Halloween Party

It's that time of the year again. It's Halloween!! As a matter of fact, halloween party wasn't on my list-to-do in 2010. But much to the persuasion of the parents ( Yes you read it right, the parents not the children), I organised it. So..who says only children love halloween? While the children look forward to attend in their costumes and treats, the parents look forward to mingle with each other and have a feast. Everyone loves the decorations, costumes, trick-or-treating around the neighbourhood and also the scrumptious buffet spread that we had. This year, we have games lined up for the children and parents too. The parents took part in pictionary and scary sandwich making. Whereas the children played with candy tossing game and witch cone hunt. We definitely had a creep-tastic halloween.





Creepy cupcakes

  

ghosts

Frankenstein treat bags for the kids

Garden decoration



Table decoration

Candy tossing game









Among those who came..



Scary sandwich making competition

Pictionary

5th Get-together & Christmas Party

I know I have missed out on a couple of topics before this graduation and I know a lot of the parents have been waiting for me to post up blogs on halloween. My sincere apology to all and I hope this will be the first and the beginning of my many back-dated blogs.

Before I begin, I'd like to welcome Deborah Lim, Tan Ee Chuen and Lai Yee Hung to Fingertips Day Nursery & Kindergarten. 

First off, let me congratulate the class of 2010. You have achieved so much in a year. We are thrilled to see how well you have done and hope you will thoroughly enjoy your big day.

It was just so exciting to see how well you have done. Congratulations to Justin Tan, Chan Rui Xin and Ryan Matthew. You are all stars in the eyes of your parents and teachers. You will have so much to look forward to after the outstanding performance you have had. You all know how important it is to learn your numbers, letters, words and reading in 3 languages.You have all learned to wash your hands, wash your plates as well as tidy-up after tea. Today we have seen your amazing artwork and most of all your compassion towards others. Well done !!

I'm going to take some time to talk about my graduating students.

Justin = He loves to read and is very knowledgeable. He is able to talk to you on almost anything, be it football, movies, expreiences and so on.He is matured in thinking but at times tend to be lazy and very talkative.

Chan Rui Xin = She is a sweet and pretty girl. She shows creativeness in her artwork and is very dedicated to her studies. She is also a determined child and has very neat and beautiful hand writing. Due to her strong determination, it makes her stubborn.

Ryan = He is a smart and jovial boy. He tells you almost everything ( that he can think of).He is a very obedient boy not to mention polite. He can be very playful and talkative.

To the parents: The love, kindness and the patience that you have given to your children has been ourstanding. As parents, we just love how our children have responded to you, have been inspired by you and also how they just loved to get here in the morning.( Well..sometimes they don't when they woke up on the wrong side of bed). We believe that you have set our children up very well for primary. Thank you, parents.

To the teachers: Thanks again to the teachers without which the ceremony and party would not have been possible.

Below are some of the photos taken on our 5th Get Together and Christmas Party at Cititel which was held last December. To view more photos, be our fan on Facebook.

Hand made gifts for the parents



Trophies for all pre-schools' students.

Itinerary for the day

Graduating students

 

Parents' papparazi

"Satu Bintang" by Pre-School 2 & 3

"Frosty The Snowman" by Toddlers' Group

"Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer' by Pre-School 1

"Jingle Bells" by Pre-School 2 and 3

"Santa Claus is coming to town" by all the students



Mid Autumn Festival

Mid Autumn festival is usually a family celebration, where members of the family will gather and enjoy eating mooncake while gazing at the moon and children will parade around the neighnorhood with lantern. This is our fish lantern which the children made at the school. Happy Mid Autumn Festival to all and do enjoy the varieties of mooncakes available !!

Eid Mubarak ( Hari Raya Aidilfitri)

I would like to this opportunity to wish all my Muslim friends " Selamat Hari Raya" while for others who don't celebrate, hope that you are enjoying long weekend and drive safely.  This week we made a raya card and mosque. The card was in a shape of a weaved ketupat except that we didn't do weaving as the younger children will find it too difficult to weave so we have cut-out green and yellow squares for them to paste. For a picture of a mosque, we used black sugar paper ( for mounting), orange colour paper, orange glass paper and some colour pencils. Best of all, we had a raya feast on Wedsnesday. The children were treated to a scrumptious Malay delicacies such as dodol, murtabak, roti jala, satay, kuih-muih, lemang, ketupat and many more. Selamat Hari Raya!

Frogs

I hope all is well. Before I begin, I'd like to apologise for not updating as I have been so so busy. So kindly bear with me and I promised to post up all the activities which the children have done for the past few months. I would also like to welcome Tan Kai Zhen, Verolyn Lim and Oliver Ong to Fingertips. Thank you for choosing Fingertips.

Croak! Croak! Croak !"Frogs" has been our theme for the month of May. "Frogs" is especially appropriate for the toddlers and kindergartners because they are fascinated with animals and are often highly motivated to explore their immediate environment.


The overall purpose of this unit is to help my students learn about the metamorphosis and the development of this amphibian species. Photos of this metamorphosis were laminated and and hung at the children eye level.

We have also planned various lessons and activities of this unit to help children to develop related concepts as they gain an appreciation of ways frogs help our environment. The children also had direct observational experiences and cared for this amphibian even though just for half an hour. I managed to get a frog ( well I wouldn't have the guts to catch it, but my hubby) for the children to observe and much to the children excitement, I had to let the frog go.

They also have had opportunities to express themselves through creative work in art, music and movement activities.

Frogs templates were colored and each child has to glue the frog's body part using their own creativity.

 Frogs' egg - bubble painting

Tadpole - side of the hand painting

Frogs' egg-I made these basil egg jelly for the children

We decorated our school with origami frogs.

We made these frog tin to store our origami stars.

We made frog headband to wear for our singing sessions. We sang and enjoyed our "8 Little Speckled frogs" instead of "5 Little Speckled Frog".

Books that we used for this topics are as below: