Blog post 21st - 25th January

Hello parents of preschool A

I hope that this post find you all healthy and well!

This week in class we have had a focus on maths, letters and planning for our YEP performance. Please email me your child's t-shirt sizes as soon as possible as I will be ordering the costumes this week.

Maths

We have really focused on addition this week, a number of our activities have been building on adding two small numbers together as well as different groups of numbers adding up to the same number!

We are continuing our recognition of small finger amounts which all add up to ten during all snack time so please feel free to try this at home as well.

Ms Sara has been playing BINGO with our friends as well so that we can recognise the numbers 1-20 as fast as we are able to.  We have really been enjoying this game too.

English

In English this week we have been having a real focus on our writing and quickly recognising the uppercase and lower case letters! (mummy and baby letters). I am happy to report that with the use of play dough, writing sheets and whiteboard markers we have steadily been improving. Many of our friends who have had problems in the past of writing letters backwards have been showing the greatest improvement!

Inquiry

This week we have been deciding the dances and music for our YEP performances, we have been sharing our favourite dances and music to do with it. We had a great time showing our friends our best moves. Our dances are going to be based on the emotions of happy, angry and sad.

We will be ordering our costume t-shirts this week so please contact me with the t-shirt size of your child or sadly I will have to choose a size that will fit all of our friends.

However I am planning for this t-shirts to be fun enough to be warn by your child after the event as well.

We also tried making our own musical instruments, with balloons, coffee cans, Tupperware containers, rubber bands, cardboard tubes and much more.

Music

We have a new music teacher who has been helping us to understand rhythm and to improve our singing! 

Important Information

Share time for the following week

Siwoo - 30th January
Gento - 1st February

Indoor shoes

There are a number of our friends who haven't brought their indoor shoes for this term, this can create problems as their socks sometimes get wet in the toilet area and they then refuse to wear their socks for the rest of the day. Please ask your child if they have their indoor shoes (or if they are too small for them).

Lost property

One of our students has misplaced their rainbow striped snood (circular scarf) if possible please check your child's clothes in case it has accidentally been brought home. Should you find it please email me so it can be reunited with its owner.

Influenza and Stomach bug

As you would have been advised via email it is influenza season at the moment so are we encouraging all of our friends to be extra careful with their health and to stay home should they be exhibiting any fever or illness. We had two students exhibiting flu like symptoms on the 9th floor on Friday so please stay safe and healthy. 

Further more there have been a few cases of a stomach bug floating around as well (from personal experience ;P)  please take care as it can last a few days.

Finally should you have any questions please contact me at bbelyea@abroadschools.jp