News / Nunn Road / 2004 / No.E36 October 2004

We truly enjoyed our lunch box day on 23rdSeptember (Tuesday). The children were so excited with making money and buying their own lunch box from Aunty Janet’s restaurant. We were lucky to have nice weather for a picnic on that day.

You may have noticed the hall display was decorated with colourful lanterns for the moon cake festival.  The children voices sounded so lovely when they sang the Moon Cake Festival songs.  I hope you enjoyed the vegetarian moon cake the children brought back home.

Harvest Festival is around the corner.  We have changed the hall display theme accordingly. Green and Brown colours now set an earthy background tone.  Children are excited as we place different fruits and vegetables on the display table from day to day.  They like to touch the fruits and vegetables and find out their names.

For the Harvest Festival, we want the children to experience the importance of food. We are working with the children to be grateful to the sun, the rain, the wind, and the farmers for our food. The songs, poems and puppet story are chosen with that in mind.

We are practicing songs and poems in Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Hokkien and English.  The children enjoy them very much! They are looking forward to the Harvest Festival and the puppet show.

Enclosed with this month’s newsletter are the songs that we are practicing for the Harvest Festival and the festival programme during that day.  Also find our new menu.  We have made some minor changes.

Teacher Thian

Photos from the Lunch Box Day

Harvest Festival programme

Date: 15th October 2004
Venue: Taska Nania

Schedule:

Events

Play dough (28th October 2004)
The children will bring home their class play dough on that day.

Painting Bag (29thOctober 2004)
Children will make their painting bag and colour it. The bags will be used to keep their paintings and drawings other than the ones used for presents they have done during this two months and taken home.

English Class Graduation
Sara is going to Class 1 next year. Her graduation will be on the 5th November 2004 (Friday).  Sara is moving to Sungai Petani after the graduation.Deepavali and Hari Raya Celebration (10 November 2004)We will decorate the hall display based on the theme of Deepavali and Hari Raya.  On that day, before the holidays, children will have Muruku (Indian Snack) for snack time and Ketupat  (Malay Traditional Food) for lunch. Chithra (Administrator) will tell a Deepavali story to the children.

Holidays
1st November 2004 (Monday) will be replacement holiday for Al-Quran Day that falls on 31st October 2004 (Sunday).

Deepavali and Hari Raya holiday will be from 11th November (Thursday) until 16th November (Tuesday).