Week 12

Hello Parents

We began a new week with new letters, numbers and theme.

We also have a new addition to our team in the Early Years Unit, Mrs. Lydia Freeman who has had extensive experience working in the Montessori system. She will be our English class teacher in Foundation 2. Foundation 1 are lucky to continue to have Mrs Tahani as team leader for the group. 

We would also like to inform you that the number of TA’s in each class is now 3 teachers. Each supports the English class teacher while working on many hands- on activities.

 Theme 

Our theme this week was all about staying safe on the road.

It’s important to what know, understand., say and do to stay safe on the road. As in all areas of child development, in any group of children there will be a wide range of understanding and capability about this issue. Early Years Foundation Stage will understand the difference between the footpath and the road. They will know to walk with a grown up and to hold hands when near a road. We will introduce them to the “Stop, Look, Listen and Think” model of road safety and to the traffic light and zebra crossing signs.

This week children were involved in real decisions to help them keep safe on the road. The more children are involved in making decisions to help them to stay safer, the more likely they are to act on those decisions.

Children designed a “Unity Road” inside the building, made 'Go' 'Slow' and 'Stop' signs, traffic lights and learnt the road safety rules: "Stop, look, listen and go".

 Literacy

The children were introduced to the letter e, its sound /eh/ and how to write it. We learnt words beginning with e using silly soup, flash cards, the Jolly Phonics song and story:

We made egg crafts which cracked open and revealed a letter e inside.

In addition to worksheets, we traced e in sand and made e shapes using play dough.

We then made eggs in a pan mobiles which reinforced the jolly phonics song.

We finished the week by watching a video on Elmer the Elephant:

And coloured colourful elephants and made a paint-stamped Elmer:

Numeracy

For numeracy the children were introduced to the number 9, heart shape and colour brown. 

We made a big heart cutout which the children decorated with their handprints:

 We painted brown objects on the wall outside and went on a hunt looking for number 9s hidden in the garden.

We also made colour wheels and flower petal maths craft:

And a shapes pizza:

Next week, we will be looking at the letter h, number 10 and exploring people who help us in the community.

Here are some links to worksheets you may wish to print then complete with your child:

Heart sheet 

Letter e tracing 

Number 9 tracing 

Brown objects colouring 

 

 

 

Week 11

Hello Parents


Apologies for the late post, we've been very busy this week in the Early Years Unit 1 and 2 revising past letters, numbers and shapes.

 

THEME

We stayed with healthy eating in anticipation of our school trip to Sena Mart in Al Waha Mall on Saturday.

 The children decorated shopping bags and designed their own healthy plate.

The trip was a great success, the children chose from a range of food items and were able to differentiate between good, healthy choices and bad, unhealthy choices:

Literacy

We revised the letters, a s t and p this week using the silly soup, flash cards and jolly phonics songs.

We also watched short videos of stories about the letters:

In addition to colouring and tracing sheets, the children had fun trying to find the different letters hidden around the centre time.

 Numeracy:

The children revisited all the numbers from 1-8 and all of the colours and shapes they've learnt so far:

Colours:
Red
Yellow
Green
Blue
Orange
Purple
White

Shapes:
Square
Triangle
Diamond
Rectangle
Circle
Star

They chose and made their favourite shapes using coloured sticks in addition to completing sheets.

We also looked at the concept of same and different using this fun video of a game to play with your child at home:

 Here are some links to sheets you may wish to print and then complete with your child:

Shapes Tracing & Colouring
Number tracing & Colouring
Letter a
Letter s
Letter t
Letter p
Colour matching worksheets


Week 12 the children will be introduced to the letter e, number 9 and the colour brown.

The theme we will be exploring is Road Safety.

Week 10

Good Day parents


We'd like to thank all those who made it to the parents day on Saturday 1 November. We hope you all left feeling satisfied with the update on your child's progress so far. If anyone has an further questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Shayma or come to the school directly.

Here is a short slideshow that was played during the day (we apologise if your child does not appear in the video, we had some technical difficulties):

This week we introduced the children to the letter K and number 8, as well as the concept of healthy and unhealthy foods.

Theme

The children learnt all about healthy (good) foods, which make us happy :) and unhealthy (bad) foods which make us :( sad if we eat too much of.

The children were asked to name a variety of foods using plastic replicas and flash cards and determine whether they are healthy or unhealthy.

We played nutritional bingo to reinforce the concept, with the winning group receiving stickers as prizes.

The children also watched a video on fruits:

You can also watch this fun video with your child at home:

And sing a song together:

(To the tune of Are you Sleeping?)

Are you eating

are you eating

healthy foods, healthy foods?

For your body needs them,

for your body needs them,

everyday, everyday.

Literacy:

We introduced the letter k during circle time using the silly soup cards, flash cards and the Jolly Phonics song.

The letter k phonetically is the same sound as a hard c, which is Ka.

 Jolly phonics song:

 

 

We watched a story about Kasper the King of Kites:

 We made kites:

and kiwi fruits using paper plates.

 The children also enjoyed finding the letter k in a balloon jumble inside the soft play area:

We finished off the week by shaping the letter k using play dough and making big k is for king crafts:

Numeracy:

During numeracy circle time, the children learnt the number 8, the concept of before and after and were introduced to the diamond shape. 

They learnt to count to 8 and trace the number, as well as diamonds.

For the numeracy activity, the children made giant octopuses with 8 tentacles and number 8 crafts:

Here are some links to worksheets you may wish to print out then complete with your child:

K tracing
8 kites colouring
Number 8 stamp or colour 
8 tentacles colouring 
Number 8 tracing 




Next week will be revision week of all the letters and numbers the children have learnt so far.

Have a great week.