Newsletter 4.3.16

Dear Parents,

This week, F2T childred had fun taking part in various classroom and outdoor activities.

Library
In the Library, we shared the story Elmer by David Mckee. The children were asked the following questions:
"What makes you special?"
"Who makes you happy?"
Most children showed awareness of the things that make them unique and also of people who makes them happy. After reading the story, we also watched the video version of the book. Please use this link if you would like to watch the video with your child/children at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZlNp-8zOgk

The Tiger Who Came To Tea
The children continue to enjoy the resources in the reading area and also had a turn at doing mark-making activities with Ms Gurvinder. The children were so good at naming characters in the story and some were also able to describe the main events. In one of our circle sessions, we also watched the video version of the book. Please use this link if you would like to watch the video with your child/children at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZlNp-8zOgk

Mark-making
F2T children loved exploring the shaving cream on shallow trays. They have been using their hands to make their pictures or draw different patterns.

Workshop area
In the workshop area, the children have been building different things using recycled resources such as tissue rolls, empty food boxes and scrap papers.

Big Playground
Our big playground sessions this week has been fun! fun! fun! They all had a go at using the climbing equipment, supernova and tricycles.

Splashpool
In the splashpool, we continue to focus on building each child's water confidence. This week, they blew bubbles using a straw!

Maths
Shapes! Shapes! Shapes! It's all about shapes for Maths this week. We have been talking about the different shapes around us and have also made our shapes display for our class.

Circle sessions
In our circles sessions this week, we continue to talk about the following:
-respecting our toys and our environment
-sharing our resources
-using gentle hands and gentle feet at all times
-responding to new and difficult situations.
We have also been singing some new and familiar lots of songs this week. Please see the links below:
-Do Your Ears Hang Low? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asilllx2dbg
-The Grand Old Duke of York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvEQTQaTbQ
-Put On Your Shoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jBfb33_KHU
-'p' sound  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjJYB07aSU

ARC Visit
This week, one of the representatives from the Animal Rescue and Care visited F2T. Ms Koto showed the children how to take good care of our pets. We are all looking forward to our pet visitors next week!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we hope to see you all tomorrow at our TX Fete!

Notices:
Talking Wall
As we are developing our Talking Wall Display in F2T, please can we ask you to bring in one family photo for the display or send a copy to our email.
Ms Precious- preciouscendana@bisvietnam.com
Ms Gurvinder- gurvinderpaul@bisvietnam.com