Alpha Beta and Delta

The Wonderful World of Animals

Alpha Beta has been investigating the animals and some of their characteristics: sounds, movements, size, colour, features among others.

Children have been enthusiastically participating by copying animals movements and incorporating them to their daily activities, such as hopping like a bunny on the hopscotch and walking on the line like lions.

Have a look on our latest works!

Alpha Beta playing animal action: move like a monkey...

...and like crocodiles!

Chiara and Stella: our gorgeous bunnies!

Bernardo playing in the hopscotch as a crocodile.

Théo hopping like a bunny.

Francesca, Eva, André, Maria and Luisa playing Memory game.

Alpha Delta

Alpha Delta has been investigating different animals that live in the sea.  They have had the opportunity to learn about the various species and have reproduced some of them in their own special way.

 Children have also been exposed to videos of real live sea animals which has prompted them to question and inquiry about them. They were curious to know about their size, what they eat, if they have a nose and mouth like people and if they are “good” or if they bite!

Have a look at what they have been doing and learning!

 Giovanna , Maya and Davi engaged in viewing sea animal pictures.

Maya, Juana and Anna Catharina all very focused on doing their very own jelly-fish.

Anna Catharina, Bernardo, Antonio and Rodrigo 

 exploring 3D sea animals. 

Henrique and Victor lacing through an eel and composing a pattern on them.

João concentrating hard in lacing through his eel.

The girls: Alice, Nicole, Juana and Giovanna tracing on the different forms of sea animals.

During Music lesson, make believe swimming! 

Watching a You tube video of sea animals in action and in their natural habitat.










And here is alpha Delta´s ocean with many of the children´s final work!

Top 5 Songs

Songs and Learning

Singing is a wonderful way to learn English. The lyrics and action movements are quickly imitated and before you know it, children are eagerly participating in the singing. 

They just love to sing!

Below are the links to some of the songs that are most frequently played.

Look them up and sing along with your child and have some fun together!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Miss Polly

Incy Wincy Spider  

Baby Shark

5 Little Monkeys

Investigations in Alpha Sigma and Omega

Investigations in Alpha

In the second term our children have been bringing new elements for our classrooms. 

With their input we chose a theme and together we are learning more and more. 

Alpha Sigma 

Alpha Sigma has chosen to know more about fruits.  

We have had the opportunity to open some fruits, and explored them in different ways.  

Their size, weight, smell, texture, taste... One of our favourite ways of learning is to observe what happens to their seeds after planting or putting them in the water. 

 Come to visit our classroom and see what has been happening to our experiments!! 

I am sure you will also learn with us!! 

Chloe observing melon seeds

Victoria trying to lift the watermelon

Carlos Eduardo smelling the watermelon

Antonia and Henrique planting watermelon seeds

Lucas and Stefan holding an avocado pit

Isabella smashing the avocado

Giovanna trying avocado cream

Eduardo watering our pineapple plant

Stella observing a real pineapple and drawing it 

Bernardo preparing the pineapple top for planting 

Lucas observing the watermelon seeds sprouting

 

Cristiano planting watermelon seeds

Henrique feeling the pineapple´s texture

Watching a movie of how to plant a pineapple

Alpha Omega

Alpha Omega has been investigating "What is in our garden?". 

 After been asked what they thought  we would find in the school garden, children explored outdoor and discovered many interesting things. For an example they noticed we do not have frogs at school. 

Collecting leaves, feathers, rocks and sticks they found on the floor is one of
their favourites activities. 

They have been learning about living creatures that habitat our garden, finding little insects
and observing them.
They watched movies of  life cycle of many creepy crawler and the most
interesting for them were ants, worms, bees and and ladybirds.

Here are some pictures of their hard work...

Alpha Omega exploring the garden.

We found a worm!!!

Reproducing their own worms.

Pedro and Rafael found ants on a Tree at the Playground.

Observing the ant.

Releasing the ant back in the nature.

Reproducing their own leaves and flowers.

Filippo and Estella working on a beehive. 

Amélia and Sofia using clay, leaves, sticks and rocks to reproduce a garden.

Alpha Omega finished product!

Using seeds to make patterns.

Working with leaves found at school.

Hao Jie drawing a ladybird. 

Henrique tracing a ladybird.

Olivia working with numbers.

The benefits of reading 

to your child.

Reading to children is part of the Alpha’s routine. 
They are encouraged to explore our book corner daily, leafing through books. 

Some of their favourite books are: "The very hungry caterpillar", "Brown bear, brown bear", " The napping house", and "Goldilocks". 
Since they are familiar with these stories, it is easier for them to retell them to their friends. 

Reading at home also enhances children´s pleasure for reading. 
It’s important that parents keep the habit of reading to their child giving continuity 
to what happens at school. 
You are more than welcome to visit our school library and choose some 
books with your child! 

Library is open from 8:00am to 5:00pm daily. 

Carina Storrs, science and health journalist, wrote an article for CNN about the importance and benefits of reading and listening to stories since young age.

Please click on this link to read the full article: