WEEK'S UP - FOR THE WEEKENDING 28 OCTOBER 2016

TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE IT,

MAY YOU HAVE A MEANINGFUL AND JOYFUL FESTIVAL

Here are the links again to our video posted on Facebook last week as well as that to our photographs of our Diwali celebration on 21 October 2016.

THE 19TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY PAGEANT will soon be on us ...

The Annual Holiday Pageant enquiry form was sent in your child’s folder today.  Please send us your responses within the same folder, no later than Monday, 31st October 2016.

The Holiday Pageant and Christmas Party is the culmination of our speech and drama programme and has always been an important part of our curriculum.  To find out more about this event please refer to the flyer we sent home or access this link:

We kindly ask for your support, by attending the event.  You are very welcome to add grandparents and other family members to view, what will be a memorable and

spectacular event.

DRESS-UP PARTY

Due to the ongoing festivities this weekend and the coming week, we have made a few tweaks to the planned event on Monday .  You and your children are welcome to attend dressed as imaginatively as you can be!

IN THE CLASSROOM THIS WEEK …

The Montessori Environment

Sensorial:

Geometric Cabinet

· Quadrilaterals: The children learnt that a quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon, like a square, rectangle, or rhombus

· Group Games with the Cards and Insets: A game where the child matches the inset to its corresponding card, from a distance.

Science: Parts of a spider and cockroach.  An introduction to the anatomy of insects

Group Topic:

· United Nations Day – Through a multi-media presentation, we shared with the children information about the United Nations Organization, how it began, its purpose, and its aim to help the world maintain peace.

· Sound and its propagation - Explained to the children how sound is propagated.

Craft: Halloween Craft

The Mandarin Area

1. Continued learning the Names of Insects.

2. Learnt the names of solids

3. Halloween and seasonal songs

4. Conversation: Happy Halloween.

DURING EXTENDED-DAY

Language

Noun and Verb Game: Nouns (a name of a person, place or an object) and the verb (an action word) are introduced.

Mathematics:

Stamp Game: Reinforcement of all operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) with the Stamp Game

Sensorial:

Baric Tablets: Through this material the children learnt about weights, expanding their vocabulary, i.e. light, lighter, lightest and heavy, heavier, heaviest. This is in preparation for understanding measurements of weight in mathematics

Songs - Halloween songs

Craft - The children made a spider for Halloween

Cookery - The children made a sweet called 'Coconut Barfi' for Diwali, which they helped to cut and pack to take home.

BIAN DANG BAN’

Topics:

1. Talked about punctuation marks

2. The sequence of writing Chinese characters

3. Songs: Halloween songs

4. Story: Halloween story

5. Craft: A Friendly Ghost

HINDI MILAP

Group Time -

· Diwali Celebrations

·  वचन (एक वचन - बहु वचन)

Story Time -

१ Ramayana

२ कामचोर गधा 

शिक्षा: ज़्यादा चालाकी किसी काम की नहीं होती।

Cookery: Coconut luddu

Word Study

दिवाली, सफ़ाई, रोशनी, पटका, शुभकामनाएं

Analysing words using Matra ki peti

Songs / Poems

१ दीप जलाओ, दीप जलाओ

आज दिवाली रे

खुशी खुशी सब हँसते 

आओ आज दिवाली रे

२ श्री राम राम रामेति रमे रामे मनोरमे ।

सहस्रनाम तत्तुल्यं रामनाम वरानने ॥

३ धोबी आया ।।

४ मछ्ली जल की रानी है

INFANT COMMUNITY

Language Cards and Objects:

· Vocabulary - learning names of objects: bat, spiders, Ladybird

· Matching objects with pictures

Care of Environment:

· To develop the child’s ability to care for his/her environment

· To promote the flexibility of his/her arm

Wiping a table

a. Learning how to use a wet sponge to wipe the table

b. Learning how to use a hand mitt to dry the table

Topic: Talking about the party on Monday

Songs:

*Ten spiders, *Ghost in the house, *Stirring my broom

Art and Craft: Little Ghost

WEEK'S UP - FOR THE WEEKENDING 21 OCTOBER 2016

DIWALI CELEBRATION 2016

Thank you for your patronage at our Hello Diwali 2016 Celebration.  We hope you enjoyed the children's enactment of the Ramayana and all related performances.  The kind comments that we received about the event, are appreciated particularly, the compliments paid towards the freshly made food.  

Putting the event together required a multi-tasked force of volunteers.  Cookery, decor, stage sets, sound & lights, choreography, and logistics.  We are most grateful to our dedicated parents and the MFC teachers for coming together to create what you experienced. 
On that note we wish to convey our gratitude to the following volunteers are (in no particular order): 
Sneha Parekh, Pooja Arora, Deepika Dutt, (Mr) R.C. Sharma, Chitra Kaul, Shilpa Khosla, Ankita Mittal, Divya Muralikrishna, Sejal Kantilal, Juhi Tripathi, Niti Shah, Bindu Mehta, Jacqui Alegria, Saumiya Nair, Sonali Chawla, Dreamy Shah, Shivali Chandra, Nikki Agrawal and a member of our alumni,  Stuti Sinha.

Special Mentions:

For food -  Ramajit Kohli, for choreography - Pooja Goenka and 

Mansi Parekh, for compeering -  Malancha Ray

and ...for her support and contribution beyond her duties as a staff member -  
Shrija Nimoh.

We have updated our photographs for the event, which are accessible through the following link: https://goo.gl/photos/oA2wnqrtk374qLyC8

Please view the video of the event at:  https://www.facebook.com/mfcsin/videos/1140459482685831/

HALLOWEEN   Party - 31st October 2016

Dress up !  All princesses, princes, pirates, mermaids of all ages, are welcome! It will be a half-day school session (8:15a.m. to 11:15a.m.).  All children are kindly requested to come in the morning. The School bus operator will make the required alternate arrangements for pick-up and drop-off, however, you are advised to contact them to confirm these times for your child.  We invite volunteers to contact us.  Help is needed with games, food, and beverages.  We await your call! Thank you!

IDENTIFICATION TAGS! 

We have issued the above to all persons named and authorized to collect our students.  Please extend your co-operation to ensure the safety and security of your children by wearing the tags when you enter our premises at dismissals.  Thank you, and please contact us if you have any questions in this regard.

IN THE CLASSES THIS WEEK...

Montessori

Exercises of Practical Life: ‘Washing Hands’ – an activity that helps develop the ability for caring for oneself, inculcating a sense of cleanliness and an activity that requires focus and precision.

Sensorial: Geometric Cabinet – Curvilinear Figures: ‘Curvilinear’ - consisting of shapes that have curved lines

Language: Conjunctions – further exploration of the parts of speech, e.g. and, or, but, for, when, so

Topic of discussion:

Diwali (Dīvali, Dīpāwali, or Deepavali) is a festival of lights observed on the 15th day of the month of Kartika in the Hindu calendar

Cultural Celebration: Diwali Celebration on the evening of 21st October 2016

Mandarin

Names of Insects 昆虫名称 - 蝴蝶 - Butterfly，蜜蜂 - Bee，苍蝇 - Housefly，

蚊子- Mosquito，瓢虫 - Ladybird，蟑螂 - Cockroach，蚂蚁 Ant , 蜻蜓 Dragonfly

Learning the Names of the Parts of a leaf

Songs: Diwali and seasonal songs

Conversation: Happy Diwali

EXTENDED-DAY

Language: creating stories using the 'Letter Boxes' as depicted above and writing them on paper.  Learning the proper use of punctuation marks and the application of; upper case letters.

Mathematics: performing multiplication using the 'Stamp Game'.

Sensorial: Thermic Tablets - learning about different temperatures by touch. 

Exercises of Practical Life: Cross-stitch - developing hand-eye coordination.  (Most of all the children, enjoyed the learning experience because they created their own patterns.)

Songs - Practiced the Diwali songs

Art - The children coloured a 'rangoli'

BIAN DANG BAN

· Word Study: Prepositions: On, under, inside, outside, in front, behind, between

· Diwali and seasonal songs

· Rhyme: Autumn Leaves are Falling

· Craft: Butterfly

HINDI MILAP

Group Time:

Ramayan and what we learn from each character

भोजन के अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दिवस

Story Time:

             चालाक सियार 

             शिक्षा 

             ताकत की जगह बुद्धि का इस्तेमाल करना अधिक लाभदायक होता है ।

Word Study: शिकार, सफल, शेर, भोजन, जानवर, गुफा, चालाक

Craft: Rangoli

Songs and Dohas:

    १।  वनवास पूरा कर आये श्री राम।

          अयोध्या के मन भाये श्री राम।।

          घर-घर सजे , सजे हैं आँगन।

          जलते पटाखे, फ़ुलझड़ियाँ  बम।।

          पहनें नये कपड़े, खिलाते है मिठाई ।

          आई दीपावली ॥ 

          आई दीपावली ॥ रे 

          लक्ष्मी गणेश का पूजन करें लोग।

          लड्डुओं का लगता है भोग॥

२।   धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय,

      माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ॠतु आए फल होय।

३।   बड़ा हुआ तो क्या हुआ जैसे पेड़ खजूर।

      पंछी को छाया नहीं फल लागे अति दूर ॥

४।  काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब

     पल में प्रलय होएगी, बहुरि करेगो कब |

INFANT COMMUNITY

1. Exercises of Practical Life:

     Care of self - Cleaning shoes:

(a) Learning how to clean a pair of shoes

(b) Developing the ability to care for oneself

(c) Promoting flexibility of the wrist muscles

      Grace and Courtesy

Walking Around Rugs - Respecting friends’ work spaces

Language - Picture cards:

(a) Learning to name colours: yellow, brown, black and purple

(b) Promoting sensory awareness (visual) - matching colours

3. Songs:

(a) The Leaves are Falling and ‘shu ye luo xia lai’

(b) ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’

4. Cultural topic: Talked about the Diwali celebration at school