Welcome to weeks 5 & 6 in KG 2A!
Letters of the week: We have reviewed our book 2 letters (Cc, Kk, Ee, Hh, Rr, Mm and Dd). We can say and write the letters, say the sounds, give words starting with the letters and blend the sounds together.
Here, we are making kites in our Pockets art lesson – what toys start with r or e?
We have also started working on Jolly Phonics book 3, focusing on letters Gg and Oo.
We have started practicing our reading words every day so we are ready for our ‘Bee Smart’ reading competition – please make sure you read the 5 weekly words with your child every day (please see homework sheets stuck into the communication books every Monday), this will really help them! Some children are even starting to learn how to write words using our phonics letters which is fantastic to see – the children are very proud of themselves.
In our Pockets lessons, we finished working on ‘Making Toys’ and started a new unit, ‘Our Community.’ We have been learning new vocabulary (doctor, firefighter, gardener, nurse, police officer, trash collector, salesperson) and talked about where these community helpers work. We have used prepositions (in, under, behind, in front of, next to) to describe. For example, ‘She’s a gardener. She works in the park.’ Please practice these words at home – you can play games, for example ‘Put the teddy next to the bed.’
We had a great time on Friday! We set the classroom up like a community, with a hospital, shop and garden and learned through role play.
Our shop and salesperson:
Our hospital with a doctor, nurse and patients:
Our garden, with gardeners ready to plant some seeds!
Values: We learned about using only what we need, not wasting things. The children were very good at talking about this and putting it into practice when we made our own masks!
Art: We love exploring our creative sides in KG 2A and have been really careful to use paint without mixing the colors and to keep our work spaces tidy. I have seen some great examples of artistic control and (very importantly) team work!
This week we made some lovely color wheels, starting in the middle and working outwards using a range of different colors to produce some very pretty effects.
On February 15th, it was Ghayda’s birthday. She is now 5 years old and growing up very quickly. I am so pleased to see her confidence grow every day! We hope you had a lovely time celebrating with us, Ghayda.
We are very lucky to have another new friend in our class! Jaaffar is always smiling and has made lots of friends already – we hope you really enjoy being part of KG 2A, Jaaffar!
We also said goodbye to Wadimah, Jaaffar’s sister. She has joined a lovely new class in KG 1 and we hope that she is very happy there!
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