News / Nunn Road / 2023 / January 2023

 Dear parents,

Have you noticed that the purple flowers (garlic vine) were blossoming to welcome all of you after the school holidays?

As usual, we teachers came back to Nania a few days before the school reopened to clean the space, wash and sunbathe all the toys, dye the cloths and repair toys. We got everything ready to welcome back the children.

This year, we welcomed 4 new children to the English Class. One 6-year-old girl, one 5-year-old boy, one 4-year-old girl and one boy turning 3 joined us. Now we have 18 children in the class. Hugo will be back to join us after the Chinese New Year Festival.

Now we have 3 graduating big children and another 2 big ‘koko’ and 2 big ‘jie jie’ in the class. The new batch of big children have started their afternoon literacy time.  They are eager to do what they have seen the big children do last year.  They have also started to weave happily during their free time. While the graduating big children deepen their learning and they will start to practice for their graduation after the Chinese New Year holidays.

Meanwhile, the 5-year-old children will start to play a leading role in the afternoon creative play. They play at the kitchen corner while the big children are having their lesson time at another corner. Younger children are getting independent day by day.

As we start this new year, I seek your cooperation to bring your child to Nania punctually. Arriving to class by 9a.m. gives children enough time to do artistic work and play. When children come late, they either miss out the artistic work or do not have enough time for creative play.

We have morning gathering where we greet each other and pray for our absentees. If your child is absent because of sickness, please inform the class teacher before 8.30a.m. so that we can wish him or her speedy recovery. For new parents, teachers don’t attend to our handphone frequently after 8.30am. as we will be in the classroom engaging with the children. So, you have to contact the office (04-2265480) if it is later than 8.30am.

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. The children are trying their very best during practice sessions for the upcoming Chinese New Year festival. However, during the actual day, some young children may need your encouragement to participate bravely in front of all the adults present that day.I look forward to seeing you and your family on the 18^th Jan (Tuesday).  For your information, a family couldn’t join us on the 18^th. So, we invited the parents to join us on 20^th ringtime. The Chinese New Year holiday from the 23^rd till the 27^th Jan. We re-open on 30^th Jan (Monday).

All of us at Nania would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family ‘Gong Xi Fa Cai’.

                                                                                                                      Teacher Thian & Teacher Ang

Chinese New Year Festival Programme

Date: 18^th January 2023 (Wednesday)

 9.00 – 9.10am      Arrival, water and toilet break

     Drop-off time for the English class children is 8.30am-9am. Please come in through the Kitchen side gate. Parents can then wait at the car porch or come back               before 9.10am. We will start the presentation at 9.20amPlease be punctual.

 9.20 – 10.00am    Class presentation

                                  -Greetings

                                  -Chinese New Year poems and songs

                                  -Dance and Drum

                                  - Big children dance

                                  -Chinese New Year gifts (Ang Pow, Ribbon Kuih made by the children and ornament made

                                    during artistic time)

 10.00 – 10.10am  Lion Dance

 10.10am               Parents Departure/ Children toilet time

 10.20am               Children snack time

Notes regarding the Chinese New Year Festival

  The children will make ribbon kuih on 16^th Jan (Monday) for the festival.

 The children will enjoy puppet show and Chinese New Year snack time on 17^th Jan (Tuesday) morning.

  We would like to encourage the children to come in traditional Chinese New Year clothes on presentation day (18^th Jan, Wednesday) as it helps them to be in the festive mood.  This is not mandatory but your consideration is much appreciated.

   Parents who attend the presentation must do self test and send the result to us.

   Kindly park your car at the roadside and enter by the main gate.

   Please drop your child/children at the kitchen side gate before 9am. Please be on time.

  We would appreciate it if everyone could keep their voices down.

  It is sometimes difficult for young children to join in the festival presentation because of the crowd.  We encourage parents to sing along with their younger children to support their participation. 

English Class Graduation Programme

Date:  17^th February 2023 (Friday)

Venue:  Nania English Class

Schedule:

09:00 – 09:50   Free play at the Japanese class

09:55 – 10:15  Snack/toilet time

10:15  - 10:25  Welcome speech / morning prayer for absent friends

10:30  – 11:30    Graduation ceremony

11:20  – 11:30  toilet break & time for the smaller children to go home. Please pick up them at Japanese Class door.

11:45  – 11:55  Graduating children go round to thank their teachers and also take photographs with their parents

11:55  - 12:00   Graduating children set tables for lunch

12:00 – 12:25  Lunch together with their parents

12.30 noon  Goodbye for the day for all the graduating children

Please note:

We would like the parents of our graduates to do self test and arrive at 10:10 am. Please enter through the main gate and proceed to the waiting area next to the office.

We request the parents of the non-graduating children to pick them up at 11.20am as we have other activities reserved only for the graduating children on that day. Thank you for your co-operation.

January 2023 Activities

Chinese New Year Festival Activities

 16^th (Mon)  Ribbon Kuih Making

 17^th (Tue)   CNY Puppet Show & CNY Snack ( Children will watch in

                         Nania and parents will watch recorded video. We will send

                         the link of the puppet video to parents.)

18^th (Wed)  English Class Presentation & Lion Dance

     (One parent per child is invited to joined us. Attached is the programme of the day and song sheet)

19^th (Thu)  Japanese Class Presentation & Lion Dance

February 2022 Activities

 2^nd (Thu)  Penang Japanese School Students visit 

 3^rd (Fri)    Thaipusam Outing

 7^th (Tue)   Tien You’s 3^rd birthday celebration

 8^th (Wed)  Setsubun/Bean Throwing Day

  17^th (Fri)  English Class Graduation ( only both parents of Graduating children are invited. The programme is attached)

Setsubun/Japanese Bean Throwing Day

This festival takes place on the day before Risshun, the first day of spring in the Chinese calendar.  Soybeans are scattered in and around the house to drive out sickness and misfortune which are represented by demons.  (This custom is called mamemaki.)

For this celebration, the children make origami boxes for storing soybeans and also a mask of the demon or the god of happiness. On that day, the children wear the masks as they scatter the soybeans.  We will celebrate the festival in the garden.

Later, the children will collect the scattered soybeans and plant them in the vegetable bed.  When the plants bear fruits, we harvest and boil the ‘Edamame” for the children to eat during lunch time.