Important Notices:

Please return CCA sign-up sheets by Monday August 15th. This term we are offer-ing Taekwondo, Soccer, Pilates and Pottery.

Thank you to the many families who have already purchased the new Learn Different uniform. Uniform is compulsory. Please see the Academy Receptionist if you still need to purchase one.

In case you didn’t receive the memo, we spoke to management about the recent parking issue and we hope it will be resolved in the future.

It’s official: Learn Different Academy is now registered with the Council of Private Education in Singapore!

BIWEEKLY

NEWSLETTER August 1 — 12 , 2011

Unfortunately, we have to

say good-bye to one of

our favourite Learn Dif-

ferent staff members,

Ms. Ida Antonio. We sin-

cerely thank Ms. Ida for

all her hard work and we

wish her the best of luck.

Starting this year, the

newsletter will be pub-

lished on Fridays biweek-

ly. Important notices and

dates will still be included

as well as curriculum up-

dates. We would like to

welcome parents as guest

contributors. If you enjoy

writing and have some-

thing to share, please con-

tact Ms. Jennifer.

Lastly, check out the

Learn Different editorial

in the latest Expat Living

magazine, page 130.

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Ms. Getty Menecio as Sen-

ior Teacher for Reception

One.

Also joining the Learn Dif-

ferent Team on the Inte-

grated Therapy side is Occu-

pational Therapist, Ms. Ra-

chel Vig.

Lastly, we have a lovely new

Integrated Therapy Recep-

tionist and Human Resource

Coordinator, Ms. Lynne

Grant.

It’s lovely to see all our stu-

dents back at Learn Differ-

ent. We hope they have all

settled into their new clas-

ses and routines. We would

like to introduce a few new

staff members to you:

Ms. Antoniette Daquiz as

Co-teacher for Year One.

Ms. Dani Alexander, Co-

teacher for Ms. Ashley’s

class in Reception Two.

Welcome Back!

middle of the week, but

from the stories I have

heard from the children it

sounds like everyone en-

joyed the National Day cel-

ebrations!

We are back from our sum-

mer holidays and in full

swing for another great

year at Learn Different. The

children are settling in quite

smoothly in their new class

(Reception 2), and I must

say so are their teachers!

The first week back to

school we were busy with

review work and catching

up with friends.

This past week has been a

rather funny week due to

the 2-day holiday in the

Page 2

Hep hep, hurray! We just had

two successful weeks back in

school! I am impressed that our

students still remember our

classroom routines, rules and

schedule. We kicked off the new

school year with an oral presen-

tation about our holidays and

how we spent our school break.

Last week, we joined ‘Max’ in

his adventure as we read the

book Where the Wild Things

Are. It was a good way to devel-

op and reinforce the students’

reading comprehension skills.

Everybody was so intrigued at

how Max became the King of

the Wild Things. We also made

our own Max and Wild Things

costumes and had our own wild

rumpus!

This week was all about cele-

brating Singapore’s 46th birth-

day and the Fashion Parade! We

celebrated Singapore’s birthday

by going on a treasure hunt

around the school. We searched

in the library, cooking studio,

performance studio and art

room for the crescent moon and

five stars, which are part of the

Singapore flag. We had loads of

fun! We found all the things we

needed to make the Singapore

flag by practicing teamwork!

And of course, the highlight of

our week was the Fashion Pa-

rade! Everybody—students and

teachers—came to school as a

different character. Some wore

their host country costume,

others wore their home country

RECEPTION TWO , MS. ASHLEY ’S CLASS

outfits, and some were in their

favourite character costumes

such as Spiderman and Super-

man.

The school halls were filled with

life and colour as everybody

came together to strut their stuff

on the runway. By adding their

own style, winking and exchang-

ing high-fives, the Year One stu-

dents conquered the runway. I

must say, it was an amazing sight

to see! Our students summoned

their courage and did the catwalk

like professional models. This

Fashion Parade is our Entry Point

YEAR ONE , MS. KATRINA’S CLASS

We ended this week with

our entry point from

‘Dressing Up’. What a

show! We definitely have a

few entertainers here at our

school! I can't wait to see

what else will be in store for

us this coming year.

to the new IPC unit, Fashion

Exploration. Now, we are all

eager to explore the world of

fashion!

The excitement about doing fun things has been in the air since last week. We gave a kick-start to our first week of school with a puppet show about ourselves so that we can get to know each other better. The children inter-viewed their best friends and made some special notes for them. They read “The Rain-bow Fish” to better under-stand the real meaning of friendship and created their own rainbow fish using paper collage. We celebrated a friendship week to warmly welcome our new friend, Schneider Lim.

Page 3

RECEPTION TWO , MS. KARINA’S CLASS

The celebration in the class

continued when the children

sang “A Song for Singapore”

to celebrate National Day.

They watched a documentary

film about Singapore in the

past and how it has changed

into the present Singapore.

We talked about the flag and

the meaning of it and its fea-

tures like the crescent moon

and the five stars. After mov-

ie time, we made Singapore

flag from paper collage. We

helped save the environment

RECEPTION ONE , MS. GETTY’S CLASS

by recycling old magazines. We

browsed through the pages

and used the ones with many

red colours in them.

The Fashion Parade for the

Entry Point this Friday was a

blast. The children confidently

walked on the runway, posed

for the audience, introduced

themselves and talked about

their costumes. They deserve a

The students were a little hesi-tant the first week of school, getting used to their new classmates and routines. Some wanted to visit their old teachers, some needed some extra time here or there, but this short week has been fan-tastic. We have set-up classroom rules and all the students have signed the “Classroom Rules Agreement”. It was also a week of making each other feel welcome, and the class did so, by sharing more about themselves. They revealed that they enjoy play-ing with clay and we used this when we worked on learning math this week.

Also of note, Anoushka com-plete her good behaviour chart in just two weeks! Way to go, Anouk! We all play a part in contrib-uting something in class: Tom leads us during our morning songs, Anouk amuses us with her fascinating “show and tells” each morning, Lauren

big round of applause for

their hard work, enthusiasm,

confidence and, most im-

portantly, for settling in the

school really well. Keep up

the great work!

and Adam are reliable teach-er’s helpers, and Sam always shows us his dancing and singing talent during move-ment sessions. Our learning journey together has just begun, and there will be many more things we will discover together this year. Majulah! (Onward)

We celebrated National Day in class by cutting-out and col-ouring a Singapore flag. We also started focusing more on academics and reviewed from last year. Most of them can read and spell C-V-C words and count backwards from 20 to 1.

The marvellous week ended as we wore our colourful national costume and were able to show our catchy runway looks and cool poses in our ‘Fashion Show parade’.

Every child deserves the right to be taught in the way he or she learns best!

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