Hi! Welcome to our blog in the month of August! :)

You must have been wondering, what have the children learnt this month?

We have been touching on this topic, Going Places. The children learnt about matching things to places. They were able to classify “sofa and television in the sitting room", “bed, pillow, blanket in the bed room", and "kitchen utensils are in the kitchen" by using picture cards and concrete objects.

For art and craft session, they learnt to recognize and match simple shapes (circle, rectangle, triangle and square) and they were able to say the names of the shapes and also match and sort colours when asked by the teacher.

In the home science session, the children experienced the process of making “fruit salad” and” fruit kebab”. Through these activities, they learnt that “fruits “are good for their body".

Below are some pictures of the children experimenting with the different fruits and vegetables in collaboration with the Healthy Lifestyle Week in August! :)


Princess and Sarah were smelling the apples.
Princess said: ”Apple red.”
Sarah said: "Mmm… Nice smell.”

Lu Young and Ethan felt the texture of pears.
Lu Young said: ”Smooth.”
Ethan said: ”Hard.”

The children explored the green leafy vegetable and carrot.
Zhi Qian said: “Carrot is orange.”

Angel touched and smelt the banana.
Angel said: ”Yellow banana.”

The children enjoy eating the banana.
They said: ”Yummy! Yummy! Sweet.”

Song:

*Put your circle in, put your circle out.
Put your circle in and you shake it all about.
You do the hokey pokey
and you turn yourself around,
that's what it's all about!

*Repeat for other shapes like square, rectangle, triangle

我们在语文操作角落里


卢暘、家声、Akash和伟琦一起在玩转轮盘游戏。

卢暘先转动转轮盘游戏的箭头，接着，他把小猫所要吃的“鱼”（图片)放上去。他说：“小猫爱吃鱼。”

家声把红萝卜的图片找放在白兔的格子里，说：“兔子吃萝卜。”

Akash把小虫(图片)贴在小鸡的格子里。

伟琦说：“小狗爱吃骨头。”


孩子从儿歌里认识了小鸟的外形特征。如：小鸟有翅膀，小鸟有脚。


儿歌《小鸟》
小鸟，小鸟，
有翅，有脚,
白云想要抱抱，
不要，不要！

Guess what was the big occasion we had in the month of July?
Yes you are right! It was Racial Harmony Day!
Most of our Playgroup children were dressed in their very own ethnic costumes, and they really looked good in them!

Our Playgroup teachers had a number of activities lined up for the children. One of the activities was to dance around when the music was being played, and when it stopped, the children had to hop into the hula hoops. The game was not that easy. they had to categorize themselves into the different groups - groups according to their races. So here we have: the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the Burmese!

The children were yelling in excitement as they danced around with the music!


The music has stopped! Quickly get into your groups!

The next activity was called, "Guess Who?"
In this activity, children took turns to get blindfolded. Once they got themselves blindfolded, they had to walk around while the music was being played and when it stopped, they had to stop moving as well and hold on to one of their friends. They then had to guess who their friend was by touching their hair, their clothes and so on.

All of them were so cute! Even when they were not bilndfolded, they used their hands to cover their eyes and pretended that they were being blindfolded as well!

I'm coming, Yi Jing!

Now, it was Linda's turn!

Whom did she catch?

Aniq was touching Ethan and making wild guesses...

Now, it was Yamone's turn to guess!

Alright, phototaking time! :)

Sze Hui and Yamone

Aniq and Linda

Sze Hui

Fang Fei

研熙：“啊！有白白，黏黏的。”

玟馨拿着沾有白胶的黄线说：“老师看，白白的掉下来了。”

岳洲用双手把黄线拉直。

斯敏把蓝线拉直，接着再把它贴在图画纸上，说：“直直的。”

杨政：“我的弯弯的。”

美劳活动：美丽的手绢


杨政看了看容器里的颜色，说：“黄色。”

伟琦把厨房纸巾慢慢地放入容器里

研熙看着颜色（黄色）染上手里拿着的厨房纸巾，说：“啊！黄色。“

诗琴一边用双手把染好的厨房纸巾打开，一边说：“湿湿的。”

杨政正用手把做好的厨房纸巾打开来看。

Playgroup’s KIC pre-activities

To get the playgroup children ready and excited for the KIC event, the children did a few art projects with the sports theme.

The first activity that they did was different types of ball mobiles. The types of balls chosen were Soccer, basketball, bowling and volley balls. Prior to the activity, the children were shown pictures of the different balls and they learnt the names.


Angel tore the newspapers into long strips before crushing them into balls. These will then be stuffed into the different types of ‘balls’ that the children have painted.

To seal the two sides of the ball together, Ethan used his finger to spread white glue onto the sides.

Once the balls have dried, strings are attached to them and then the teachers hung the balls.

The next activity would be the making of medals. Each of the children were given a printed template of the medals and they coloured them with crayons. Through this activity, the children learnt the purpose of medals.

Cedric and Fang Fei concentrated hard on colouring their medals. Both of them wanted a yellow medal.

After colouring, a silver ribbon was attached to the medal. Akash proudly showed his completed medal to his classmates and said, “Akash got medal.”

The children also made replicas of the Youth Olympic Games Torch.

The children drew on some patterns on the ‘body’ of the torch before painting blue paint over it. Zhi Qian was carefully spreading the blue paint on the torch.

Angel stuffed the orange and yellow coloured tissue paper into the torch to create the flames. Angel said, “Yellow and orange fire!”

After completing the torch, Fang Fei held up her own replica of the Youth Olympic Games torch with pride.