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Our first week in K2

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 Dear Turtle Class Families, Welcome to our first Turtle Class blog! We have had a wonderful first week together in class. We have enjoyed playing together, learning our new routines in K2, and introducing our families to each other too.  If you have yet to share your family photographs we would be grateful if you could upload them into the following photo albums: AM Class Family Photographs PM Class Family Photographs Our learning so far... We have had a lovely week of getting to know one another and learning the names of our friends and teachers in the Turtle Class. We have also enjoyed sharing our family photographs and making some comparisons with the number of family members in each of our families! From these discussions we also explored how our Turtle Class is also like a family and enjoyed reading the story, "Our Class is a Family" , written by Shannon Olsen. Please take a look at what the Turtle Class have been busily doing in school this week. We will continue to us...

Welcome to Hillside Chinese Class

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Dear parents and caregivers, Welcome to Hillside Chinese class! My name is Joey Lao Shi and I will be your child’s Chinese teacher this year. I hope you and your children have had a wonderful holiday and a fresh start to the school year and l am looking forward to seeing the children in our Chinese classes.  Our Chinese Day will be on Wednesday. On Chinese Day, children will be guided to have their learning activities in Chinese, including stories, music and movement, arts and crafts, etc.  We will update the class blog and the Chinese learning slide s regularly and you can find out more about the Chinese programme from these materials and help your children reinforce the language at home with them.  Chinese Class albums (see the link below) are also provided for you to see and upload your children’s Chinese learning progress both in class and at home.  We are going to have Hillside's Chinese Programme Webinar in late September to introduce more details about the Chi...