Highlights of the Week

It’s the start of a brand new year and the PN students are happy to see their classmates again after the holidays. The children are exploring a new theme this month which is about Pets/Animals. For English, they learned the names of animals that we can take care of at home as pets. They got to experience how to take care of pets by feeding them food, fixing their fur and giving them a bath. For Math, they are reviewing how to identify and count from 1-5. To practice their counting, they gave 5 pieces of carrots to the rabbit, 5 bones to the dog, and 5 pieces of fish to the cat. The children had so much fun with all the role-playing throughout the week.

Welcome to the new year everyone! It’s been lovely coming back to school and hearing about all of our friends’ holiday adventures. The start of the new year marks the start of lots of new and exciting topics. In Cambridge, we started the unit ‘My house’ which has been enjoyable for the students as they have been able to relate the vocabulary to things they find in their own homes. We have also now begun our phonics curriculum and are excited to enjoy learning all our sounds through games and activities. This week we learned the sounds /a/ and /b/. For critical thinking this month, we’re going to meet some of our community helpers. We started off by meeting firemen this week; the students dressed up as brave firemen and used tools like fire extinguishers, fire hoses and axes to put out pretend fires. In math this week, we practiced counting to 10, looked at things that are black in colour and explored the shape ‘diamond’. We also played some interesting games to practice our new concept of ‘front’ and ‘back’. We’re looking forward to continuing all the fun next week!

This week for Critical Thinking we are learning about restaurants and the people who work in it like waiter / waitress, customer and chef. They learnt about the different roles of a chef and they were also taught that different cuisines are responsible by different types of chefs. Then students were asked to create their own menus by choosing a list of food and drinks provided and then as a class, we discussed the price that we can give for each food and drink item. They had a lot of fun carrying out this activity!

Welcome back everyone! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. We have heard some fantastic adventures from our students! We have hit the ground running this week here at school. For critical thinking this week we began to discuss what a paramedic is and why they are so important to our communities. We talked about what they do, and the different equipment they use. We even pretended to fill in an incident form like a real paramedic! In our math lessons this week we discussed place value and the differences between ones place and tens place. We used manipulatives (such as counting blocks) to help us visualize this even better. During our physical play time we talked about different physical activities we did over the break, and we continued our strength building exercises. We focused more on our legs and lower body this week. Have a wonderful weekend, and we will see you all back here next week! ;)

主題：「郊遊」─ 遊郊野公園

今週主題是「郊遊」，幼兒從主題認識郊野公園，例如公園環境、植物和設施等。老師與幼兒模擬前往郊野公園，沿途觀賞郊野公園不同的景觀，老師請幼兒分享自己看過和喜歡的景觀。然後，我們一起利用景觀圖卡、花草樹木等拼砌出郊外的景觀，幼兒都樂在其中，同時，活動提升了他們的學習動機。最後，老師與幼兒進行模擬郊遊野餐，幼兒學習分享自己對野餐的意見，在活動中，幼兒學習與朋伴分享食物玩具，互相交流和一同遊戲。

學習目的 :

1) 認識香港的郊野公園及設施

2) 認識郊遊的景觀

3) 享受模擬野餐的樂趣

主題:「房屋」－認識香港房屋的特色

今週展開新主題「房屋」。老師運用圖片引導幼兒觀察不同房屋的類型，藉此認識「矮房子」和「高樓大廈」這兩種常見的房屋，幼兒亦學以致用，踴躍地分享自己所居住房屋類型呢！

另外，老師運用圖片與幼兒重溫家中不同的房間，包括睡房、浴室、廚房、客飯廳等，並認識各房間的不同用途及該擺放的傢俱等。最後，老師與幼兒分享《三隻小豬》的故事，讓幼兒明白做事不應貪圖便捷，否則會帶來壞影響呢！爸爸媽媽也可提醒幼兒應盡力做好每一件事，培養幼兒做個處事認真的好孩子！

學習目的:

1）認識常見的房屋類型

2）認識睡房、廚房、客飯廳、浴室的用途及傢俱

3）培養幼兒做事認真的態度

主題：「交通工具」─ 道路設施

今週主題是「交通工具」。老師請幼兒分享自己的假期活動，藉此帶出前往不同地方可乘搭不同的交通工具，例如港鐡、巴士、小巴、渡輪等。其中，我們今週集中討論陸上交通工具及道路設施。透過影片分享，老師請幼兒指出片中人物做的不當行為，幼兒都能指出過馬路時看手機是非常危險的，老師並延伸討論正確過馬路的方法，包括使用交通燈、斑馬線、行人天橋和行人隧道。爸爸媽媽與幼兒外出時也可多留意社區周邊的交通設施，延伸是次主題的學習。

學習目的:

1) 認識陸上交通工具

2) 認識不同的道路設施及其用途

3) 學習行人及乘客的安全守則及禮儀