Weekly Overview SK

Date: 9.2.15

Thursday 12 February- Tet Fair at Thu Thiem Campus- children are encouraged to wear Vietnamese Traditonal Dress Ao Dai. Children are expected to be at
school on or before 8:00am as we will take the bus to transport us to Thu Thiem Campus. Parents are invited to join the fun. We are looking forward to see you at
the fair.
February 14-24, 2015- Tet Holiday. Classes will resume on Wednesday 25 February.
Caring, Principled and Inquirer
Learner Profile Focus
Appreciation, Respect and Curiosity
PYP attitudes

Personal, Social, Health &

Emotional

Language

Maths

U.O.I/ Art & Craft

Computers

Continue developing independence at the beginning and end of each day finding their names and hanging them up,
putting water bottle and diary folders in the correct place
Developing independence at lunchtime and taking responsibility for eating their lunch and packing it away.
Focus on being polite saying please, thank you, may I and remembering not interrupt when someone is speaking
Speaking and Listening: Be confident in talking during Show and Tell and be polite in listening when someone is talking
Phonics: review of the letter sounds learnt through play and crafts
Reading/ Books: Commotion in the Ocean, A Walk by the River, Sharing a Shell, A House for Hermit Crab, Long Longs New
Year
Pre-writing skills: writing letters, numbers and drawing pictures
Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix0gbabEKcI (Cat Sat on the Mat)
Number: counting and identifying numbers 0-20 through games and crafts
Shapes and Positional words: heart and star
Sizes: Children will be arranging objects from smallest to biggest/biggest to smallest as they make the Tet flower
that we will use for our TET Tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7wV1OzTX8 (Big and Small Song)
Counting video/song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr-L6q4vbWU (Counting Bananas to 20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jvl6PXYd10 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w49MQ6Wrqes
This week we will continue exploring small creatures that can be found in the water. We will also use our UOI time to talk
about TET and the children will be hearing stories, singing songs and making lots of crafts related to TET such as making
their personal Ly Si, Hoa Mai (TEt flowers), Dragon paper puppet and more. We will use these crafts to display the
classroom. You are welcome to view these crafts when you come to school.
Starfall in the Learning to read section www.starfall.com. and http://www.toytheater.com/fishing.php . Enjoy playing with
the letter games. http://www.poissonrouge.com/games.php (Poisson Rouge) enjoy playing and discovering.
You can watch youtube videos to support learning. Please look at the following link to sing along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_k45_iyVG0 (Slippery Fish Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJuQZhAHr8 (The Ocean Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n9KGqlwX_8 (Commotion in the Ocean)

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Swimming
VLC
Music
Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCzdDF0hzs (TET Song)

Ms Kerri (Beetles class)Tuesday and Thursday
Ms Julie (Dragonflies class) Tuesday and Thursday
dont forget to send in sports shoes
Ms Kerri - Monday 10:00-10.45 helpers please meet at pool 10:00am
Ms Julie Monday 10.45-11.30 helpers please meet at pool 10.45am
Beetles- Monday and Thursday/Dragonflies Monday and Friday
Tuesday and Thursday
Ms Kerri-Wednesday/Ms Julie - Monday (dont forget the library bag)
Please be aware that some classes may change due to students interest and focus.
If you have any questions, please drop us a note in the diary or come in any time to visit us in the classroom.
Kind regards The SK team