Highlights of the Week

The PN students are ready to start the new year with more fun learning activities as everyone gets back from their Christmas break. It’s all about the body for this month’s theme. The children danced to the body song sung by their Cambridge friends, Pippa and Pop. While listening to the music, they were encouraged to point to different parts of their face such as the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. For English, the children worked on their creative skills to turn the letter L into a Lamp. They roared like lions and played with leaves as they discovered more words that start with the letter L. For Math, the PN students played different games to practice counting and review their numbers from 1 to 5.The activities ranged from stacking five blocks on top of one another to build a tower to tracing the dotted lines to learn how to write numbers 1-5. The teachers can’t wait to share and teach all the exciting lessons they have prepared for the children next week.

It’s been such an exciting week as we were all excited to see each other after a long break and share stories of what we did with our families over the Christmas break. The students enjoyed sharing pictures of their Christmas festivities with their classmates. In Cambridge, we started our new theme of ‘My House’ and it was lovely to see how the children related the furniture vocabulary we learned to the furniture they have at home. Critical thinking was lots of fun as we looked closely at what firefighters do; we loved dressing up as firefighters and putting out pretend fires on our interactive whiteboard. In Math, we practiced counting to 10 through exercise and games. It was a wonderful week and we look forward to more fun next week!

This week for Critical Thinking we are learning about veterinarians and what their jobs are. Students are asked to distinguish the differences between a vet and a doctor. Those students that have pets shared their experiences and their knowledge on a visit to the vet. A story and also videos were also used to help the students to understand the medical tools and further detailed description of what the vet does.

Then the students were given a check list in which they have to choose the symptoms of their chosen pet. The teacher and their classmates would also advise them on the necessary tools and treatment that is suitable for the related symptoms. Once the students are familiarized with the procedure, they are asked to role play between the person who has the pet and the vet. They had a lot of fun and this is a good chance to boost up their speaking confidence!

For Math this week, we are practicing numbers between 40 to 50. They are asked to write down all the numbers and then further practice on neighboring numbers. In addition, they were taught the concept of combination of number of 6 to 8 and they used real objects to create these combinations for better understanding.

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. We have heard some great stories of all the things our students have done. For this week we have we hit the ground running in our Math lessons with beginning to discuss and review place values. We discussed the importance of knowing where the ones place and tens place are for when we begin to add and subtract larger numbers. We are also interested in even larger place values, but we will continue to focus on just the ones and tens place. During our Critical Thinking this week we began to discuss another important community helper, paramedics. We discussed what they do and why their jobs are so important as a first responder. We also filled out an incident report, similar to what a paramedic might give to a nurse or doctor when dropping off a patient at the hospital. During our Physical Play time we learned some new games to play, such as jumbo jenga and the subtraction game. We hope everyone has a great rest of the 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」

今週展開新的主題「房屋」，幼兒透過了解每天的溫度從而認識冬天的季節，知道冬天要多穿衣服保暖，他們亦能分享可在家哪裡找到保暖衣物（例如：衣櫃、睡房、床等）。透過重溫家居環境和設備，認識它們的用途，幼兒亦積極和踴躍設計屬於自己家的家居環境，貼上相應的家居設備。

幼兒專注聆聽繪本故事，從故事中認識不同類型的房屋，此外，他們更透過建構遊戲，讓幼兒能在遊戲當中，探索如何向上堆疊蓋房子是最穩固，在完成遊戲後，他們亦願意欣賞他人的作品。幼兒亦透過實物接觸的遊戲學習認讀「電視」等字詞，初步認識新主題的內容。

學習目的：

1)認識家居環境和設備及其用途

2)能運用創意和不同物料蓋房子

3)探索如何向上穩固地堆疊

主題：「交通工具」─ 認識陸路交通工具

這個星期開展新主題－「交通工具」。透過聲音、圖片及影片，讓幼兒認識陸路交通工具的名稱（例如：巴士、小巴）、陸路交通工具的外型、設備、座位（例如：雙層巴士、八達通機、十六座/十九座小巴）。

除此之外，幼兒更學習到乘車的程序，知道如何上車、付費、讓司機知道自己要下車等等，讓幼兒在日常生活中能應用，家長下次與子女乘車的時候可以請他們當小老師講解一下交通工具的特徵、乘車的程序，使他們更留意交通工具內的不同設備並嘗試解釋當中的用途。

學習目標：

1. 認識小巴的外型、設備、座位

2. 學習乘搭小巴需注意的事項

3. 認識巴士的特徵

4. 學習搭巴士的程序

5. 認識動詞

6. 認讀字彙的讀音與字義：港鐡、貨車、計程車、電車

7. 學習新歌「有趣的交通工具」

主題：衣服─衣服款式多

今週展開新主題「衣服」，老師利用圖片及實物向小朋友介紹各種類的衣服，例如去沙灘會穿著泳衣、上學會穿著校服、到運動場會穿著運動服等，藉此讓幼兒明白不同場合穿著不同衣服的原因，以及請小朋友分享自己過往到不同場合的經歷。老師又與小朋友進行了「模擬服裝店」遊戲，請小朋友扮演小裁縫及顧客。過程中，小朋友學習按不同的衣服進行分類，也學懂怎樣整理摺疊衣物，他們更會為小顧客講解洗衣標籤上圖案符號的意思呢！

學習目的:

1) 認識四季不同的衣裳

2) 學習洗衣標籤上圖案符號的意思

3) 懂得按不同場合的衣服進行分類