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EY ES HOLIDAY CELEBRATION and SEMESTER 1 EXHIBITION INVITATION

Written by Ms. Kelly

Celebrating the Holiday through music!

Sinarmas World Academy will hold a celebration of learning on Thursday, December 15th, 2022. The students will showcase their learning experiences for this semester through dance performances and an exhibition.

Early Years

Theme : Holiday Carnival of Music

Date : Thursday, December 15th 2022

Time : 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Venue : 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Trini Dewi Theatre)

10:30 am - 11:00 am (Respective Classrooms in the Wayang Building)

Elementary School

Theme : Embracing New Beginning, New Horizons

Date : Thursday, December 15th 2022

Time : 7:45 am - 9:30 am

Venue : 7:45 am - 8:45 am (Trini Dewi Theatre)

9:00 am - 9:30 am (Koi Building)

TODDLER UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD

Written by Ms. Mary-Ann

The Toddler students explored the world of Music and Movement this term. What a rewarding way to expose them to read-aloud stories, rhymes, and physical activities!

These curious boys and girls listened to different stories like, “The Wheels on the Bus,” “Hickory Dickory Dock,” “Hide and Seek,” “The Three Little Pigs,” and “Humpty Dumpty”. They gained a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them through these stories. Boosting their cognitive development and social interactions developed empathy and a love for books. During the storytelling, the students excitedly engaged in pretending to be one of the characters in the story. They were also especially involved during the hands-on activities.

To create a holistic learning opportunity for them, physical activities like ball games and balancing were done by the students. They practised how to balance by walking on the balance beam. They also learnt how to throw, catch, roll, and kick the ball. As they were working on improving these skills, they exercised turn-taking and patience.

You have shown extraordinary participation this term, Toddlers!

NURSERY MUSIC

Written by Ms. Nathania

The family of percussion is the biggest family in the orchestra. Percussion instruments are all instruments played by shaking, striking, scraping, or rubbing. That puts the piano in the percussion category too. Did you know that?

Nursery students explored more and more about percussion instruments. They tried to play the electric piano together with their classmates and compared high and low pitches.

PRE-KINDERGARTEN FIELD TRIP

Written by Ms. Ruby

The PreK class had a FIREtastic field trip to the Melati Mas Fire Station last Thursday, 1st of December 2022. It was the first out-of-school learning activity for the class. In line with this term’s theme, “People Who Help Us”, the children did a meet and greet with firefighters. They were shown the tools that firefighters use, such as helmets, axes, jackets, boots, and water hoses. The children were astonished, not just to see the fire trucks, but to ride in them too! They went around the fire truck as the firefighter demonstrated everything to them, where the hoses were and how they got hooked up. The firefighter showed what’s inside the compartments and what they use each item for.

The most exciting part was the children’s first hands-on experience of holding the hose as the water swooshed out of it. The bright sparkles in the eyes of the children are what this learning journey was all about. This was definitely an experience they will never forget. They acquired knowledge, they were engaged, and most of all, and they had a blast!

KINDERGARTEN 1 FIELD TRIP

Written by Ms. Klara

On December 2nd, the Kindergarten 1 students went on their very first field trip to Kandank Jurank Creative Park. The fun began when they saw and rode the bus. As part of the Indonesian Language theme, “Transportasi”, the children named as many land transportations that they saw along the way such as mobil, motor, truk, bus, and many more.

At the park, the students were welcomed by the beauty of nature. They first had a tour at the different art studios and galleries, and then continued on to see other facilities. The main highlight of the trip was for the students to unite with nature as they expressed theåir creativity through painting. The students were provided with an art box. Inside, there were 4 different forms of gypsums, a paint palette, a paintbrush, and even a set of paint. It was a wonderful sight to see the K1 students enjoy the greenery and cool air as they were engrossed in painting their gypsums.

KINDERGARTEN 2 ARTS

Written by Mr. Ezard

K2 students were busy setting up their holiday decorations. They coloured the gingerbread men and the Christmas ornament balls worksheet. When they created the gingerbread man for class decoration, they learnt to cut following the curvy lines of the gingerbread shapes. It was quite a challenging process, but they did it so well. Later they decorated their gingerbread man with origami papers based on their preferred colours. “Tis the season to be jolly"!

GRADE 1 MUSIC

Written by Ms. Nathania

“Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play. - Carl Orff

Grade 1 students learnt to play the xylophones, which is one of the Orff Schulwerk instruments. Orff Schulwerk believes that children learn through experiencing daily activities; through playing and finding out what they like to do. Playing the xylophone is a way that children can experience music and rhythm at the same time. They play with their classmates and that develops their musical sense as well as team work. Memorising the notes together and playing the notes with the xylophones give them the feeling of creating something nice together.

GRADE 2 MATHEMATICS
Written by Mr. Christian

Many confuse maths fluency and number sense with memorisation. Fluency and number sense come from understanding the concepts and having a strong skill set. Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics at Stanford says, rote memorisation does more harm than good. (source: www.mathnasium.com)

The best method for practising maths facts is whatever your child will do and enjoy. It is important to practise consistently, but it is not important that they always practise the same way. They need a variety of activities and tasks measuring the same skill set. Grade 2 students just did that. They did “Emoji x10 Table Mosaic” colouring sheets which applied their knowledge of the multiplication table of 10 while waiting to reveal the hidden emoji. Also, several online quizzes from Kahoot and Koobits were helpful and provided them with different practice. They did team events too.

To further enhance camaraderie and teamwork in the class, the Grade 2 students did several tasks in groups. Such as measuring items in school less than and/or greater than 1 metre and making their own anchor charts. To accomplish the charts, they needed to identify keywords used in word problems, write them down, and put them in their chart. This would help them later on to recall the words when it was time to answer problem sums.

GRADE 3 CHINESE LANGUAGE

Written by Ms. Guo and Mr. Shen

G3 Foundation Level

一天将要结束了，一定会有值得记录的事情，此时此刻我们需要写一篇日记了。三年级初级班的同学们开始了绿豆发芽观察日记。

大家怀着激动的心情，将一颗颗绿豆放在湿棉花上，期待着绿豆快快长大。

每天来到学校的第一件事就是给自己的绿豆浇水，仔细观察绿豆发生了哪些变化。第一天，绿豆外壳裂开、发芽；第二天，绿豆长出了细细的根；第三天，绿豆的根越来越粗.......终于，绿豆一天天长大，同学们的绿豆变成了幼苗。

从这次活动中，不仅让同学们看到了绿豆的成长过程，也让他们用中文讲述绿豆的成长过程，还培养了同学们的耐心，细心和责任心。

At the end of the day, we need something to reflect upon, so we wrote a journal. The G3 Foundation students started a mung bean germination observation diary. Everyone was so excited, they put the mung beans one by one on the wet cotton and were looking forward to the mung beans growing quickly. The first thing students did when they came to school every day was to water the mung beans. Then, they observed carefully what changes had taken place in the mung beans. On the first day, the mung bean shells cracked and sprouted. The next day, they grew thin roots. On the third day, the roots of the mung beans became thicker and thicker. Finally, the mung beans grew day by day, and soon they became seedlings.

From this activity, students not only saw the growth process of mung beans, but they also got to explain the growth process of mung beans in Chinese. It also cultivated students' patience, carefulness, and sense of responsibility.

G3 High Level

“彩虹转盘”是中国传统游戏之一，它既简单又好玩，还可以自己动手制作。当你看到亲手做出的彩虹转盘在手中转动不止之时，一定会更觉妙趣横生的。

制作彩虹转盘，还写出制作的过程，这不仅使学生了解了中国传统文化，同时还培养了动手和写作等综合能力。

"Rainbow Turntable" is one of the traditional Chinese games, it's simple and fun, you can also make it by yourself. When you see the rainbow turntable made by yourself spinning endlessly in your hands, you will feel more attracted to play with it.

For the G3 High Level students, they made a rainbow turntable and recorded the process of making it. This not only enabled students to understand Chinese traditional culture, but also, allowed them to cultivate hands-on abilities and Chinese writing skills.

将自己平时生活的点点滴滴记录下来，写成一篇篇的小作文，再把它输入电脑，制作成图文并茂的“作文集”，然后把这精美的一幅幅画面再配上自己朗读的声音，这就成了一个有声有色的“大作”了！

电子版“作文集”的制作过程，既能培养作文的乐趣，发展听说读写的综合能力，还能提高学生用中文操作电脑的水平，真可谓一举多得呀！

Record every bit of your daily life with a short essay, then input it into the computer, make a "Composition Collection" with rich pictures and texts, then match these exquisite pictures with the voice of your own reading. This has become a vivid "masterpiece"!

The production process of the electronic version of the "Composition Collection" not only cultivated the fun of writing to develop the comprehensive ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, it can also exercise the students' abilities to operate computers in Chinese. It can be said that it serves multiple purposes! Below is the link of Beatrice’s essay collection in video format:

雷慧悦有声作文集：

GRADE 4 PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Written by Mr. Dominic

Swimming is a big part of the SWA PE program as we would like the kids to be comfortable in the water and to learn how to swim properly. Getting back into the pool was very exciting for the kids. The last time they had swimming classes in PE was 2 years ago when they were still in grade 2. They struggled at first in swimming the freestyle strokes, but after a week of review and practising in the pool, they were able to freestyle properly and efficiently. Their next goal was to swim from the deep end all the way to the shallow part of the pool. They were scared at first, but after a couple of attempts they were able to swim without stopping the whole 25 metres. It was nice to be back in the water and the students certainly enjoyed themselves.

9th PERIOD KIDSPRENEURSHIP

Written by Mr. Jay

Ready to be your own boss?

CEO, CFO, CTO, ya, no problem. B2B, patents, trademarks and profit margin, sure we got that covered. Are you innovative, creative and self-driven to succeed? Do you have what it takes to be your own boss? Of course you do! Welcome to Kidspreneurship!

This term, students learnt what being an entrepreneur is all about. They also discovered other young entrepreneurs who were doing amazing things. From making a business plan with start-up costs, to creating their own advertisements and business cards, these students are now equipped with the knowledge to forge their own business paths in the future. Whether starting a cookie business, designing T-shirts, or finding an investor to help you invent a time machine, we explored all the nuances of being a successful entrepreneur.

After all, it is never too early to start to learn about entrepreneurship - to be innovative and problem solving thinkers - and understanding the mechanics of how business works.