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2021 Term 2 Week 7

Dear Parents

Wishing all the Kindy Mummies …..

Hope you like the gift the children prepared for you!

Yes, this was the special project that they were working on last week…


And they have another surprise for you…

Find out more about this SURPRISE @ Recent Happenings!


We commence our theme on letters M & N

English Language & Literacy

- Info Time

Peace

M is for Monkey

a) Characteristics of monkeys

b) Difference between monkeys and apes

c) What makes monkeys, good climbers

• Spider monkeys in action (featuring their tails)

d) Jyoti Raj (Monkey man) – India’s self-taught climber without harness

• Discussion about safety concerns

• What helped assist him in his climbing etc. (chalk, climbing shoes…)

Joy

M is for Mcdonald’s. The Joy kids had a great time with this one. The vote was unanimous. Everyone was

interested. Everyone was excited. Here goes…

e) How did it all begin? The McDonalds story told in an animated form.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygM3DFucj5o by Past To Future

f) Did you know a movie was made about the origins of McDonald’s – “The Founder”: A fast-food story

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFJOylxAi8&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning by CBS Sunday

Morning

g) Were all McDonald’s menu the same across the world? We travelled to 14 different countries to find out

that every country had their own take on the McDonald’s menu and no two countries were the same.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJPmoHR7DlU&ab_channel=FoodInsider by Food Insider

h) What happened to Ronald McDonald? Who is he? Is he still around? Find out in “The Untold Truth of Ronald

McDonald”

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WySwn67yEg&ab_channel=Mashed by Mashed

Love 1 & 2

Letter M

a) M&M chocolates – a peek into how these chocolates are made

b) Milk – a visit to a dairy farm

c) Monkeys – song about monkeys and their favorite bananas

d) Mangoes – song about the yellow / green mangoes, taste (sour / sweet)

- Phonics

Love 1

a) Letter Ll – Name & Sound

b) Words that start with letter Ll – lizard, ladder, log, lantern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygM3DFucj5o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFJOylxAi8&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJPmoHR7DlU&ab_channel=FoodInsider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WySwn67yEg&ab_channel=Mashed


c) Song: “L is for lantern, l, l, l”

d) Activity 1: Light up a lantern and take turns to carry it.

e) Activity 2: Choose a Chinese lantern – paste name and the word “lantern” on it.

Love 2

a) Every letter has a name and sound

b) Words that start with letter Kk (kiwi, king, kangaroo, koala, kite)


c) Song: “K is for kangaroo, k,k,k “

d) Activity: Colour the mother kangaroo and insert the joey into the pouch

Joy

a) Introduction to “ad” words

b) Worksheet: Match the “ad” words to the correct picture & draw a glad face.

Peace

a) Long vowel ‘i’ words

b) Colour the pictures which depicts a long vowel ‘i’ word


- Learning Corners

Peace

a) Match words that rhyme

b) This/these – Fill in the blanks

c) A/an – Determine if a/an is correctly used in sentence

d) Days of the week – today, yesterday, tomorrow

e) Spell words and identify if word has a short/long vowel

Joy

a) Clip “at” words

b) Spot the mistake – fix the puzzles

c) Match starting letters to the pictures

d) Sequence days of the week, write the day

e) Sort “am” and “ag” words


Love 2

a) Match capital to small letter (Qq -V)

b) Find the missing letters A-Z

c) Match the correct pictures to the starting letters of M & N

Love 1

- Activities: Letter M [maze, marble]

Marble Maze!


Find the Matching picture …


Chinese Language

Peace - 儿歌：调皮的猴子

er ge : tiao pi he hou zi

- 词汇 : 猴子、吃香蕉、爬树、长尾巴、生活在树上和森林

ci hui : hou zi, chi xiang jiao, pa shu, chang wei ba, sheng huo zai shu shang he sen lin

- 阅读 : 奶奶的雨伞

yue du : nai nai de yu san

- 部首：亻部首(你、他们、停、信、做和倒)

bu shou : 亻 bu shou (ni, ta men, ting, xin, zuo he dao)


- 作业：书写 (你、他们、停、信、做和倒)

zuo ye : shu xie (ni, ta men, ting, xin, zuo he dao)

- 角落区 :

corner :

a) 排序 : 今天是＿＿月＿＿＿日星期＿

pai xu : jin tian shi __ yue __ ri xing qi __

b) 配对 : 上山坡、下山坡、过桥、转个弯

pei dui : shang shan po, xia shan po, guo qiao, zhuan ge wan

c) 配对 : “是消防局吗？快派人来！”奶奶喊道、 “快来快来”、“没有着火！”奶奶说、“快来救我的猫!”奶奶说

pei dui : “shi xiao fang ju ma? kuai pai ren lai!” nai nai han dao, “kuai lai kuai lai”, “mei you zhao huo!” nai nai

shuo, “kuai lai jiu wo de mao!” nai nai shuo

d) 配对 : 消防员、消防车、消防局

pei dui : xiao fang yuan, xiao fang che, xiao fang ju

e) 书写 : 消防员

shu xie : xiao fang yuan


Joy - 儿歌：调皮的猴子

er ge : tiao pi he hou zi

- 词汇 : 猴子、吃香蕉、爬树、长尾巴、生活在树上和森林

ci hui : hou zi, chi xiang jiao, pa shu, chang wei ba, sheng huo zai shu shang he sen lin

- 作业：配对 (吃香蕉、爬树和长尾巴)

zuo ye : pei dui (chi xiang jiao, pa shu he chang wei ba)


- 角落区 :

corner :

a) 数数 : 十九和二十

shu shu : shi qiu he er shi

b) 填空 : 今天是＿＿月＿＿＿日星期＿

tian kong : jin tian shi __ yue __ ri xing qi __

c) 书写：七

shu xie : qi

d) 配对 : 红橙黄绿蓝靛紫

pei dui : hong cheng huang lu lan dian zi

e) 配对（影子配）: 狮子、老虎、大象和长颈鹿

pei dui (ying zi pei) : shi zi, lao hu, da xiang he chang jing lu

Love 2 : - 儿歌：五只猴子吃香蕉

er ge : wu zhi hou zi chi xiang jiao


- 词汇 : 猴子、吃香蕉和爬树；十（复习）

ci hui : hou zi, chi xiang jiao he pa shu; shi (fu xi)

- 作业：数一数、圈一圈‘十’

zuo ye : shu yi shu, quan yi quan ‘shi’

- 角落区 :

corner :

a) 排序 : 一到十

pai xu : yi dao shi

b) 数数 : 七和十

shu shu : qi he shi

c) 配对 : 蚂蚁和狮子

pei dui : ma yi he shi zi


Mathematics

- Math is Fun

Peace

a) Money – Introduction to notes, coins and their value (dollars; cents)

b) Activity: Find the correct notes/coins & identify the quantity.

Joy

a) Introduction to number words (one – ten)

b) Activity: Listen to the number word being called. Smack the number word and spell it out


Love 2

a) Revision of numbers – recognition / counting from 1 -10

b) Introduction to counting on from a given number (e.g. count from 6 to 10)

c) Activity: Count on using the number line

Love 1

a) Rational counting

Listen and count the number of marbles falling into the bucket

b) 1-to-1 correspondence

Pick out the correct number of macaroni – according to the number given


- Learning Corners

Peace

a) Subtraction sums – Solve and match the answers

b) Money – Sort notes and coins to reflect correct value

c) Ordinal numbers – Read and carry out the instructions given

d) Count in 2s & identify total number of macaroni shells

e) Math symbols – Fill in the correct signs (< & >)

- Worksheet: Match the money shown to the correct values

Joy

a) Addition – match the monkey to right banana

b) Subtraction – place the right answers, use the monkeys as counters

c) Count in 2s – write the numbers

d) Match the numbers to the number words, place the right number of eggs in the nest

e) Sequence 15 – 1 with the monsters

- Worksheet: Subtraction from 5


Love 2

a) Which is heavier?

b) Count and place the correct number

c) Sequence numbers 1-10 (no reference)

- Worksheet: Cut and Paste - Fill in the missing numbers (1-10)

Love 1

- Worksheet: My mini book of 7 (colouring)


Discovery Corner

Joy

The Joy class created their own masquerade masks.

1. Half a paper plate with 2 eye cut-outs

2. Sparkly craft materials – sequins, butterflies, ABC cutouts, jewels

3. Colourful feathers

4. White glue

5. Colour pencils

6. Ice cream stick for the handle of the mask


Peace


The children were given a string

and a variety of cylindrical pasta like macaroni, to make a necklace!

They had to patiently and carefully thread the string through the pasta they chose,

with the help of masking tape, to prevent the pasta from falling through.

They learn to plan and strategically paste the masking tape at different parts of the string

to make it easier for them to achieve their preferred necklace design

.


Their satisfied looks!

They then cut two slits in a card stock

and designed it to make their necklace presentable as a gift!


Show, Tell & Share

Love 1

Love 2

Manya (L) brought a purple dinosaur with very sharp teeth for eating “people”!

And it does make a “roaring” sound too.

Seth (R) was excited to show his friends his police car and ambulance.

He showed how fast they can go across the room.

Elior connected his train carriages

and showed his friends how strong the magnets were by

holding on to the first carriage and dangling the rest.

Jordan and Haegen

shared the use of their construction vehicles!

(bulldozer and cement mixer)


Fun & Movement

Love 1

Learning to be aware of their surroundings.

Jumping over the horizontal foam stick…

Then walking in a line without stepping onto the boundaries set by the foam sticks.

The two lines of foam sticks were brought closer together.

The children were tasked to balance one feet on each line

and walk along it without stepping onto the ground.


Increasing the level of difficulty by creating gaps in the line!

Joy

The Joy children revised and practiced their ball manipulation skills.

Throwing the ball across the table to their friend…


Aiming to throw the ball into the make-shift goal…


Passing the ball to their friends…

Catching the ball tossed by Teacher and returning the ball using a two-handed pass.

They had to be prepared and ready to catch the ball at any time.


Aesthetics (Cooking)

Another opportunity to use the knife … it’s

We learned another use for the knife besides using it for Cutting …

… SPREADING the jam and butter on the bread

Ingredients – Kaya, Black Current Jam, Butter and Bread Slices

Raring to go …. Getting their knife to work …

One hand sawing the bread with the knife while the other hand holds the bread in place ..

A little Intro to Jams & Butter :

- Fruit jams (strawberry, orange marmalade, pear, apricot; etc)

- Kaya is “Egg Jam”

- Nut butter (made from nuts like peanuts, almonds, hazelnut; etc)

>> all are most familiar with strawberry jam and dairy & peanut butter!


“Our perfect cuts”

…

Ooops .. dunno

what happened?

Heee hee hee !

Ooops –

many, many

pieces!

Off to work after

collecting the jams and butter

…


Some would spread it on their plate

while some would do it holding the bread in their hand ….

wonderful attempts by the little ones

(awkward they may seem)

handling the knife to cut and spread the jams and butter

Always the best part – when we get to eat what we’ve done ….


It is always a joy to see them tucking in the food heartily

(many with seconds and thirds … )

and more importantly

enjoying the entire hands-on experience

- Make my own JAM & BUTTER sandwich

- Supermarket shopping to look at the range and assortment

of jams and nut butter

Some pertinent observations :

- All like eating bread

- Many like butter

- Kaya for the first time for

most; quite a few liked

S u g g e s t e d


Kindy Family News

Eeva Ong joins the Love 1 class.

wishing all the kindy mummies

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