K2 Turtle Class

 Hello Turtle Class Families!  For families who celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival, we hope you enjoyed fun-filled festivities with your loved ones! The children thoroughly enjoyed creating real and playdough mooncakes recently in class.  To further explore the key concept of Connection, the Turtle Class participated in a variety of teamwork activities inside and outside of the classroom! We posed a number of problem scenarios for the class to think about and decide whether some problems are big or small and how we should solve different types of problems. We have been using the following visuals to support the class with their problem-solving skills and it has been wonderful to observe the class use these skills in practical situations with their peers.  We have been celebrating the children taking responsibility for solving problems independently and for also completing other self-management tasks in class. We would love to see the boys and girls taking responsible ...

Dear Parents and Caregivers, I hope you enjoyed a wonderful celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival and had a relaxing holiday. Over the past two weeks, we have explored traditional activities related to this special festival, focusing on customs, lanterns, and mooncake-making through the stories "中秋节" (Mid-Autumn Festival) and "晶晶做月饼" (Jingjing's Mooncake). During open play and small group activities, the children engaged in making both traditional baked and snowy mooncakes, as well as creating lanterns and bunny origami. A special thank you to our parent volunteers who supported the children during these activities; your help is greatly appreciated! To further immerse the children in the cultural atmosphere, we held a Mid-Autumn Festival dress-down day last week, and the kids loved sharing their lanterns with everyone! To wrap up our festivities, the children learned about the historical legends behind the festival through the story "嫦娥奔月" (Chang'...

We hope you remained safe during Typhoon Yagi last weekend, and we were thrilled to be reunited with the Turtle Class children  again  on Monday!  Let's take a look at what we have been exploring recently in class... The children have settled well into their new learning environment and they are becoming more aware of the routines that we have in class. We have been very impressed by how quickly the children have settled and how they have shown confidence in their ability to navigate their way around the classroom when accessing resources independently to enhance their play experiences. We are also thrilled to see how well the children are playing together in class and during Open Play time.      Discovering our wider school community To help the Turtle Class become familiar with teachers in other K2 classes and our school admin team, our Class Turtle (Tilly) set the children a treasure hunt task around Hillside The Turtle Class had to use their observatio...