Highlights of the Week

This is our first week of daily face-to-face classes! The children were happy to play on the playground with their friends and join the classroom activities! They reviewed the letters of the alphabet by cooking the “letters soup” and matching the letters to the pictures; they had so much fun! The theme of this week was “Parks”, and our young learners talked about their favourite parks in Hong Kong and the things they do when they visit them. For Math, the children learned all about the heart shape and daily objects of the relevant shape such as balloons, chocolates, cakes and sunglasses.

Our first full week back at school has been great as we have been able to spend lots of time together learning through various hands on activities that we really enjoy. We started off our week with a story to wrap up our Cambridge unit of ‘Transport’. We were able to recap the vocabulary and verbs we learned throughout this unit as well as discuss the moral of the story, which is to be grateful for everything our parents do for us. It was really interesting to talk about this as a class and it really brought to light how mature and understanding our K1 students are. Phonics was really exciting this week as we learned the sounds /s/ and /t/ along with fun activities to reinforce our learning. For /s/, we decorated a snake with silver scales, and for /t/, we pretended to be dentists by using tongs to put teeth back on a toothless monkey. We continued our Critical Thinking theme of ‘nature’ this week by looking at insects. We really enjoyed examining plastic versions of the insects and talking about their colours, body parts and the differences among them. It’s been a lovely week and we can’t wait to continue our learning journey next week!

This week for Critical Thinking we are learning about different types of “Insects” and also their body parts. Students were taught a memorable tune “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” but instead the lyrics were replaced with “Head, Thorax and Abdomen”. They were all really excited to learn the songs. They were also shown an actual “bee” so they can develop their knowledge further on insects. In addition, we explored insects like “stick insects” and “ladybug” and watch some videos about the life cycle of those insects. In Math, students were given more practice on writing out the time in digital and analog forms, as well as learning how to draw the time on the clock.

For English, we have started a new unit on food, students were asked to describe their favourite food using the sentence “I like…” or “I don’t like…’. They were also able to use the plural form of food items such as “I like oranges”. Furthermore, they were taught to use “and” for the last food item to improve their speaking fluency when describing their favourite food.

The first full week back has been great! The K3 students have learned so much about bees and pollination. We were able to practice pollination with our fingers and we have also learned words like “pollen” and “nectar”. We also learned how important bees are for the environment because of pollination and for making honey. This week in math, we learned more about symmetry and lines of symmetry. The students were able to practice drawing the other half of a picture as well as decide if a figure is symmetrical or not. The students have enjoyed having physical play again, and we continue to learn new stretches and warm up our bodies before we start to play. We hope you have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to next week.

主題：「有益的食物」─珍惜食物

今週主題繼續圍繞「有益的食物」，透過影片分享，幼兒認識不同食物的來源，例如農夫耕種米和蔬果、雞生雞蛋和乳牛供應牛奶，老師藉此培養幼兒感恩和珍惜食物的態度。透過故事《都是我的!》，幼兒學習友愛、與人分享和待人有禮，例如當我想吃別人的食物前，需要先提問:「請問我可不可以吃？」、當同學想玩我的玩具時，可以一同分享一起玩等。

最後，老師以製作「健康午餐」作主題總結，請幼兒設計自己喜歡的健康午餐，實踐均衡飲食，幼兒都很投入於活動中呢！

學習目的：

(1) 能把食物圖片分類放到食物金字塔去

(2) 學習與人分享

(3) 培養珍惜食物的態度

主題：「有益的食物」－均衡飲食

主題「有益的食物」接近尾聲了。今週，幼兒認識豆類的制成品及其益處，並嘗試觀察及觸摸不同種類的豆。另外，幼兒從食物金字塔認識各類食物都有建議的進食份量。其後，透過圖片及故事分享，幼兒知道均衡飲食的重要性，並承諾日後不偏食，會嘗試不同的食物。最後，老師設計了「模擬購物」活動，請幼兒為早、午、晚三餐選擇合適的食物，實踐健康飲食的習慣。

希望這主題的學習有助幼兒培養均衡飲食的習慣，爸爸媽媽在家也要多鼓勵幼兒健康飲食，一起保持健康的體魄啊！

學習目的:

(1) 認識豆制品及其益處

(2) 培養幼兒不偏食的習慣

(3) 認識各類食物建議的進食份量

主題: 「小小科學家」─浮沉現象

今週主題繼續圍繞「小小科學家」，繼上週認識了聲音，今週，老師與幼兒探討浮沉現象。透過短片分享，幼兒思考為甚麼有些物品會浮，有些物品則會沉。於是，我們一起進行浮沉實驗，請幼兒在觀察記錄表上預測不同物件的浮沉結果，過程中，幼兒踴躍分享自己的預，得知實驗結果後都表現得十分興奮呢！最後，透過觀察實驗結果，老師引導幼兒認識物件的浮沉結果與物件本身的密度有關。

爸爸媽媽也可與幼兒在家中找找不同的物品進行浮沉預測及實驗，並記錄下來帶回校與我們分享，延伸是次的主題學習。

學習目的：

(1) 認識物件在水中的沉浮狀態

(2) 學習使用記錄表做觀察記錄

(3) 培養科學探索精神

主題：「小小科學家」─ 小實驗，大學問

來到主題「小小科學家」的尾聲了，小朋友的好奇心真的十分強大呢！他們都非常樂意參與各項科學實驗活動。今週，老師預備了不同的科學小實驗材料及工具，讓小朋友跟同儕自發地去探討研究，過程中訓練小朋友們的表達能力，同時學習嘗試接納同儕的建議，例如在調教顯微鏡時，幼兒會商討，然後逐步嘗試調整甚麼高度和光度，才能清晰看到壓片的觀察物。

語文技巧方面，我們今週重温標點符號，也鞏固了先前學習過的部首。

學習目的:

(1) 認識磁鐵的特性

(2) 能掌握運用放大鏡、顯微鏡和望遠鏡的技巧

(3) 提升口語達及與人溝通的能力