On Tuesday we celebrated Children's Day. The students had a wonderful time at the Eco Park experiencing games such as Tennis and Football. They were given the opportunity to learn new skills for tennis and activities that involved hand and eye coordination skills. Football was a great opportunity for the children to show good sportsmanship, as the game had rules and there was a winning an losing team. Although the day was very hot, the children had a chance to socialise with other children in the school and parent helpers were able to participate in the fun days activities. 这周二全校一起举行了儿童节的庆祝活动。孩子们在观澜湖生态体育公园体验了网球和足球,过得非常开心!他们观看了网球教练的表演,学习并尝试了一些新的网球技能,这些活动都要求他们做到手、眼合作。而足球比赛,因为有着明确的规则和输赢,则给孩子们提供了一次展现体育精神的机会。尽管天气非常的炎热,能够跟着好朋友一起出去玩耍还是令人非常开心的。在此也要特别感谢家长帮手们的参与! In Maths this week the children have spent time revising the concepts, such as greater than and smaller than, place value and skip counting. Mums and dads do not forget that your child has become skillful with the value of money so whilst you enjoy Starbucks, allow your child to go get some food at the Patio and ask them to bring it back and check that they receive the correct change. 这一周的数学时间里,我们开始复习学过的一些概念,比如说比较数的大小,辨认位值和跳数数数。在这里要提醒各位家长的是,孩子们对金钱的概念已经非常熟悉,所以你们可以让他们尝试独立购物。比如当你们在星巴克时,可以试着让孩子们自己去巴迪奥超市去买一些食物,看一看他们找回来的钱金额是否准确。 In Language the children spent time revisiting words beginning with the digraph 'wh' and 'th", such as what, where, when, why? and the, them, there, their, that. Please spend time allowing your child to practice these sounds and identify them in their reading books. 英语部分我们复习了以“wh”和“th”开头的单词,比如what, where, when, why和the, them, there, their, 还有that。请花一些时间和你的孩子复习这些词汇,提醒他们在指导阅读的故事书中去识读这些单词。 To continue our study and inquiry about the weather, we did two experiments and some observations. First, we made simple thermometers and used it to test hot water and cold water. Through this experiment, we learned the principal of thermometer, which is heat-expansion and cold-contraction. This week, we made simple anemoscopes, and learned how to use it together with digital compass to locate directions of wind. Each day of this week, we went down twice to observe and record the weather. The information that we recorded down included time, weather, wind direction, and temperature. 本周我们继续对天气的学习和探究。我们进行了跟天气相关的实验和观测。首先,我们一起制作了简易的温度计。通过对热水和冷水的测量,我们懂得了温度计的工作原理——热胀冷缩。这周我们还制作了简单的风向仪,并学会了如何通过数码指南针和风向仪来辨别风向。这一周我们每一天都下去两次去观测和记录当时的天气,我们记录下的信息包括观测时间、当时的天气、风向和温度。 Can you believe this time next week the children will have graduated from Grade One!
We spent time this week practicing our words and songs for the final graduation process. The children cannot wait to show off their skills to you next week and are looking forward to seeing you on Friday. 下周五我们将会迎来孩子们的毕业典礼,这么快他们就要结束一年级的学习生活,升入二年级了,简直不敢相信时间过得这么快!这一周我们花了不少时间来练习台词和歌曲,希望在毕业典礼上能一展我们的风采。
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Dear Parents, 亲爱的家长们,你们好! Thank you for being active in the students learning this week. During their Chinese lessons the students were very excited to share their findings that they did at home with you. 非常谢谢你们对学校学习活动的支持!这周四我们上了一节十分特别的中文课——依次听每个小朋友的微信语音,来看看大家在家里都找到了些什么有用的信息。 In this week’s Chinese we learned a text named “我多想去看看”. Using this text, we took some time at school to make travel plans to the Tian Shan Mountains in Sinkiang. At home we also made personal travel plans to see the Flagging-Raising Ceremony at Tian’anmen Square at home. We tried to use the sentence structure “我多想……” to talk about our aspirations. Someone said they want to be policemen when they grow up, someone said they want to go inside the volcanos to see what is inside. It was a wonderful experience to listen to their dreams about the future and how they became inspired by each other. 这周的中文课我们学习了课文《我多想去看看》。借着这篇课文,我们在学校一起制作了去新疆天山旅行的计划,课后也在家长的协助下一起搜索和了解了去北京天安门广场观看升旗仪式的注意事项和所需准备。大家还用句式“我多想……”一起分享和讨论了自己对以后的一些理想。有人说想当医生,有人说想当赛车手,有人说想当警察,还有人说想去火山里头去瞧瞧,他们的想法五花八门,创意奇特,十分有意思。 In addition we have been looking at our personal journey this year and illustrating this. We asked the students if did they want to share one of their journeys with each other and here are some of their accomplishments. 此外,我们也在回顾这一年来的个人经历,并尝试把印象最深的部分画出来。我们请学生自由分享自己的人生历程和成就,下面是他们的一些感想: When I came to China I couldn’t speak Chinese but now I am happy that I can. 当我刚来中国的时候,我不会说中文,但是现在我会了,我很高兴! When I was little I couldn’t walk but now I can walk and run. 当我很小的时候,我连走都不会,现在我不仅会走,还会跑。 Before I came to this school I could not speak English but now I can. 我来这个学校之前完全不会说英语,现在我会了。 This morning we had a guest speaker come to our class to talk about inspirational journeys. Dr. Catherine Chu gave the students a wonderful inspiring talk based on the questions the students had previously come up with. It was also lovely to see that the students were engaged and asked questions. Do ask your child about this learning experience. 今天我们还迎来了一位特别的客人——校董朱小姐,来给大家讲讲自己的个人旅程。根据孩子们提出的问题,朱小姐给大家做了一个精彩的小演讲。孩子们都听得非常认真,在结束后还问了许多问题。各位家长可以问一问你的孩子关于这次演讲的内容。 During our Maths lessons the students have been continuing with activities to help their understanding of fractions. Additionally they have been practicing their division skills using materials in the classroom to help them see the process of these number sentences. 在本周的数学时间里,我们带孩子们一起做了一些有趣的关于分数和除法的活动。通过操作教室里的各种物品,大家对除法有了更加具体的理解,对除法的运算过程也有了更深刻的印象。 What you can do at home.
亲子活动建议 The students have been so enthusiastic in learning and reciting Chinese ancient poems. Please help your child to recite poetry that they bring home from school. Have a competition with you child. 最近,孩子们对古诗词的热情空前高涨。在家可以试着和你的孩子来场比赛,看谁背得又快又准! As we work our way through the Inquiry Unit, this week students planned a physical journey to an imaginary place of their dreams. This involved identifying the type of climate their chosen place is experiencing, how they would get there, what this involved and what did they need to make their holiday a happy one. It was interesting to see how the students prioritized their wants and needs. We noticed that iPhones seemed to be an important thing to pack for a holiday. 随着探究单元的推进,我们来到了探究循环的调查环节。这一周,孩子们计划了一场想象当中的旅行——前往自己的梦里的一个地方。为了让这次旅行更加舒服和愉悦,他们需要进行充分的准备,包括考虑这个地方的气候,如何到达目的地,以及要准备什么行李等。从中能看出他们是如何对自己所想要的和所需要的来排序的,很明显,iPhone对大部分孩子们来说是旅行必不可少的一件行李。 This week we really consolidated identifying the properties of shapes as well as understanding simple fractions 1/4 and 1/2. We did this by linking our understanding to our knowledge of division and how do we divide whole objects equally.
这一周我们也在对形状的属性进行巩固训练,并开始理解简单的分数如1/4和1/2,并将其与学过的除法和平均分结合了起来。 We continue to invite K2A to our class as reading buddies. This involves K2A reading their books to us as well as listening to our class read to them. This has been a very successful literacy time and Grade 1 are really proud to be great role models to K2A. 每周一,K2A的孩子们都会来到我们G1,找到各自的阅读伙伴,来一起享受阅读带来的乐趣。G1的哥哥姐姐们很热衷于读书给小弟弟小妹妹们听,这让他们觉得自己树立了非常积极的榜样,并为此感到自豪。 Our students have really become enthusiastic readers. A lot of our students ask to read other children’s readers which means a lot of swapping of books. However, the impact of this freedom inspires the students to have a go at reading other books and it also encourages risk-taking in reading. Writing has also been an enthusiastic activity and the students have been participating in Handwriting, Story Writing, Friendly Letter Writing and Journal Writing. 通过各种各样的方式,孩子们日渐成为热情的阅读者,有些孩子还会主动跟同伴交换阅读。尽管这有时会造成书籍的混乱,但正是这种自由也告诉了我们他们渴望阅读更多,也愿意接受挑战。同时,他们也是热情的书写者,尝试进行各种方式的书写,包括故事,信件和周记等。 G1 Last Friday was an amazing day for the students when they put their physical skills and emotional and social behavior to the tests. Our Sports Day was full of fun and the students were able to show parents how much they enjoyed this side of learning as well as how they can be supportive of each other. Thank you parents for coming to watch your children participate. We asked the students what was the best thing about the day and the first thing most of the students said was having their parents come to see them. The other fabulous event was students receiving medals from Boris Becker. Boris is a renowned tennis player who during his time playing tennis was the youngest men's champion in history with his victory at Wimbledon as a 17-year-old. Overall he won 49 career singles titles, another 15 in doubles. He was also a gold Olympic medalist. What a privilege and an inspiration for our students. 上周五的校运会给学生们提供了一次尽情运动,并在运动中增进交流和感情的机会。相信家长们都看到了孩子们灵活的运动技能,也看到了他们彼此之间的相互依赖和相互支持。在此也谢谢各位家长的参加!在回到教室后,孩子们纷纷说印象最深刻的部分就是能看到自己的爸爸妈妈在场外加油鼓掌。当天值得一提的另外一件事,莫过于前网球世界冠军鲍里斯·贝克尔的到访了。鲍里斯·贝克尔在17岁时就成为了温布尔登网球赛最年轻的男子冠军。在他的网球职业生涯中,他前后一共赢得了四十九次殊荣,还包括了一次奥运会的网球金牌。这一次,我们邀请他作为特别嘉宾,给一些孩子发了奖牌,以奖励和鼓励大家在体育和合作精神上的杰出表现。 We began our new and final Inquiry Unit ‘Here to There’. As you are aware, this unit is about journeys physical and inspirational. Last week the students asked you to help them recall family journeys. In class we have used this information to locate the different countries on the world map and linked them to your child’s name. The have been also been inquirying into the culture of these countries. Many of the countries are international but also some places are within China. We asked the students about any differences or similarities they may have noticed. 与此同时,我们正式开始了新的也是本学期的最后一个探究单元:“从这里到那里——旅行”的学习。你们可能已经从探究单元概览里了解到了,这个单元主要是关于身体和精神上的一些旅行经历。上周,我们要求孩子们做一次家庭问卷调查,回顾自己曾经进行过的家庭旅行。回到学校后,我们把孩子们去过的地方在世界地图上标识了出来,发现大家的足迹遍布了中国和世界各地。借此机会,我们也一起了解了各地的文化,讨论和分享自己在旅行时看到的各种文化生活上的相同和不同之处。 To help understand the concept of inspirational journeys, the students has written a letter inviting a guest speaker to come to our class and talk about their personal journey. We hope this will inspire our students to reflect on their personal journey so far and to have a positive understanding of why the journey of school and education is important.
为了让大家理解什么样的旅行可以称之为“鼓舞人心的旅程”,我们一起写了一封邀请信,来邀请一位特别的客人到班里给大家说说自己的个人历程。我们希望这能带给孩子们一些灵感,启示他们如何回顾和反思自己的个人历程,从而对学校和教育这段特殊的“旅行”有更积极的理解。 At home we would like you to discuss what is involve when planning for journeys. 在家请跟孩子们讨论如何准备一次旅行。 Chinese We had a lot of fun in Chinese this week. We made our own Chinese flashcards, our own character recognition books, and our own guided reading books. We can see that children are really enthusiastic into learning at school. As they found ownership of their knowledge they saw the closed link between learning and daily life. We hope at home you will support your child’s learning and make it become a playful habit. 中文 这周的中文学习,在我和孩子们看来是非常有趣的。我们一起制作了自己的汉字闪卡,自己的汉字识字本和自己的中文指导阅读本。我们看到了孩子们对学习的热情,因为他们对知识产生了所有感,也看到了学习跟生活有着必不可分的联系。在此也希望家长们能给予适当的支持,让他们把学习变成一个自己非常热爱的习惯。 This week the students were assessed on what they learned during our Inquiry Unit. They were asked to select no more then two different types of materials from around the classroom, to name them and speak about their properties. For example, this piece of wood is hard. It is in the shape of a triangle and it is smooth. The properties of this piece of wood can still be changed by… or the properties cannot be changed. The students did a great job of recalling information and using scientific words to describe properties. 这周,我们测试了孩子们对即将完成的探究单元的理解程度。要求他们在教室里自由选择两种物质,对它们进行分类命名并说出其属性,如这是一块木头,它很硬,它是三角形的,并且很光滑。这块木头的属性可以通过……方法来改变,或者它的属性无法改变。学生们的表现都非常好,大部分都能运用一些科学词汇来形容物质的属性。 They did a wonderful job making posters to show case their designer bags which were mainly aimed an adult audience. These can now be seen on display. 这一周孩子们还给自己设计制作的包包绘制了海报,各位家长可以前往学校展板去欣赏。 During our Language learning we revisited contractions and apostrophes. The students have been singing along to a song to help them remember what a contraction is and when to use it. For the past couple of weeks we have diligently using the first fifteen minutes of class to read. This is proving to work very well and the students are enjoying using their phonics meaningfully during this time. Another activity we have been doing in groups is reading high frequency words and then selecting a word to make a sentence and sharing it orally with the class. We have also been focusing on the correct spelling of the days of the week and numbers. 在本周的英语学习中,我们复习了在英语书写中上撇号’的用法——缩写。我们一起学唱了一首歌,来帮助他们理解contraction(缩写)的意思,以及何时可以使用缩写。在过去的几周中,我们将早上进入教室的15分钟设置成了晨读的时间,并把它变成了我们的常规。我们逐渐看到学生们越来越多喜欢阅读,并能主动使用语音知识来进行拼读。本周我们还进行了另一项小组活动:识读高频单词并挑选一个来进行口头造句;还复习和练习了怎么拼写一周中的每一天以及数字。 Maths we have been revisiting Place Value, Even Numbers and Tally Marks as well as Mental Maths. We continue to include learning the time daily, focusing on ‘quarter to and quarter past’. 数学方面,我们复习了位值、偶数、计数符号以及心算。在日常活动中,大家也会通过使用“差一刻钟到X点和X点一刻”来巩固对时钟的认识和使用。 As we explore our next unit please don’t forget to answer your child’s questions about places they have traveled to. Thank you for your help with this. This information is for Monday. 我们马上要进入新的探究单元了,孩子们在周末可能会问一些跟新的主题相关的问题。谢谢你们的配合和支持! This week we learned two poems in Chinese. Please read and recite the poems that we learned with your child. You may have noticed that we didn’t send home regular Chinese readers this week. This is because we are going to make some changes based on students’ Chinese level. We shall resume it in two weeks. If your child haven’t returned the Chinese reader, please remind them to return it to school next week. 这周我们学习了两首唐诗。它们有同样的主题——春雨,但却表现了作者不同的感情,也给读者带来了不同的感觉。请记得和孩子一起朗诵或背诵我们学过的古诗或者现代诗。这周我们没有发中文的阅读书回去。根据孩子们现在的中文情况,我们将对中文阅读的方向和重点进行一些调整。如果您发现家里还有没还回来的中文阅读书籍,请及时归还。 The students also had a great treat and learning experience when they went to watch the Annika Golf Tournament. They showed their understanding of the etiquette required and were so excited to watch keen young golfers play. Do ask them you to tell about it. 这周五下午我们如约前往东莞观澜湖球会去欣赏了安妮卡高尔夫女子青年组的决赛。大家都遵守了观看高尔夫比赛的礼仪,同时也为赛场上选手们的精彩表现惊叹不已。不妨问问他们都看到了些什么吧。 How you can help at home:
亲子活动建议 Recall the places you have traveled to and share this with your children. 和孩子说一说你去过的或者你们一起去过的地方。 Did the places you visited demonstrated differences in culture in comparison to your own? 在这些地方里你或者你们有碰到过一些文化上的不同之处吗? Have writing books and sparkly pens available (your child loves writing). 在家里给孩子准备一些纸和闪粉笔,他们都很喜欢书写。 Have some mental maths fun. 一起练习一下数学心算。 This week was a great learning experience in many ways as we focused on our country of choice for International Day. We learned about the location of Nepal, the number of languages, their traditional dress and how to greet each other. It was also a small introduction into our next Inquiry Unit which is about journeys. 这一周我们的学习经历精彩无比!这周四,我们迎来了学校第二个国际日。这一次我们代表的是乐尼同学爸爸的祖国——尼泊尔。因此这周我们花了些时间来了解尼泊尔的地理位置,使用的语言的数量,尼泊尔的传统服饰以及怎么用尼泊尔语来问好。这也为我们下一个探究单元——旅行拉开了帷幕。 In our classroom the parents had the opportunity to join in the song with the students ‘The More We Are Together’. This was followed by a fashion show. They showcased the students tie-dye skills and their Paper Mache bags they made as they inquired into different materials and their properties. Unfortunately there was not enough time in our week to make advertisements for the bags but the students will do this this coming week as we come to the end of this much enjoyed unit. 在教室里,孩子们和家长一起边唱歌曲《当我们同在一起》,一边玩游戏。接下来孩子们给家长来了一场特别的服装秀,展示自己亲手制作的服饰和混凝纸包。可惜我们没有足够的时间,让孩子们给自己的包做一副广告海报。我们将在下周完成,给这个有趣的探究单元画上句号。 Thank you to our parents who put so much effort into making our International Day a success. Thank you for providing food that represented Nepal and most of all by promoting togetherness within our school and helping us spread awareness of internationalism among our students. A special shout out to Rani’s mum for dressing three adults and ten girls in Sari’s.
再一次感谢我们的家长为学校国际日付出的努力,才能让这次活动如此成功!你们开放和支持的态度,也给孩子们设立了一个很好的榜样,向他们传达了什么才是真正的国际视野。最后也要特别感谢乐尼妈妈,谢谢她早上赶来学校帮助老师们和同学们穿上漂亮的沙丽! Last Friday the student were lucky enough to experience simple coding with Teacher Steve and Teacher Theresa. As you most likely are aware, code powers our digital world including digital home appliances such as microwaves. Our smartphone applications, computers and every website we visit relies on codes to operate. Teacher Steve is an expert in ICT and he visited China from Canada. The students thoroughly enjoyed this learning experience of introduction to coding and will continue to develop their coding skills in the future. The App the students used is called Kodable. Do ask your child about this experience. 上周五,我们很有幸邀请了Steve老师和Theresa老师来到我们班带大家做一次简单的计算机编程。大家肯定都意识到了,数字技术已经浸入到了我们生活的方方面面,让我们的家居生活变得非常智能,比如手机应用程序,电脑和网站都依赖程序编码来进行操作。Steve老师来自加拿大,他是一个信息技术的高手。学生们非常享受这次特别的体验,我们也会继续提供类似的课程。我们用到的应用程序是Kodable,您也可以问问孩子们对这次课程的感受。 On Monday morning the lovely K2A reading buddies joined us for fifteen minutes of promoting reading in our class. Grade 1 read to K2A and K2A read to Grade 1. The students are enjoying this time together with another grade. 礼拜一,可爱的K2A的孩子们又来到了我们班,和一年级的大哥哥大姐姐们一起阅读了十五分钟。大孩子小孩子们都纷纷表示非常喜欢这样的互读互助模式。 The students have been doing some amazing writing, using their phonic knowledge as you saw too from their home work this week. They used the Friendly Letter format and I really enjoyed reading their friendly letters to me telling me what they did over the weekend. 相信各位家长也同我们一样,为孩子们在英语写作上的进步感到非常欣喜!这周的英语家庭作业要求他们给Teacher Sylvia写一封信,说说自己在周末都做了些什么。阅读这些可爱的信件对老师来说是一种享受! Our Inquiry Unit has taken an even more exciting turn as students have become Designers and used the material ‘paper’ as their base for making bags. They have sketched and have started to make Paper Mache as the base for their bags. Over the next week, their bags hopefully will be complete and will be on display in our school. Have a look at at their advertisements for their product as well. 在探究单元活动中,我们都变成了小小设计师,用物质“纸”作为主要的原材料来设计制作包。这一周,我们先是在草稿本上设计的包的草图,接着再用报纸来制作“混凝纸”(不懂这是什么意思吗?请你当个探究者,结合“混凝土”来想想它是什么意思吧)。下周,我们会用这些混凝纸来制作最后的成品,并将它们展示在校园内。到时欢迎各位家长前来参观。 Maths have been a consolidating time. The students have been writing the time of different events over the week. For example, the time we go out to play or the time they get breakfast at home. We have also been practicing mental math and students are becoming faster in responding to times tables questions. Mental Maths includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, doubling and halving.
这周我们也在继续巩固数学的技能和知识。比如,写下进行各种活动的时间,包括什么时候出去活动,在家里什么时候吃早餐等。心算也一直是我们每天都会进行的一项常规,内容包括了加法、减法、乘法、除法、两倍和二等分等,大家心算速度都在变得越来越快。 Last Thursday Grade 1 attended K2A’s music lesson and each student randomly sat with a child. Having made a buddy at music we used this connection to make reading buddies. On Monday morning K2A and read with Grade 1 and vice versa. It was productive and both grades felt very important for different reasons. Grade 1 said they felt so big and they loved having reading buddies. 上周四,我们跟着K2A的弟弟妹妹们一起上了一节音乐课,在那里每个一年级的孩子都找到了一个小伙伴,组成了阅读搭档。这个星期一早上,K2A来到了我们教室里,跟着哥哥姐姐们一起读书,互相支持和帮助。这次特别的经历让大家觉得似乎瞬间长大了一样,这种感觉太棒了! In this week’s Chinese, we learned a poem “小小的船”. We discussed and practiced how to read it with expression, and integrated it with music as well, as it is also a beautiful children’s song. We asked Teacher Lulu to play the piano and teach the students how to sing it. In addition, Teacher Jessica did a wonderful Chinese lesson with G1. When we come back from Qingming Holiday, we will start learning to use dictionary to help with character recognition. Please prepare a Chinese character dictionary (《新华字典》, the 11th edition) for your child and let him/her bring it to school on April 6th. 在这周的中文课上,我们学习了儿童诗《小小的船》。经过理解和讨论后,大家争相上台来表演如何有感情地朗诵这首优美的诗歌。我们还把这首诗和音乐联系在了一起,因为这首诗也是一首非常好听的儿歌。在Lulu老师的钢伴奏下,大家一起学唱了这首歌。本周的后期,亲爱的Jessica老师给大家上了很有意思中文课。请注意清明假期回来后,我们将开始学习如何用音序来查字典。请给你的孩子准备一本《新华字典》(第11版),并提醒TA下周四带回学校。 On Tuesday we began our journey with real life money experiences. This carried on throughout the week. Every morning on entry to class the students were given 200rmb (pretend money) and they had to use it wisely throughout the day. The price list of items to buy included their table space and chair. The idea was that students were meant to buy things that fitted with their needs and wants and to use their money wisely. It was a great experience as students put their concept of money to good use. We had a few students who bought things without thinking of their needs for the day and so ended up with a chair but no table. This meant for the rest of the day they didn’t have a table to use but they did have glitter pens and beads. They tried to return things to the Banker but the rule was once things were bought they were non-returnable. Some students found they did not have enough money for a particular item and tried to negotiate the price but there were only set prices until Friday. When paying for things students also had to ensure they received the correct change back. It was a wonderful and successful Maths lesson as well as acquiring some life skills. 周二,我们开始了一场非常奇特的“金钱”体验并持续了一周。每天早上踏入教室的那一刻,孩子们会得到200块“钱”。他们需要“购买”一天所需的学习用品,包括桌子、椅子、文具等。这个活动设计的目的是让学生根据自己的需要和想要,来思考和分配手中的“钱”。这是一次非常真实的体验,让他们深刻、生动地认识到金钱的概念。有一些孩子没有仔细考虑自己的需要,就花光了所有的钱,所以只能购买一张椅子。他们一天都没有桌子可用,却买了许多闪粉笔和串珠。他们又尝试想把这些东西退回去,但刚开始设置的规则就是“货物一旦售出,概不退换”。还有些孩子尝试讲价,因为他们手中的钱不够了,但直到礼拜五,我们价格表上的价格都是维持不变的。在花钱的同时,大家也要用到数学的知识,因为要检查老师找回的钱金额是否正确。所以,这也是一次非常成功的数学课。 We have also been inquiring into the material paper and how we can use or reuse it. We discussed the properties of paper and the possibility of its uses. During the week we also discussed advertising and why we advertised. The students decided to make bags from old newspaper. They sketched their design and then made the bag. When we come back from holiday they will be designing a poster to advertise their product. Our bags can be seen on the display board on the third floor. 这周的探究单元里,我们一起研究了“纸”这种物质以及如何使用和反复使用纸。大家分享了纸的属性和各种使用的可能,还讨论了怎样用广告来推销自己制作的产品。学生们决定用过期的报纸来设计和制作手提包。放假回来后我们会着手给自己的产品来设计广告海报。大家制作的手提包将会展示在三楼的展板上。 Happy holidays.
祝你们假期愉快! How you can help at home 亲子活动建议 With your child make a short list of food items you need to buy. Give your child some money and let them help you to shop. 和你的孩子一起制作一张购物清单,给TA一些钱,让TA来帮助你购物。 Dear Parents, 亲爱的家长们,你们好! The students have been experimenting again this week. They wanted to know if some materials can be brought back to their original state. With Teacher Jessica leading the inquiry, the students were given salt (solid) and water (liquid). They decided how much salt each group would use and how much water. They stirred and stirred and stirred… 这周我们又进行了一次实验。目的是观察某些物质是否可以在改变状态后再回到原来的状态。这一次主题探究主要由Jessica老师引导。她先把盐(固体)和水(液体)分发给学生。接着,大家通过小组讨论,来决定每个小组分别需要多少盐和水。最后,各小组根据自己决定的用量将两种物质混合,不停地搅拌搅拌搅拌…… Here are their predictions: 在做实验之前,我们进行了一些预测: The water would turn white. 水会变白。 The water would freeze. 水会结冰。 The water evaporate and the salt would be left as a solid. 水会干,接着盐还会变成固体。 If the water were to evaporate then it would take many days. 水要变干应该需要许多天。 The students are now recording the days and waiting to see what will happen. 大家每天都会去观察混合物,期待最终的实验结果。 This week the students were keen to do a performance of the Three Little Pigs. It was a pleasure for us to show parents the things the students did prior to the performance, such as video recordings of whole class Shared Reading in English, discussions about their understandings of the story and who would play the characters in Chinese and finally a mixture of the languages in their two minute drama production. Well done Grade 1. 这周我们还尝试把经典故事《三只小猪》编成戏剧表演了出来,并且在周四家长工作坊的时候跟家长们分享了一些有趣的活动片段,包括大家一起分享阅读《三只小猪》的绘本,小组分享和讨论角色分配,以及如何在两分钟的戏剧表演里同时使用用中、英两种语言来表现故事主要内容。孩子们都非常棒! In Chinese we learned two poems. One is “Jiang Nan” (《江南》)and the other is “Qing Wa Xie Shi” (《青蛙写诗》. At the end of the learning journey, we compared the similarities and differences of these two poems. We found out although one is an ancient poem, and the other one is a modern poem, there are a lot of similarities. Please see the Venn Diagram that we made together on Friday. 在中文时间里,我们学习了两首诗,分别是《江南》和《青蛙写诗》。通过对比和比较,我们发现了尽管这两首诗写自于不同的年代——一首是汉朝的乐府诗,而一首是现代儿童诗,它们也有许多的相似之处。请看我们在周五一起做的Venn Diagram表格吧。 In Maths the students are learning the measurement of time. Their experience have been practical using their own watches (thanks parents) as well as making their own clocks from classroom materials to show their understanding of how to read the clock. So far we have looked at the difference in the hands of the clock and what it means, counted the minutes equal to one hour and understand where the half hour and the hour is located with the use of the big hand. 在数学时间里,我们一起认知了时间,亲自使用自己的手表让这个经验变得更加深刻和个人化(在此谢谢各位家长的支持!)。到目前为止,我们介绍了表盘上不同指针代表的意思,数一个小时一共有多少分钟,以及半点是如何在表盘上体现的。 Thank you to the parents who attended the workshop. You were great students. 非常谢谢大家前来出席周四的家长工作会。你们都是很棒的“学生”! How you can help at home:
亲子活动建议: Create a ‘to do’ schedule with your child for school nights. 和孩子一起建立一个 “待办事项清单”,合理安排和利用放学后的时间。 Ensure supper is a time when families talk about their day. 把吃晚饭的时间变成一次简单、轻松而且愉快的家庭聚会,让每个人都分享自己在这一天当中的见闻。 Have a go at reading or reciting the Chinese poems learnt at school. You can make it as a family competition and let your child to be the judge. Let him/her decide who reads the best! 跟孩子一起朗诵或者背诵学过的两首中文诗,甚至可以尝试把朗诵变成一个家庭趣味比赛。让孩子来当小裁判,来决定谁读得最棒,并说出原因来。 This week we did two experiments which the students really enjoyed. The first one was ‘The Volcano’ where the students made predictions. However, although they enjoyed making their own experiment, in their excitement they did not keep track of how much of each substance they put into making it. They will do this once more next week. To get the answers to the experiment the students will be divided into groups and they will have a particular question to investigate and share their findings with the other groups. 这周我们做了两个实验,学生们都非常投入和兴奋。第一个实验是火山喷发实验。尽管在实验前大家进行了一些预测,但是遗憾的是他们太过于兴奋导致忘记记录实验中使用的各种材料的份量。下周我们将再做一次。为了得到答案,我们会把学生分成若干小组,每个小组将关注一个问题进行调查研究,最后各小组将分享自己的发现。 The second was experiment was hypothesising about patterns as we investigated the art of tie-dye and how the colours would behave. To give us an idea of the process, we first watched a video of the procedure.The students brought in their own tee shirts and had a load of fun experimenting with folding and tying and predicting how the pattern would come out. 第二个进行的实验是通过扎染来调查研究图案的形成以及颜色之间的互相作用。我们一起观看了一个短片来了解扎染的过程。接着大家用从家里带来的白色衣物进行自我创作,我们. Language This week we spent two days on reviewing Pinyin and we gave some home practice and self-assessment to students. Next Monday, we will go through these exercises together and take it as another Pinyin reviewing opportunity. Meanwhile, we practiced writing new characters and learned a new character formation: associative compound character. For example, 明 is composed of two characters 日 and 月, and the meaning of 明 is associated with the other two characters. There are a lot of associated compound characters (会意字) in our daily life. At home play a character game with your child, using associative compound characters. You may even add maths into it. For example, 明=日+月 or 鲜=鱼+羊. 这周我们花了两天的时间来进行拼音总复习,有一些练习和自我测试发给了学生。下周一我们会在学校把这些练习一起做一次,把练习讲解变成拼音复习的一个机会。同时,这周我们还介绍了一种新的汉字构字方法——会意字,如“明”是一个会意字,它是由汉字“日”和“月”组成的,这两个字同时也表达了“明”的基本意思,即明亮,光明。在我们的日常生活中,还有许多这种会意字。因此在家您可以跟孩子一起,通过有趣的汉字游戏来认识会意字,您也可以把汉字和加法组合在一起做游戏。比如明=日+月,鲜=鱼+羊等。 We are currently also focusing on getting the students to write for various purposes. This week the students did journal writing, wrote up an experiment and attempted to write about the story of The Three Little Pigs. Students were given a number up to three and various children wrote their understanding of the beginning, middle and end. This can be seen in our class so do please drop by and view your child’s work. The students have also been having a go at using different voices to give the listener a better understanding of meanings behind the words as they retell the story and act out The Three Little Pigs. 这个星期的写作任务比原来更加丰富了。学生们除了要继续练习写周记以外,还需要描述实验和书写关于故事《三只小猪》的内容。在后一个写作活动中,我们要求学生根据自己的理解,写出故事的开头、中间和结尾。我们将把这些习作放在教室内做展示,欢迎家长有时间来欣赏。与此同时,学生们也尝试通过复述和表演来从不同的角色角度来展示自己对故事的理解。 We are inquiring into the analogue clock. We would like your child to wear a watch to school from Monday so that other than learning how to read the clock, they will also develop the concept of time. We also practiced multiplication and built on division facts through different board games. Mental math continue to be part of our daily routine. 我们将会开始学习认识时钟。在此,我们想请各位家长给孩子们准备一块传统手表(不是电子手表),下周一带来学校。借着认识时钟的机会,他们也将开始建立基本的时间观念。这周我们还进行了乘法练习,并开始着手学习除法概念以及进行相关的桌游。同时,心算也一直是我们日常学习的一部分。 The highlight of the week seemed to be the Spring Field Trip. Reflecting on the trip, although the students loved the activities they also loved having their parents there to cheer them on and to participate in the fun. Thank you so much to our wonderful parents for the picnic and for being so supportive. 当然,本周最值得一提的事情就是春游了。返校后的讨论和分享中,孩子们纷纷说非常喜欢当天的活动,尤其是能跟爸爸妈妈一起参与格外令人开心和难忘。非常谢谢可爱的家长们!谢谢你们准备了丰富的野餐,让这次集体活动十分圆满。 Have a great weekend.
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