School term 4

Hello Daddies and Mummies! How time flies, soon it will be end of 2009. We believe you must be delighted to see the children’s progress. Do continue to adore their innocent and inquisitive behaviours. It is at this stage that children are eager to do things for themselves and want to imitate what we adults do! Nevertheless, this upcoming term 4, your child will be learning and exploring more things that you might never thought they could.

Up-coming events
17/10/09 (Saturday) – Closed – Deepavali
27/11/09 (Friday)- Closed - Hari Raya Haji
23/12/09 (Wednesday) – Christmas Party
24/12/09 (Thursday) – ½ day – 7am – 1pm (Christmas Eve)
25/12/09 (Friday) – Closed – Christmas Day
26/12/09 (Saturday) – Parent-Teacher-Meeting
28/12/09 (Monday) – Closed – Curriculum planning
31/12/09 (Thursday) – ½ day – 7am – 1pm ( New Year Eve)

Practical Life
• Practical life provides the opportunity for purposeful work and will assist children in their physical, emotional, and social development underlined in the Foundation Stage Curriculum.
• Montessori practical materials are designed from simple to complex, to prepare the children for future learning.
• It auto-educates with control of error in the materials themselves rather than in the teacher. This control of error guides the child in the use of the materials and permits him to recognise his own mistakes.

We’ll be focusing on the following areas for next term:

Exercises in Social Grace and Courtesy emphasizing on:
- Able to say ‘Please’ , ‘thank you ‘, ‘good morning’, ‘Bye bye’.

Exercises in care of environment emphasizing on:
- To pick up things for others and help to return things where it belongs to.

Exercises for development of gross & fine motor skills;
- Opening and closing of boxes
- Opening and closing of containers
- Opening and closing of bottles

Sensorial
• The Sensorial materials provide a basis for learning in an orderly manner that is needed for neurological and physiological development.
• It also prepares for intellectual development in an orderly manner.

The 5 basic senses are: Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Olfactory (smell) and Gustatory (taste).
We’ll be focusing on the followings:
- Knobbless cylinders
- Colour box 2
- Textile exposure
- Tasting solutions

Mathematics
Shapes
• Cylinder, Cube, Sphere
• Revision of term 1 – term 3
Colour
• Brown, Pink
• Revision of term 1 – term 3

Cultural
Identify and Name Parts of the Body
•Face (eyes/ears/mouth)
•Feet and legs
•Hands and arms
Our 5 senses
•Hearing
•Smelling
•Touching
•Tasting
•Seeing

Physical Sciences & Technology
• Colours
• Shapes
• Transportation