More fun with family and friends........

Since our last blog upper pre-primary have had a busy, exciting time with lots of learning and many celebrations!

As part of our unit on family and friends the children shared with each other where they and their families come from. They have learnt about the continents of the world and which is their continent. We made a map of the world to represent this and linked their photographs to their continent or continents! The children enjoyed making globes and learnt a little continents song! They have also been busy painting and learning to recognize their flags and each other’s flags! They took great care painting them! (make sure you come into the class to have a look!)

This month we have also learnt about our first personal goal ‘respect’. We have discussed what respect means and how we must always show respect to people, objects and toys. The children are gradually understanding its meaning and we are looking out for examples of respect in our class.

The children were very excited about our exit point. Welcoming the mums, some grandmothers and a dad to our class was a great way to celebrate the end of our unit on family and friends. The preparation that went into the exit point was as important as the event itself. The children made invitations, chocolate rice krispee buns and little notebooks to take the orders!  They were very proud to sing their family songs to all and preform their ‘family dance’ directed by Nanami!

To celebrate the coming of Autumn we cooked and ate sweet chestnuts. A special thank you to Ying Ying’s Dad for bringing the sweet chestnuts and explaining how to cook them! (a tradition that is very popular in China) We cut the chestnuts in half, the children peeled them, then we boiled them for about 20 minutes - delicious!

Last week we also celebrated Felipe’s fifth birthday with yummy chocolate cake! Congratulations Felipe!

And then Halloween, in two days we managed to pack in lots of Halloween activities before our party on Wednesday. We painted ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, and made bats to hang. We even managed to learn some ‘Halloween songs’ which we performed for you! We had a lovely party in our class and then a nice celebration with the whole school. Each child got to walk down the red carpet and show off their lovely costume!

Enjoy the holidays with your lovely children, they deserve a nice, relaxing break! See you when we return! Enjoy the photos!

Forgot to say the children were very excited to start their Jolly Phonics workbook 2 this week!!