The first step into English: It starts with love for the language

Objectives of this club:

• Becoming familiar & comfortable with the language
• Starting to  repeat words
• Learning English in a playful way through: songs & rhymes, arts & crafts, active games, sensory play, constructive play, role play & little chefs.
• Developing an understanding of simple commands
• Developing fine motor skills through: Play dough, putting objects into containers etc.
• Mini-math: gentle introduction to colors and shapes
• Introduction to reading comprehension

Owl Preschool Club – Objectives of this club:

• Developing a love for learning the English language through: songs & rhymes, arts & crafts, active games, sensory play, constructive play, role play, dance class & little chefs.
• Developing conversation skills
• Learning the letter sounds using the Jolly phonics programme.
• Gentle introduction to writing: tracing names etc.
• Developing fine motor skills through: Play dough, beading, lacing, squeezing clothespins etc.
• Developing pre-math skills: counting out loud, number identification, learn basic shapes and colors & sorting objects by size and type
• Gentle introduction to reading and sounding out words using multi – sensory methods.
• Developing comprehension through story telling by: asking questions, encouraging students to point at pictures, asking what they think will happen on the next page etc.

The second step into English: Developing a love for learning.

• Developing a love for learning the English language through: songs & rhymes, arts & crafts, active games, sensory play, constructive play, role play, dance class & little chefs.
• Developing conversation skills
• Learning the letter sounds using the Jolly phonics programme.
• Gentle introduction to writing: tracing names etc.
• Developing fine motor skills through: Play dough, beading, lacing, squeezing clothespins etc.
• Developing pre-math skills: counting out loud, number identification, learn basic shapes and colors & sorting objects by size and type
• Gentle introduction to reading and sounding out words using multi – sensory methods.
• Developing comprehension through story telling by: asking questions, encouraging students to point at pictures, asking what they think will happen on the next page etc.

The forth step into English: Here we work on achieving the English goals of the students particular grade to make firm connections between what we do in the Owl Literary Club and  what’s currently being thought in the students English class at school.

Owl Literacy Club – Objectives of this club:

• Developing a love for speaking English through: Music, arts, thought provoking games, science experiments, role play, presentations, multi-sensory learning activities & Master Chef cooking class.
• Communication skills
• Phonics awareness & Spelling skills: jolly phonics Listening for the sounds in words gives children the best start for improving spelling Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.

• Writing & punctuation skills – Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.

• Comprehension skills
• Reading skills