boucle d'or"

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It was a week filled with engaging activities.

To make predictions and to encourage reasoning skills, the children were introduced to Objects Patterning. They got engaged in different patterning activities using colourful manipulatives like papers, blocks, shapes, glitter stickers etc. this really required the ability of the children to recognize regularities in shapes, objects and colours to detest sameness and difference.

In making progress in vocabulary development, the sound “p” was introduced to the children as they wiggled and demonstrated the phonics rhymes. They explored the sound “p” in a new way by patterning it in colourful squares. They really loved the Puff!.

It's truly said that every story has its problems and solutions. The children enjoyed the story for the week “Dear Zoo” as they picked their favourite pets and created a house for it . They also differentiated the wild animals from friendly animals. In addition, the children got to understand words usable to know where things are as they learnt about Preposition words e.g On, under, front, back , beside etc This will indeed help them communicate better.

Furthermore, to promote grasps patterns and improve visual perception, the children explored ripping and cutting of papers with scissors as the week's fine motor skills activity. It really helps their muscle strength.

We enjoyed the whole week of learning.!!

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!.

Concept of length

Number 4 activity

Activities related to preposition.

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This week we explored our class and also had fun bonding with our friends. We had a wonderful time revising last term concepts on sounds( s, a, t, i) as the children engaged in sounds sorting activities where they made use of an object’s first letter sounds to match with the right letters. We also revised our numbers (1,2,3,4) and their quantifications. Additionally, we also reinforced the shapes as we made use of different manipulatives to identify our shapes. It was awesome seeing the children growing and developing in knowledge.

We also explored the new term theme as the children were introduced to stories and rhymes which will help them improve their knowledge and understanding of a variety of settings.

It was so adorable to see the children present their own story in their little ways of understanding as they flipped through their favorite story books during library story time.. Great job kiddos!

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

*Patterning

*Introduction of sound "p"

*Fine motor skill- Ripping and Cutting.

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It was engaging, captivating, and fun this last week for the term.

The children admired the moment when they used their handprint to make Christmas cards for their parents, they created their beautiful cards with stickers and beautiful colours. It was a happy moment!.

This last week was an amazing one and the children were really full of excitement and all was fun filled as they enjoyed the cooking class, pyjamas party, water play in which they splashed, splitted and squeezed coloured water, they were also not left out in the ball game race. The cute learners are really worth the fun!.

We hope to have a more engaging and pleasant experience come next year . As we will be exploring the Central Idea” Stories and Rhymes improves our knowledge of a variety of settings”.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance.

See you in

2024!!!

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It was indeed a week full of interesting games and activities.

During our circle time,We had fun picking Christmas related gifts from the mystery bag and also sing and dance to many tunes.
Pyjama day was a very successful one. The children had fun playing games, presenting their pyjama's color, listening to story, have a pretend nap and made a beautiful craft.
The children shown us how much they love water by going through different water activity( transferring balls, squeezing sponge, splashing soap water, spraying colorful water...
It was r ally a fun last week of the term.

Looking forward to see my Tweenies next year for more adventure.
Joyeux Noël et bonne année!

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Kudos to Suji for showing good progress in his communication skills! We witnessed him having more verbal exchange, sing rhymes and repeat keywords from the stories read. Please give a big cheer to the star of this week!

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It was amazing to see our Tweenies showcasing their knowledge in French as we revised our letter sound, colour, days of the week, Shape, part of the body and fruits and vegetables through rhymes, story and activities.
The children were so happy to see their corn seed grow and took it home for further care.

Looking forward to see them all as we will continue to reinforce our previous lessons and learn more vocabulary related to Christmas

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There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly By Simms Taback

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Repetition helps to improve speed, increases confidence, and strengthens the connections in the brain that help children learn.

Following this principle, we based our lessons for this week on reinforcing the letters, sounds, numbers and rhymes we have been learning so far.

Our co-curricular activities were full of sensory play, Christmas crafts and music sessions.

Looking forward to another week of revisions and pretend play.

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Versini - Les Chansons de Noël - Père Noël frappe à la porte - Miwiboo

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We are getting there day by day and becoming little French speaking people.
This week , we  learnt about the jolly phonics sound 'm 'and the vocabulary that start with the sound m ( maman-main-maison-montre) along with the sound m song.

Using our knowledge on color in French , the children were able to choose the paint of their choice  and make a handprint craft ( la main)

Dedans - dehors
Jumping on hula hoops dedans - dehors, the tweenies had fun learning the vocabulary through games.

Je peux compter
Counting in French has become a child play in the Tweenies class. We counted to 10 and quantified number 4 using reel objects.
Story time

We had an interacting moment  during our story time. Barbapapa c’est Noel was the title of the book , we learnt some vocabulary related to Christmas ( sapin- christmas tree, etoile- star, neige - snow, and the children shared their thoughts about the Sapin and the decoration.
bravo les enfants!
In the next 2 coming week we will revise and reinforce our previous lessons

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Our week of learning was so pleasant as the cute learners continued to explore sounds, "a and s" through sorting and finding objects from the mystery tub. It was indeed very engaging for the little ones!

Learning numbers has not been the same. In numeracy, the children learnt their numbers in a fun way as they quantified numbers 1 and 2 with the use of different manipulatives  (play dough, ice cream cones, pretend cup cakes and candles) What a fun way to learn numbers!
Also, to be more accurate, the children engaged in scribbling and making straight lines and dots which was a good way of loosen their grips.

In other to explore an opportunity and to create space for learners to explore, the children embarked on their half term project- Creating Own Marks!. They used their creative skills to draw, write, paint and scribble on shapes (circle, triangle and square). It was really a great achievement as they applied their real world observations into the project. Great job friends!

NEXT WEEK'S LEARNING:
* Revision- sounds, shapes and numbers
*Introducing class room duties- meal helpers and line leaders
*Learning classroom vocabulary including objects, people and feelings
*Parent Teachers Conference (PTC)

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This week's learning included the concept of "In and Out”. The children identified when an object/someone is 'in' and when it's 'out' as the children nicely dapped stamps in and out of the circle. The activity got the children engaged and this supported their progress towards vocabulary building. To help develop their understanding of the phonic sound ”i”, the children moved, demonstrated and sung the sound “i” rhyme. They explored the initial sound and also had fun making an “i” craft on insects. Good learning kiddos!.

Our TEA PARTY was the star activity of the week. Decorating paper cups, blowing balloons, setting tables, making sandwiches, serving chocolate cake , welcoming and serving guests etc are some of the activities that the children did during our class Tea party. The children nicely listened to the story” The tiger who came to tea”, and they pretended to use their dolls as their guests who were served sandwiches, cakes and mint tea.

It was an atmosphere that gave the children the opportunity to come up with their own ideas and role- play different scenarios, the activity helps the children to work together, find solutions to challenges and also builds their problem -solving skills. An enjoyable week, overall!

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

Revision of numbers 1 to 4

Sounds s, a, t and i

Opposites

Weather and days of the week rhymes

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5 claps for Richard for being the Star of the week yet the second time..1,2,3,4,5.. .Richard adhered to all instructions this week, took so many risks, he was also speaking up giving the right names to pictures on flash cards as shown during circle time. It was an awesome one, Keep it up!

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La chenille qui fait des trous-d'Eric Carle

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🐵 Huit 🙈🙊🙉 petits ouistitis 🐒 / Histoire 📖 pour les enfants 🧒👶👱‍♀️ en Français 🇨🇵

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Je vends et j'achète /I can buy and sell.

This week was so busy and full of fun activities.

The children were able to sort out fruits and vegetables  while learning the vocabulary in French( mais, tomate,chou,carotte,concombre..). The activity was fun as they had to pick the fruits and vegetables from the playground then put them in the right tub.

It was amazing to see the Tweenies taking the role of a buyer and a seller in our market role play activity. They demonstrated a good understanding of the concept and really enjoyed the activity.

From the house , they took a bike/ car and drove all the way to the market to buy  the fruits and vegetables of their choice. Pretend coins/paper money was given to them to understand the exchange in the market.

Maths

We introduced the rectangle shapes ( rectangle) using different rectangle objects in the class.

During circle time , we numbered the boys and the girls in class, named our colours, sung and danced to rhymes.

We went to the farm to water our corn plante and we were happy to see how our seed  have grown.

Story time:

We enjoyed listening to a story titled” the hungry caterpillar (French version) and “ huits petits ouistitis.

Next week we will...

Introduced jolly phonics sound m

Quantify number 4

Introduce the vocabulary of in and out ( Dedans-dehors)

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This year Hindu Festival of lights(Diwali) took a different turn as the school gathered and engaged in sharing with each other the importance and relevance of Diwali which was done through presentation of speech, pictures etc. Adding to the mood of the celebration, the children were dressed in different Indian traditional attire and also enjoyed the sumptuous India meal . It was indeed enjoyed by one and all.

Learning this week was super engaging as the little learners were introduced to the letter sound “i” and they happily demonstrated, sung and danced to the introduction song. Well done friends!.

To enhance the sense of numbers and quantity, the children engaged in numbers quantification as they were able to identify numbers 1,2,3 by automatic recognition through the use of manipulatives ( colourful balls, hula hop). They had so much fun taking turns to embark on a mini relay race to quantify and sort the numbers. It was an important number sense skill for children to master. Great effort learners!.

The fun and engaging week ended as we celebrated Anti Bullying Day during the whole school assembly. Our super cute learners demonstrated how to stop bullying which they understood as“kindness to our friends” and they boldly stepped forward to thumb print as an evidence that “our school is a bully free zone!. What an awareness session!.

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

*Introduction of In and Out concept.

*Continuation of sound "i"

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Videogyan Kids - Learning Videos & Nursery Rhymes

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Hokey Pokey Song With Lyrics - Nursery Rhymes For Children

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J'aime les fruits - alain le lait (I like fruits)

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J'aime les fruits - alain le lait (I like fruits)

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Learning sounds in French is so pleasing to the ear and this amazes the children again this week to sort their sounds (s,a,t), matching a blown balloon to the right picture sounds.
It was fun as the cute learners played with the balloons and at the same time figured out and matched the sound on balloons to the pictures using their vocabularies correctly. Bravo kiddos!.

Beaucoup (MORE), un Peau (LESS) were the words the children kept outering during the circle time and on the playground as they demonstrated and screamed the action vocabulary in french. This shows how much ability the children had to keep their mind young and active. Great Job!

To support more understanding of the French language, the children were introduced to fruits and vegetables in French correctly as they got the right vocabulary to each of the fruits and vegetables introduced (Banana - La banane, Strawberry - La Fraise, Orange- L'orange, Apple - La pomme, Pineapple- L'ananas, Watermelon - La pastèque). The children keenly enjoyed seeing the pictures of each of the fruits and vegetables displayed as they learnt and pointed when instructed. Also to make it a memorable experience for the children, we embarked on a nature walk to the garden to carry out a planting activity. The smart children found it so interesting to plant their seeds of corn as they repeatedly said maïs, maïs(corn). Hoping to see our little mais plant grow big soon!.

To stimulate the children's imagination and interaction, they imagined how colourful Christmas is and they made a craft (boule de Noël), they chose their favourite colours and communicated it in french and the crafts looked so pretty and adorable as it reminds the children  that Christmas is near. Well done!

French lessons this week were enjoyable and memorable to our amazing learners and we look forward to having more great moments.
Next week:
We will

-Reinforce the vocabulary related to fruits and vegetables
- Introduce sound '' m''
-Quantify number 3
- Revise colours and shapes

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Noa was so amazing this week, she expressed herself more in words, she took risks and was so excellent in her listening skills.

More wins girl!

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Week 2...We Learn Following Rules and Regulations!

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Week 2...We Learn Following Rules and Regulations!

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To help children distinguish whether numbers/objects are more or less, we engaged in an activity of scooping sand into a bucket to show the one that is more or less which was amazingly done by the cute learners as they screamed and demonstrated MORE, LESS! from their bucket of sand. So adorable!

To understand the sense of space, the children explored different shapes (circle, triangle, square) with colourful manipulatives (wooden blocks, colourful plates, Legos and unifix cubes) to fit in the shapes.. It looks so pretty!.

Following rules and regulations promotes learning, this made the children to embark in an obstruction activity by walking on pattern balls and sorting colours with bean bags, crawling through a turnel to match sounds (s,a,t) and objects, the children also enjoyed hopping and jumping in a holla hop to quantify numbers (1,2,3). It was really a challenge the fantastic learners created and also found solutions to obstructions in learning.

The children related "t" sound to the objects around them. They made a "t as in Tree" with some red apples on it which they admired so much.

Our clear rules and regulations really created a conducive atmosphere for learning!.

Good job kiddos!.

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

Introduction of sound "i".

*Pretend market role play

*How we are different from others

*Rhyme for the week "Hookey Pookey"

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Open Shut Them | featuring Noodle & Pals | Super Simple Songs

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Jolly Phonics /t/ - Sound, Song, Vocabulary and Blending

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Our star this week deserves an applause for showing remarkable progress in the class through his active participation, more communication and adherence to routine.

Well done, Richard!

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This week began with a wonderful Halloween celebration- we played games relevant to the occasion, scooped our pumpkins and read a story with a jack-o-lantern.

We also expressed and learnt through play as we played fun games, scooped sand, picked leaves and seeds to fill bottles. Through creativity, the children were able to "open the bottles , fill them up and shut the containers", this sensory activity helped stimulate our senses- touch, feel, sight etc . The children learnt the vocabulary word "open and shut" and they danced to the rhyme for the week (open and shut them, give a little clap…).

The students showed so much interest as they continued to learn their sounds. They were introduced to sound " t" and objects that begin with it . It was fun seeing the children sort out objects with initial sounds "s, a, and t".

Number 3 looks more relatable as the children identified them while playing, walking and reading. Teachers introduced the number with multiple manipulatives so it's fun to learn and quantify the number.

The children really made sense of the world that surrounds them through all the learnings that took place this week.

Keep it up, kiddos!!

Next week, we will learn:

spatial awareness

more/less concept

action words- run, walk, crawl, hop

See you next week!! :)