Highlights of the Week

Hello everyone! This week has been great! For English, the PN students reviewed the vocabulary about Family by playing an interactive game of popping bubbles and they were great at it! They also had fun listening to a story about how a family works happily together to help others. The new letter introduced this week was the letter E, and one of the words they explored was Elephant where they pretended to be elephants and stomped around the classroom. It was so much fun! For Math, they were introduced to the concept of Big and Small; they did a fantastic job sorting different objects that are big and small. They even got a chance to compare the sizes of their families by looking at each other’s family photos and counting the number of family members. It was another amazing week for our little learners at ABC!

For Cambridge this week, we discussed the concept of Sharing and how we can incorporate the concept in our daily activities. For Maths, we explored the concept of sorting objects into different categories and learnt about Triangles. We even revised our counting from numbers 1-5 and learnt all about number 6! The children are great with their numbers and they try their best every time.For Critical thinking, we reviewed farm animals from the previous week and introduced their babies such as piglets, chicks, kittens and so on. We even did a musical on the farm animals where we imitated the farm animals’ movements and their sounds. It’s been a great week and we look forward to more fun adventures at school next week.

This week we had a lot of new concepts to learn in all of classes. In Math lesson we’re continuing our topic on Numbers 1-20. We learned to put the numbers in order, count objects and identify the correct number.

In Cambridge lesson we learned two kinds of sentences, “There is” and “There are”. It was a hard grammar topic for the children but we applied the grammar point to the things around our classroom and playground. We use “There is” to talk about singular nouns while we use “There are” for plural nouns. Ask your child to use the following sentences to help them revise throughout the weekend.

In Critical Thinking we learned about what products we can get from animals. We learned that we can get wool from sheep to keep us warm in winter time and we can get feathers from ducks to make a soft pillow. We also learned that we can get different kinds of meat from different animals. Point out things in your fridge or around your house and discuss with your child, which of the animals we talked about provided these products.

今週是「我愛上學」的第二週。在認識了學校的人物及環境的基礎上，老師今週透過拼圖小遊戲，讓幼兒認識校徽的圖案及意思。當中有「鉛筆」：代表鼓勵幼兒創意書寫，表達自我意見或感受。「眼鏡」：代表鼓勵幼兒充滿好奇心探索四周。做一個有知識的人。「拼圖」：代表鼓勵幼兒從遊戲中學習。「燈泡」：在學習過程中和日常生活中遇到不明白的事物可多問。「星星」：每一位「ABC PATHWAYS國際幼稚園」的幼兒都有機會成為明日之星。

透過圖片和校服實物，幼兒能分辨出「ABC Pathways國際幼稚園」的校服，並主動在自己的校服上尋找校徽的蹤影。同時，老師透過情景示範引導幼兒要穿著整齊校服。

學習目的：

1. 學會自己整理校服

2. 認識校徽及其象徵意義

3. 認識「手」的字形和字義

今週來到主題「我的家」尾聲，幼兒從不同家居環境中認識不同的家居用品，他們亦積極利用句式分享自己分享自己家中的物品（例如：毛巾、桌子、玩具等）。他們更能從家居環境中發現每間房都有門，知道門能分隔屋裏不同的地方。

幼兒更透過觀察，發現家居物品中有需要用電力發動，從而認識不同家庭電器，更嘗試以「電」字進行構詞，變成不同的電器（例如：電視、電話、電風扇等）。此外，他們能透過觀察，辨別安全的家居環境，並說出不同保護自己的方法，培養家居安全的意識。幼兒更躍躍參與美藝創作，利用自己的家庭照片製作精美的相架送給爸爸、媽媽。

學習目的：

1) 認識不同的家居物品和電器

2) 能以「電」字進行構詞

3) 培養注意家居安全的意識

主題：「玩具真好玩」─分享玩具

這星期來到主題「玩具真好玩」的尾聲了，老師讓幼兒介紹自己的玩具，相信過去數星期他們對玩具的認識加深，包括不同的玩具玩法、製造的物料等，令他們能以多角度分享自己帶回校的玩具。

再者，幼兒更認識到不同的懷舊玩具（例如：吹波膠、跳橡筋繩），讓他們了解懷舊玩具的玩法，原來時代的轉變下，現時的玩具變得更新奇有趣、外觀也更漂亮呢！

最後，我們希望幼兒能利用不同物料去製作玩具，因此我們在課堂上與幼兒用杯、雪條棒等等去製作「入球玩具」。原來玩具不一定要買的，我們只要發揮創意，就能製造出獨一無二又好玩的玩具了，家長也可藉此與幼兒找找家裡有什麼可用物料弄一個小玩具吧！

學習目的：

(1) 能介紹自己的作品

(2) 認識懷舊玩具的名稱和玩法

(3) 學習故事排卡的技巧

(4) 學習製作入球玩具

主題：「動物」─動物之最

小朋友對「動物」這個課題的學習興趣越來越濃厚，由於幼兒對各種動物已有基本的認知，因此在本週老師開始跟幼兒一起探討不同的動物之最，例如:最大的鳥類是什麼? 牙齒最多的動物是什麼?另外，透過影片分享，幼兒也認識了一些常見的魚類和鳥類動物的名稱。老師也提問幼兒曾否見過水裏和會飛的動物，在哪裏見過他們? 小朋友都熱烈地回應老師的提問，他們有的分享在公園的水池裏見過烏龜，有的分享在濕地公園或在電視節目上見過鱷魚，有的則分享在學校附近見過鴿子等，他們並能模仿這些動物的姿態呢!

學習目的：

1) 知道一些魚類和鳥類動物的名稱、外型特徵 2) 探索各項的動物之最

3) 培養愛護和珍惜海洋生態的情操