Highlights of the Week (23/24 Term 2 Week 17)

Hello everyone! Welcome to Week 17! The PN kids have had another amazing week at school! We were all thrilled to start off the week with the theme “Park” because we really love going to the park with our families and friends! From beautiful flowers and tall trees to playful frogs and chirping birds, we had a chance to demonstrate our natural wonders and have been fascinated by the beauty of the park. We helped teachers to decorate the park and had fun flying like different insects in the classroom! For English, we focused on the new letter V and explored its related words such as Volcano, Vest, Violin, Van. We had a blast listening to some violin music and played “The Floor is LAVA” game with our friends! What a fantastic experience in the lesson! Another fascinating concept we talked about this week was colour mixing. It was VERY magical to know that we can actually create new hues by combining different colours! For example, mixing red and blue creates purple, while mixing yellow and blue creates green! That’s all for this week! We look forward to another exciting week ahead!

It has been a very busy week for our K1 students as we have been reviewing all of our topics which we have covered for the second term in Cambridge and in Phonics through fun games and different activities. For Critical Thinking this week, our students have been exploring and discussing the concept of ‘Bravery’ and what it takes to be brave—it’s always important to try even if you are a little scared. All our students have been very good at showing just how brave they are by trying new things. We are very proud of their efforts, even if it might be a little bit scary. For Math, we are moving up the number line as we learn the number 17! We also continued exploring our topic of mixing colours as everyone tried to make orange using red and yellow! They have also put their own colouring skills to the test as they try to make orange using crayons, too! That’s all for now, but we are certainly looking forward to another fun week ahead!

We are grateful for the joyful week that has gone by in which we spent in a state of gratitude aligning with this week’s Critical Thinking theme of “Being Grateful”. As we reflected on special events in our lives that we had to be grateful for. We then took the opportunity to make thank you cards for our friend’s expressing gratitude for their friendship.

In Cambridge we explored our way through “The Old House” discovering the different parts of a home. During this little adventure with our Super Minds Friends, we also learnt a really cool fact, that “there’s” and there is” means the same thing.

Our phonics and Maths lessons were super fun as we engaged in team games and activities to review all our previously learnt concepts making sure we knew them to the best of our abilities.

We ended of the week and month on a celebratory note with our “May Pathfinders” where we got to acknowledge the hard work our of friends.

Welcome back dear friends! How was everyone’s weekend? We hope that you all had fun on our Family Fun Day! It was definitely an event to remember!

This week in Critical Thinking for our K3 friends, we capped off this month of Character Development with another skill of Perseverance! Our friends were very keen to understand what Not Giving Up really means despite failures or difficulties. It was amazing to see them reflect on the things that they have already achieved and figure out how it wasn’t as easy as they thought it was in the beginning. They had fun testing their skills with their perseverance challenge activities and seeing how far they can go.

Then, for Maths, we had a recap of the concepts that we have learned these past weeks using fun games and activities. As for our Subtraction, we moved up on our borrowing skills within 50 on our minuend! Our friends were definitely up for a challenge!

And that's it for this week! June is just around the corner! Time does fly by very quickly! We shall see you back here next week! Until then, our good friends!

主題: 「幫助我們的人」─廚師

今週，老師展開新主題「幫助我們的人」。幼兒對於新主題十分感興趣，並積極投入課堂活動當中。老師播放影片讓幼兒認識廚師的工作，並利用模擬遊戲來扮演廚師煮食物，大家都說出自己喜愛的食物。透過角色扮演活動，讓幼兒體驗廚師烹煮的程序。

透過實物和圖片，幼兒學習到廚師工作用的工具及各工具的用途，並嘗試利用鍋鏟炒菜，用湯杓把湯倒在碗中，用膠刀在砧板上切食物，大家都玩得十分投入。

學習目的:

(1) 認識廚師的工作

(2) 體會制作食物的樂趣

(3) 認識「田」的字形和字義

主題：「衣服」－不同場合的衣服本週主題繼續圍繞「衣服」，老師展示不同種類的衣服，例如校服、運動服、禮服、睡衣及不同職業的制服等，並請幼兒討論在不同的場合應穿著甚麼合適的衣服。另外，透過拼圖遊戲，老師介紹了不同國家的服飾，讓幼兒了解不同國家的文化和服裝特色。

幼兒即將設計一件屬於自己的衣服，老師請幼兒分組商量設計風格，並嘗試繪畫設計圖。最後，老師透過《國王的新衣》的故事，請幼兒學習做個誠實的好孩子。

學習目的：

1) 認識不同國家的服飾

2) 知道不同場合應穿著不同的衣服

3) 學習設計衣服

主題----「幫助我們的人」

這週，我們延續探討主題「幫助我們的人」。更聚焦討論清潔人員的職責及工作地點。小朋友分享他們在街道上觀察到清潔工人的工作內容，例如沖洗街道。其次，也有小朋友好奇及發問垃圾的處理過程，並在老師播放短片的過程中嘗試尋找解答。然後，為了培養幼兒愛護環境及保持良好的衛生習慣，因此老師引導小朋友去清潔自己的課室。並培養他們建立愛護環境人人有責的精神。

另外，今週繼續重溫獨體字與合體字，通過遊戲幼兒分辨到不同的字形結構。此外，老師亦引領小朋友更加鞏固對語文四元素的運用，並讓他們自行去創作出完整的句式。最後，小朋友學習到新的成語「畫蛇添足」。

學習目的：

1) 能說出清潔工人的工作內容及工具

2) 能分辨出不同的字形結構

3) 認識成語「畫蛇添足」的讀音及意義