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APRIL EDITION

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A peek into 3 term

“A child is like wet cement, whatever falls on them leaves a mark – Haim Ginnot

......final thoughts... for the term As we shut down for the term, we would like to use this medium to say thank you to all our amazing parents.

Busy Minds is so glad we are connected to your family and The upcoming term, will be full of your unending support and constructive feedback means a lot many opportunities to be a part of to us and. We consider being a part of your child’s the BM community. development in these critical pre-school and primary years, a rare privilege.

The children will have: There is a lot of information in this edition so I ask that you *Dress up days. put your feet up and settle down for a long and interesting *Child craft days. read. Attached to this newsletter is an article on “making *After School clubs. caring common” and we hope that you would enjoy reading it *Out of school trips. as much as we have. *Community helper days. *Parent appreciation days.

Once again, it has been our pleasure to work with your child There will be opportunities for the parents to: *Bring in fruits/snacks for their children’s classrooms *Come in and read to your child’s class. *Be a craft parent. *Come in for observation.

and to provide the child care services that your family needs.

Thank you – Ubani Amune

IMPORTANT DATES TO KEEP HANDY March 31st - Apr 4th: **Founder’s Week April 4th:

End of term for Early Learning and Elementary groups

April 8th:

Last day of term for Little Learners

April 23rd: New term resumes for everyone. rd

We will also have visual learning Invoices for 3 term aids in the classroom. Usage will All invoices for 3rd term fees have been sent out. We would like to be monitored. say Kudos to our parents who have taken advantage of our 5% We are organizing parent forums; Founders’ week discount. It has been our pleasure gifting our Dates will be communicated.

wonderful community. Please call if your have any questions.

Note that the 5% Founders’ week discount is only applicable to 3rd

Every Month, your child’s learning term tuition that is paid between 31st March and 4th of April 2014. goals will be sent home for your Have a good time reading this edition. information.

Class Recap Little Learners We always have a blast in our class. Though we had 3 children move to older groups, we had 4 new friends. Many of us got up and walked; the rest of us got very comfortable crawling backwards and forwards.

We have 2 children moving to higher classes in April and we wish them the very best

Early Learners 1 Everyone had a beautiful blend of learning experiences.

Mathematics focus was numbers 1 – 20; however, some of us surpassed our planned goals.

In summary we can: *Identify and sequence numbers *Write our numbers *Number rhymes

Pick-up Time

Early Learners’2 Group

Dear Parents, pick-up time must be There was so much to do and so little strictly adhered to. We have defined time to do it all. From Mathematics, to adult to child ratios and when children Literacy to science and do not forget are picked up later than planned for, it art, we had a truly fun and learning throws these ratios off balance. filled term.

Help us run an efficient school by making firm arrangements to pick up Our younger friends in class were your precious child (ren) on time. introduced to simple addition and

Do remember that Late pick-up is they also learnt to count by rote and how to build numbers. The children subject to a Late pickup fee also learnt their first and last names and they were introduced to blending, Enrichment for 3rd Term words and their opposites. Days of Daily Timing: 1:45 – 2:45pm the week and Months of the year was also a huge feature in our learning.

Billing: Billed per club chosen Our older friends were moved from simple to dynamic subtraction and addition. They were introduced to longer phonetic blends and the children handled it all very well.

Mon

Crafts

N6,000

Tues

Dance

N7,000

Wed

Language clinic/ Reading clubs

N8,000

Everyone explored our central theme ‘transportation’ and we learnt a lot Thurs Music/Taekwondo N8,000 about modes of transportation.

It was a very interesting term and I am Fri Kitchen Solutions N10,000 looking forward to next term.

Elementary Learners

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”― Margaret Mead

Circle time is a lot more fun with our words getting clearer by the day.

All our grade classes had a lot of work to do in all subject areas and it is wonderful that we met our goals for the term. Some things we did include: Exploring Angles, area, perimeter, regular and irregular verbs types of writing styles, World Oceans, landforms, cultural studies etc.

Cultural: We also had a lot of fun learning about land, air and water transportation.

Bus Route However, the most enjoyable part was putting together our projects and Nicon town & BM Environs presenting it to our parents.

Literacy: we breezed through our sounds and a lot of us can name and sound letters of the alphabets. Some of us, progressed to sound blends.

We had a lot of fun this term and it was wonderful when my mom and dad came to my class to see me.

I look forward to April 23rd

Next term, we look forward to the continents we are going to explore.

There is always so much to learn in the elementary grades our teachers make it a lot of fun for us.

Find below our School Bus rates for the upcoming term. Please contact Ms. Juliet to request for a child data sheet, should you require this service. Thank you One way

Both Ways

25,000

40,000

35,000

50,000

Jakande/Agungi 40,000

52,000

Chevron

45,000

55,000

VGC

55,000

70,000

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