Early Years Summer Camp Weekly Newsletter

Week 1 – Pirates and Mermaids

Little Stars

Age 2-4

 

Ahoy there, Matey! It is so lovely to observe the Little Stars children enjoying their journey into the fun-filled Pirate and Mermaid adventure! This week has been a happy and busy one for us all. It is wonderful getting to know your children and seeing how well they settle in and engage with new materials, techniques and thought processes. They are already demonstrating their growing understanding through their thoughts and ideas!

We have certainly had lots of exciting stories to share…

我们有好多有趣的故事要分享……

Themed Art Activities

Paper Pirates

Look! We can use our handprints to make a pirate!

 

Popsicle Stick Mermaid Puppet

This simple but adorable mermaid craft is perfect for our little stars!

 

Block Center Fun Experience – Pirate Ship!

We had a lot of fun engaging in pretending to sail on a pirate ship!

 

Themed Math and Manipulatives Activities

Help children develop their math skills and those small muscles in their hands..

 

Treasure Sort

The purpose of this activity is not so much to learn counting, but to build up those small muscles by scooping the jewel with the spoon and then turning their wrist to drop it in!

 

Mermaid Playdough

Add special “treasure” and glitter for some great play dought!

 

Music and Movement

Get children movin’ and grooving!

This week in Little Stars Camp, we have been learning these songs:

·       <If you want to be a pirate>

·       <Five little mermaids>

·       <Over the deep blue sea>

·       <The sailor went to sea>

·       <Mermaid song>

·       <The Goldfish>

Rainbow Parachute Games

Look! We can use our handprints to make a pirate!

 

Under the Sea Sensory Bin

Booty in the sand!

Can you find the treasure in the sand?

 

Ms Aida’s Class

 

Curious Mind

Age 4-6

This week we discovered about pirate and mermaid which related with ocean. We discussed about pirate and mermaid and it inspired us to create something together.

After reading stories of pirate, we drew some hand-print pirates to show the image of pirate that some could be funny, some could be scary and some could be silly. Then we wanted to know more about the pirate – “What does the pirate wear?” “Where do they live?” our children read the story again and tried to find some clues, this prompted us to created some hooks, eye patches and pirate hats that pirates usually wear, in addition, we built a pirate ship with recycling materials all together. When we were sailing our own “pirate ship” we wanted to be like pirate and look for treasures so that we started to create our treasure maps, golden coins and some other treasure to prepare a treasure hunt game, we all enjoyed this exploration so much.

Our little pirates wanted to keep exploring the ocean after the found the treasure. When we had look round the deep blue see we found many different kinds of sea animals such as dolphins, sharks, crabs, octopus and more, however our favorite one is mermaid so that children couldn’t to design our own beautiful mermaid, and also a mermaid shell to keep the mermaid safe away from sharks.

During this week, our children had so much fun and wonderful experiences with friends and teachers at summer camp, we learned how to work in teams to discuss and explore things together, developed different skills, furthermore we tried to use recycling materials to re-create in order to save our planet.

Ms Aida’s Class

During the first week of our Summer Camp we had a lot of fun with the Phonics activities in which playing and learning was our main purpose. We went into the letters sounds world getting phonetical awareness enriching our vocabulary and creating conscience of the importance to get more English vocabulary to be able to communicate our ideas, feelings and needs. Added to this, it was a great week sharing with new friends and supporting each other to understand the instructions and different activities proposed in English.

 

Closing Assembly