News / Nunn Road / 2007 / October 2007 (E72)

Dear parents,

Last month, we celebrated Moon Cake Festival with the children. We are grateful that a mother offered us her homemade jelly moon cakes. She used beetroot and pandan leaves for colouring. Some of the children enjoyed the jelly moon cake very much while the others preferred the traditional moon cake.

2 mothers of our former graduates came to Nania for a Parents’ Sharing Evening. Parents with children aged 5 and 6 were invited to attend the meeting. As children graduate to a new environment, they need their parents’ support during this transition period. The 2 mothers shared their experiences and viewpoints. They highlighted the need to understand individual children’s development and to trust in the children’s abilities and talents. I hope the parents who came that evening gained some insight and benefited from their sharing.

I feel sorry that some children couldn’t join us for the Harvest Festival because they were sick. A mother told me that her daughter, who had been sick days before the festival, was determined to join that festival. She told the mother that she would get well on that day and she made it! The children and parents who attended the festival enjoyed the freshly baked hot bread that children made in the morning. Later, the children were treated to an entertaining puppet show and received an origami flower as a gift.

After the Harvest Festival, the display corner was decorated with gold embroidered saris, colourful bracelets, coloured wax lamps and Rangoli (coloured rice motif), also some ribbon ‘ketupats’ (the Malay traditional rice dumpling) were hung up to herald the Hari Raya and Deepavali festivals. We celebrated the Hari Raya with the children last week. We enjoyed the ketupats together with some organic papayas which were given to us from a father.

Teacher Chithra has given birth to a cute baby girl on 10th October 2007. She is now resting at home and will be back to work in December. While she is away for maternity leave, Teacher Tan will handle the administration work in the office. Teacher Joyce is assisting me in the English class and Teacher Stella is helping out in the kitchen.


Enclosed with this news letter are an invitation from Colin’s mother for the St. Martin’s Festival and this month’s song sheet.

Teacher Thian


Children's presentation
Harvest puppet show
Children enjoying the puppet show
Hari Raya celebration
Introducing the ketupat and singing the Hari Raya song


Coming events

English Class Graduation (2nd November 2007)
Chia Zheng, Jing Fang and Kai Wei are going to Class 1 next year. They are now preparing for their graduation. They will still be with us until the December holidays.

Christmas Festival (14th December 2007)
Parents and siblings are invited to join us for the festival. We will start on 9.00a.m. Details of the festival will be shared in the next newsletter.

Holidays
8th and 9th November 2007 Deepavali holidays