Newsletter 28.11.14

Dear Parents,

This week we continued on talking about more countries that the children in F2 are from. We started with Vietnam as Ms Thuy taught them how to make fresh spring rolls. The children laid prawn, prok and noodles on the rice paper and rolled it carefully. On the other hand, Hai Nhi's mum talked about the 'lotus' flower and Emily's mum taught as a Vietnamese song and dance.

Last Tuesday, Caleb's mum showed as an interesting presentation about Malaysia and a Malaysian kite called 'Wau'.

Children in F2 took part in a Japanese 'Sumo' wrestling last Wednesday. They even wore a 'sumo' wrestling costume and tried their might to 'wrestle' with one another. It was good fun!

Eason's mum shared us some interesting resources from Australia that included a book about different animals from the land down under. Children also tasted 'TimTam' an Australian favourite!

It was indeed a busy week for everybody and all of us learnt so much from all the countries that we looked at for the past two weeks. Thank you to everybody who came and shared their time with us. We all enjoyed the activities you did.

May we remind everybody about the EYFS Family Morning that will take place tomorrow from 8.30-10.30 am at TX Campus. We hope to see you tomorrow.

Thank you and have a lovely weekend.

Regards,
Ms Grace and F2 Team

Week ending 21.11.14.

Dear Parents,

It's been a fun week across the school and not least of all in F2!  We have been learning to say 'Where are you from?' and 'Where do you live?' and talking about our nationalities as well as living in HCM City.  Please have a look at our photos below.  F2 will continue with its International Celebrations next week.

Daiwik's mum shared an Indian story with us and some yummy rice!

David's mum shared an Italian game called 'Tombola' as well as some delicious Italian biscuits.

Ms Kirstine's Y6 class came to show us how to make penguins from plasticine as part of their focus on Antarctica
for International Week.

The children enjoyed making Indian Rangoli patterns.

Sophie was very pleased to be the first to win David's mum's Tombola game.

Caleb enjoyed wearing the hat he had made at the International fair.

We visited the Vietnam room.

Buddy class activities.

Visiting the International fair.

Thank you for your support this week.  Please don't forget that our EYFS Family Morning will be taking place on Saturday 29th November.  We hope you can come!

Have a lovely weekend.

Ms Gurvinder and the F2 team.

International Celebrations

Dear Parents,

A few updates for this week...

-There were no splash pool sessions today as we were busy practising for the parade.

-We look forward to seeing you all at the International Parade tomorrow (on the 4th floor in the gym).  Please make sure you arrive at 8 am with your child dressed in their costume.  Parents are asked to drop their child off as usual in the F2 classroom before going to the gym.

-Please make sure your child has 4 tokens for the photo booth tomorrow if you would like them to take part.

Thank you for all your lovely gifts and well wishes for Teacher's Day :)

Kind Regards,

Ms Gurvinder and the F2 team.

EYFS Family Morning

We hope to see you there!

Tokens for International Celebration - Photobooth

Dear Parents,

Thank you for buying your children some tokens for today's International Fair. They all enjoyed taking part in different activities in the foyer. On Friday November 21, we will have a Photo Booth in the foyer and children can have their photos taken with friends. Token for this cost 20,000VND. Please see us to check how many more token are left for your children. You can buy more tokens from Ms Oanh in the office. All money collected from the International Fair and Photo Booth will go to charity.

Regards,
F2 Teachers

Newsletter 14.11.2014

Dear Parents,

This week children in F2 continued on exploring different activities about Space. Although, we have taken down our Space role play area, children were treated to some other activities such as aliens art and craft,  moon sand in the tuff spot and counting body parts of an alien in the Maths area. 

Outside, children have tried climbing the 'Dome' and they have been showing good skill in doing this activity. Some of them were able to climb with ease and some needed support so we will continue doing this activity to develop all the children's climbing skill.

Next week, the whole school will take part in a 3-day International Celebration. F2 on the other hand will extend this activity to 2 weeks to ensure that children will get good understanding of each nationality representing the children in class. Please see the previous blog post about the timetable for the next 2 weeks in class.

On Wednesday 19th November, all children will participate in an International Fair and Buffet. Children will get to take part in different games and arts and crafts activities from different countries. Parents may buy tokens for their children from Ms Oanh in the office. 

On Friday 21st November, all children should come to school wearing their countries traditional costumes. We will take part in the Flag Parade in the hall with the rest of the school. Please make sure that you come to school in time. The parade will start at 8am and parenrs are encouraged to come and watch.

Should you have any questions please feel free to come and speak to us.

Have a lovely weekend.

Regards,

Ms Grace and F2 Team

International Celebration (timetable)

 If you would like to come and share some information about your child's home country, please feel free to speak to us.

Thank you and looking forward to see you in the classroom.

Newsletter WE 7th November

Dear Parents,

There has been a lot going on in F2 this week!  Please see below:

-This was our last week focusing on the story 'Whatever Next!' By Jill Murphy.  Our group activities included acting out the story, drawing our favourite pictures from the story and and putting the main events in order.  We finished our week with a picnic on the 'Moon'.  We ate and drank the same things as Baby Bear and Owl: honey sandwiches, apples, biscuits and orange juice.  We listened to Space music as we enjoyed our picnic.  We finished the morning by watching the 'Whatever Next' animation.  If you do a Google search for the story, you can watch it at home. Next week, we will be reading 'Meg on the Moon' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski.

-The children continued exploring our Space role play by dressing up as a rocket and also as astronauts.  We will continue with this role play area next week.  The children have been busy making paper mache planets with Ms Claudine to make our Space role play area even more fantastic!

-There are 2 Space apps we have been using on the iPads this week: 'Space Journey' and 'Space Journey'.  Both are free if you would like to try them at home.

-The children have been extending their physical skills by playing on an obstacle course in the foyer.  They practised crawling, jumping, hopping and rolling.

-We have been reading a story called 'Mr Tongue' with the class. This is a simple story that focuses on the children's articulation skills and helps the children to make sounds accurately.

-Eason and Seven will be taking home the 'All About Me' bags this weekend.  Please remember that we love to see what the children have been up to on the weekends.  Please do upload their photos onto blogs over the weekend.

Notices

-Interim reports will go home on Friday 14th November.
-TX will be holding our annual 'International Celebration' week beginning 17th November.  More information to follow.

Please see below for photos.  Thanks for your continuing support.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind Regards,

Gurvinder and the F2 team.

EYFS Parent-Teacher Group

F1 to F3 parents are encouraged to join in the EYFS Parent-Teacher Group. This is a good opportunity to share your ideas and work alongside teachers to organise activities for our EYFS children. Kindly see or email Ms Grace at gracemaling@bisvietnam.com if you are keen to join.
Thank you very much.

Regards,
Ms Grace