Week’s Up - Singapore (Newton Road)
FROM THE ADMINISTRATION We have finalized a provisional calendar for our 2014-2015 academic year and it has been posted on our website which you may download. We will also provide a link to an i-calendar for ease of use next week. Fees for Term I 2014-2015 have been posted and are due. We ask for your co-operation to see to its timely settlement. Thank you for your attention.
THE WEEK IN THE CLASSES Topic of Discussion - Insects Butterfly Life cycle of a butterfly Working through watching a video clip, working with models and making booklets
Culture - Mother’s Day Song - We learnt a song for Mother’s Day Craft - We worked on our Mother’s Day craft. We hope you like it.
A drawing for mum
Mandarin Along with working on the academics, we also did the following: Songs - Mother’s Day songs Dialogue - ‘How to say Happy Mother’s
Day’ Topic of discussion - Insects
Word Recognition
Extended-Day
HHIB - Mind map of a butterfly Worksheet on parts of a butterfly Variations with the materials
HINDI Academic - Continue working with the language material – tracing, letter boxes, writing, pic-
ture cards, numbers as usual. Work sheet on national flowers and matching these with the corresponding coun-
tries Topic of discussion: National Flowers of a few Asian countries – Singa-
pore, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand
Art project - Making the Vanda Miss Joachim (National flower of Singapore) with white clay. While working cutting out the shapes, the chil-dren could see the layers of different-shaped pet-als. These will be coloured and brought home next week.
BIAN DANG BAN Academics : Learning names of common places e.g airport Culture: We sang Mother’s day songs Rhyme: ‘mother and me’ Music and Movement: ‘SHEN CHU NI DE ZUO SHOU—YI, ER, SAN, SI & SHEN CHU
NI DE YOU SHOU YI ER SAN SI’