Newsletter 23.06.17

It's hard to believe the academic year has come to an end. Time certainly does fly when you're having fun! This week the children have enjoyed choosing all of our class activities. We had fun building with lego and discovered that there are so many different possibilities ... The blue group were given 5 bricks and asked to build a duck. Each of the children built a duck that was unique. When we repeated the activity we got 12 more!

In the Fundino playground we dug rivers and swimming pools to cool off our feet and enjoyed the splash pool. The children enjoyed getting a close look at some teeth and talked a lot about how to care for our teeth and gums. Using the plastic mouth and teeth moulds the children practised brushing. Please continue to encourage your child to be independent with self care skills to help prepare them for the transition to F3 (brushing teeth, using the toilet (cleaning their own bottom), washing hands, changing clothes and eating sensibly using a fork or spoon.

On Wednesday morning the children visited their F3 classrooms. They were very excited to explore the new classroom and spend some time with Mr Jon, Ms Chau, Ms Van, Ms Trinh and Ms Sara.

What a fantastic year we have had experimenting, playing, exploring, investigating, questioning and wondering together. The children have worked hard developing learning dispositions that will support them to become confident and capable learners and communicators, secure in their sense of belonging to our BIS community. On behalf of the F2 team we wish these bright young children all the best on the exciting next step of their learning journey in F3!

Thank you for all of your support this year, we really appreciate and value the relationship we have with our parent community. We wish you all a restful and relaxing summer break and look forward to catching up in August :-)

Below are some suggestions of activities to do with your children over the summer holidays. Have fun playing together! 

• Puzzles
• Read stories every day
• Mark-making activities; crayons, paint, pencils, markers, chalk, water and a brush.
• Arts and crafts; cutting and sticking (for inspiration google 'kindergarten craft activities)
• Play simple board games and card games together (talking about turn taking and how to play by the rules).
•  Play outside; run, jump, roll, ride bikes, play ball games (throwing, catching and rolling), hopscotch, skipping, swimming
• Support your child's independence - let them show you that they can do things by themselves; tidying up their toys, feeding themselves, doing small jobs

Please find below a list of websites you might enjoy exploring with your child, these contain a range of Maths and Phonics activities -

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37

http://www.cbeebies.com/?cdrid=qsZT9alppV

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

http://www.kizphonics.com/

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2.html

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html

http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html