Highlights of the Week

This week, we revised our shapes and we are also familiarizing ourselves with different members of the family. We are also learning that animals have families, too, such as dogs, cats, horses and even wild animals, like lions and monkeys. For our maths concepts, we learned about objects that are full or empty, such as, how to tell if a jar is full of sweets or is empty. Our letter for the week is ‘M’ and we learned that ‘monkey’, ‘mouse’, ‘mushroom’ and ‘moose’ all start with the letter ‘M’. With the birthday party this week, we are excited to dress up in our theme of the 60’s – 80’s. We love to be funky!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at ABC Pathways and it’s that time of the year when we feel joy all around us! Our K1 children began learning all about Christmas this week! We learned some Christmas vocabulary like Santa Claus, Reindeer, Presents, Candy Cane with the help of a fun guessing game. We learned many Christmas carols, which we will be singing every day in the coming weeks. We ended our Critical Thinking lessons this week by making a cute Christmas tree craft. We were super excited to attempt it all by ourselves! For Cambridge, it was our last week of the Toy unit; we learned about different physical activities like hopping, skipping, jumping, and so on. What a great beginning to the month of December!

This week for Critical Thinking we are learning about vibration and how sound waves travel to our ear drums and that they can be identified by our brain.A lot of experiments were carried out with the children to show that vibration is like objects moving back and forth. They were given the chance to see the movement of the rice as students hit the drum as well as looking at how salt would “dance around” on a tray as loud music was played to illustrate the vibration of sound. The students loved all the experiments and were really excited to learn such an interesting concept!

It’s been a great week in K3 as we said goodbye to November and “Hello!” to December! In Maths, we’re expanding our knowledge of grids by challenging ourselves to use 4x4 and even 5x5 grids! We’re also continuing with subtraction by subtracting numbers up to 30. For Critical Thinking this month, we’ll focus on Christmas! We got a start on our Christmas cards this week by thinking about who we want to send “best wishes” to for the holidays. We even started painting our cards. We had a few special events this week too. On Monday, we shared what we already knew about germs and reviewed how to wash our hands properly. And on Friday we had our December Birthday Party in our fun 60s-80s outfits! It was a groovy week!

主題：「動物」－小動物真可愛！

今週來到主題「動物」的尾聲了！幼兒在主題中認識了陸地、空中和水中的動物。除了認識動物的名稱外，幼兒亦學習了不同動物有不同的活動方式，例如飛行、行走、游泳等。

今週，老師與幼兒一起認識自己的小寵物，老師請幼兒透過相片和影片分享自己家中一起生活的寵物。在活動的過程中，幼兒嘗試介紹寵物的名稱，並透過分享寵物的影片為大家帶來喜悅和快樂。

學習目的：

(1) 認識家中寵物的名稱

(2) 培養幼兒對動物的關愛

(3) 重温「水」的字形和字義

主題：「玩具」─ 玩具真有趣

今週主題繼續圍繞「玩具」。老師分享了不同的懷舊玩具，幼兒從中認識了踢毽子和跳飛機等遊戲。在老師的引導下，幼兒學習製作紙飛機，他們對活動很感興趣，在試玩的過程中表現踴躍。老師藉此培養幼兒思考物件的創造性，讓幼兒明白玩具不一定要花金錢去購買，只要花點心思，自製玩具也可以很有趣。

最後，幼兒學習了新兒歌《收玩具》，明白把玩具收拾好的重要性，培養良好的自理習慣，爸爸媽媽在家也要提醒幼兒實踐自己玩具自己收拾的好習慣啊！

學習目標:

(1) 認識各種懷舊玩具

(2) 學習自製玩具

(3) 培養愛惜玩具的態度

主題：「食物」─冬天好活動吃火鍋

本週承接上星期的學習主題「均衡飲食」，幼兒從「食物旅程」短片中認識食物進入人體後的旅程，他們能說出消化系統的位置，知道食物的營養被吸收後，就變成大小便排出體外。家長可多鼓勵幼兒在家多喝水，並要有適量的運動，維持身體健康。

近日天氣轉冷了，我們談及吃火鍋，幼兒都分享吃火鍋能在寒冷的冬天裏增加一些暖洋洋的感覺。最後，以「健康食物金字塔」為基礎，老師與幼兒討論甚麼食物適合作火鍋材料，並和幼兒一同辨別生和熟的食物。他們並認識了一些特別的火鍋，例如牛奶火鍋、巧克力火鍋、芝士火鍋等，幼兒都感到十分新奇！爸爸媽媽在家與幼兒一起吃火鍋時，也可讓他們嘗試一下運用火鍋湯勺煮熟食物，讓幼兒也親身體驗吃火鍋的樂趣呢！

學習目的:

(1) 認識消化系統

(2) 能辨別生和熟的食物

(3) 培養珍惜食物的態度