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EARLY YEARS

EY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL CELEBRATION

Written by Mr. Liu

"举头望明月，低头思故乡。"

告别了以往的"云庆典"，今年，金光国际学校幼儿园的师生们欢聚一堂共同庆祝中国的传统佳节——中秋节。

庆典在生动有趣的故事讲解中拉开帷幕，学生们身临其境地了解了中秋节的起源与传说，接下来 Nursery 的小朋友们为我们奉上了他们亲手打的月饼，真的是让人垂涎欲滴啊！Pre-K 的学生们用一盏盏灯笼照亮了人们那颗温暖的心，K2年幼的稚子们唱诵着古时思乡的诗篇，K1孩子们可爱的舞步舞出了但愿人长久的期盼。

中秋庆典在一片欢快祥和的气氛中落下帷幕，庆典的最后，师生们齐诵："中秋节快乐"，给大家带去了"但愿人长久，千里共婵娟"的美好祝愿！

Looking up, I find the moon bright; Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned.

Farewell to the previous "Virtual Celebration", this year, the teachers and students of the SWA Kindergarten gathered to celebrate the traditional Chinese festival - Mid-Autumn Festival.

The celebration kicked off with lively and interesting storytelling, and the students learned about the origin and legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Next, the children of the nursery offered us their handmade “moon cakes”, which made everyone mouthwatering. And then the students of Pre-K illuminated people's warm hearts with lanterns. To follow up, the young children of K2 recited and sang the poems of homesickness in ancient times, the last but not least, K1 students‘ lovely dance steps have fulfilled the long-awaited expectations of people.

The Mid-Autumn Festival celebration came to an end in a cheerful and peaceful atmosphere. At the end of the celebration, teachers and students recited: "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival", bringing everyone the best wishes of "May people live long and share the beauty the moon displays though miles apart!"

Click the links below to view the videos:

K1

Nursery and Pre-K

K2

INFANT - MATHEMATICS

Written by Ms. Ruby

A colourful classroom, a happy baby!

In our Infant class, babies are exposed to different colours such as balls, toy shapes, and classroom decorations. Babies love colours. Contrasting colours send the strongest signals to a baby's brain to help stimulate brain growth and aid in visual development, explains Dr. Sears Wellness Institute. Looking at their curious eyes and expressions, indeed these babies always have fun exploring different colours and shapes. Hooray to our babies!

NURSERY - CHINESE LANGUAGE

Written by Ms. Bi Qin

Nursery 幼儿这学期主要学习了家庭成员和五官名称，在学习中让幼儿体会到被爱、和爱家人的快乐，通过唱歌、幼儿律动等活动激发幼儿的学习积极性, 同时通过做手工、感官训练等活动，培养幼儿的眼手协调能力。让宝贝们快乐地跳舞，开心地学习，幸福地成长吧！

Nursery children learn about the names of family members and facial features. In the learning process, children can experience the joy of being loved and loving their families. Through singing, rhymes, and other activities, children's learning enthusiasm is stimulated. At the same time, handicraft and other sensory play develop children's eye-hand coordination ability. Let the children dance happily, study happily, and grow up happily!

KINDERGARTEN 1 - PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Written by Ms. Sherly

In PE, our K1 children continued to develop their gross motor skills and coordination. In Term 1, they started with locomotor movements, such as walking, running, and jumping, and also crawling exercises, such as bear crawl and sideways crawl. Crawling exercises are beneficial for children to improve their hand-eye coordination and body awareness, strengthen their core, back, and shoulders, and also enhance their muscular strength. It is great to exercise and also have fun!

KINDERGARTEN 2 - LITERACY

Written by Ms. Diane

This term, the Kindergarten 2 students have been honing their skills in Phonics and writing. They were engaged in various class activities that reinforce their knowledge of reading CVC words. The students have also been learning how to write simple sentences with the use of cues. Through the hand-in-hand support of the school and family, the children are gaining confidence in building words out of the given letters and in reading simple sentences in front of their peers. The concepts they have learnt in class will help them to be fully equipped as they go along the year.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ES MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL CELEBRATION

Written by Mr. Liu

今年的中秋节，金光国际学校小学部为大家奉上了一道喜庆祥和的“中秋家宴”。

世界各地的学生们用丰富多彩的形式展现了对这一中华传统节日的理解和感受。他们不仅做剪纸、打月饼，还在课余时间做了一些传统的游戏活动，如下中国棋、踢毽子等。在集会中，孩子们纷纷登台，用优美的歌舞展现着中秋佳节的美好，用稚嫩的戏剧演绎着华夏传统的浪漫，用旋转的舞步舞出但愿人长久的期盼，用悠扬的葫芦丝吹起千里共婵娟的夙愿

愿这道“中秋家宴"给您带来幸福与团圆，中秋节快乐！

SWA ES held a special assembly to serve a festive and auspicious “Mid-Autumn festival family feast” in September.

The students from all over the world showed their love for Mid-Autumn Festival through various forms, including not only making paper-cut and mooncakes but also playing traditional Chinese games such as Chinese chess and shutter cock during the class break. In the assembly, the young children gave us a gorgeous show, the sweet-sounding song shows the beauty of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the impressive drama expressed the traditional Chinese romance, the swirling dance steps danced out the expectation of living long as people can, and the melodious Hulusi blow the long-cherished wish of sharing the beauty the moon displays though miles apart.

We hope this “Mid-Autumn festival family feast” will bring you happiness and reunion! Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

SWA MICRO:BITS CLUB
Written by Mr. Ciaran

The SWA Micro:Bits club have spent recent sessions designing, constructing, and programming their ‘Micro:Bit Inchworms’. The inchworms are constructed using a Micro:bit, as well as a small servo motor, to manipulate cardboard to make it appear as though it is a giant inchworm, crawling across the room. Having spent the first session designing their inchworms, last week the Micro:bitters programmed their worms, and constructed their circuits.

Students in Grades 4 through to 6 are welcome to come along to the Micro:Bits club, which meets every Tuesday at 3:00 pm on 1st floor of the Design and Technology (DT) building. Next week we will be learning to program an Ultrasonic sensor in Makecode. All members of the Micro:bits club should remember to bring their laptops, their Micro:bits and their extension kits (if they have arrived) to every session.

GRADE 1 - CHINESE LANGUAGE

Written by Mr. Liu

汉字是世界上最古老,且经千年演变至今仍在使用的文字。你可能经常听到这样的话：我想学汉语，但是汉字太难了。不少想学汉语的人在可能都有这样的想法,不过显然我们一年级的同学们并不在此列,他们自信地用所学的笔画一笔一划地书写出最公正的汉字,让我们来欣赏一下他们的杰作吧!

Chinese character is the oldest characters that have gone through several thousand years of evolution and remain until now. You may often hear people say they want to learn Chinese, but Chinese characters are too difficult. It is not surprising that a lot of people who want to learn Chinese may think this way. Obviously, our G1 students do not have the same issue as they confidently used what they learned about the Chinese strokes and wrote the neatest Chinese characters. Let us check out their lovely work below!

GRADE 2 - ICT/ROBOTICS

Written by Ms. Kelly

It is evident that we are surrounded by more computer technologies and robotics in our daily lives nowadays. This is the reason why it is important for our students to be exposed to ICT/Robotics at an earlier age as it will help to lay a concrete foundation in their logical thinking skills and be able to expose them to advanced technologies. One of the topics covered in Grade 2 ICT/Robotics is Simple Programming. The students were taught to use Logo Interpreter which is a simple programming language that was used at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to teach mathematical thinking to school children. With the foundation the children obtained in Grade 1 ICT/Robotics, it is fairly easy for the students to transit to this new programming language. The children learned to use codes such as fd (forward), rt (right turn), and lt (left turn) to do some simple drawings at the beginning of the lesson and they eventually designed and created their own drawings using the codes they wrote. Let us check out some of the drawings created by the students.

It is amazing to see how creative our children can be as they integrate simple programming in creating their own designs. Even if others struggled in the beginning, the children surely had fun during the lesson. Great job, Grade 2s!

GRADE 3 - ARTS

Written by Mr. Ezard

As part of their Term 1 collaborative project, the Grade 3 students created a booklet about wild animals. During the art lesson, they designed the cover and the content of the booklet. This is the part of the art lesson on basic design and illustration. They can either print or draw on their own to decorate the booklet. They are also free to use different kinds of colouring tools, coloured pencils, markers, or even watercolours for the booklet. The students really enjoy the lesson and the creation process of the wild animals' booklet. The results were great!

GRADE 4 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Written by Mr. Marc

The English Language students have been hard at work using the English as a first Language version of the Oxford International English Workbook and Textbook. Students have recited poems and taken spelling tests.

Bella said, "Grade 4 is more exciting than last year because everything is in-person this year."

"It's fun because we get to write stories together and we're working on projects that have the subjects 'smashed up' in one project," said Wen Jie.

Reagan says, "We've been active and energetic because we like to play games in the classroom, in the lunch room, and outside."

The students are reading all the time, even when they are standing!

They work so hard that sometimes they just need a break.

Overall it has been a great start!

GRADE 5 - SCIENCE

Written by Ms. Shirley

Fruits ripen, seeds are scattered on the ground, and plants reproduce. How do all these happen? The Grade 5 students took a garden tour as their jumpstart activity to our new lesson about the reproductive system of plants. They observed the different plants in the school garden and took a closer look at some plants around them. They carefully studied the structure of some flowering and non-flowering plants, and learned how these different plants reproduce. The students observed the reproductive parts of the flower and learned how each part is involved in helping a plant to grow and reproduce. They dissected and examined a hibiscus flower. They also investigated the factors needed for the germination and dispersal of seeds.