Term 4 Week 1

Hello parents,

This week the children were encouraged to share about how they spend their September holidays. They pretended using hand puppets during developmental play to create conversations with their friends, as well as their own selves, about where they went and what they did during the holidays.

This term, our dramatic play corner has been transformed into a school canteen stall. The children get to play collaboratively with their peers as they take on different roles as stall vendors selling food items and primary school students buying food during recess time. This is a good opportunity for the K2s to participate in a symbolic imaginative play that allows them to be familiar with Primary School canteen procedures such as lining up to buy food, paying for food items and returning the crockery after eating.

The K2s also used ice-cream sticks to create their own interpretations of what they think their new Primary Schools will look like.

For sensory play, the children were encouraged to review their Math concept of patterning by creating their own complex patterns using coloured straws and strings. The children were invited to cut straw pieces and string them together to make a necklace. The children came up with different complex patterns such as AAB, AABCB and AABBC.

The children also practiced their eye hand coordination by playing a fishing game on the blue mat. They were required to hold the fishing rod with only one hand and lower it into the "pond" filled with fishes. They then tried to stick the felt fishes onto the end of their fishing line with Velcro pieces attached.

On the Math table, the children worked on making combinations of numbers up to 10 using clothes hangers, wooden pegs and T-shirt number cards.

Next, we made different combinations of 10 and represented our work using paper chains.

We also used number bond paper plates to explore different relationships between numbers during our Numeracy lesson. We learned that we can break down numbers into 2 smaller numbers and that it takes 2 parts to make a whole (part, part, whole). Hence, we used the 2 smaller paper plates to represent the 2 parts and the bigger plate to represent the whole in our number bond lesson. We placed some counters in the bigger paper plate and separated the counters into the 2 smaller plates. We found out that we can separate numbers in different ways. For example, we can separate 10 by (5 and 5) or (6 and 4) by just moving 1 counter from one small plate to another small plate.

For Language and Literacy, we learned the different elements of a story such as characters, setting, problem and solution. We created our own story by rolling the dice and recorded our ideas on a story map.

It was a busy first week of Term 4. Parents, please feel free to reinforce the concepts learned with your children at home. Thank you.

Till the next post!