Term 3 week 2

Hello parents of Kinder A

English

This week we have been working more on our phonics, writing and speaking on top of our usual reading.

For our writing lessons we have been making up short four sentence stories together and copying them off the board to improve our handwriting. I have been very impressed with our writing but some of us have been having trouble with a few of our letters. I will be sending home a few drill pages for homework to correct these letters.

Also sent home as English homework is a story page for the children to practice their sentence structures and to allow them to tell stories.

We have also introduced an English speaking chart in our classroom. All the rewards and penalties have been devised by the students themselves! From its introduction I have already seen our students learning new words, helping each other speak English better and being excellent tutors and teachers to weaker English speakers in the class.

Maths

We have been doing speed addition and subtractions drills in class this week. Simple equations that we can all so but with a five minute time line. This is to improve our quick maths skills, stop us relying on our fingers and help us be faster but also accurate.

Unit of Inquiry

We have been looking at different celebrations and festivals around the would. On Tuesday we looked at Chinese festivals and we were all very interested to learn about the similarities between the Chinese Qingming (grave cleaning day) and the Japanese Obon festival. We were also amazing by the dragon boat racing festival!

We have looked at different traditional costumes and looking at the similarities and differences between Japan, China, Korea, Turkey. Should any parents have these traditional clothes at home we would be very interesting in learning more about them and how they are worn.

LAter this week we made posters of traditional costumes of separate countries so that we can start deciding what we would like to wear for our YEP performance.

Play time

We have been enjoying time both in the park and in the gym this week. Soccer has been thoroughly enjoyed in the gym and we have been getting better at our kicking and catching.

Important information

I have been asked by Mr Soydan to ask all parents to purchase their child a jump rope and have them bring it to school on Tuesdays for the physical education lesson. These can be purchases from any Daiso or hyaku en store.