November 2008 - British School Of Bucharest

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Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro Foundation Stage Creche Gafencu Jakub and Anna Sofia are taking turns choosing different coloured pegs to put on their boards. Agata and Jason playing follow the leader while enjoying the warm autumn weather. Over the past few weeks, the children have been learning about themselves, their senses, personal hygiene and their likes and dislikes. Some have enjoyed discovering the way things feel, such as a corn flour and water mix, shaving foam, jelly, beans, sand and corn or just play dough. Others spent time in our discovery corner exploring the way cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla smell. Some children had fun learning about personal hygiene routines at our crèche beauty salon or at our doll’s hospital. The ‘patients’ are washed and groomed at our salon, then sent straight to our hospital where only the children know how to administer medicine and treat our doll patients. Although all of these sensory experiences are great fun, the children all agreed that story time is their favourite part of our day. Creche Pipera Lisa, Victoria and Matthew reading books Ayesha, Evelina and Jonty getting creative with the paints It has been a busy and exciting first half term in Creche. We have had great fun this term exploring our new classroom and garden. We love our messy area and have been getting very creative, we have been painting with brushes, rollers and our fingers. Outside we love playing in the little houses; you will often find us pretending to have coffee and cakes. The rocking crocodile is another favourite activity, in which we see just how many children can we fit on him. Most importantly, we have been making new friends and gaining confidence so we are ready for a busy year in creche. Pre-school Gafencu Sasha painting with his eyes closed. He is imagining the leaves changing colour and falling while listening to Vivaldi’s Autumn Allegro. Benjamin demonstrating how he can measure his name with a tape measure. This half-term in Preschool students have been learning about themselves. They have been working very hard at recognising their name and the names of their friends. Students explored their likes and dislikes, shared their baby and family photos, as well as their favourite toys and favourite thing to do at school. We talked about our bodies and what different parts help us to do. We learned about our sense of touch and felt different textures, we used our eyes to see Autumn changes, we explored our sense of hearing by listening to various sounds and guessing what they were, we tasted different fruits, and we smelled different scents. All of the students are looking forward to our next unit, ‘Celebrations’. Pre- School C Pre school C off for a bike ride, but we need to make sure no one is left behind. Leaf hunting, Vlad helps Lisa fill her box, but what has Constance found? Pre- School C have been enjoying their first half term at school. Life is always busy in our classroom, but we have also greatly enjoyed our “adventures” out into the wider school grounds. Sometimes we take the bikes and scooters, we love to drive around the grounds and we always head for the round- about. Some of us are very keen on directing the traffic and you never see a traffic jam when we are on duty. Some times we pop in to visit Mr Mulvany in the music room, and enjoy an impromptu concert, or travel all the way to crèche to visit our friends there. We are getting very confident about meeting new people and every body at school should watch out as we may be visiting you soon. The British School of Bucharest Magazine 26
Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro Pre-school H Developing independence skills at snack time. Investigating the paint tools We have now completed our first term in pre-school, and after a few initial tears all the children have rapidly developed a sense of ownership of their work space. This is most evident when a child shows with great confidence a visiting grandparent or parent around. In pre-school we have been encouraging the children to develop their independence skills- maybe some of you have noticed this at home, when, for example, your child insists on pouring their own milk or water. We have also being encouraging them to take responsibility for tidying their toys and resources away when they have finished… has any one noticed this happening at home? Reception Gafencu Students in the Reception class at Gafencu will probably say that their favourite thing to do these days is to build with the big soft blocks in the library. They have made and ridden motorbikes, built and sailed boats, helped each other to make the tallest towers, been extremely respectful of each others’ constructions, and then had great fun together knocking everything down again. Whilst lots of great learning has been taking place in the classroom, the children have particularly enjoyed learning the ‘Jolly Phonics’ phonemes. This is a system which uses a story, and a physical activity to help children to use many different sections of their brain to learn letter sounds. We have cracked eggs (‘e’), danced with castanets (‘c’ and ‘k’) and wobbled jelly (‘j’)- all in the name of good solid learning. ▲ “J j j j j jelly” say Sai, Smruti, Meea, Luca, Alice, Francesco and David as they make the jelly wobble and learn using Jolly Phonics. Reception B Visits the Office! Reception B decided to pay a visit to the office to help the office staff for an afternoon. The children were kept very busy answering phones, preparing mail and working on the computer. Miss Cristiana said she was thankful for the help! Back in class the children have been busy setting up meetings and giving out their business cards. Some of the children have even started making credit cards so they can pay for their business lunches in our ‘Cozy Café’. “British School of Bucharest, Isabelle speaking.” “Hello Ms Deanna, this is Tabi, don’t forget we have a meeting today at 10 o’clock.” Reception H Students building big! Tedy is proud of his very tall tower! Kristian, Tedy, and Daniel are working together! Our construction area is a favourite spot to play in! Over the past weeks we have enjoyed using big wooden blocks to build towers higher than ourselves! We then toppled them over and watched the blocks come crashing down! What great fun! Other children built a long bridge, spanning our entire carpet, and then used cars to drive on it. Building also helped us with our social skills, as we got to make new friends, learn English (for some of us this is new), share, and take turns. You will hear lots of giggle and laughs from our construction area! The British School of Bucharest Magazine 27
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