Week 8: Kindergarten Weekly – Silver Shark Bites
Updated: Oct 29
🌈 KINDERGARTEN NEWS 🌈
Welcome back to another edition of The Silver Shark Bites!
Last week was all about Halloween. The kindergarteners were busy making decorations, preparing their trick-or-treat baskets and getting ready for the big party. They also enjoyed some creative lessons, games and activities.
Our Silver Shark reporters have been finding out what everyone got up to. Here's their latest news!
This Week
Friday – Swimming: The kindergarteners will be heading to swimming again this Friday. We're almost at the end of our swimming sessions for the term, so we hope everyone can join us for one more chance to practise their skills and enjoy some time in the pool.
Looking Ahead
Thursday 5th November – Kindergarten Parent-Teacher Meetings: Parents are welcome to come in between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm to meet with the Kindergarten teachers and discuss their child's progress. There is no obligation to attend, but we'd be happy to see you if you'd like to catch up.
Tuesday 3rd November – School Photo Day: We will be taking school photographs. We ask that students come wearing plain, block-coloured trousers or shorts and any of their Halio shirts.
Tuesday 24th November – Loy Krathong: We will be celebrating Loy Krathong at school, with activities for the children to enjoy.
Wednesday 2nd December – End-of-Term Showcase: The children will have the opportunity to share some of the work they have been doing this term.
Friday 4th December – Last Day of Term: We will finish the term with our final Friday activities before the school holidays.
Highlights from Last Week
By Xi-En, Tar-Ping and Jom
Last week's highlights are all about Halloween!
Throughout the week, the kindergarteners were busy decorating their own trick-or-treat baskets. Before their classes, they painted and coloured their baskets to get them ready for collecting sweets at the Halloween party.
On Wednesday, the kindergarteners finally got to celebrate Halloween. There were lots of exciting activities, including a costume catwalk, trick-or-treating, exploring the haunted house and taking photos in front of the Halloween wall, which had been painted by the older students.
After getting dressed up in their costumes, the children had their photos taken in front of the wall. There were superheroes, monsters and lots of other amazing costumes. Parents and teachers helped take pictures of the kindergarteners with their friends.
Yeatso, Benjapar, Eva, Paul, Jae Jae and Kiki also walked on the catwalk. They were really brave and walked confidently along the carpet, showing off their cool costumes to everyone watching.
After dinner, the kindergarteners got into groups and went trick-or-treating around the neighbourhood. There were seven different stops where they could collect sweets, and the children took one or two pieces from each one.
The kindergarteners had an amazing time at the Halloween party, and it was lovely to see everyone enjoying themselves in their costumes.
Thank you for reading!
Kindergarten Clubs
By Eden and Seren
Last week's club was all about making Halloween decorations. The kindergarteners made monsters using their handprints on paper. They also drew ghosts wearing hats and hung them up as decorations. Everyone had their own ideas, and all of them were really good!
The whole school could hear the laughter and happiness as the children worked on their Halloween creations.
They also made their own trick-or-treat baskets for collecting sweets at the party. First, they used paper bowls and put strings through them to make handles. Then they painted the bowls and decorated them with googly eyes to make them look like little Halloween monsters.
The children had lots of fun making their baskets and were excited to use them for trick-or-treating.
Afterwards, the kindergarteners enjoyed making bubbles. The teacher filled a bucket with soapy water, and the children got to blow bubbles themselves.
They had fun experimenting with the bubbles, sharing the materials and taking turns. It was a lovely way to finish their club activities.
The Haunted House
By Pohn
Last week, Halio celebrated Halloween with lots of fun activities, such as the catwalk, trick-or-treating and, of course, the haunted house!
The kindergarteners also had the opportunity to explore the haunted house. The Silver Sharks, who are some of the oldest primary school students at Halio, had made the haunted house themselves.
The Silver Sharks had worked hard to make it scary, but they were a bit nervous that it might be too frightening for the kindergarteners.
So, when the younger children came to visit, they made sure there were no jump scares. Instead, they took them on a friendly tour around the haunted house.
What was originally a scary haunted house turned into a fun tour, with lots of sweets, hugs and high-fives!
The kindergarteners had a great experience exploring the haunted house, and the Silver Sharks did a wonderful job making sure they could enjoy it too.
Classes from Last Week
By Patee and Vicky
The kindergarteners had lots of enjoyable classes last week. They painted with bubble wrap, listened to stories, made crowns, played games and learned more about Halloween.
In Ms Sara's class, the children listened to stories about fruits and vegetables. Afterwards, they cut out cardboard shapes and attached bubble wrap to them. They painted the bubble wrap and pressed it onto paper. When they lifted the shapes away, they could see the colourful prints they had made.
In Ms Celden's class, the kindergarteners listened to the story Where the Wild Things Are. They learned about the King of the Wild Things and were inspired to make their own crowns. Everyone had the opportunity to design and decorate a special crown of their own.
The children also had a fun PE lesson with Mr Francis. On Wednesday, they played a game called Flip the Cones. The children were divided into two teams. One team had to turn the cones upside down, while the other team tried to turn them back the right way up. Everyone worked hard for their team, and before returning to Kindergarten, they thanked Mr Francis for the lesson.
In Mr Chad's class, the kindergarteners played a matching game using Halloween-themed picture cards. They had to find the pictures that matched before moving on to colouring their own Halloween puppets. Some of the children even said that this was their favourite class!
At the end of the week, the kindergarteners had enjoyed lots of different activities and had a wonderful time learning together.
Closing
That's all from The Silver Shark Bites this week!
We hope everyone enjoyed reading about the kindergarteners' Halloween adventures. A big thank you to our Silver Shark reporters for collecting the stories and sharing what the younger children have been doing.
We hope the kindergarteners enjoy their swimming lesson this Friday, and we look forward to another busy week ahead.
The Silver Shark Bites Team
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