Highlights of the Week

It was so good to see all the kids in school again and we finally had the birthday party that everyone has been waiting for. We all looked extravagant in our funny hats and crazy hair-dos. The students were introduced to the letter G and vocabulary words related to the letter such as grapes, green and giraffe. We worked on our fine motor skills by removing grapes from the stem one by one. We handled some grapes, practiced our counting and exercised our little fingers – it was a fun time for all. For the theme ‘All About Me’, we made silly faces together by using different eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. For Math, the students were introduced to the concept of big and small. Students were separating items into two different categories and having fun at the same time.

Our K1s finally returned back to school after their typhoon break! They enjoyed learning letters O and P this week! They also learned about mother farm animals and their babies such as dog>puppy, pig>piglet, etc. We also learned different math concepts this week such as colour green and triangle shape. We learned more about the triangle by looking at pictures of different things around us that of the same shape such as pizza, cones etc. In order to strengthen our math concepts, we also did an in-class worksheet of tracing and coloring triangular trees green.

After the typhoon, the students are excited to be back to school with a brand new week of fun and learning. We continued our discussion on farms during our English lesson. The students are learning about the names of different baby farm animals and what sort of food they provide for us. We also continued our counting lessons in Math. We are now counting from 11-20! During Physical Play, we adapted our counting skills by counting bean bags and balls. We took up the challenge of arranging ourselves in the correct order as fast as we can. See you again next week for another K2 update

What an exciting week for the K3 students! In Math, we practiced adding three single digit numbers. Even though we are familiarwith big numbers, adding three in a row is a fun new challenge. We also learned about symmetry and looked for symmetrical things we see every day, like letters! For Critical Thinking, we focused our farm topic on learning about cows. We even learned how to milk a cow! It took some practice but we were able to get some milk from the udders. Last Wednesday, we learned that it’s cream that we get from cows. We got to shake some of this cream and watch it separate to give us two things we use from cream: milk and butter! We ended this fun week with our Birthday Party for our October Birthday Stars. See you next week as we celebrate Halloween!

主題 : 「我愛上學」─學校大發現

來到主題的第二週，老師和幼兒一起認識ABC Pathways國際幼稚園校徽。透過校徽圖案配對遊戲，幼兒學習校徽中不同圖案代表的意義，並學習說出每一個圖案的名稱，遊戲增加幼兒對學校校徽的認識外，也提高幼兒對學校的歸屬感。另外，透過「自己的事自己做」遊戲，幼兒進一步提升自我照顧及自理能力，包括自行收拾個人物品、自行背書包和換鞋等。

語文技巧方面，我們今週學習「手」的字義。老師請幼兒將雙手塗上喜歡的顏色，並將手掌印在圖畫紙上，完成後，我們一起學習說出「手」，讓幼兒探索自己用「手」創作的圖畫。

學習目的：

(1) 認識ABC校徽及其象徵意義

(2) 知道書包內擺放不同物品的名稱及其功用

(3) 認識「手」的字義

主題：「我的家」－我的家庭活動

不經不覺今週已進入主題「我的家」的尾聲了。老師透過遊戲邀請幼兒找出自己的家庭照，並向同學分享照片及介紹自己的家庭成員。同時，幼兒學習運用統計圖表選出「我最喜歡的家庭活動」，幼兒都踴躍參與投票，踴躍分享自己最愛和家人做的活動！另外，老師透過圖片及短片與幼兒探討常見的家居用品及電器的名稱和用途，最後運用故事形式引導幼兒明白家居意外是可以避免的，藉此延伸討論受傷時的處理方法，培養幼兒的自我保護的意識。

學習目標：

(1)學習介紹自己的家庭照及家庭成員

(2)學習分享家庭生活的樂趣

(3)培養注意家居安全的意識

學習主題：「玩具真好玩」─創作紙偶說故事

主題「玩具真好玩」進入尾聲了，在老師的引導下，幼兒投入製作紙偶玩具，在其後的課堂上，他們透過小組合作，利用自製的紙偶配合故事圖卡學習說故事，從中明白要互相溝通才能把事情做得更好！幼兒十分享受創作紙偶及說故事的過程，建議家長在家中也可與孩子嘗試自製玩具，例如紙飛機、沙槌玩具等，延伸是次主題學習的樂趣。

語文技巧方面，老師透過分類遊戲跟幼兒重溫獨體字的概念及一些已學字詞。最後，老師準備了有關事件排序的堂課，請幼兒聆聽故事後完成工作紙，藉此強化幼兒對事件發生先後次序的概念。

學習目的：

(1) 學習製作及操作紙偶

(2) 訓練創作力及想象力

(3) 強化事件排序的概念

主題：「動物」─探索爬蟲類的動物、卵生和胎生動物的分別等

老師利用小朋友日常多聽見的動物，例如烏龜、蜥蝪、蛇和鱷魚等帶出今週主題─兩棲和爬行類動物，老師並提問小朋友是否知道牠們的名稱、曾否見過牠們、在哪裏見過他們等。另外，老師又利用貓頭鷹引導小朋友認識一些夜行性動物及牠們的生活習性，例如白天休息、夜間活動、有靈敏的聽覺及嗅覺、有適應晚間活動時的視覺等，小朋友都嘖嘖稱奇。

最後，透過影片分享，小朋友看見卵生動物─海龜出生的過程，他們一邊看，一邊為奮力爬向大海的小海龜打氣，很可愛呢！老師又分享胎生動物─熊貓寶寶的片段，小朋友看見熊貓寶寶被熊貓媽媽擁抱時，分享說畫面讓他們感到很親切及溫暖，他們並模仿媽媽去擁抱身邊的同學，課堂氣氛充滿愛和溫馨呢！

學習目的：

(1) 認識常見爬蟲類動物的名稱、外形特徵及習性

(2) 認識夜行性動物的生活習性

(3) 了解卵生動物─海龜的孵化過程

(4) 強化幼兒對保護動物的意識