WEEK'S UP FOR WEEKENDING 1ST FEBRUARY 2017

GONG XI FA CAI everyone,

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

We trust that everyone is enjoying the Lunar New Year festivities in Singapore?  As soon as we resumed sessions this week, the 'buzz' has been our  event to celebrate it on Wednesday, 8 February 2017.  

The details are:

Date: 8th February 2017
Venue: Montessori For Children, 11 Broadrick Road, Singapore 439476, Driveway
Time: 9a.m. to 11a.m. 
All the children are to  attend school form 8:15a.m. to 11:15a.m.  (There will be no afternoon sessions on that day.) 

All are welcome to join us in the festivities and to toss our prosperity salad.

A REQUEST

Our playground is a communal place set up for the children to enjoy outdoor play, at school. We request that you always supervise your children's play so that the play equipment and general surroundings could be kept in good condition to be enjoyed by all.  Thank you for your co-operation.

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Despite the short week, we got a lot done.  Here are some highlights:

IN THE MONTESSORI ENVIRONMENT

Exercises of Practical Life - Grace and Courtesy: How to excuse oneself - Using the words “excuse me” someone is in one's way or to interrupt a teacher or friend engaged in work. Sensorial Activities: Building the Pink Tower - an exercise in refining the hand-eye co-ordination and learning to discriminate dimensions.


Parts of a Leaf - working with the Leaf Puzzle and learning the names of the parts of a leaf. 





Group - Topics and Presentation:
Sri Lankan National Day - Sri Lanka achieved independence from Bristish rule 69 years ago on 4th February 1948. 

Songs: Continued singing Lunar New Year songs

Mandarin -

Botany: Parts of a Leaf - learning to name the parts of a leaf in Mandarin

Geometry: Learning the names of the three basic shapes - triangle, circle and square

Song: Wishing You a Happy New Year, click here for link to the song

Conversation: Lunar New Year greetings - the greetings that one uses during Lunar New Year, e.g. shen ti jian kang (wishing you good health), wan shi ru yi yi (may everything go smoothly for you)

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IN THE MONTESSORI EXTENDED-DAY

Exercises of Practical Life:

Washing Hands - Besides learning good hand-hygiene, the children are also learning to complete an activity following a sequence. 

Mathematics - Addition with the Decimal System: learning about addition, i.e. putting two or more smaller numbers together to form one larger number.

Cookery Project

Sri Lankan National Day which was on 4th of February each year and the children prepared a simple Sri Lankan meal of rice, lentil curry, eggs and fried potatoes. There was a lot of excitement during the preparation of the meal and the children learnt about a culture and cuisine.

Songs – Lunar New Year songs Story Time - ‘Camile and the Sunflowers’ by Laurence Anholt (a story about Vincent Van Gogh). Andrew Varela brought the book to share with us.

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BIAN DANG BAN










1. Story about the 12 Chinese zodiac animals 
2. Songs: Chinese new year songs 
3. Craft: Making a New Year craft with 'hong bao' envelopes 
4. Practices for Lunar New Year celebration performances

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HINDI MILAP

Group discussion

• Indian Culture and Heritage - Vasanti Panchami (Multi-media Presentation)
• Explained the meaning of the song Vaishnava Jana toa....
• Parts of the body 

Word Study - पतंग, वसंत पंचमी, सूरजमुखी, किताब, पूजा, शेर

Songs and Poems

१) ऋतुओं की रानी है आईधनी चुनर अपने संग लाई

जिसे ओढ़ धरती मुस्काई कन कन में उमंग है छाई

डाल डाल नाव पल्लव आया जैसे बचपन फिर खिल आया

रंग बिरंगे फूलों पर देखो भँवरा फिर मंडराया….

२) पतंग बड़ी मतवाली मतवाली मतवाली…..

  

३)  सर सर सर सर उड़ी पतंग....

४)   वैष्णव जन तो तेने कहिये

जे पीड परायी जाणे रे ।

पर दुःखे उपकार करे तो ये

मन अभिमान न आणे रे ॥

५) वंदे मातरम्‌ ।

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INFANT COMMUNITY

Group: Continued to present Lunar New Year: Leaning words - 'hong bao', 'Lion Dance', 'Chinese Clothes' Restoration of materials upon completion of an activity 




Activity: Rolling and unrolling a rug - Unrolling a rug prepares the child's work space while rolling up a rug signifies the completion of the activities and restoration of the materials and rug.  This exercise also helps improve coordination of movement, development of small motor muscles and concentration.

Songs: *'GONG XI, GONG XI' ( English and Chinese), *'XIN NIAN HAO', *If you are happy

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND EVERYONE!