Today 19/11/09

English : Played a couple of games for letter recognition and initial sound with different words. Finished off with letter ‘m’. Click on the link below to listen to the song. Tomorrow we will be introducing the new letter ‘d’. Soon, I’ll be also sending you the second block of letters to cut and laminate.

Maths: A couple of games to consolidate value of nos from 1-10. Introduction to the new shape Circle. We can do a circle with our fingers, and hands and body.

Topic: Introduction to Autumn and Orange week. We carried out a painting activity. Leaf Printing. If you saw someone this  morning at around 7 am cutting leaves in the school where abouts. That was me!!!! Preparing for today’s activity. My boys got really worried that we were going to get arrested for cutting leaves, but I was only cutting  wild ones >

The kids loved the activity, painting the leaf then printing with it on a white sheet of paper. Tomorrow we will be continuing our activity, by creating an Autumn tree, with our leaves and  trunk.

Take care

CU tomorrow

Ms Gaby

Missed you alot Katherine, hope you get well soon xxxxxxxx

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Today 06/11/09

Maths: We played with our new flashcards. A set of flashcards was given out to two children.Out of this activity they’ll learnt how to work in teams by choosing the correct flashcard when I call out a number.

 English: We revised the initial sounds of all letters covered so far. Revise this skill at home by playing various games, one of which is I Spy. We also introduced a new letter, that is letter ‘h’. Today only the story and the rhyme, next week w’ll go on. Click on the link below to listen to the song:

Craft: Free drawing. Creating our own 5 Senses book,continuation with our Coconut ball activity. Each page for each sense.

1. I hear the biscuits crushing

2. I smell the coconut and vanilla

3. I taste the sugar

4. I feel the soft paste

5. I see my coconut balls.

Our motto is ” Everyone can draw” no one can say I Can’t. With some effort everyone managed to finish some of the work. We will be finishing it off next week.

Hope you enjoyed the photos uploaded this week.

Enjoy your weekend

Ms Gaby

Ps : Carla you forgot your lunch box at school  >

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Letter c -k Jolly Phonic song

Click on the link to listen to the song

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Today 27/10/09

English we revised all letters and introduced a new letter ‘e’. We also created our ‘e’ craft. This is  ‘Horton the Elephant’ following a story which we’ve read in class. To listen to the ‘e’ song click on the link below:

Maths: We carried on with our numbers recognition. We also worked with the no. 9. Tomorrow we shall finish off with this number by carrying out some pre-writing activities.

Take care and See you Tomorrow

Ms Gaby

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Today 22/10/09

Hi to all,

As you are all aware today, the outing had to be cancelled due to very bad weather in the Manikata area. We were directly contacted by the farmers, not to go since it was raining heavily with thunders too.  So the easy way out, to solve this problems and not to leave the kids disappointed was to invent a story for the kids > and here it is:

Mamma Mia you know what happened????? (by this point I already had the kids attention) since it was raining heavily all the ducks and hens got scared and started  running around on the farm until the farmer couldn’t see them anymore!!! (you should see the kids faces >) I continued by telling them that now the farmer had a huge job in trying to find all his animals and he phoned us to let us know that it was impossible for us to go since no one was on the farm. Imsomma I finished it off by saying that we shall be going in 2 weeks time.

As easy as that, some were worried, some didn’t even bother to be worried so we just continued with our work in class.

We finished off revising all letters, plus I introduced the new  letter ‘n’. Click on the link to listen to the song. For Math we finished off our Long and Short concept on the Shape Data and Measure workbk. For craft we also managed to finish our smiley necklace.

We ended up our day with some relaxation on the carpet, listening to Classical Music and our ‘Horton hatches an egg story’ which concluded all.

Take care

Ms Gaby

6 comments October 22, 2009

Week 19/10/09 -22/10/09

Another Monday brings new letter and new number. These are the letter p and the number 0

Letter P:

We managed to cover both the story and the song. For those kids who were absent today, please do narrate the story for them, referring to the story pack given prior. With regards to the song, please click on the link below and enjoy singing the song together.

For the letter ‘p’ we covered the following words for the ‘Initial Sound’: panda, pumpkin, pencil, pig, princess and potatoes.

Number 0:

For the majority of the kids number’0’ is not a number. For them we start counting the numbers from no ‘1’. So please make it a point that when you are counting together,  encourage the kids to start counting from 0.

A value game that you can use with the kids regarding no. 0 is the following:

Ask the kids to give you ‘1’ pencil, then ‘4’, then ‘6’ then ‘7’ and finally ‘0’. Just watch their expression.  Point out that 0 means nothing. Another game would be, to ask them to choose ‘0’ sweets  and  ‘4’ sweets. Like this the kids will start realizing that in fact ‘0’ means nothing. It’s quite a difficult concept to understand, but with such exercises they will get the hang of it quickly.

If you have any difficulties with reference to the above, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Take care

Ms Gaby

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Thursday 15th October

Today we managed to start of with the letter ‘i’. They listened to the story and learnt the new song. We also revised all the learnt letters, that are s,a,t. We concluded our English lesson by doing some pre-writing activities of the letter ‘i’. Also I managed to ask/assess all the kids on all the covered letters. Mainly it was a very positive outcome. They managed to name the letter sound when flashcards were shown.

Link for letter ‘i’ Jolly Phonic Song

For the Maths lesson we introduced the number ’6′. This was described as papa with a big fat tummy. They simply loved it. No offence to any daddies but I have to invent these kind of things for the kids to associate a story with the number.

The following are all the stories invented so far :

no 1 : straight soldier

no 4 : standing daddy, sleeping mummy and child jumping on mummy’s tummy

no7 : sleeping daddy, standing mummy

no 6 : daddy with a big fat tummy.

The children are actually shown drawings of these numbers/ figures. It is very funny for them, infact around the time I am drawing on the board, there is  total chaos in class. Everyone laughing their little heads off. So cute!!!

For Maths I also managed to check out each and every child’s achievments. They were asked to write nos 1,4,7,6 on their little white board. They did quite well!!!. Do revise the number names with your kids.

A constant revision will be done in class throughout the week of all the letters and numbers learnt.

Thank you for your support

Ms Gaby

6 comments October 15, 2009

Letter S from Jolly Phonic

Just click on the link above, so u’ll listen to the letter s song > enjoy

Here we go,

Ready, Steady, Go……… This is our new Start. Orientation Day. Loads of Fun awaits!!!!. An idea of what the scholastic year is going to be. Circle Time, Songs, Jumping around. Parents be Ready to Jump too!!! > intro. to our new letter. S . Hands on Experience. Sand Pit!!! Watch out. Kids at work > Imagine that in class. Some Paint and also a big collage to finish off  which links to our freshly learnt letter SSSSSSssssssss

To finish of our first day together. Party awaits us, downstairs in the Hall. Butterfly, Caterpillar and Barney are waiting.

Come and Enjoy

Ms Gaby

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