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Preschool News Kidz Meadow Childcare @ Buangkok Ridge Term 4, 2017 Newsletter Content Page Term 4 Closure Dates Pg 2 – Infant Pg 3 – Little Seekers Pg 4 – Thrilling Threes Pg 5 – iN2resting Pg 6 – Little EsK1mos Pg 7 – K2 Explorers Pg 8 – Zoo Goes to School Pg 9 – Children’s Day Celebration Pg 10 – Tamil Kalacharam Week Pg 11 – Deepavali Celebration: Festival of Lights Pg 12 – Community Garden Festival: Edible Trails Pg 13– Clean and Green Singapore Eco School Carnival Pg 14 – Care for Animals Day: Meet Dr Squawk Pg 15 – Parent’s Testimonials Pg 16 – Our PMVV Principal’s Message Dear parents, We have almost come to the end of the year 2017 and I hope that you are pleased with all the events and programmes that have been planned for your child’s learning journey at Kidz Meadow Buangkok Ridge. In this issue, we will be sharing the rest of your child’s magical learning experiences in term 4. This year, we had a few mass celebrations that combined the infants and the childcare children. We will continue to have this mass and combined celebrations for both of the bays in the upcoming year to encourage both our infants and childcare parents to participate in the centre events in 2018. I would like to thank everyone for all the support and encouragement that was given. Lastly, I would like to wish our K2 children, all the best in their next phase of learning journey in their respective primary schools. Regards, Mdm Amaninah Md Khader Friday, 6 October 2017 – Teachers’ Training Wednesday, 18 October 2017 - Deepavali (PH) Friday, 22 December 2017 - Spring Cleaning Monday, 25 December 2017 - Christmas Day (PH) “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” Angela Schmidt

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Content Page Term 4 Closure Dates Pg 2 – Infant

Pg 3 – Little Seekers

Pg 4 – Thrilling Threes

Pg 5 – iN2resting

Pg 6 – Little EsK1mos

Pg 7 – K2 Explorers

Pg 8 – Zoo Goes to School

Pg 9 – Children’s Day Celebration

Pg 10 – Tamil Kalacharam Week

Pg 11 – Deepavali Celebration: Festival of

Lights

Pg 12 – Community Garden Festival: Edible

Trails

Pg 13– Clean and Green Singapore Eco School

Carnival

Pg 14 – Care for Animals Day: Meet Dr Squawk

Pg 15 – Parent’s Testimonials

Pg 16 – Our PMVV

Principal’s Message Dear parents,

We have almost come to the end of the year 2017 and I hope that you are pleased with all the events and

programmes that have been planned for your child’s learning journey at Kidz Meadow Buangkok Ridge.

In this issue, we will be sharing the rest of your child’s magical learning experiences in term 4. This year, we had a

few mass celebrations that combined the infants and the childcare children. We will continue to have this mass

and combined celebrations for both of the bays in the upcoming year to encourage both our infants and

childcare parents to participate in the centre events in 2018. I would like to thank everyone for all the support and

encouragement that was given. Lastly, I would like to wish our K2 children, all the best in their next phase of

learning journey in their respective primary schools.

Regards,

Mdm Amaninah Md Khader

Friday, 6 October 2017 – Teachers’ Training

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 - Deepavali (PH)

Friday, 22 December 2017 - Spring Cleaning

Monday, 25 December 2017 - Christmas Day (PH)

“While we try to teach our children all

about life, our children teach us what

life is all about.”

Angela Schmidt

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Little Sunshine In Term 4, infants were exposed to the theme “Animals”, ranging from sea to farm animals.

The infant teachers conducted creative activities focusing on their developmental milestones.

Infants were given opportunities in developing their fine motor skills and eye-hand

coordination through this activity. They were given colourful crepe papers to paste on the

shark picture.

Shark Pasting

Let’s Get Messy!

Through Art & Craft, infants explored the paints using brush, sponge and their hands, thus

assisting the infants to develop their fine motor skills and senses.

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Toddlers were further exposed to activities

which enhanced their different needs and

stages of development. “Discovery of the

World” includes activities such as water

play exploration and sand play.

The children had so much fun during

their gross motor activity. They

kicked the animal figurines hung

from a rope, walked on the beam

balance and hopped like a kangaroo

into the hula hoop.

Little Seekers...

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In conjunction to the theme

“Animals”, the children explored and

learned about animals through different

activities such as Art & Craft, finger

puppet play and animal puzzles.

Let's Play and Explore!

Name Me

It's Playtime!

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Thrilling Threes!

颜色我知道

豆豆班的幼儿学习了颜色。通过游戏的方式,幼

儿加深了对颜色名称的记忆。

Tema : Haiwan

Pada penggal kali ini, murid-murid diberi pendedahan kepada

pelbagai jenis haiwan yang dapat dilihat di sekeliling mereka.

Bagi topik haiwan peliharaan khususnya, murid-murid

mempelajari tentang kucing. Mereka gemar akan kucing kerana

menurut mereka ianya comel dan tidak menakutkan. Mereka

mengenali ciri-ciri haiwan tersebut melalui membaca buku

cerita, bermain dengan mainan haiwan dan membuat topeng.

“Let’s throw ‘em!” In Term 4, the children engaged in outdoor games to help

enhance their gross motor skills development. Activities

such as ball play may involve different motor skills such as

underarm roll, overhead throw as well as underarm throw.

The teacher focused on the children’s ability in doing the

targeted skill which was the overhead throw using a ball.

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我会数1-10

小班的幼儿学习了数字1-10,并能够用玩具表示出它们的数量。

Tema: Perayaan Kuih Bulan

Pada penggal kali ini, murid-murid

mempelajari tentang perayaan Kuih

Bulan yang disambut oleh kaum Cina.

Selain mencuba kuih bulan, murid-murid

membuat ‘tanglung’ mereka sendiri. ‘Tanglung’

penting dalam perayaan kuih bulan. Perayaan

seperti tidak lengkap sekiranya mereka tidak

menyiapkan ‘tanglung’ masing-masing.

Creepy Crawlies

Behind the “incy wincy” tiny body of insects and beyond the

icky itchy feel, lies interesting and distinct characteristics. We had

“Leaf Critters” for Art & Craft where we used leaves with holes

made by insects or caterpillars’ bites. We painted on the leaves

and stamped them on papers. The children were excited at the

fascinating result. Through this activity, they exercised their fine

motor skills by gripping and controlling the brush and identifying

the primary and secondary colours mixed in the process.

iN2resting

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Little EsK1mos

小蝴蝶

中班学习了昆虫,幼儿最喜欢的昆虫要属蝴蝶了。

Tema: Perayaan Bot Naga

Murid-murid diperkenalkan kepada perayaan Bot Naga.

Mereka mencuba kuih ‘chang’ yang merupakan makanan yang

dikaitkan dengan perayaan tersebut. Mereka begitu teliti

melihat cara balutannya dan ternyata mereka suka akan

rasanya. Ada juga yang menyatakan ianya seakan-akan ketupat

yang mereka menikmati semasa perayaan Hari Raya.

Term 4’s theme, “Things That Move”, taught the children the

movement of both living and non-living things. It involved the

investigation of movement in vehicles, animals as well as creepy

crawlies. The highlight of this term’s learning journey was learning

about butterflies.

The children found a caterpillar from the school’s Garden On Wheels

and decided to keep it in the classroom to observe its growth and life

cycle. This instilled important Science process skills such as observation,

communication and prediction . They also learned values such as care

for animals and responsibility.

Things That Move!

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Animal Prints

In October, children learned about animal

characteristics such as their colours, skin texture, food

and habitats as well animal prints and how they are

different from one another. In Art & Craft, the

children made their own animal prints from clay. They

were able to compare the differences and were excited

to see the trails they made as they stamped them on

paper.

K2 Explorers

如果感到幸福你就~~~

大班的幼儿尝试

改编歌曲,如果感到幸福你就拍拍肩~~~~

Tema: Benda yang Bergerak

Murid-murid mempelajari tentang benda yang

bergerak seperti kenderaan dan haiwan. Bagi tema

haiwan, mereka mempelajari perbezaan antara jenis

haiwan mamalia, reptilia, amfibia dan sebagainya.

Melalui permainan yang diadakan, mereka begitu

responsif membezakan dan meneka haiwan yang

dipilih serta berkongsi akan ciri-cirinya.

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“Zoo Goes to School” To wrap up Innovation Guidance Project (IGP) 2017, the centre had a couple of visitors

from the zoo, as part of the Zoo Goes to School Programme: Save Our Wildlife.

During the programme, K1and K2 children learned more about the animals that are

threatened by poachers and the parts that are being taken away by these poachers. The zoo

brought authentic specimens like the elephant’s trunk, the rhino’s horn, the tiger’s skin and

its claws. They even brought along a taxidermised pangolin for the children to see.

Children were given the opportunity to carry the elephant’s tusk and to touch the rhino’s

horn.

There was another special visitor during the programme. It was a hedgehog! Children were

thrilled as they touched the hedgehog and found out that its spikes were not prickly.

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Happy Children’s Day! For this year’s Children’s Day celebration, the children went for a fieldtrip to

ArtScience Museum. It was a day filled with lots of fun, laughter and curiosity.

The Future World Exhibition allows children to immerse in the high tech futuristic

world of interactive artworks. For example, they were able to see their artwork alive as they

scanned their artwork into a machine and portrayed on the big screen. They are able to bring

their artwork home too as they scanned their artwork into a 3D artpiece.

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Culture Week: “Tamil Kalachara” Prior to Deepavali celebration, KMBR had our last Culture Week for the year - Tamil

Kalacharam, to expose children to the Indian culture. They learned about Indian’s music

and dance such as ‘bhangra’ and classical, various food such as ‘prata’ and ‘muruku’ and

also on the Festival of Lights, such as the ‘rangoli’ and traditional clothes.

Since our Culture Week turned out to be a success at the childcare, we decided to also

expose our infants to some of the Indian culture during Tamil Kalacharam week.

Every child was given the opportunity to wear traditional clothes and created a lamp

craft with educarer’s guidance.

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“Festival of Lights” The centre celebrated Deepavali on 17 October. The children, including infants, were all dressed up

in Indian clothes or their traditional costumes. During the celebration, children learned how

Deepavali came about and how it is known as the festival of lights. They even picked up new simple

Tamil words such as ‘oli’ which means light, ‘ataikal’ which means clothes and ‘Iniya Tipavali

Valtukkal’ which means Happy Deepavali. The teachers shared with them different traditional

Indian costumes and the sweet treats that are usually served during Deepavali; such as ‘laddoo’ and

‘burfi’. The infants joined in and were curious at seeing the older children participated in the various

types of activities.

Children were given the opportunity to make chapatti from scratch, mixing the chapatti flour with

water and kneading it on their own. There was also henna drawing for the children.

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Community Garden Festival: Edible Trail @ Hort Park

KMBR was invited to Community Garden Festival ‘Edible Trail’ which is a 3-day long festival from

3 to 5 November 2017 at Hort Park. It is a yearly festival held to celebrate the passion and skills of

Singapore’s gardeners through various activities such as marketplace, design competitions and

garden displays.

On 3 November, N2 to K2 children had a first hand experience to see how edible plants grow and

to witness the vast number of plants at Hort Park. As soon as they arrived, they were mesmerised by

the centerpiece of a crimson bird made from edible fruits and vegetables. Children were able to

relate to their prior experiences of gardening at the centre as they found several plants familiar, such

as mint, lime and coriander, which are also found in KMBR’s very own Garden on Wheels.

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“Clean and Green Singapore Eco School Day Carnival”

KMBR was invited to Clean and Green Singapore Eco School Day Carnival on 6 November,

organised by National Environment Agency (NEA), to promote children’s awareness on the

environment: reducing waste, being eco-friendly such as switching off the lights when not in

use, hand hygiene, the 3R’s and also upcycling.

There were various activities for children such as

mini terrarium making workshop, making recycled

rainbow bracelets, a mini challenge to switch off

lights and throwing thrash in the correct waste bin or recycling bin.

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Disposition Day: Care for Animals Day Jurong Bird Park Flies to School

KMBR had an outreach programme conducted by Jurong Bird Park Singapore for our

disposition day ‘Care For Animals Day’. The programme shared the conservation message

through an interactive dramatisation approach done by Dr Squawk as she went on an

exploration in search for tropical rainforest birds. Children learned about the strongest eggs

laid by the ostrich and tested its strength by stepping on them! They also learned about how

colourful plumage helps birds to survive in the forest. Finally, they learned about how to take

care of birds as pets and how important it is to show love and care for them.

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Our PMVV

(Philosophy, Mission, Vision & Core Values)