Weeks 4 & 5 - May 16th, 2025

Hello, Orca Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Our morning meetings this week were so engaging and fun! First, we talked about our 8 classroom rules to guide them throughout the day.  Then, we started singing good morning song wherein we formed a circle and danced together as we say hello to everyone. It was such a joy seeing them laughing and holding each others' hands to begin our day. It was followed by checking our calendar time, assigning class jobs, doing a movement song and sharing about our whereabouts through our Class Dojo photos. In addition, we continued to practice for our  performance for our upcoming Sports day. Also, we had a Fire Drill and talked about why it is important to be safe during this times.

In the afternoon, we read a storybook and had mini discussion through asking WH-questions like why, what, where, when and how in order to enhance their story comprehension and enrich their vocabulary words. This week was also our Show and Tell week. It was wonderful to see and listen from our friends' family photos from Red group. Our friends shared that they love their family because it is cute, beautiful and kind. We ended our day through reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song. 

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

These are the activities we did from last week to this week. To jumpstart our Literacy time , we started talking about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Maria Goes to School; My Little Brother". We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we also had Phonics Pp and learn more vocabulary words. In addition, we did some related Raz-Kids and sight word worksheets, C for car; S for snake crafts and had a Phonics letter game as a form of review. We aimed to enhance not only their literacy facet but also to lengthen their attention span and enhanced their focus and concentration which is essential to develop their skills and bodies holistically. It was an absolute fun!

Kinder

These are the activities we did from last week to this week.  To jumpstart our Literacy time , we started talking about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Busy at School; We Are All People?". We described the pictures and read aloud the sentences. We also asked them to read one sentence per each child to enhance their confidence and reading fluency. Then, we read an alphabet Raz-Kids book entitled, "Did it Fit?; The Tot and Pot" to talk about short vowel e- i and o. We also made a craft related to this topic, learned the sight words  and did some related worksheets.

Maths

Pre-K

For our short week after Golden Week, we practiced numbers from 1 to 20. We made sure that we recognized the numbers from 11 to 20 and then we did some counting activities and some crafts related to numbers up to 20.

For Week 5, we reviewed numbers from 1 to 20. We sang songs of counting to make sure that we know the order of the numbers and then we did some printing so that we can recognize and write the numbers. We also did some activities like coloring a picture by number, completing a puzzle and doing a number maze.

Kinder

For the first week after our Golden Week break, we started doing some counting by 10s. We counted together up to 100 starting from 10. We also sang some songs and did some activities to help us with skip-counting by 10s.

For Week 5, our Kinder students learned about number bonds and how they help us to do addition and subtraction problems. We did some crafts using ladybugs and we also discussed as a group, number bonds for numbers up to 10.

Topic Exploration

Last week, we talked about , "All About Me: My School. We talked about what we liked about our school and appreciate the people in our school. We had activities like Paint Your Perfect School, Tissue Paper Rainbow Experiment, and Draw My School. 

This week, we talked about, "All About Me: My Family ". We delved into understanding our own families and other's families too! We  read famous books, like "My Family by Todd Parr and Pete's Family Road Trip", made crafts like a My Family in foldable house and a family picture frame out of , did a collaborative paired activity of My House wherein the Pre-K and Kinder students worked together to decorate a paper bag and turned it into a house;  listened to Cross Dance by Shenanigans Dance and Music song to learn about fast and slow in music while using some scarves. 

Free Play

Here are some more pictures of friends playing together in the classroom, in the Big Room, at the park, and enjoying other topics, events and activities at school.

Book of the Week

Pre-K

Kinder

Important Dates

• May 23rd - Field Trip to Horizon Izumi - Sweet Potato Planting (weather dependent)

• May 28th - Parents’ Day 1 - Literacy (Pre-K)

• May 29th - Parents’ Day 1 - Literacy (Kinder)

Next week, we will talk about "My Feelings". Let us learn different feelings in school! See you nextweek, dearest Orcas!

- The Orca Class Team