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2015

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Happy New Year,

everyone! This month at Bumble Bee, all of the staff here

sincerely hope that all of the families at our school

had a very merry Christmas and enjoyed the

holiday! We hope Ježíšek brought you everything

that you wanted and that you got to spend time

with your loved ones. We had a wonderful time in

2015 and now it’s time to welcome in the New

Year and all the surprises it has to offer us.

Bumble Bee editor Ciaran O’Hare December 2015

BB NEWS DECEMBER 2015

This month at Bumble

Bee:

Performance by

Karmina band

Visit from

St. Nicholas

Christmas

workshop

Trip to Nativity

exhibition

Pyjama´s day

Photographs

of children

are available

in a hidden

section of BB

news - only

for parents


Close to 5th December, the angel, devil and St.

Nicholas came to tell us if we’d been naughty or

nice.

We enjoyed

our special

friend at

school!

CIARAN O´HARE

Hi! I'm Ciaran, the teacher for Blue Class I. I was born in Brighton in England, a beautiful town by the sea. When I was a little girl I wanted to be an actress - I loved to be the centre of attention! But as I grew up and learnt more about myself I realised I would be much happier as a teacher.I love teaching! My heart is in this profession and I feel very lucky to be working with such lovely, bright children in this warm and supportive environment. Bumble Bee is a wonderful school with good resources and a kind and hard-working team. I'm proud to be a part of it. I am a warm and friendly person who will strive to make your children feel secure and supported as they learn and grow. I'm excited to be working with them!

Teaching young learners is like a performance every day! We sing and dance and use our bodies to express ourselves. We get to act like silly clowns and tell funny stories. I think it's important for children to feel entertained and excited about school because it means they are really engaged with learning. Besides singing and acting, my hobbies also include making crafts and I like to do a lot of this in class. Blue class is the time when the children focus on developing their fine motor skills and making crafts is the best way to do this. When they make something nice to take home with them, they feel a real sense of pride and accomplishment that helps to develop their confidence in their abilities.

What do I give to the children from my personality, from my principles?

One of the main things I feel I bring into the classroom is my creativity, and it's something I love to share with the children. I like to make creative art projects, sing songs and use dramatic play as part of the learning process and I hope that my enthusiasm will encourage the children to explore their creative sides, use the arts to express their feelings and individuality and pinpoint the areas in which they really excel. I also consider myself to be a sensitive and empathetic person. I show the children ways in which to articulate how they feel, through words or actions, and the importance of considering the feelings of their friends. I grew up with three sisters so a big lesson I like to teach my students is how to share, because we can have a lot more fun if everyone can play together!

Ciaran

Ciaran

INTRODUCITION OF OUR BLUE CLASS TEACHER CIARAN

This month I would like to introduce you our Blue class teacher Ciaran O´Hare Jana



School psychologist

PhDr. M. Benešová

School readiness: some useful information not

only for the parents of the kids from the green class The beginning of the school attendance means for the whole family a lot of new, important changes, hopes but

even doubts. But if the family prepares for the situation in advance, it can flee of them. Time of the school

registration into the 1st classes is coming and many of parents ask themselves, if their child is mature and prepared

for it. School readiness of preparedness is considered in this period November and December. So if you are also

waiting together with your kid to his first step into “big school”, you may appreciate some information about what

the school readiness is, and in which ways you can support her or him together with the preschool.

To prove readiness to school of the Czech speaking* children can help you to prove me as a school psychologist.

At first I will give or send you Agreement with School readiness examination and if you sign it, I will spend

approximately 90 minutes with your kid doing various exercises. Than you can learn more about if your boy or girl is

already prepared for the school, which tasks she or he handles well, in which he would need some more help, or if it

would be better for his or her well being, to wait with the school attendance even one more year.

Generally, we can say that a child needs to be mature physically, cognitively, socially, emotionally and needs

sufficient level of motivation. School readiness allows the kid to gain school skills and knowledge with success. The

kid should have sufficient capability to learn and to solve some problems.

So, if you have in connection with the school readiness or other sings of development of your child some

questions, we can discuss them in the days, when I am present in the school.

In the end I would like to wish you and your child to pass this period with delight and looking forward to new

experiences,

Mirka Benešová school psychologist

News from Petra’s Yellow class

Last month was full of traditions and magical surprises. In early December, St. Nicholas visited our

school and we got an advent calendar full of cookies from him. Simply because we are all just nice

and we don't know what „naughty“ means yet :-). Also we were not afraid of the devil, who

accompanied St. Nicholas, because we made a funny little devil from a roll of toilet paper.

All of our other projects - art, music and mathematics were about Christmas. In addition to

practising the songs we decorated a small paper tree which we sang the song "Oh, Christmas Tree"

about. It was also necessary to decorate our board a little bit to create a Christmas atmosphere

here at school, so we decorated a large paper tree with prints of foam pads and cork tops and

hang up our photos instead of Christmas ornaments. We also decorated Santa's socks and tried to

make the longest paper chain we could. We counted the Christmas pictures and played Christmas

memory games.

We wanted to enjoy the festive atmosphere of Advent with all the trimmings. We read the

Christmas story of Mary and Joseph and their journey to Bethlehem. We sang Christmas songs

with dancing and rhythmical instruments. We also had a pyjama day with fairy tales and gifts.

Wonderful Christmas time went slowly to its end, but we have something else to look forward to

again - this time to a new theme „World of Stories and Fairy Tales“ that will bring us some new

and interesting experience. We also hope for a lot of snow because snow battles in the garden are

the most fun.

Happy New Year 2016!

Petra



News from Oli’s Yellow class

December was as usual a very eventful month. The majority of our activities were closely related to

preparation for Christmas. We started out with St. Nicholas visit, who was accompanied by an angel

and a devil.

Shortly afterwards we had a unique opportunity to sing with a live band, Karmina, who played some

traditional Czech carols.

Than we had our own Christmas concert followed by a workshop, where children with their parents

made candle stands from apples decorated with dried fruit.

Pyjamas day gave us an opportunity to spend a day in Bumble Bee in a very laid- back atmosphere,

exchanging gifts, singing carols and watching short stories about Maisy the mouse.

Hope you all had your Christmas merry and I wish you a Happy New Year!

Oli

BB News Oliver’s Blue Class

This month in Blue Class II it has been extremely busy getting all ready for Christmas.

Our Christmas show and workshop with the parents was a really lovely day and I hope everyone enjoyed it. The Blue Class children worked so hard and I think they performed their songs and poem the best they have ever done it on the day it really mattered!

Earlier on in the month the children got into the festive spirit listening to a traditional Czech Music group singing carols. They also were so brave and polite when Mikolas, the Angel and the Devil came around to the classroom to ask them how well they had behaved this term. This month we also enjoyed getting festive with our artwork, decorating Santa Claus Art for our board and making our candles for the Christmas sale.

As we come to the end of term it’s clear the children are really beginning to gel together as a class and each one of them is becoming more confident at school and with using their English. You should be proud of how well the children have got on this term and lots of optimism for the new term. I will miss them all for sure.

All the best

Oliver


News from Ciaran's Blue class This month at Bumble Bee we celebrated Christmas! We decorated our

classroom with snowflakes, paper-chains, bunting and even made our

own Christmas tree. We had lots of fun using glitter and sequins to make

everything look sparkly and magical.

We worked very hard learning all of our Christmas songs and dances so

that we could give the parents a very special performance. I would like to

say a very big thank you to all of the families that attended our Christmas

workshop. All of the children really appreciated the opportunity to work

on a creative project with you.

As part of our Bethlehem theme, we went on a trip to the Agricultural

museum to see an exhibition of different nativity scenes from around the

world and from different times in history. It was very interesting. We also

enjoyed our annual Pyjama Party where we got to snuggle up and watch a

lovely Disney film called ‘Inside Out’.

We also spent some time on our academic work, learning about addition

and the letters of the alphabet. We continued our work on the Junior

Achievement project which we will be completing in January.

I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas and I would like to wish all

of the children of my class and their families a very happy and successful

2016!

Ciaran


News from David´s Green class

This month we spent much of our time learning Christmas

songs and decorating the classroom with decorations we made.

We also made our gifts for the Christmas market.

The children learned about the stories and meaning of the

festive season.

In addition to our Christmas activities we have also begun

looking at the geography of the world.

We have also been continuing our lessons on acting out stories

which the children greatly enjoy.

The children are working well with the Jolly Phonics book and

they are progressing very well.

I hope you enjoyed our festive performance and creative

session, It was nice to have everyone together for the

festivities.

All the best for the New Year,

David



This month, the very special Karmina band visited

Bumble Bee to sing traditional Christmas folk songs

with us.

As part of our Bethlehem theme, Green and

Blue classes went to see an exhibition of

Nativity scenes at the Agriculture museum.

Welcome to the 2015

Bumble Bee

Christmas

performance and

workshop! We would

like to thank all of the

parents for attending.


OTHER PICTURES FROM OUR SCHOOL

Bumble Bee News redaction:

Editor of Bumble Bee news: Ciaran O’Hare, Jana Kozohorská

Graphic design: Jana Kozohorská

Authors of the articles: Ciaran O’Hare and the Bumble Bee teachers team.

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