Curriculum Meeting: Reflective Practices by Odyssey Wilkinson

Caroline

2023-07-26 06:32:42 UTC

Okay

Nimi

2023-07-26 06:33:18 UTC

Inquiry: Got children to conduct their second experiment. Based on my observation last week, I included more visual aids to guide the children to complete the experiment with minimal teacher guidance.
Literacy: Brought the children outdoors and conducted an activity to cater to active children. Children did a simple obstacle course, picked out a toy and sorted the toy according to its letter sounds.

Math (Preschool) JK Isaac

2023-07-26 06:33:48 UTC

Math lesson last week was on patterns, the children enjoyed the activity provided but some of the children found it too easy. We listened to the children’s feedback and came up with more challenging ways to engage in pattern learning (dancing with patterns) so that the children can continue to be engaged during the lesson.

Ling Hui

2023-07-26 06:34:32 UTC

Today I had stretchers with my class. I’m glad that some of them were able to repeat after and identify the different places shown in the book like grass and river. However, they still need help in remembering the sequence of which places come first. They enjoyed the sticking of the places onto the board and using the magnet to move the characters along the places on the board.

PN Discoverers - Medalynn

medalynnng — 2023-07-26 06:34:54 UTC

During Stretchers, the objective of the lesson was to re-tell the story using story blocks. Each group was allocated 10 mins to carry out the activity. There were 3 story blocks and the children worked in pairs to complete the activity. For children who where not able to carry out the activity, they used the story boards to re-tell the story instead.

Constructors

2023-07-26 06:35:05 UTC

技能课：
这周二的技能课是让孩子跟着韵律去摆动，学习关于绘本的一首儿歌，我们选择（大西瓜）。幼儿跟着音乐摆动并知道放音乐的时候找出西瓜做吃的动作。
反思：根据幼儿的差异准备不同的水果让幼儿选择，可以放一些不同西瓜的形状让幼儿触摸和学习。
小飞老师

Fitness and sports (Lyon)

2023-07-26 06:36:14 UTC

Nursery Inquirers -

Children ran around the trellis field for warm up to train their cardiovascular endurance and get their overall heart rate going.

They started the lesson with catching rugby balls according to lesson objectives. Most children were able to look the ball in and use their “clapping hands” to secure the ball with their hands and body. Those who weren’t able to use their “clapping hands” used their “bowl hands” to hug and catch the ball.

They progressed to running and catching to make the activity more dynamic, challenging the children with better abilities.

Afterwards they paired up according to differentiated ability to practice their sideway passing and catching. This helps to get them to work together, honing their social skills in a sports setting.

The lesson ended with children playing 2 against 1 touch Rugby. Objective of the game was to score points by the offense putting the ball down in the end zone. The defense must stop them by tagging them before they reach the end zone. The children enjoyed the activities today and hoped there would be more “game time” next week.

2023-07-26 06:36:27 UTC

Some of the lessons are objectives achieved. The reflection is good for us to reflect the lesson and teaching strategies.

Some of the lesson are sufficient for hands on activities but some yes. It remind me to us more hands on materials to engage the children so they can interact to each other.

To me, I have to use different level of Chinese to help the children understand Chinese more. Therefore, they can answer the questions and even ask the relevant questions.

You Hwee

Jingle

2023-07-26 06:36:44 UTC

Pre-N Discoverers
-The lesson was robot themed and I chose to introduce the topic with a short video of robots dancing. I feel this was effective as it ensured all children were able to recognise what a robot was (and suggest how it might move or sound).
-The children were invited to dance to the beat of Robot Little, and freeze when the electronic beat stopped. Most children were able to freeze during the music, but they were not able clearly demonstrate awareness of beat. In future, to extend by playing percussion instruments so I can observe it.
-Children were invited to imitate robot noises and movements with Drum Pad Machine. Ms Medalynn was invited to model to them which helped them to understand. However, when they were invited to take turns pressing on DPM they were distracted with wanting a turn vs moving to the sound of the drum. In future, to invite children to move like robots first (teacher press), and then to provide 5-10 mins for children to explore DPM in small groups.
-Children were invited to play GEC resonator bells to the melody of Robot Dance/Wheels on The Bus. Most children were able to wait for their turn as they were told explicitly what would happen (resonator bars would be passed on). Yi Terng voiced that he wanted to try multiple times but was able to wait with
encouragement! Children were not able to play GEC according to pitch without a lot of prompts (teacher pointing). To try 2 pitches only to simplify.

debbie

2023-07-26 06:36:54 UTC

More prompts/questions can be provided to children who may not be as outspoken or participative in class
For creative arts, lesson can be more organised in terms of giving out the materials & rules setting. to work on this, i can probably have children work in small groups next time.

Constructors (Jorie)

2023-07-26 06:37:06 UTC

Project work:
- How bubbles are formed by exploring bubble soap in the tub

Reflection:
- There are sufficient hands on experience as we allowed children to play with the bubble machine before feeling and exploring with the tub of soap.
- Children are meaningfully engaged as they are seen poping the bubbles, rubbing their hands together and scooping the bubbles from the tub.
- What can be improved, to provide more materials for children to find out other ways or methods of creating bubbles (bottles, etc)

Toh

2023-07-26 06:37:19 UTC

昨天给孩子们复习儿歌时，Emre开始不乐意一起念，他说我不讲华语，就坐在不参与。我说我们环境有华人，所以学习华语方便交更多的朋友。我的两个英文老师也加以鼓励。结果他也参与，后来我们还录像说要发给家长看他们的演示。我感谢英文老师的支持。

Bambino (OLE)

2023-07-26 06:37:43 UTC

We have OLE yesterday and we brought children out to pick up leaves and sticks. Olivia was more interested in the bottlecaps and she stacked them up. The new infants were afraid of the grass and they did not want to touch the leaves.

Attainment individual goals

2023-07-26 06:37:52 UTC

昨天的华文课上，通过多媒体教学和分组游戏，小朋友们很积极地复习了已学过的汉语拼音，同时很快地掌握了新学的汉语拼音。但是有些华文比较不是很好的小朋友，还是需要更多的练习。
进步的地方: 给予一些华文程度比较薄弱的小朋友更多的机会和关注。

曹

Guiding Questions

odysseywilkinson — 2023-07-26 06:38:03 UTC

在最近的课程中，增加了很多新的教具进行活动，更能吸引幼儿的兴趣！在昨天的课程中，通过分小组提问与问答的方式学习儿歌《轮子歌》，一组幼儿问“ 一个轮子什么车”另一组幼儿回答“一个轮子单轮车”……，完成儿歌以后再对换进行，比较有趣，幼儿很久就学会了！

2023-07-26 06:39:02 UTC

幼儿提问：轮子的轮是邮轮的轮吗？

- 丹丹

charis

charisyeooo — 2023-07-26 06:39:33 UTC

kaleidoscope
children were able to match the numbers on the cookies to the plates and stack them. in terms of phonics, children were engaged in exploring and could associate items beginning with /p/, with minimal guidance.

peer interaction was evident as well, as children helped one another to look for the number cookies that their friends needed to stack on their plates. differentiated learning can be provided by placing larger numbers to cater to children of higher ability.

Yung-Yi - Parent-In-Class Project Work

yungyileeodyssey — 2023-07-26 06:39:40 UTC

We did achieve our objective, the children had fun during the whole process, and parents are able to see how their child is in school.
The children definitely have sufficient hands-on experience. The time planned was not enough, but we do let the children continue to explore and play.
Would be better to have more time and more teachers during this activity for us to observe much more closely for each individual child, and for them to ask questions.
It might be because it was conducted in a large group setting, open-space, and there's a lot of different stations going on.

Jela

2023-07-26 06:39:42 UTC

Inquiry: We did our 2nd experiment today, where the children will test their hypothesis whether they can only see rainbows on a grass. The children enjoyed the experience. They used CDs, prisms, torchlight for the experiment. We are planning to extend this experience for our outdoor tomorrow during our parent-in-class. We have also integrated literacy in our inquiry by encouraging children to write down their conclusion in their journal (based on our observation that most of the children are confident in writing)

For children who need support in their literacy like Louay and Yoshi, we provide learning materials to bring home to reinforce the writing and reading skills with their parents. We also share with their parents what we have done in school and provide links to support their learning at home.

For children who are exceeding the learning goals, we challenge them to do their own inventive spelling when writing in their journal.

Amalina

2023-07-26 06:40:09 UTC

Lesson: Math (shapes)
Lesson objective was achieved today. Children able to describe properties of basic shapes- circle, rectangle, triangle and square.
Materials were sufficient and hands on as children get to use loose parts, solid shapes, tan gram mats and math table light activity. Children get to explore the activity in green space and Ray of light.
Teacher introduced a shape story to the children to be familiar with the concept. Teachers observed children as they get to create the basic shapes using the materials provided. Children were meaningfully engaged in the activities.
Other possibilities of extending activities is to provide differentiated level for children to explore with shapes.

Rovers Project Mengya

2023-07-26 06:41:02 UTC

分组进行活动，为每一组的每一位小朋友准备一个可操作的装置，引导他们自己动手操作。在活动过程中，有先进行演示——如何将物体从水中取出，让他们知道要做什么，他们自行探索的过程中，提出问题进行引导，让他们发现磁铁的吸引力可以物体从水中取出，初步了解磁力的作用。

PN Discoverers RongRong

2023-07-26 06:42:14 UTC

华文万花筒：
在周二活动中主要学习S的发音，并学习如何建构，活动中充分准备了和S发音相关的玩具和雪花片，并投放进了动手操作桌里，幼儿都能够积极参与活动，并在活动中能够通过里面的玩具学说相关的词汇，能力强的幼儿在说不出玩具的名称时，能够主动和老师提问这是什么，当得到老师的回答时，会重复学说询问的词汇。能力较弱的幼儿能够通过玩耍玩具时和老师一起学习仿说相关的词汇，从而达到学习的目标。在使用雪花片进行建构时，发现部分的幼儿不懂如何使用手指和手腕的力度来进行拼插雪花片，在之后的课余的时间里会帮助幼儿锻炼手部的动手能力。

Meiling

2023-07-26 06:42:29 UTC

本周进行玩具的词汇学习，我们透过游戏鼓励幼儿说出词汇名称并进行配对，但在有限的时间下对于需要较多协助的幼儿反而没有办法参与，由于孩子是半天所以也没有下午的时间进行复习，因此华文水平会跟其他幼儿差距拉大。

在小组时，会依赖其他老师的引导而没有去巡视其他小组的学习过程，只有透过其他老师的反馈来做幼儿的观察纪录。

Explorers (Project)

2023-07-26 06:43:04 UTC

Lesson - The objective for children to engage in sensorial colour mixing was achieved. The lesson presented sufficient hands-on experiences, nonetheless not all the children enjoyed the sensorial experience. Future improvement: provide variety of materials such that children can engage in the sensorial experiences using bare hands and different art tools.

Teaching - More prompting questions / different ways to mix the colours could be facilitated (e.g. guided use of droppers)

Children - Children sustained engagement when mixing in the colours in the foam. They identified the colours correctly when prompted / verbalised the colours they saw. Opportunities to extend learning: link to patterns / lines they observed, dramatic play (e.g. foam lollipop)

Communicators - Jing Wen

2023-07-26 06:43:10 UTC

Children were learning about patterns this week. They are able to describe and identify what a pattern is and are working on copying/extending the identified pattern. Materials used are concrete - visual and kinaesthetic. Children who have already achieved the extending of patterns are encouraged to create their own pattern. They also help their lower ability peers by asking them what colour/shape they see so that they are able to describe the patterns.

HZ

2023-07-26 06:44:01 UTC

万花筒
材料准备部分幼儿都很有兴趣，他们会跟着我一起说出名称或是相对应的名称或动物叫声，但直接切入主题幼儿有点不太理解，要给幼儿多一些引导。

chenxuefangsp — 2023-07-26 06:44:24 UTC

Explorers
伸展课：延伸活动学习儿歌手指摇“海底世界”，认识海马、贝壳、八爪鱼、鲨鱼等词语。结合动物教具让幼儿对词语有具体的认识，大部分能跟随老师的动作和歌谣动起来。反思：如果提供更丰富多样的教具，幼儿的积极性能持续更久，活动目标更有效达到。

雪芳

Alex's Library Reflections A. Lesson: 1) I have an open-ended format which included children's input as part of my storytelling content; 2) I have access to lots of book resources; 3) always start or end my storytelling with a hands-on activity to gauge prior knowledge or understanding

2023-07-26 06:46:13 UTC

B. Teachers: 1) mindful of my role as a facilitator; 2) use CLS to ensure voices of quieter chn are heard

C: Children
1) 6 out of 10 are attentive and follow the story flow, able to identify and describe story elements; 2) 5 out of 10 chn are able to make meaningful connections ('w/o much prompts) between stories and inquiry + daily lives

Sarah

2023-07-26 06:47:07 UTC

今天进行了万花筒课程！这个星期万花筒课程中中的精细动作是叠和夹。在活动中能看到小朋友比起夹更对叠杯子有更大的兴趣。其中能看到琪恩能将杯子叠得很好，她能很有耐心的去进行叠的活动。

在介绍手指谣和儿歌都能很快的记住并主动让老师一起唱！

Ng Xin Rou

2023-07-26 06:47:30 UTC

方案：幼儿们都非常投入在颜色混合的实验。
大家都可以独立自主地使用道具，除了傧億和奕霖需要帮助。
大象组：非常积极分享，睿凯说：“我用了黄色和蓝色。我看到了绿色。
长颈鹿组：比较喜欢动手操作，需要老师引导提问。

Art

2023-07-26 06:47:30 UTC

Travellers
Simple Machine- Digital Art

The objectives were achieved where the children created the art and learnt to listen with comprehensive and follow through instructions.
The use of materials such as iPad device for the activity. Total of 6 iPad device is to 6 group of 4 children. The time was well utilised. There were sufficient hands-on experiences for children where they learnt on turn-taking to work on the iPad digital art- drawing desk application with different drawing styles of lines (motor and creativity skills).

The lesson was effectively facilitated by the art specialist and respective teachers. Sufficient attention were given to extending children's questions and for them to ask questions during the process of art making. I engaged children in collaborative and cooperative learning, provision for peer review at the end of the activity and end off with a group photo-taking of their group works accomplishment.

Shuilin

2023-07-26 06:49:42 UTC

Lesson objectives
Children from the proficient group were able to meet the objectives for the lesson. Most of them were able to complete the task independently.

Children from the developing group needed some assistance from the teacher. Activity that needed guidance are puting the correct ounctuation to the sentences, writing their names with using the upper and lower case, and also the sight word activities.
Children from the developing group needed teacher's guidance to ensure that they stay focus in task (This group needs one to one) we can also assign a competent child with this group of children to geth them to learn from them)

Classroom management : it was alittle messy as a few children wanted to head the other group to do the preferred activity. However, it was good that the teacher managed to convinced the child to try other activities.

Closure was too long, children losed their focus. Riku and Howard acted up. Closure should be kept within 5-10 mins.
Should have read the reader at the end of the closure instead of at the start of the closure

Things to improved: I have to remember to go through essential agreement with the kids, so that children knows what they need to do. Take care of the materials, stay within the group.

Collaborative learning: can try to pair children from the proficient group with developing group to encourage peer learning.

Readers should be conduct during Dear time and not during the main literacy lesson, so that teacher can go around to observed children's learning.

Dian

2023-07-26 07:02:24 UTC

During Stretchers lesson today, it was a good idea to start the lesson by playing the sound of an emergency siren to grab the children's attention, though it woulld have been better if it was louder and the duration was longer! Afterwards, the children were especially interested in the doctor's kit - most of them voluntarily came to me to have their heartbeat checked by the stethoscope that i was wearing, except for Sophia and Trevor. However, after they observed their peers bravely exploring the equipment such as the syringe and blood pressure monitor, they eventually developed the courage to try! Generally the children were more engaged in the beginning but started getting distracted when i was introducing the small group activity. Perhaps the large group introduction could be simpler and i can explain the small group activity when they are in small groups instead.

Seekers

2023-07-26 07:04:23 UTC

方案课：幼儿非常积极地参与活动，特别是使用风力让羽毛向上飘起的活动里。幼儿在进行活动时专注地观察羽毛飘起的方向。此外，幼儿也喜欢观察车子飞快的滑行速度。～Poh Tee

Stretchers - Explorers

2023-07-26 09:44:58 UTC

Objective: to introduce children the sounds from different transport vehicles. Materials: different toy vehicles for children to explore and also pictures of real life transport vehicles. Objective was achieved as children were engaged and the sounds from various transport vehicles able to capture their attention especially when the sounds were played louder. Some children were able to make good guesses about few familiar vehicle sounds.
Things to improve: large group session shouldn’t be too long. Some younger children easily got distracted if we couldn’t engaged them well.

Yu Ting

2023-07-27 10:27:41 UTC

Lesson: Kaleidoscope
Objectives: All children were able to pronounce the /n/ sound and most children were able to understand that the materials they were exploring with begins with the /n/ sound. This can be seen when the teacher asked them "what are the things that begins with the /n/ sound?", children are able to answer the questions by naming out the materials from the tub, or even answering without reference of the materials provided. For children who are not able to understand the beginning sound of the word, I can help them practice saying the letter sound before pronouncing the word. For example, /n/ /n/ nose.
Materials: There were enough materials provided to the children
Time allocation: 15 minutes per group

To be improved: Expose children to the letter and correct their pronunciation of the letter sounds before going into Kaleidoscope, it is also important to link the letter sounds to their surroundings (eg, name of friends, objects) to help them understand better.