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End of Term
End of Term
What is happening in week 15:
Topic - Talking about places we know and visited in Qatar.
Literacy - We are reading and listening to the story of Khaled and Noura “What’s in the sand?”.
Maths - We are revising numbers already learned.
Fine Motor Skills - As we are preparing them for drawing and later on formation of numbers/letters more towards F2, we are going to strengthen our finger muscles by:
- “Catching fish” with a net.
- Making marks in shaving foam.
- Holding a marker and following patterns.
Arabic activities:
Sunday - Arabic story reading and decorating the national flag.
Monday - Decorating learned sounds.
Tuesday - Arabic games in the Garden.
- Wearing painted Arabic sound shirt
Wednesday - Celebrating Qatar National Day by wearing traditional clothes to school.
- Tasting traditional food.
- Arabic assembly and receiving a gift.
Reports: Can be collected from Wednesday, 12 December at 12:30.
School will close: Thursday, 13 December 2018 and restart on 6 January 2019.
Thank you for a wonderful term and enjoy a lovely break!
See you soon!
Things we did this week!
Things we did this week!
What we are learning this week: 2 - 6 December
What we are learning this week: 2 - 6 December
Pirates!! Arrrrr!!!
Pirates!! Arrrrr!!!
Topic - Using maps to find treasure and decorating our own pirate hat.
Literacy - Listening and talking about the story of Morphile and the sea treasure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp12s9hLcQk&t=926s
Maths - We are building puzzles to try and match the number with the quantity and playing this interactive game.http://www.abcya.com/counting_fish.htm
Fine Motor Skills - As we are preparing them for drawing and later on formation of numbers/letters more towards F2, we are going to strengthen our finger muscles by:
- Picking out sea animals out of goop.
- Making marks in shaving foam.
- Using tweezers or washing pegs.
Links for fun learning at home!
Links for fun learning at home!
Things we did this week
Things we did this week
This will be a revision week: 25-29 November
This will be a revision week: 25-29 November
Topic - Talking about sea animals and the noises they make.
Literacy - Reading our favourite sea animal books, recognising their characters and how to handle books carefully.
Maths - We are counting objects to 5 and and trying to recognise 1 - 5. New interactive game. http://www.abcya.com/counting_fish.htm
Fine Motor Skills - As we are preparing them for drawing and later on formation of numbers/letters more towards F2, we are going to strengthen our finger muscles by:
- Picking out sea animals out of goop.
- Building things with snap cubes.
- Cutting play dough
Links for fun learning at home!
Links for fun learning at home!
Things we did this week
Things we did this week
- We learned how to handle books carefully in the library.
- In Oryx they had a fun “Ocean Cleanup”.
- We enjoyed a wonderful parent puppet show about “The Rainbow fish”.
- We decorated our doors with colourful Rainbow fish!
- We learned a new sound in Arabic!
What we are learning this week: 18-22 November
What we are learning this week: 18-22 November
Under the sea!!
What is happening in week 12:
Topic - We are making ocean in a bottle and talking about how to take care of the animals in the ocean.
Literacy - As it is Book week we will be reading the story of “The Rainbow fish”. We will be drawing the character in the book, making our own book and listening to the story.
Maths - We are counting objects to 5 and playing “bowling” games to count how many skittles does not fall over.
Fine Motor Skills - As we are preparing them for drawing and later on formation of numbers/letters more towards F2, we are going to strengthen our finger muscles by:
- “Washing” chalk numbers/pictures off the blue walls using paint brushes.
- Building things with snap cubes.
- Doing Play Dough Disco. atch?v=EMz7wls3mjU&list=PLOcPymb-OvByfS-w79Fcs5ivjBJqnpb8Y
Book Week!!
Book Week!!
We will celebrate book week from Sunday, 18 November till Thursday, 22 November. We will be doing all
sorts of activities around our book of the week “The Rainbow Fish”
- Decorating our door
- Book cover competition in class
- Making our own class book
- Decorate a bookmark
- PUPPET SHOW: Parents will come in and do a show for the F1s.
- DRESS UP DAY! Thursday, 22 November they can come dressed up in their favourite book character.
Links for fun learning at home!
Links for fun learning at home!
Things we did this week!
Things we did this week!
- In Arabic we learned a new sound.
- We looked at what number 4 looks like and decorated it.
- F1 used different media and techniques to create fish art.
- We used our fine motor skills to make marks in shaving foam and prepare for writing.
- We mixed different colours to see what it turns into.
- In Maths we counted to 5 and matched numbers to 5.
- We created interesting things out of snap cubes using our fine motor skills.
What we are learning this week: 11-15 November
What we are learning this week: 11-15 November
Topic - Using different recycling materials to make musical instruments and sing “Animals in the ocean” song.
Literacy - The story/song of the week is “Hole in the bottom of the sea”. We will be discussing different animals in the ocean and how we can take care of their environment so they will live happily.
Maths - In small groups they will count out objects to 5 and connect songs and starfish shape activities.
Fine Motor Skills - As we are preparing them for drawing and later on formation of numbers/letters more towards F2, we are going to strengthen our finger muscles by:
- Finger rhymes “Five little shells Fingerplay”.
- Building things with snap cubes.
- Doing Play Dough Disco. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZG0rkhPkeY
Links for fun learning at home!
Links for fun learning at home!
News: "Ocean Cleanup Day" activity
News: "Ocean Cleanup Day" activity
On Sunday, 11 November for PEARL
AND
Tuesday, 13th November for ORYX
we will be holding an “Ocean Clean Up Day” as part of our topic 'Under the Sea'. The children are learning about recycling as part of the topic and will take part in activities to help 'clean up' our 'oceans'. We will be using small paddling pools in our school garden, filling them with water and recyclable materials and the children will sort them into different containers.
Please send the following items to school:
Swimsuit Towel
Hat Suncream
Plastic bag (for wet clothes) Flip flops/pool shoes
Please send the children to school wearing their uniform and we will assist them
to get changed into their swimming clothes at the time of the activities.
Thank you,
F1 Teachers
Things we did this week!
Things we did this week!
- Listened to the story of “Penguin on Holiday” and practised our pencil grip by colouring in Penguin. We also used scissors to cut and used sand to decorate our story.
- We learned counting numbers from 1-5 and even decorated some.
- In Topic we made and decorated some nice sea animals.
- We made some traffic lights for “Road Safety Day”. Remember to buckle up your seat belt!
Road Safety Day!
Road Safety Day!
This Thursday, 8 November will be "Road Safety Day" where we will be doing road safety awareness activities.
They can come to school dressed in the traffic light colours; red, yellow/orange or green (no uniform needed).
What happened in F1 this week?!
What happened in F1 this week?!
- Naming sea animals and tracing them on paper.
- Using shapes to make a picture.
- Recognising and decorating different shapes.
Links for fun learning at home!
Links for fun learning at home!
Under the sea!!
Under the sea!!
What is happening next week: 4 Nov- 8 Nov
What is happening next week: 4 Nov- 8 Nov
Topic - Making our own instrument to sing along to under the sea songs.
Literacy - The story of the week is “Penguin on Holiday”. We will be discussing items we can take to the beach and why we use them.
Maths - In small groups they will count out objects to 5 from the water, e.g take out 3 bottles, take out 2 fish.
Fine Motor Skills - As we are preparing them for drawing and later on formation of numbers/letters more towards F2, we are going to strengthen our finger muscles by:
- Picking out items one at a time.
- Popping air bubbles in bubble wrap.
- Using pegs to hang items.
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