Letter 6 (2019-20)

Dear Parents, 

Last week we continued to talk about clothes that are used for different kinds of weather. Thank you for sending in some items that we could look at, show our friends and try on.  Every day we tried on different accessories such as sun hats, sun glasses and flip-flops. In the art centre we made these accessories. When talking about sunglasses, we tried on glasses with and without lenses and discovered that the dark lenses helped to protect our eyes from the glare from the sun. We then used our eyes to look through different coloured plastic sheets and we saw the world in different colours. When talking about hats, we went outside to the playground and experimented putting on and taking off our hats under the hot sun. We noticed that when we had our hats on we did not feel as hot as when we took it off. We also talked about keeping cool on a hot day by using fans to cool ourselves. We looked at different kinds of fans such as an electric fan, a hand screen fan, and a hand pressing hand held fan. We certainly felt curious to see the fan work and stop every time we released our hands from the button.  Another way to keep cool on a hot day is to drink lots of water and eat something cold like ice-cream.  Therefore, in Cooking we made mango pudding. After it was set in the fridge we ate some for snack and found it to be very cooling. We certainly had lots of fun making it especially when we mashed the mango in the blender. It was so loud that some of us quickly covered our ears!

This Week

     We will be talking about clothes and accessories used on a rainy day.  Please let your child bring in items used on a rainy day such as an umbrella, raincoat and boots to show their friends. On Thursday 3^rd October please arrive at school by 8 o’clock for the whole school photo shooting. 

     This will be the last class letter which will be published on the Nursery class blog.  From next week, our class letter will be published on the parent portal.  

                                                                                                  Warm Regards,

    

                                                                                                   Ms. Marizon 

Letter 5 (2019-20)

Dear Parents, 

It was quite a busy week last week.  In the classroom we started our new topic on clothes, and in school, we did activities for STEM week which stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.”                   

               In the classroom we started to talk about clothes. First we talked about clothes that we wear every day. We learned that different kinds of clothes have different names, and even clothes that look the same can be called differently in different countries. As we had made our body dolls earlier in the month, it was now the time to put clothes on them. We then looked at pictures of different places in the world and discussed how we should pack our suitcases when we traveled to a cold place and a hot place. As our STEM activities focused on ice, we first took a trip to a cold place.  We looked at pictures of ice and snow and then chose the clothes that would help keep us warm such as mittens, socks, coats, jackets, tights, etc. Thank you for sending in the winter clothes, we took turns trying 

      them on and pretended that we were in a cold place. 

                  

                 As for STEM, it was quite a fun learning experience for all of us.  In Nusery, we talked about ice.  It certainly went well with our discussion on winter clothes. To understand ice, we looked at water and explored the freezer. We noticed that the freezer was cold. We made trays of water to put in the freezer while we left one cup outside. After a day we checked the freezer and found that the water in the freezer had turned into ice while the one left outside was still the same. We then touched and played with ice and found that it was very cold. We watched video clips of polar bears and to understand why polar bears did not feel cold like we did, we did a blubber experiment with shortening.  Apart from that we painted with ice and enjoyed watching the ice melt while the colours spread around. We also helped rescue sea animals from the ice.  It was the most popular activity when learning about ice.  It was certainly great to see all of you during our STEM presentation and hopefully you also had fun exploring with your children.     

   

This Week            This week we will talk about clothes for a hot day.  If you have any summer clothes or accessories such as sunglasses, hats, fans, that we can use for dressing up please bring them in.   We will return them to you at the end of the week.  Please take note that the class blog will only be published till the end of this month.  After that our weekly class letters will appear on the parent portal.                                                                                         Warm Regards,                                                                                                                                                                                   Ms. Marizon