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Important Notices Welcome to our new Reception 2 student, Habibi Yan Haikal who
will join in Ms. Karina's class
School is closed on Friday 16 March due to INSET Day (Teachers are on course)
Our new IPC unit/theme is 'Health'. Our Entry Point is this Monday 5 March.
Soccer CCA training ground is back at Turf City, Premier Pitch.
Farewell to Ms. Jessica Rosenblatt
BIWEEKLY
NEWSLETTER February 20th — March 2nd, 2012
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“….we are very
pleased to announce
that we will offer
Primary Two or Year
Two next academic
year (2012-2013)
beginning in
August!”
First, we would like to thank all parents for attending the Parent Teacher Con-ferences last Friday. We appreciate your commitment to your child’s educa-tion and your understanding of the importance of setting and re-evaluating learning goals for your child during the school year. Teachers, academy staff and therapists all work together to collate important information to share with you about your child’s progress, both academically and socio-emotionally. It’s also an opportunity for you to communicate with us. As we are a small growing school, your feedback, observations and concerns are tak-en earnestly and we strive to work together to clarify issues and to find solu-tions to challenges. On that note, we are pleased to announce that we will offer Year Two (Primary Two) for the next academic year (2012-2013) beginning in August! The Academy will have four classes: Reception 1, Reception 2, Year One and Year Two. After weighing the benefits and speaking with several parents, we believe this is the best decision for our existing students and Learn Different Academy. Registration for Year 2 will take place shortly. With growth and change comes new staff. We will be hiring a new senior teacher to replace Ms. Getty, Reception 1, as well as a co-teacher for the next academic year to replace Ms. Jaja, Reception 2 while both are on maternity leave. On the therapy side, we are adding a new speech therapist to assist our current speech therapist with new student trials, small group work for Acade-my students as well as to serve LD Integrated Therapy. Additionally, if you haven’t read the recent announcement, we have added to Ms. Christina Chia to our Learning Support team. We will announce other appointments as soon as we have formalized all paperwork. Again, thank you for your continued support of Learn Different!
PTCs & Learn Different Academy Going Forward
topic for the next few
weeks so I am sure we
will all be superstar
clock readers by the
end!
We have also been re-
viewing the phonic
sounds we have cov-
ered so far this term
and really like to play
the jumping bean
game as a warm-up
We have had two short
weeks in a row but we
have been very busy
here in Reception 2!
We have started to
learn about time and
we are really enjoying
playing online clock
games and working
through our time
workbook. We will be
continuing with this
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Our Year One stu-dents have been busy as bees over the past two weeks. We have concluded our unit – Inven-tions & Machines – by showcasing our very own creations to everybody during the Invention Show. Everybody was im-pressed with their inventions. Literacy & Maths are getting more and more challenging as the year progresses. In Literacy, our dis-cussion of the book Possum Magic has
activity.
Adjectives have been
a hot topic in our
class over the last few
weeks. We are writing
very descriptive sen-
tences lately which
are making our
writing a lot more ex-
citing to read!
We are sadly saying
goodbye to Ms. Jessi-
We also talked about how adjectives make our stories more col-ourful, identifying the main ideas and noting details in a story.
In Maths, the stu-dents applied their knowledge of addition and subtraction by
RECEPTION TWO , MS. ASHLEY ’S CLASS
led us to topics be-yond the ‘who, what, when and where’. The Possum Magic book served as a window to answering questions that involve higher or-der thinking skills like—If you don’t know how something happened, do you think it’s magic?, Would you believe something that you don’t see? Why? It is interesting how a sim-ple book can unlock different doors in the brain and lead to vari-ous deeper and great-er worldly concepts.
YEAR ONE , MS. KATRINA’S CLASS
ca this week as she is
leaving for America.
However, we would
like to warmly wel-
come our new co-
teacher, Ms. Diana
Thomas. I'm sure she
will be a brilliant ad-
dition to our class!
Lastly, thank you to
all the parents for
attending the PTCs.
forming number bonds and by answer-ing word problems. With the aid of blocks, cubes and models the students were able to navigate their way through each prob-lem.
Next week, we start
our new unit – Fit &
Right! We can’t wait
to get started!
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RECEPTION TWO , MS. KARINA’S CLASS
RECEPTION ONE , MS. GETTY ’S CLASS
friends and teach-ers about their fa-vourite toys and how they played with them.
Thanks again to all the parents who attended the Parent Teacher Confer-ences. It was lovely to see you all. Last-ly, welcome to our class Habibi !
joyed the activity.
In literacy, the young-
er group reviewed
their initial sounds
(m,a,s,d,t) and they
also started blending,
while the older group
continued with their
digraphs and conso-
nant blends as well (fl,
fr, bl, br). In Maths we
are moving on to
weights/mass and we
learned how to use a
categorize things into shapes, colours, size and many more. We practised cutting and pasting to show the different categories where the shapes be-longed.
Time sure flies. To cel-
ebrate the end of our
IPC unit Toys, the Re-
ception 1 made our
own toys. We decided
to make a robot voice
talk box out of straws,
balloons and sticky
tape. Then the class
presented our toys to
the other classes and
showed them how to
make one for them-
selves. Everyone en-
In Literacy, we prac-tised The Black Hat Bob and made it into a play. We presented it in front of all our friends during the Fri-day assembly. We also learned about NOUNS. We divided ourselves into noun groups such as things, person and places so that the children found it easier to rec-ognize NOUNS. In Maths, we rounded up our shapes theme with classifying and sorting. We learned to
weight balance scale.
Next we learn about
capacity and make
comparisons using
containers around
the classroom. This
week we even played
a relay game where
we needed to pour
water from one con-
tainer to another
without any spillage.
Just for fun!
To end our IPC unit TOYS, our friends from Reception 1 came to do a presen-tation. They talked about the toys they made all by them-selves and also taught us how to sound like a robot using a balloon and a straw!! In return, our class showed them the toys that we made ourselves using less than 10 items that can be easily found around us. We also interviewed our
Whew! We sure did
our best in all those
activities and we are
really are proud of all
our work.
Every child deserves the right to be taught in the way he or she learns best!