EYFS Family Morning

Newsletter 11.11.16

Here are this week's highlights:


* In line with nursery rhyme week, we have been learning 'Incy Wincy Spider' and 'Little Miss Muffet' this week. The children have been joining in singing and reciting the rhymes and doing the actions at the same time as part of our 'Talk for Writing'.

For some children, they were able to draw their own story map of 'Incy Wincy Spider'. Here are some of their fantastic drawings:

* For our creative activity, we tried marble painting this week. Children enjoyed shaking the basket and seeing the marbles leave marks on their paper. In the end, we had amazing spider webs and we also added 'Incy Wincy' on them. 

* We have also made our very own kinetic sand with sand, cornflour, water and food colour. The children had fun mixing the ingredients and using the knives and moulds as they play with it. Please see recipe on the Messy Play page.

* For ICT, we have been encouraging children to draw on the Interactive Whiteboard using the Activ Inspire software. Most of the children were able to manipulate the IWB pen and use it to click on their chosen colours.

* This morning, we had a visit from Mr Andy Gleadhill, an educator and professional percussionist. He is currently here with us to hold percussion workshops to all classes. He gladly let the children played with an array of instruments and encouraged them to do various beats. Please see video below. 

NOTICES:

INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATIONS:

Monday 14th November: All children should come in wearing their national costumes. Parade starts at 8.15. At 8am, please drop the children off in class, say goodbye immediately and proceed to the hall.

Wednesday 16th November: International Fair. There will be an array of activities in the foyer and if you would like your child to join in, then please purchase tokens from Ms Duong in the office next week. Token will be sold for 10,000vnd each. On this day, teachers will bring F1 children in the foyer in small groups. All proceeds will be for charity.

No splash pool sessions next week in line with International Celebrations.

Parents are invited to come in class and do an activity about your child's home country. It may be a story, an art activity, dance, dress-up/costumes, food tasting or any activity that suits the children. If you wish to do so, please let us know on Monday so we can sort time/date and also discuss the activity.

Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Kind Regards;

Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team

Newsletter 04.11.16

Dear Parents,

We have started a new role play area in the classroom based on most of the children's interest in the past which is Transports. All of us including the children helped create a Bus Station in F1. Children were surprised to see 2 buses made of boxes waiting for them to be painted. Some of them spent a considerable amount of time painting the boxes with the color of their choice. Those 2 lonely boxes turned into a colourful buses that the children have been playing with!

This week in class, we have also introduced 4 reading buddies. These tiny, cuddly toys are here to support us in developing the children's vocabulary and language skills. Through these animals reading a story is a more fun activity to do in the classroom. We have also been focusing on the nursery rhyme, Incy Wincy Spider as part of our Talk for Writing initiative at school. 'Talk for Writing enables children to imitate the key language they need for a particular topic orally before they try reading and analysing the story.' In F1, we have been using exciting props, pictures and drawings to make it easier and fun for the children to understand and learn a story or rhyme.

Splash pool was a success this week as the children have shown confidence in the water. We are very excited to have another session next week! Please make sure to let your children bring in their swimming kit to school (swimming costume and towel - all properly labelled).

In Maths, we have been using coloured chains in learning/saying numbers names in random and in sequence. Some children can say numbers names to 10 and are showing awareness of counting objects too.

A new addition to the Messy Play idea can be found here. (please click the link)

Three new children joined F1 this week, I know you will all join us in welcoming Long, Tony and Chi and their families into BIS Tu Xuong campus!

Just a quick reminder about 2 upcoming events at TX

* International Celebration - week beginning 14th November (children dressing up in their national costumes)

* EYFS Family Morning - Saturday 26th November (more information to follow)


Have a lovely weekend!

Regards,
Ms Grace, Ms Crislet and the F1 Team

Newsletter 28.10.16

First of all, please join us in welcoming Long in to our F1 Family. We look forward to sharing lots of fun memories with you this year!

This week, we've added another focus in our circle time. We have introduced our emotion board wherein children will place their photo in a block to indicate how they feel everyday. This is one way to develop children's self-awareness and their communication skills.

So far, the children have been responding very well and they even look at the board and talk about the emotions once in a while during the day.

This week, we have also brought the children to the library as we will formally start our library sessions next week. The children sat beautifully and listened attentively to Ms Grace whilst she introduced the routine as well as Ms Van who works in the library. The children were so excited as they walked around the library and saw lots of books. We are certain that they are ready for this new routine and that we will have amazing times in the library!

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Ms Grace and I would like to thank everyone who went to the 'Messy Play' coffee morning last Wednesday. We hope you enjoyed the session. Ms Grace and I will update our class blog with messy play ideas for all of you. 

NOTICES:

• Library Sessions will be every Wednesday. Each child will be able to borrow a book which will be put in his/her own library folder. Please return the book in your child's library folder on or before Tuesday of the following week. 

• Splash Pool sessions will also commence next week. These will be every Tuesday and Friday. On these days, please do not forget to bring your child's swimming kit with his/her swimming suit and towel, all labelled with your child's name. As it gets sunny during splash pool sessions, may we ask you to apply sunblock or sunscreen lotion on your child's skin before school.

• If your child is unwell and is unable to join the splash pool session, please provide a doctor's note indicating the reason. 

• EYFS Family Morning is coming soon. 

Have a lovely weekend!

Thank you!



Kind Regards;
Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team

Newsletter 14.10.2016

Dear Parents,

It is a joy seeing the children in F1 sitting nicely and joining in our circle time. They are becoming more aware of this routine in class and we are taking advantage of this by introducing more ideas and initiatives.

Here's 'Give Me Five', this initiative is part of our circle time session where we remind the children what the behaviour expectation is in the classroom especially during story time and other focused group activities.

 

We've also talked about 'Emotions' and introduced our 3 friends to them. Every morning as part of our hello time, we ask the children the question 'How do you feel today?' and they get to use the puppets to convey their feelings for that morning. Some children are able to say/name "I'm happy.", "I'm sad.' or "I'm angry." but for some children who are still quiet and shy they can choose to use the puppets to tell their emotions for everybody to know.

Just a gentle reminder :

* School finishes at 11.30am (half-day) and 2.30pm (full day) if parents or carers (nannies etc) arrive at school earlier than these times kindly stay in the office or the foyer to wait for dismissal time. We discourage parents and nannies to stay near the classroom where the children can easily see you.

* EYFS Coffee Morning for Parents - Messy Play will take place on Wednesday 26th October at 8am in the Multi-Purpose Room. All parents are encouraged to come and join us. 

Have a lovely half-term break!

Regards,

Ms Grace, Ms Crislet and the F1 Team

Messy Play Coffee Morning for Parents

Newsletter 07.10.16

What a 'natural' way to spend a week in F1! Children have been given opportunities to play with cardboard boxes and we were surprised with how much creative things they have came up with! They were able to make cars, trains, boats, beds and even a place to play a variety of toys in. We have also been using cardboard boxes for mark-making and they made fantastic drawings on them! 

We have introduced 2 songs to the children this week: 'Little Green Frog' and 'Open, Shut Them' The children are showing great interest and enthusiasm every time we sing songs and dance. Our new music area has also been very popular amongst them. They have been playing a variety of musical instruments such as bells, maracas, hand drum, tambourine and Djembe drum. 

For our circle session focus this week, we have introduced our visual timetable which we will use everyday to talk about what will happen during the day. We will add the days of the week and weather once they become familiar with the timetable. 

Well done F1!

NOTICES:

* To add to our investigation/contsruction area and support their play with natural resources, may we request you to bring in any of the following: (used and empty)

- CDs

-tissue rolls

-paper cups

-milk tins

-milk cartons

-Pringles containers/tins

* Half-term break: School will be closed from 17th October to 21st October. Classes will resume on Monday 24th October. 

* One more teaching assistant will be joining us beginning next week. Her name is Ms Ngoc Anh and she will be coming back from her maternity leave. Please join us in welcoming her to our F1 Family. 

Thank you!

Have a restful weekend!

Kind Regards;

Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team