Highlights of the Week (22/23 Term 2 Week 4)

PN Hello everyone! Our PN classes have started talking about Animals, specifically Pets this week. We sang along to a pet song with our Cambridge friends, Pippa and Pop, while learning the different pet names. We also talked about the different pets we’d like to have, and there were some fascinating choices. We learned how to take care of and be gentle with a pet dog as well. For English, the students learned a new letter, the letter Q and learned some vocabulary words like Queen, Quiet, Quick, Quail, and Quilt. For Math, we learned a new shape – the star where we pretended to be stars and danced to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. What a great way to end the week! Great job, little ones!

It was so nice to see some of our children coming back to ABC with such a HUGE SMILE on their faces with the mask mandate being lifted. For Cambridge, we talked about food such as sausages, carrots, chips etc. and what our students like to eat and practiced to use sentences such as “I like…” and “I don’t like…”. It was marvelous to see how our students were able to tell us what healthy meals they eat at home and what’s not good for their health and should be avoided. For Phonics, we explored with the /k/ and /l/ sounds and reviewed related vocabulary. For Critical Thinking, we reviewed the concept of Bravery by asking students to put their hands into a mystery box with different unknown objects inside. We wanted to encourage our children to be brave enough to put their hands inside and guess what the objects are. They did an amazing job! For Maths, we started learning about patterns such as (jump, clap, sit and repeat) and we also did number 13 by counting 13 different things and gathering 13 things and counting them with our friends.

We look forward to a fruitful month of March in the coming weeks.

This week for Critical Thinking we are reading a fairy tale called “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” which involves three brother goats trying to cross the bridge to eat the grass on the other side. A troll lived under the bridge but each time the goats passed by the bridge, they didn’t get frightened but showed bravery and strength to defeat the troll at the end. The students became really interested in the story so when we performed a play of this story, each student knew what they had to say and became very eager to say their lines and performed some actions related to the story. We had a lot of fun role-playing the different parts of the story.

For Math, we are learning addition up to 10 by using several methods such as finger counting, using objects and using the number line. Students were first using objects to count to understand the concept of addition and then they can practice addition questions using the number lines.

Hello everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful week, we sure did here at school! This week in our Critical Thinking lessons we have begun to discuss fairy tales and the meaning behind them, the moral of the story. We focused on one particular story this week, “The Nightingale.” We learned it’s important to love and appreciate the things dearest to you. Try to find more morals in different stories with your child at home! In our Maths lessons this week we continued to build upon our addition with carryover with the introduction of adding larger numbers, within 50. We have been challenging ourselves in class to try even larger numbers! We also have begun our Hong Kong money unit. This week we introduced the different values of all the Hong Kong ‘notes’ or ‘bills.’ We all agreed the $1000 note is our favourite! In our Physical Play, we tied in our fairy tales into games we can play in the gym. We played “What Time is It Mr. Wolf,” a hunt for lost treasure, and a version of ‘Simon Says’ called “The King/Queen’s Decree.”

主題:「衣服/我的身體」-自製環保袋

經過上星期的講解後，幼兒已經知道衣服的用處，還能說出自己的衣服是從商店購買的。在進行收拾衣服比賽時，幼兒都努力把衣服整齊地掛在衣架上，老師亦藉此教導幼兒在家可為家人服幫忙爸爸媽媽做家務。

另外，今週PN進行了展示自製環保袋活動，老師教導幼兒如何介紹自己的作品，各人都留心傾聽，幼兒拿起和爸爸媽媽一起製作的環保袋時都顯得份外自信、雀躍萬分，我們在此感謝爸爸媽媽的參與，讓幼兒實踐環保概念、培養創意及創造力，更從製作環保袋中學習表現自己及欣賞他人。

學習目的:

1.認識購買衣服的地方

2.認識不同場合的衣服

3.學習表現自己及欣賞他人

主題:「農場」

今週為主題「農場」的最後一週，老師運用動物模型重溫胎生和卵生動物，請幼兒進行分類，很多小朋友都能分辨胎生和卵生動物。老師透過影片介紹農夫的工作和職責，例如:農夫辛勞地耕種和飼養動動等等，展示農夫工作的工作時小朋友都提問農夫不怕熱及為甚麼常常彎腰，幼兒都知道農夫辛勞工作提供不同的農作物給我們，所以我們要珍惜食物，不要浪費食物。

活動中，幼兒認識到植物和動物的生長元素都不同，例如植物有水耕和農耕的分別，過程中，運用提問和網絡圖引導幼兒，說出植物成長的元素。

當幼兒看到不同農作物時都會說出我喜歡食的蔬菜名稱，學習不要挑食才會快高長大。最後，幼兒設計農場，並分享自己農場飼養了甚麼的動物，作為這主題的總結活動。

學習目的 :

1. 認識農夫的工作和職責。

2. 說出植物成長的元素。

3. 享受製作手工的過程。

主題：「植物與小昆蟲」 - 認識益蟲和害蟲

今週已進入「植物與小昆蟲」主題第四週，上週已探討了昆蟲的身體結構，了解其生活的地方。幼兒知道有些昆蟲常在公園出現，幼兒舉手說：「例如蝴蝶、蜜蜂」亦有幼兒說：「有些昆蟲喜歡在垃圾堆。」老師引導幼兒思考這些昆蟲身體會否沾滿細菌，幼兒馬上舉手：「這些昆蟲有很多病菌，會令我們生病。」最後，老師利用簡報向幼兒介紹昆蟲可分為益蟲和害蟲，從而讓他們知道不同昆蟲對人類的益處與禍害。

學習目的：

(1) 認識益蟲和害蟲

(2) 認識公園常見的標誌及事物

(3) 培養公德心

主題：「我愛大自然」－昆蟲

來到主題「我愛大自然」的尾聲了，今週我們主要討論昆蟲，老師播放有關昆蟲的身體結構簡報，讓小朋友透過觀察及比較說出不同昆蟲的身體結構有甚麼相同及相異之處。另外，透過教育電視，小朋友知道昆蟲會用不同的自衞方法保護自己，他們對此十分感興趣呢！老師藉此延伸討論除了昆蟲外，不同的動物也有不同保護自己的方法及技能，帶出我們各人都有自己的長處及本領，應互相欣賞啊！

學習目的:

(1) 認識昆蟲的身體結構

(2) 認識不同昆蟲的成長形態

(3) 認識不同的自我保護技能