Chicks

Chicks

Our topics for the next term for the children in the Chicks class will be as follows: -

Date 10/9/08-19/09/08	Topic ALL ABOUT ME AND OUR FAMILIES	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: I have a busy body. Head, shoulders, knees and toes.	Suggested activities to do at home Look at photographs from when your child was a baby, toddler to date, discuss the stages.
Date 22/09/08-29/09/08	Topic ROSH HASHANAH CLOSED 30TH Sep and 1st Oct Rosh Hashanah	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: Dip the apple in the honey	Suggested activities to do at home Talk about how honey is made, make honey cake together.
Date 02/10/08-08/10/08	Topic YOM KIPPUR & JONAH CLOSED 9th Oct	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: Toot toot toot tekiah. Shana Tova	Suggested activities to do at home Talk about saying sorry- being good.
Date 10/10/08-13/10/08	Topic SUKKOT CLOSED 14th Oct Please bring some fruit ready to hang in the Sukkah on Monday 13th Oct	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes; Let’s build a little Sukkah. Oranges and lemons. Oats and beans	Suggested activities to do at home: Build a Sukkah at your house or visit another one.
Date 15/10/08-20/10/08	Topic SIMCHAT TORAH / CREATION CLOSED 21st OCT	We will be learning the following Songs/rhymes Simchat Torah. Ose Shalom Mayim, Mayim	Suggested activities that you might like to do at home with your child Talk about the way your family might celebrate this festival.
Date 22/10/08-24/10/08	Topic DIWALI We will be having an Indian feast this week please can you bring a vegetable for vegetable curry?	We will be learning the following Songs/rhymes Diwali is here	Suggested activities that you might like to do at home with your child Talk about other cultures and how they celebrate.
Date 03/11/08-07/11/08	Topic AUTUMN We will be going on an Autumn walk on Tuesday 4Th Nov weather permitting. Please sign the permission slip on the notice board the previous week. Can you come with us please?	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: Five little leaves so bright and gay.	Suggested activities to do at home Look at the trees in your garden what colours are the leaves are they falling off?
10/11/08-21/11/08	Topic SHAPES AND COLOURS	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: Twinkle, twinkle little star, I am the music man I can sing a rainbow	Suggested activities to do at home Look at shapes in your environment- talk about them. Play I spy with shapes and colours.
Date: 24/11/08-05/12/08	Topic NURSERY RHYMES	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: The cow jumped over the moon. Baa, Baa black sheep. Mary had a little lamb	Suggested activities to do at home Sing nursery rhymes together. Talk about the songs you sang when you were little.
Date: 01/12/08-19/12/08	Topic CHANUKAH Chanukah songs Thursday 18th Dec 1130 (if possible please leave younger siblings with a friend as they can be distracting, thank you) Chanukah Party December 19th Dec	We will be learning the following songs/rhymes: sevivon sov, sov, sov. Look at me I am Judah Macabee	Suggested activities to do at home Talk about the Chanukah story. Make food made with oil, e.g. donuts.