Year 1 Update – Wk 23
World Mathletics day This was held on Wednesday and time was arranged to ensure that all children had the opportunity to visit the live Mathletics platform and compete against other children from around the world. This was a 48 hour event and many children also logged in at home to see if they could get into the ‘Hall Of Fame’.
Big Universe This week, children have also been using Big Universe, logging on and searching for books linked to our unit of inquiry. There are a great variety of non fiction books within Big Universe. We would like to encourage all children to log on to Big Universe at home and practise searching for a suitable text to read and enjoy with an adult.
1L Class assembly This morning 1L treated us to a wonderful assembly about feelings. They wrote sentences about what different colours make them think of and showed different feelings through drama, dance and song. Well done 1L on a wonderful performance.
- How plants and animals contribute to life on earth (function)
- Ways in which livings things are all connected (connection)
- How living things grow (change)
Next week we will be continuing to undertake activities that assist the children in making connections about how all living things depend on each other to survive. The children have been enjoying sharing their learning and demonstrating their growing knowledge. Students will be furthering their inquiry into the importance of trees and bees in our eco-system and developing their understanding of which everyday items originate from plants and animals. Students will inquire into everyday materials such as cotton, rubber and many other everyday items.
Year 5 Big Business
Year 5 Market Day & Sharing Day
The Year 5 children have been busy creating some fantastic products handmade products to sell for their Market Day which will be held next Friday, 16th March in the hall from 11:00am – 2pm. All year groups will be visiting the market place during the day and we would suggest that the children bring around $80 to spend. Please note that due to the space available we can only allow the children and teachers to attend.
All profits from the market day will be donated to the Immanuel Kindergarten in South Sudan. This is a charity that Mrs. Quinn, one of our ex-staff members, has been involved in for a number of years. It is a charity that we have supported in the past and would like to support again, especially in light of the extremely difficult situation that many find themselves in South Sudan.
Next week the children will continue with their investigations into the relationship between addition and subtraction. They will be reinforcing some of the subtraction strategies from last week and developing their understanding further through practical application of subtraction problems.
We will also be consolidating the idea that we can jump forwards and backwards on a number line and represent calculations in formal equations using mathematical symbols correctly.
We have now set new tasks for the children to complete. Please spend some time each week exploring the different activities that we have set for the children. Under the ‘play’ section, children can practise their basic facts by playing games with partners from around the world. It is not intended that the children will do these tasks totally independently so please help your child to become familiar with the layout of Mathletics and how to go about completing the tasks.
Please support your child in learning how to log in using their user name and password rather than relying on an adult to do so for them.
Next week will be the last of week of having Miss Jeves to support us with English. The children will be building on from the great work they have already done with her on making connections. They will be writing to describe the interdependency between animals and plants using the key word ‘’because’. Using Bees as the topic, children will write informative sentences on how they are connected to all living things, demonstrating both their knowledge and the writing skills they have developed over the past few weeks.
In Reader’s Workshop, we will continue to support the work that Ms Jeves is doing with the children by encouraging them to make connections between what we are reading and their own experiences. When the children are making connections we use sentence starters such as:
There was not Golden Book assembly on Monday. Our next Golden Book assembly will be on Monday 12th March.
If you are looking for something to do on Sunday 18th March. This is a fun and worthwhile outdoor art activity.
Join China Children’s Week 2018
Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition
for every child, a better world
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Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF HK) will hold the China Children’s Week 2018 – Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition at Central Lawn, Nursery Park, West Kowloon Cultural District on 18 March 2018 (Sunday). Under the theme ‘for every child, a better world’, the competition will raise funds for UNICEF’s ‘Cash Transfers for Deprived Children’ (CCT) Project in China, dedicated to giving a good start in life for every child by improving the maternal and child health services in rural China. This year, under the theme ‘for every child, a better world’, UNICEF HK has collaborated with cartoon character Din Dong to launch the all-new Comic Strip Drawing Challenge. Din-Dong, full of positive energy and dreams, will inspire young artists to create a good start in life for every child with their compassion and imagination.This year’s event will be once again fully supported by Principal Sponsor, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited.
Although families from remote and deprived areas are now entitled to free hospital delivery and health care services, suspension of work and high travelling costs make them reluctant to access these services and lead to high maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Since 2013, UNICEF HK has allocated the funds raised in China Children’s Week to the CCT project launched by UNICEF in 15 counties in Yunnan, Gansu and Sichuan. Through the initiative, women from underprivileged families will receive cash subsidies, enabling their access to prenatal and postnatal checkups, hospital delivery and vaccinations for their babies. By December 2017, over 20,000 women and children have benefitted from this project.
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By joining the Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition, children can express their wishes for a better world and send blessings to vulnerable children while raising funds for mothers and children in rural China, championing the spirit of ‘kids helping kids’. We sincerely invite all little artists aged 12 or below to participate in this meaningful fundraising event for CCT Project, ensuring a healthy start in life for every child.
© UNICEF HK/2017
Details of the Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition
Date: 18 March 2018 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.
Venue: Central Lawn, Nursery Park, West Kowloon Cultural District (Carnival booths will be set up in Sunset Lawn)
Theme: for every child, a better world
This competition is open to children aged 12 or under in 4 groups.
Group A: 6 years old or under (born in 2012 or after)
Group B: 7-9 years old (born between 2009 and 2011)
Group C: 10-12 years old (born between 2006 and 2008)
Group D (Comic Strip Drawing Challenge): 12 years old or below (born in or after 2006)
