The Week Ahead 20171013

Many thanks to the families who sent in bits and bobs from their kitchen cupboards for our Music Kitchen project. Your worn-out pots, pans, spoons, chopstick and more have found a new home on the balcony outside the Music Room. It has been an absolute delight to see the children work in small groups to create a truly joyful noise filled with rhythm, laughter, and bursting with creativity! Here’s a peek at our children hard at work cooking up some music this week!        

 Based on the children’s enthusiastic reaction to this new learning space we’ve decided to expand our Music Kitchen project to the outdoor areas so they will have more opportunity to bash, bang, scrape, and stir up sound play. If you have a pot, pan, or utensil at home that we could reuse, please drop it off to the box in the reception area.  

              

   A kind reminder that our weekly year group choirs run from 8:30 – 9:00 am. This session to be filled with joyful noise as we sing a mix of songs in English and Chinese, from both classroom favourites and what we offer in Music. 

 Tuesday:        EY1 – choir takes place in the Garden Space in Building C 8:30 – 9:00 am Wednesday:    EY2 – choir takes place in the Library in Building B 8:30 – 9:00 am Thursday:       EY3 – choir takes place in the Gym in Building C 8:30 – 9:00 am Friday:           EY4 – choir takes place in the Gym in Building C 8:30 – 9:00 am   Thank you again for your support of your children’s learning!   Classroom News for week beginning Monday 18^th September 2017 EY1 – Erica Ni writes about the theme Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? 在最后一周“棕色的熊，棕色的熊，你看到了什么”主题活动中，孩子们会通过一系列活动，复习颜色、动物和形状。在每天上午的圆圈活动中，我们会继续认识小伙伴，数数每天来了几个小伙伴。孩子会用纸巾制作彩色的花、搭建房屋、给喜欢的小动物喂食。我们还会用手印画金鱼，通过把积木组合成不同的结构继续探索形状。 We are reading: Brown bear brown bear what do you see, No No Yes Yes 山田家的气象报告，小手不是用来打人的, 我的后面是谁呢 We are singing: If you are happy and you know it, Pat Your Head, Big and Small, Lions and Tigers, One Little Finger, Five Little Ducks, 两只老虎，小星星, 找朋友，一根手指变变变, 手指谣 A note from the EY1 team: 20^th October -21^st October Wellington college festival of Education   EY2 – Vivian He writes about the theme 10 little fingers, 10 little toes 本周，我们会继续复习数字和形状。孩子们将参与一系列与数字和形状有关的活动，让孩子在实际生活中进行探索，例如，寻找贴有相同形状粘纸的好朋友、说出数字，让孩子们跑向他们听到的数字。 We are reading: 快来数数吧 一个男孩 形状歌 One to ten Animal Mayhem 10 Little Fingers and 10 Little Toes Ring O’Ring of Roses We are singing: 手指歌 5 Little Monkeys Good morning song Alice the camel   EY3 – Even Chen writes about the theme All About Me “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one."-Astrid Alauda This week children will start to look at the food that we eat and we will be asking questions like “What is a healthy food?” With the use of such books as Oliver’s Vegetables, the children will look at different types of food, and ways that we could categories them, whether that is by colour, smell or texture, we will let the children decide. Before we open up our green grocers store in our role play area later in the week, the children will look at weight, comparing the different foods as well as other items from around the setting. Once our green grocers store is open we will starting shopping for food and creating our own healthy lunchboxes. With the use of such books as Three little Pigs, the children will look at different materials of house. We are reading: Oliver’s Vegetables – Vivian French 绿龙宝宝、双胞胎小姐、三只小猪 We are singing: I Like Food、健康歌   EY4 – Emily Gu writes about the theme Me and My World In EY4 we will be talking about healthy eating. We will introduce the 5 categories of different food, and to know the importance of eating healthy food. We will do some hands-on activities, such as sorting out different types of food, and also to design our own healthy menu. We will talk about foods that we eat often, sometimes and rarely. To deepen our learning, we will also talk about the nutrients from the food so that children can extend their knowledge. Child will analysis what nutrients are provided by different food. We are reading: 我不挑食、 爱吃水果的牛等 Oliver’s vegetables Supertato Veggies Assembly We are singing: 你喜欢吃什么？ Do you like broccoli? A note from the EY4 team: Please make sure that your child has a set of the rain coat and rain boots at setting, as we encourage children to continue their outdoor play despite of the wet weather. Please drop off your child on the playground in the morning before 8.30, we hope children can have a good exercises before they enter the classroom. Also, if you have any recycle things such as box, empty bottles, jewellery, fabrics anything that you don’t need to the setting. We can try to recycle and recreate new things and support our children’s role play.   Music and Movement – PeiHua and Sarah write about life in the music space EY1 – EY1 will continue playing with creative animal movements to music and practice our focused listening and vocal play with the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle. Exploring the timbre of different instruments will be a highlight of this week’s session. EY2 – Autumn is on its way and we will begin to explore this through music, movement and sounds this week. Our number songs will continue from last week, and have an opportunity to explore the sounds of our exciting new Music Kitchen! EY3 – Our All About Me theme continues with Go Into the Kitchen, a very active and exciting circle game. We will continue our songs to support self-care and healthy eating. The children will also explore creative yoga set to music to help connect our healthy bodies and minds! EY4 – This week our EY4 children will begin to connect rhythm and symbols as preparation for the introduction of basic music notation in the coming weeks. Expect to hear taa, ti-ti, and rests from your children at home soon! The Chinese musical story玛丽的新家 and song will continue. We will introduce “found sounds” with our new Musical Kitchen in preparation for making our own instruments during the coming project week. We are reading: EY 1 - Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle EY 4 - 玛丽的新家 We are singing: EY1 – I See You, 颜色歌 EY2 – 数字歌, Shake the Apple Tree, Autumn Leaves are Falling Down EY3 – Go Into the Kitchen, 悯农 EY4 – 四季歌, Hello to All the Children of the World Special dates: Reminder! Every week we will join together to sing and share the songs we have been learning. Please be sure your child arrives in time to participate in this very special year group activity. EY 1 – Tuesdays 8:30 – 9:00 in the Garden Space, Building C EY 2 – Wednesdays 8:30 – 9:00 in the Library, Building B EY 3 – Thursdays 8:30 – 9:00, in the Gym, Building C EY 4 – Fridays 8:30 – 9:00, in the Gym, Building C A note from the Music team: Are you a musician, dancer, or creative performer? WCCBS needs you! Our children are an enthusiastic and appreciative audience, and we would love to share your talents with them as we learn about music. Grandparents, family friends, and community members are welcome too!  If you have a talent you would like to share, please e-mail peihua.wang@wellingtoncollege.cn or sarah.peel@wellingtoncollege.cn to discuss how we may be able to include you in our upcoming activities.